Author: yonghokim

Many of my peers now have (multiple) children, and I’m unsure how socially acceptable it is to not be able to remember their children’s names (despite having seen/met them a couple times). Being the usual INTJ, I’m not really interested in their children, and I struggle to remember the parents’ names in the first place.…

cleaned up my youtube subscription list, went from 290 to 99. There were tons of dead channels, things I was into at one point (World of Warships), or channels I subscribed to because of one outstanding vid (eg vocaloids) but watching that every day was not smeothing I looked forward to, and organizations I had…

MIV exercise: what kind of world do we want to live in?

In chatrooms, we are often engaged in a age-old northern nomadic tradition of “wordless chatter”. Northern nomadic peoples (“오랑캐” in korean) had to deal with the constant sandstorm that heat up the gobi desert every summer. People were keenly aware that water was scarce and opening your mouth drained you from water faster. in other…

Heh she looked so genuinely scared

In the KakaoTalk Korean/English exchange group, the idea of doing audio conversation practices came up, and we have been trying to work out times that worked out for everyone. We had participants from Korea, U.S./Canada, and England. We thought that this would be pretty simple, but at the crux of the problem is this phenomenon:…

I need this debated with all the pseudo doctors in my life. Especially the Korean ones.

got Windows Live Writer working with WordPress Multisite. did these steps. don’t know which are the ones needed: added “IP address yokim.net“ (and also the pre-mapping subdomain) to /etc/hosts when adding blog, followed these instructions: With my main blog WLW works normally but with other blogs (not main) I do the following trick: initially I…