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He aquí los pensamientos aleatorios de un epistemólogo andante.
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I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
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피할수 없는 고통이라면 차라리 즐겨라
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As of June, 2013, I have assumed a new identity: I am a cancer survivor. "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."
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"A blog, in the end, is really not so different from an inscription on a bone: I was here, it declares to no one in particular. Don't forget that." - Justin E. H. Smith
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재미없으면 보상해드립니다!
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"All things are enchained with one another, bound together by love." - Nietzsche (really!)
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Leviticus 19:33-34
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Donc, si Dieu existait, il n’y aurait pour lui qu’un seul moyen de servir la liberté humaine, ce serait de cesser d’exister. - Mikhail Bakunin
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Solvitur ambulando.
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"Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to soliloquize. Where was I?" - the villain Heinz Doofenshmirtz, in the cartoon Phineas and Ferb.
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Is seer periculeus voor de onbekende, om aan te doen. - Hendrick Hamel
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"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." - Linus Pauling
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Blogging online since 1965
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He aquí los pensamientos aleatorios de un epistemólogo andante.
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Recent Posts
- Caveat: Poem #903 2019-01-20
- Caveat: Tree #17 2019-01-19
- Caveat: Poem #902 2019-01-19
- Caveat: Tree #16 2019-01-18
- Caveat: Poem #901 2019-01-18
- Caveat: Tree #15 2019-01-17
- Caveat: Poem #900 2019-01-17
- Caveat: Tree #14 2019-01-16
Recent Comments
- Robert Gehrenbeck on Caveat: Poem #890
- Bob Gehrenbeck on Caveat: Poem #877
- Jared Way on Caveat: Ancient Images
- Peter on Caveat: Ancient Images
- Bob Gehrenbeck on Caveat: Poem #851
Whois
- My name is Jared Way. I was born in rural Far Northern California, and became an "adoptive" Minnesotan. I have lived in many other places: Mexico City, Philadelphia, Valdivia (Chile), Los Angeles. And for 11 years, I was an expatriate living in South Korea. In the summer of 2018, I made another huge change, and relocated to Southeast Alaska, which is my uncle's home.
- For many years I was a database programmer, with a background in Linguistics and Spanish Literature. In Korea, worked as an EFL teacher.
- In June, 2013, while I was in Ilsan in South Korea, I was diagnosed with cancer, and underwent successful treatment. That changed my life pretty radically.
- Currently, you could say I'm "between jobs," somewhat caretaking my uncle (to the extent he tolerates that) and getting adapted to life in rural Alaska after so many years as an urban dweller.
- These bloggings, then, have been my random jottings on the subject of my mostly pleasant life among the Quasi-Confucian Cyber-Industrial Paleolithic Peninsulites of Lower Far Siberia.
- I started this blog before I even had the idea of going to Korea (first entry: Caveat: And lo...). So this is not meant to be a blog about Korea, by any stretch of the imagination. But life in Korea, and Korean language and culture, inevitably have come to play a central role in this blog's current incarnation.
- Basically, this blog is a newsletter for the voices in my head. It keeps everyone on the same page: it has become a sort of aide-mémoire.
- For a more detailed reflection on why I'm blogging, you can look at this old post: What this blog is, and isn't.
- If you're curious about me, there is a great deal of me here. I believe in what I call "opaque transparency" - you can learn almost everything about me if you want, but it's not immediately easy to find.
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A distillation of my personal philosophy (at least on good days):
I have made the realization that happiness is not a mental state. It is not something that is given to you, or that you find, or that you can lose, or that can be taken from you. Happiness is something that you do. And like most things that you do, it is volitional. You can choose to do happiness, or not. You have complete freedom with respect to the matter. - "Ethical joy is the correlate of speculative affirmation." - Gilles Deleuze (writing about Spinoza).
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Life Online
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Like most people, I spend a lot of time online, although I try to limit it somewhat. Here is a somewhat-annotated list of the "places" where I spend time online.
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Knowledge and News
- I spend about half of all my time online reading Wikipedia. It's why I know stuff.
- I get most of my world news from Minnesota Public Radio which includes NPR, BBC and CBC, depending on when I listen.
- Korean news: 네이버 뉴스
- Korean news in English, with a conservative bias thrown in for free: The Korea Herald.
- I use the Korean dictionary many times every day: Daum 영어사전.
- Humor and Tech News: The Register.
- Understanding our postmodern world: Television Tropes.
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"Social Media"
- I don't really "do" social media. I have a membership at Facebookland but I never log in there. I don't like it.
- I have a membership at The Youtubes but I mostly use it for work. I also listen to music on youtube, frequently - I prefer it to typical streaming services, for example.
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Humor and Cat Videos
- Cat videos and other internet novelties: Laughing Squid.
- I have no idea why, but I enjoy legal humor at Lowering the Bar
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A Diversity of Blogs - I read these a lot.
- Economic and centrist politics: Marginal Revolution.
- "Rationalism" and vaguely libertarian politics: Slate Star Codex.
- Liberal Politics: Lawyers, Guns, Money.
