Yongho Kim

Month: March 2005

  • Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa. Tackling Africa's Last Taboo

    Tackling Africa’s Last Taboo
    By Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa
    African Voices, Volume 5, Issue 4. March 2005.

    Africa has always been labeled for its conservatism regards to sexual or gender issues. In most African ethnic cultures, talking openly about issues regarding sex was taboo. Some have gone further to correlate these tendencies with the escalating HIV/AIDS infection rates especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This as many observers argue has resulted into the failure for the more knowledgeable adults to pass on the crucial information in a precise and direct manner to the adolescent Africans. The failure to hit the hammer on the head as the pundits argue is costing Africa many lives in an era where we always need to adjust to such a dynamic world with new physical, economic and social demands.
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  • from the CINTAX tax program What is your…

    from the CINTAX tax program:

    What is your marital status?

    If you were not married at anytime during the year 2004, mark “Single”.

    NOTE: If you are married and your spouse resides in another country, you ARE still considered to be married.

    yup

  • Flickr, you rock

    ROLFMAO!!!! This is the best! Sweet geek post data note!

    FlickrBlog – Being Owned By Yahoo Fails to Prevent Harddrive Failures

    Read your tiny letters next time, you punks.

    later:
    oi. now it’s hard to tell which one is funnier.

    clarafication – 3/23/2005 9:20:06 PM
    It’s awesome over here, and I actually decided not to skydive. I am such a chicken. Or a cow… Cows get scared easily too… That’s why they get tipped over all the time… Uh, okay…

  • margins

  • Who Inquires? Assumed Interactions at Art Exhibit

    Yongho Kim
    Principles of Art
    March 18, 2005

    Material Inquiry is a month-long national exhibition of textile and fiber arts works at Macalester College. I briefly toured the exhibit on the morning of March 18th, the closing day, for comments and thoughts to be submitted at the Principles of Art class.
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  • which direction does this guy lean towards http…

    which direction does this guy lean towards?

    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/09/ayo-its-only-beginning-cats-imagine.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/09/best-part-is-that-i-have-15-person.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/09/outside-wall-of-my-dorm-room.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/09/aflo-for-prez.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/11/updates.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/11/me-and-my-boy-vinnie-in-des-moines.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/11/one-more-me-maribel-ana-vinnie-from.html
    http://eldescanso.blogspot.com/2004/11/im-third-from-right-jail-isnt.html
    http://mpkb.net/en/Hegemon/Need-Blind/February_18_2005#The_Hegemon_gets_a_reader

  • SENIORS LAST DATE TO ORDER CAP AND GOWN…

    SENIORS – LAST DATE TO ORDER CAP AND GOWN…
    If you missed the vendor on campus and still want to order your cap and gown, stop by the CDC, Kagin Commons, 1st floor by Friday, March 18, 2005. All orders must be received before Spring Break. (Career Development Center)

    I don’t have enough money to waste into this stupid one-time costume. I just received $360 for February employment, of which $200 will be spent paying loans (mostly from the OPT application costs), and $100 on cell phone bills, after which I should have about $100 for the rest of the month, and this includes spring break = (meaning no meal plan)

    However, if I don’t buy the gown and cap, AND mom and grandma end up coming to graduation (apparently they are under the impression that I want them to come, despite my efforts to show the contrary?), (it is not certain yet whether or not they are coming) they will obviously think it is a big big scandal that I graduate without following proper tradition (i.e. t-shirt and jeans) and waste EVEN MORE money into rushing to some store and getting something resembling gowns and cap, to make up for it. Net result is that we end up spending even more money because I tried to save $20.

    But I can’t survive until April 15th on a $80 budget.

    Fuck, fuck, fuck.

  • Winona Daily News Published Friday March 11 2005…

    Winona Daily News
    Published – Friday, March 11, 2005

    It’s Latin America, stupid
    By Paul Grawe community columnist

    Fourth, the current inhabitant of the White House knows what I’m talking about. In part because he is a Texan. In part because of his Hispanic in-laws. In part because he speaks fluent Spanish. In part because of the election results.

