Random

• Our graduating seniors at PIBC held a banquet last night. Entertainment involved several Yapese stick dances developed by students -- high energy and high coordination. And they put them together themselves. They've been practicing for three months. I'm starting to upload the videos to my YouTube channel.

• Kirk, our oldest son, called yesterday and it appears that the company where he has worked as a linguist for the last two years, since graduating from UC San Diego, is downsizing -- cutting loose 40% of their employees in each department. He was probably the last linguist they hired and is perhaps the only one with just a bachelor's degree. So he's looking for work. Anyone have a non-CIA non-military related lead for a linguist?

• Kent, our second son, is graduating from UC Irvine next month. This morning he sent us his honor's thesis for proofing. He is writing about ethnic Korean migration in northeast Asia.

He's not sure about his post-graduation plans -- perhaps come to Guam to help teach English at PIBC next semester -- eventually go to Korea to teach? He's a poli-sci major with his primary emphasis in Latin America studies. Yes, it makes sense. SoCal is where Latin America and Asia converge.

• Seth Godin's marketing insights make sense for life in general. ~ Link