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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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"Loneliness.
Did ya know that loneliness will kill you deader than a .357 Magnum?
Did ya know that?" - Andrew Sims (Rapper)
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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 #964 2019-03-22
- Caveat: Tree #78 2019-03-21
- Caveat: timelost 2019-03-21
- Caveat: Poem #963 2019-03-21
- Caveat: Tree #77 2019-03-20
- Caveat: ozward 2019-03-20
- Caveat: Poem #962 2019-03-20
- Caveat: Tree #76 2019-03-19
Recent Comments
- Bob Gehrenbeck on Caveat: There, in the calm of some Platonic dream
- David on Caveat: Prometheus
- Bob Gehrenbeck on Caveat: Art should be arcane
- Jared Way on Caveat: Tree #30
- David on Caveat: Tree #30
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).
Meta
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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 #964
things written before await interpretation to become more true
Posted in My Poetry & Fiction
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Caveat: Tree #78
Another tree, from the archive – this time, out the window of the attic at Arthur’s house. [daily log: flying, some more]
Posted in A Daily Tree, My Photos
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Caveat: timelost
There’s always more time for procrastination! Except for today. Today doesn’t exist, because we’re flying across the Pacific east to west, so we lose a day. See you tomorrow.
Posted in Banalities & Journaling
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Caveat: Poem #963
for all the potholes I only want to suggest: please stay positive.
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Caveat: Tree #77
A tree, from the archive. [daily log: flying, some large distance]
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Caveat: ozward
Arthur and I are traveling to visit my mother (his sister) in Australia. I might not have much interesting to say in this here blog over the next few days. But anyway, I’ll post more when we get there. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
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Caveat: Poem #962
departures happen arrivals too, soon after but the road goes on
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Caveat: Tree #76
This tree seems to have had its ambitions and dreams cut short. [daily log: walking, 3.5km]
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Caveat: Poem #961
the patches of reflectivity bits of floating scintillation drift down the narrow inlet perhaps pulled by the tide pushed by the river propelled by sun drawn by wind water’s moods
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Caveat: Tree #75
Here is number seven five. Arthur and I are getting ready to travel to Queensland. We’ll run some errands in town tomorrow. Wednesday morning, dark and early, we take the ferry to Ketchikan, and then spend a Very Long Time … Continue reading
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Caveat: Poem #960
Time retreats, yet frozen, making curved frames for geologic, emergent, processes and shaded subtle colors – bands of sand and stripes of turquoise – until at last the next thing happens.
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Caveat: Tree #74
Here is a strange looking tree. [daily log: walking, 3km]
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Caveat: Poem #959
I read on the map: “Ice-creature seeks cool solace.” I drew red circles.
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Caveat: Tree #73
The merest reflection of a tree. But a damn nice pothole, eh? [daily log: walking, 4km]
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Caveat: on literacy
One of my hobbies has been to assist managing a website, related to my geofiction hobby. I’m not very good at it – I find managing a classroom of unruly 7th graders easier than managing what is, presumably, one of … Continue reading
Caveat: Poem #958
infinite monkeys in some argentine bookshop all clacking away
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Caveat: Tree #72
Here is a tree. [daily log: walking, 3.5km]
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Caveat: There, in the calm of some Platonic dream
This poem, below, was not written by a human being, as best I understand. It was written by one of those new “learning algorithm” AIs (Artificial Intelligences), where you give the AI a large pile of “training data” (i.e. in … Continue reading
Caveat: Poem #957
rain and snow and more rain: they oscillate in the atmosphere with stochastic movements, dodging the windshield wipers. and then a bit of sun climbs out, illuminating the mountainside.
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Caveat: Tree #71
Yet another tree appeared before my eyes. [daily log: walking, 1km]
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