::A Geek in Korea::

Tags: meme, fight, children, means, motive, opportunity

A good college friend invented an extreme niche meme that I basically HAD to participate in. Keep in mind I was only allowed to own one Weird Al cassette tape when I was growing up, “Polka Party“. The rest I knew I either taped off the radio, or were introduced to when I met my geek crew at college. Feel free to pass on the meme and link to us.

Personal Top Ten Original Weird Al Songs (AKA, not parodies.)

10. Albuquerque*

9. Hardware Store

8. Dare to be Stupid

7. Christmas at Ground Zero**

6. Dog eat Dog

5. One more Minute

4. One of those Days

3. When I was Your Age

2. Close but no Cigar

1. Bob***

Some notes:
*(I blame my college friends for this.)
**(Christmas at Ground Zero is basically the perfect song for growing up next to a nuclear processing facility. This is the song that made me a Weird Al fan. My mom thought I was morbid for finding this hilarious. Keep in mind I was only around 7 years old when this was released.)
***(I’ve used this as teaching material and talked about it on my blog.)

(Wikipedia is Awesome, So is Youtube.)

Linked so far:
Love and Do What You Will
Advice and Dissent

Tags: weirdal, meme, pass it on

Tags: readinglevel, meme, elementary

I had a charming post about how my dog has gotten an allergic reaction to his food, forcing us to take him to the vet. We had to purchase new food and give him lots of medicine for the next few weeks. Just as I decided to post it, the spam filter on my site decided I was a spam bot and ate my post.

Turns out, the developer of the spam software has accidentally locked out people that use his software by moving servers and not updating correctly by accident, causing false positives. I spent my free time this evening fucking around with this said filter thinking it was another problem.

I even went as far as going to a PC room to make a post to find out I was still blocked as well. Learning the actual cause of the frustration, I came back home to futz around with FTP and whatnot to post to this blog.

I am not in a bright and cheerful mood as a result.

Inspired by a heavily edited for Korean television viewing of “Shawn of the Dead” this morning, I spent the day editing my [tag]“Blog Like It’s the End of the World“[/tag] [tag]zombie short story[/tag]. Someone had mentioned some typos and some failed grammar. This irks me. I also wanted to change the license on the text to [tag] Creative Commons[/tag]. It’s now using a license that’s a lot more friendly, so feel free to share it if you enjoyed it. Just give me a heads up ᅟᅠand don’t try to make a profit from it with my permission, okay?.

Finishing that epic 21 page story happened in a rush, as I had a deadline to post to participate in the event, and my loyal proof reader that had been helping had no more time.

Just this week I stumbled upon LanguageTool, an [tag]Open Source[/tag] grammar checker for Open Office. It’s the one thing that [tag]Open Office[/tag] lacked from for me. It’s superb to see such a high quality extension to free software. It’s why I love Open Source. I installed it and let it find all the obvious mistakes I had missed. I had written late into the night and couldn’t do anything by try to put down ideas as I pounded on keys. Sorry for those of you that had read the version I had posted originally. This new edited version fixes a few problems, stops down a few more grammatical errors, and is a better read.

One more thing. The “Add to Search Bar” add on for Firefox is now mandatory for me. I’ve got every single search I do daily up in my search bar. Sometimes I do searches, just because I can. So nice.

So, please read my story if you haven’t had a chance. The world needs more [tag]zombie Korean cross cultural satire fiction[/tag] in my opinion.

Prologue:

I always knew that Korean parents were dedicated to having their children learn English at any cost, but it wasn’t until [tag]Zombies[/tag] struck that the idea was proved to me without a doubt. Today is the end of the world, and yet I’ve spent my day teaching like any other day. Well, perhaps it wasn’t just like any other day, with the barricades, the explosions, and everything else, but it’s pretty close. I’ll run it down for those of you still alive with Internet access not fighting the Zombie hoard yet…

Working at private academies would be the death of me. I just never knew it would be the death of so many others all around me. I’m blogging like it’s the end of the world…because it is….

Read the rest here, via download, as my first fictional short story (19 pages) based on my website.

Check in with other survivors at my elves are different.

If there is anyone left alive, that is….

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