HK Choi

My quick thoughts on yesterday's ruling.

As a Korean who has ties to the UK, I can say that I am waking up to a rather nice morning.

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Some action within a starling murmuration, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels this week. Hundreds of thousands of birds do a warm up routine above their selected roosting site before plunging down in to the reed beds for the night @mybirdcards.com @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @exmoor.bsky.social

This account will be reserved for cats, flowers and faeries.

Right now, it's Im Sang-Choon, the rather reclusive screenwriter and creator of 폭싹 속았수다 (When Life Gives You Tangerines).
#kdrama

Come to my other place for all things Korea 😀

It’s all Brie all the time for me now.

I've decided to move all my turgid streams of prattle about Korea over to another account.

Please follow me there, and I will follow you back. Now that I'm (semi)-retired, I hope to post more often.
bsky.app/profile/seou...

A shitty prophecy

That huge mo'fer left a present outside my front door. He came all the way down from the hills of California to take a shit on my lawn. Why me? it's like getting audited by the IRS.

There's a coyote just chillin' outside my house.

I hope not! We need to come second, because then they will play the next match in LA! Definitely will try to get tickets.

You can come stay with us if you want to come and watch the game - although I think we're getting ahead of ourselves.

No paper, the South African team is crap (no players in Europe). But still... famous last words...

I'm gonna be very nervous about that first game. If we lose, we could come bottom - and 홍명보 and 정명규 might be facing a firing squad.

On paper, looks okay. But... I believe the first game is against South Africa. I think that game will be critical. Mexico is tough, and they'll be playing in front of the home crowd (the games are in Mexico - Guadalajara and Monterrey, I believe). And then possibly Norway.

Korea, Mexico, South Africa and winner of Europe D playoffs (Norway, Ireland, Czech Republic and North Macedonia). Probably Norway.

Group I looks like the Group of Death
#worldcup2026

Poor Scotland.
#worldcup2026

Group D looking like the most boring group at the WC.
#wordcup2026

A조...🤔

At least we’ll still have the “Esports” degree.

Addicted, I’m afraid…

Why is YouTube suddenly auto-dubbing everything? How do you turn this off?

How is this FERPing…? Sigh…

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

While we are cataloging Jim Watson’s many sins, can we add the “cancer will be cured in two years” to the list (re Folkman’s anti-angiogenesis factors)?

#jimwatson #jameswatson

The cloth wrapping is called a 보자기, and you can see how sloppily it's wrapped. The Koreans would not have presented a gift to Trump in this way. Lots of speculation in the Korean media whether the gift was unwrapped on the plane and whether Trump tried on the crown.
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So, Trump recently visited Korea for the APEC meeting, and was gifted a gold crown from Prez Lee. When returning to the US, Trump insisted that the crown travel with him on Air Force One and not separately as usual. The BBC took a picture of the crown as it was taken off the plane after flight
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