First, they echo the predators who chased our ancestors. You fear the fangs of a vampire the way you fear the fangs of a wolf. That’s an external fear, a fear of the Beast.
Second, they evoke human aggression and human perversion. A vampire looks like a man and yet it is an eater of men [...]
The dictator game is a very simple game in experimental economics that touches on the altruistic value in humans. The game is simple. You participate for the experiment and are seated in a room along with one of the people running the experiment. They give you ten one dollar bills which you are then allowed [...]
December 15, 2008 – 1:47 pm
I’m a huge fan of Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” series — I’ve finished all but the last book in the twelve book series in fact. So when I accidentally discovered that the book was being made into a TV series I was a little worried as I’m one of those jerks who adamantly believes [...]
I haven’t written in here in a while. Maybe that’s a good thing, depending on your point of view. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, it’s that I’ve been too busy. I have to get back into the habit of writing often.
Some interesting things:
My girlfriend is coming to hang out for a while in [...]
January 24, 2006 – 12:19 am
I’ve just ordered my first Japanese [literature] books, well, one reference book and one literature book. I have many books on the Japanese language and way too many dictionaries, but no reading material other than old manga ― and three books that were gifts this past Christmas, but they’re gifts; I didn’t buy them. My [...]
January 8, 2006 – 10:18 pm
I finished reading “The Giver” by Lois Lowry tonight. I read the book to get a little escape from the Japanese exercises I normally do. The book was actually decent I think but the ending was a little weird for me: it left it too open to interpretation. I’ve also gotten so used to the [...]
December 27, 2005 – 4:54 pm
何てばかげた映画なんだろう、「メモワーズ・オブ・ア・ゲイシャ」。
Okay, my biggest grip about this move: just about all of the actors are Chinese! Are there no talented actors/actresses in Japan that could have been cast as geisha?? Of course not, obviously by this movie.
The movie takes place in Japan (actually mostly filmed in California). Everybody spoke English in the movie. Although, to add [...]