    LMAO

    I still recall that TV campaign ad: “es..este.. suouy llioll bush, y a..apróbe es..este mensaje”

  • Definition of Globalization rephrased whites act using…

    Definition of Globalization rephrased: whites “act”, using artifacts “produced” by nonwhites. Masters “do”, slaves “provide”.

  • notes, Free Trade/Fair Trade Forum

    So I was sitting there struggling with the overcomplixified MS access relational tables structure trying to figure out how to establish a data report based on four interrelated (two one-to-many and one one-to-one relations.. I think there is something going on when you drag a premade report into the report design field, though), when Octavio says “I’m going to this debate at Mac, where is the chapel?” And I 1) didn’t know Octavio was talking there (which is, so ironic! Larry Weiss debated Raymond Robertson when he had the exact same position, in 2002!) and 2) didn’t know it was happening today – I assumed it was the weekend even though had no intentions of going. So remembering our little name thing with MPIRG earlier, I look up the new promotional email which now says “MPIRG, Mac Fair Trade, MPJC, and others.” and notice the phrase “Dinner too!”. I’m like, “I’m going!” and he will give me a ride if I write a story on the forum for the RCTA. Sure, fine. First, some memos.

    Free Trade/Fair Trade Forum
    March 9, 5:00-7:00pm. Weyerhauser Chapel, Macalester College.
    organized by MPIRG. Cosponsored by MSFT, MPJC, SLAC
    Presenters: Charlie Wunsch (Member Services/Consumer Affairs, Mississippi Market), Octavio Ruiz (Director, MN Fair Trade Coalition at the Resource Center of the Americas), Mindy Ahler-Olmstead (10,000 Villages), Raymond Robertson (Associate Professor of Economics at Macalester College)

    http://yokim.net/wikka/NotesFairTrade

  • getting there It’s Not Just Usability by Joel…

    getting there?

    It’s Not Just Usability
    by Joel Spolsky
    Monday, September 06, 2004

    So a good social interface designer might say, let’s not display an error message. Let’s just pretend that the post about Viagra was accepted. Show it to the original poster, so he feels smug and moves on to the next inappropriate discussion group. But don’t show it to anyone else.
    ………..
    Social interface design is still a field in its infancy. I’m not aware of any books on the subject; there are only a few people working in the research side of the field, and there’s no organized science of social interface design. ………

    Over the next decade, I expect that software companies will hire people trained as anthropologists and ethnographers to work on social interface design. Instead of building usability labs, they’ll go out into the field and write ethnographies.

    kathy.lee :: portfolio
    msn messenger whiteboard
    SI 622 evaluation of systems and services

    » created personas and scenarios to frame our evaluations
    » fielded a survey to explore the competitive marketplace for IM applications as well users’ mental models
    » conducted a cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation of the drawing and collobration tools

    mitupv exchange
    an online cultural and educational exchange

    the project’s largest payoffs came from involving the users. We conducted brainstorming sessions with the students to define functional requirements and tailored the development schedule to allow for ample user testing.

  • Students of Color at Hamline protest unrepresentative curriculum and oppressive campus atmosphere

    From: Yongho Kim yokima@gmail.com
    To: ASA, BLAC, ¡Adelante!, Afrika!, CSA, MIO, MASECA, Bridges, PIPE, QU
    Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:37:20 -0600
    Subject: Students of Color at Hamline protest unrepresentative curriculum and oppressive campus atmosphere

    Forty students of color and allies at Hamline protested last thursday (March 3rd) at their Student Congress on the differential treatment given to the study of jewish and indian immigration in the sociology class “Racial and Cultural Minorities”, which fullfill’s Hamline’s cultural breadth requirement, and the ensuing charges that multiculturalism in academia is really “reverse discrimination”, and broke quorum by having Student Congress reps quit the meeting.
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