- Some linguists: Language Log.
- Philosophy (with liberal political slant): Crooked Timber.
- Philosophy (with libertarian political slant): Bleeding Heart Libertarians.
- Korean culture: Ask a Korean.
- Excellent writing: Justin Erik Halldór Smith. Philosophy, random linguistic and political observations, expat life of a Californian of my generation.
- More excellent writing: Blogarach. This is the reincarnation of IOZ, which is referenced in many of my blog posts from years ago.
- Design history and bibliophilic pursuits: Ptak.
- Amateur visual arts: DeviantArt.
- Semiotics: New Savanna.
- Blogs of people I actually know
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Geofiction - this has evolved into a significant "hobby" for me. I like to draw imaginary maps, and there is a website that has enabled this vice.
- I worked as a volunteer administrator for the site OpenGeofiction on and off for a few years. I created (but no longer maintain) the site's main wiki page: OGF Wiki. I am not currently working as administrator but I remain active on the site.
- The above work has required my becoming an expert in the Openstreetmap system. Openstreetmap is an attempt do for online maps what wikipedia has done for encyclopedias. I have considered becoming an openstreetmap contributor, but I feel that my current location in Korea hinders that, since I don't have a good grasp Korean cartographic naming conventions.
- Starting in April, 2018, I decided somewhat capriciously to build my own "OGF stack" on my own server. This was not because I intended to abandon the OGF site, but rather because I wanted to better understand the whole architecture and all its parts. I built a wiki on the Mediawiki platform (the same as wikipedia). This wiki has no content. I built a map tileserver and geospatial database, which contains a very low resolution upload of an imaginary planet called Rahet. And I built a wordpress blog, which is a separate, low-frequency blog intended to focus on my geofictional pursuits rather than this more personalized, general purpose blog. All of these things can be found integrated together on my rent-a-server, here: geofictician.net
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TEFL - my "profession," such as it is.
- Online English Grammar reference Grammarist. Useful for settling disputes over grammar.
- I get ideas for debate topics from debate.org and from Intelligence Squared - Debates.
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Like most people, I spend a lot of time online, although I try to limit it somewhat. Here is a somewhat-annotated list of the "places" where I spend time online.
Archives
Author Archives: Jared Way
Caveat: Poem #903
America’s edge beetles downward, descending continental slopes, surveying seething waters, and removing her clothes, while whales bite her toes; she tumbles and bounds into cold, bold sea. Sea leaps up, seething forth, frothing, angry, grasping at legs, arms, ready to … Continue reading
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Caveat: Tree #17
A distant, daily tree.
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Caveat: Poem #902
a boat plows water into hills on either side but time erodes them
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Caveat: Tree #16
Arthur and I drove north from Forest Grove, Oregon, to Bellingham, Washington. I saw this tree, with truck, at a rest area off I-5 near Centralia, WA. We arrived in Bellingham and checked in to our ferry with Alaska Marine … Continue reading
Caveat: Poem #901
okay oregon i guess i’m headed home now off to alaska
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Caveat: Tree #15
Here is tree number fifteen – from yesterday. Today I was too busy. Here are some horses in the next door field, saying hi at the gate. I went to the mechanic (for the Blueberry). I went to meet my … Continue reading
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Caveat: Poem #900
clouds hover, grasping trees resolving doubts introducing truths pandering to aesthetes by concocting fractal curves odd turns of visual phrasing that open the mind to redemption
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Caveat: Tree #14
The fourteenth tree. Or maybe there is more than one tree in this photo? Arthur and I are starting to get ready for our departure back up to Alaska. [daily log: walking, 5km]
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Caveat: Poem #899
it stands like a frame within are random branches a gate into green
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Caveat: Tree #13
Here is a tree. It is under a waxing gibbous moon (upper right). [daily log: walking, 1km]
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Caveat: Poem #898
moon above a tree tilted to drop its insights on the deer below
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Caveat: Tree #12
I drove back to Juli and Keith’s. I stopped at rest area and took this picture of a tree (with other trees) in fog. [daily log: walking, 4km]
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Caveat: … when I’m seven
Over the weekend. I visited my stepson Jeff and his family in the south suburbs of Seattle. His wife Yvonne took this picture of the three of us (referring to the 3 generations). We were playing a game. Parker is … Continue reading
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Caveat: Poem #897
The key to friendship, harmonious family: Patience with silence.
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Caveat: Tree #11
Here is a tree from my inventory. [daily log: walking, 1km]
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Caveat: Poem #896
driving across land volcano-punctuated and littered with tree
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Caveat: Tree #10
Here is a tree I saw walking the other day. [daily log: walking, 3km]
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Caveat: Poem #895
people are where they are it’s hard to pull them somewhere meet them where they are
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Caveat: Tree #9
This is pretty good picture of an archetypal Oregon tree. This is the Tualatin River. It has more water than it did during the summer. During a walk up to the tree farm, Juli took this picture of me with … Continue reading
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Caveat: Poem #894
there’s no light outside the sun is lost in the east but we’re headed there
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