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Tuesday, January 21, 2003

The Best Marmalade ...is not what you can. It's the little bit left over that wasn't enough to fill a jar. You can save it for toast in the morning, but it's pretty darned good eating it right from the "overflow" bowl with a teaspoon. Not only does it give you the flavor of things to come, it also reinforces your confidence in the quality of the set. This looks pretty good so far and it tastes nice and sweet with a tart background of rind and lemon. Whatever, even if it's horrible I'll gobble it down. Once you've eaten ketchup-glazed carrots your palate loosens up a bit. 7:04:39 PM    comment []

After dinner at The Korea House, there's a show featuring traditional dance and music. After the show, the dancers pose for photographs with members of the audience. 5:45:26 PM    comment []

A table setting from The Korea House, where we had Sunday dinner in Seoul on the 13th. Prominently featured is the 9-section dish or Kujolpan and a similar tray with with chestnuts and walnuts. Both trays are shared with your table neighbor. The individual bowls, or "chops", have a variety of vegetables and kimchi. Grilled Fish, oxtail, and jellyfish were served as separate entrees. 5:10:09 PM    comment []

This was genuine frightening at first. I purchased my Kodak DX4330 less than three weeks ago and registered only at Kodak online. A few minutes ago, I meandered absent-mindedly to Amazon and, seeing Live From Mountain Stage on my list of recommendations (I miss John Hartford), followed the Your Recommendations link to see what else the data-miners had dug up for me. Wait a minute..."Kodak EasyShare Camera Dock II"...why is that there? It is perfectly useless without a Kodak digital camera and there's no way in frozen hell Amazon could know I had one of those unless they had somehow violated my privacy. I purchased the camera at a Best Buy bricks-and-mortar store and registered my serial number online. Period. No big deal, really. It's not as though they used secret radio waves to probe my mind as I slept and discovered I have confusing dreams about marble buildings with Latin acronyms inscribed above their columns. That would be really freaky! No, all they've done is is share some information with my benevolent friends at Eastman Kodak. Maybe I unwittingly gave Kodak the right to let Amazon know by not unchecking a small print box on one of the online pages of warranty registration? Maybe Amazon picked up my many searches, the prelude for my purchase? Then again, if you wonder, all you have to do is click the magic hyperlink that says Why Was I Recommended This? and Amazon.com will come clean - no good cop/bad cop needed, no hands slammed in the desk drawer, no electrodes to the genitals, just one mouse click and they'll spill the beans! Of course I clicked, wouldn't you? The results are shown in the picture above. Here's the background, to the best of my recollection. Liz's younger son loves sports, was all-state football and lacrosse matter of fact, and has a wicked sense of humor. So, a couple of years ago, for Christmas, I ordered Slap Shot, The Longest Yard, and Caddyshack VHS tapes for him. By my limited appreciation of the genre, these are easily three of the funniest sports movies ever made. Christian loved them too and we watched them all that Christmas day, maybe three years ago. You can probably imagine the eerie light from the TV reflecting off our grinning faces as the evil stuffed gopher wreaked havoc on the greenskeeper's ill-fated attempts to maintain a blade-perfect putting surface. We laughed out loud. We ate mounds of turkey, never suspecting for a second that omniscient Amazon was cataloguing that moment of Yuletide bliss and projecting a line on a computer-generated graph that accurately predicted, with 100% certainty, that three years in the future I would purchase a Kodak EasyShare camera and be in need of a Kodak EasyShare Camera Dock II! Now that it all makes sense, I will sleep an untroubled sleep, with blue neon ca., N.B., op., viz., et seq., ibid., and etc. floating cloud-like above an infinite dream landscape of pristine parthenons. 12:28:49 AM    comment []