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Walking with Nokia Sports Tracker

This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]

Brain Teasers and Games with a Neuroscience Angle

From SharpBrains.
They have put together a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in their blog and speaking engagements.
They classify them into attention, memory, pattern recognition and planning, visual workouts and illusions, logic, math puzzles and some fun experiments.
Have a good workout!

Korean Exercise 32

Make the following passage honorific where appropriate. We have told you that normally you only need one honorific verb in a sentence, but for the purposes of this exercise use as many honorifics as you can. Look out for sentences that should not have them, however!
김선생님은 대학교 선생님 이에요. 런던 대학교에서 한국말
을 가르치고 일본말도 [...]

Korean Exercise 31

Say that you are worried about the following things.
whether: -lkka or -ŭlkka
That teacher will come (to a party).
선생님이 파티에 올까 걱정해요.
That there won’t be enough food.
음식이 모자랄까 걱정해요.
That Mr. Kim might not come.
김선생님이 않 오실까(봐) 걱정해요.
That your girlfriend might not like you any more.
여자 친구가 저를 않 좋아 할까(봐) 걱정해요.
That it might rain.
비가 올까(봐) 걱정해요.

Korean Exercise 30

Translate the following into Korean.
I’m ringing to cancel my appointment. Something came up (you see).
약속을 취소 하려고 전화 했어요. 바쁜 일이 생겼거든요.
Sangmin has just gone out to play table tennis.
상민씨는 타꾸 치려고 방금 나갔어요.
At first I didn’t particularly like kimch’i, but I got used to it. (get used to: iksuk haeji-)
처음에는 김치가 그렇게 마음에 [...]

Korean Exercise 29

Use the following pairs of information to make up Korean sentences, each with two clauses linked by -sŏ (서). The first three have the sense of ‘because A, B’, the last three are sequential, ‘and then’.

busy matter has come up  

can’t go

바쁜 일이 생겨서 옷 가요.

no food in house

go to restaurant

집에 음식이 없어서 식당에 가요.

business [...]

Korean Exercise 28

Translate the following (using verb compounds with po- for the English to Korean examples).
T’ang mashyŏ-boseyo! (t’ang: spicy soup)
Please try drinking the spicy soup!
You should visit Pulguksa one time (literally, Please visit ..!)
Pulguksa han bŏn ka-boseyo!
Pappŭ-jiman ka-boseyo.
Even though you are busy, please go and see.
T’akku-rul mot ch’yŏ-bwassŏyo? Kurŏm han bŏn hae-boseyo.
Have you not tried playing table [...]