I've been busy but.......

Sorry about the hiatus.  Its not like Mr. Oh has NOT been doing anything, but rather I haven't seen too much of him as of late due to my schedule and his schedule not "colluding".  In addition, his younger brother has come to visit.  Mr. Oh #2 seems to be a bit less strange, but only time will tell.
Here's a few things Mr. Oh has done that either completely incomprehensible, have annoyed me, or just plain funny.

About once or twice a week he'll put on a face mask for his skin (like clay or mud or something).  That's fine and all and I think its good that he tries to take care of himself, but the one time I subtly try to take a photo of him wearing it, he catches me and decides to pose.  Observe the pics below.

I don't think Mr. Oh has volume control.  He can be inappropriately loud.  Which is fine because I can be too, although when I tend to avoid such outburst particularly in the morning.  Just this morning, as we were getting to leave the house, I was sitting at my computer checking over somethings when he comes into to my room, says "good morning!", and then proceeds to look at what I'm doing over my shoulder. In other words his head is maybe 6 inches away from my ear (which is uncomfortable position to be in on its own) when for some reason he asks very loudly "What is that?".  I nearly jumped out of my seat.  Other times he'll laugh really loud at something trivial like a sarcastic comment or a mildly comical remark.  He laughs so loud that, although its just me and him in the room, I look around to see if anybody else notices.  When I catch myself realizing what I've just done, I then think 'hopefully I don't get any complaints from upstairs'.  That's how loud he can be.

Mr. Oh can be absolutely ludicrous at times.  He continually asks me the most impossible questions.  For example I can read comics on my Touchpad and when he realized I had some comics, he wanted to read them too.  I also have a small collection of ebooks I read on my kindle.  He then asks for some recommendations which I'm more then happy to do.  As I'm about to think of some books more appropriate for his level of English comprehension, he then changes his request to "what is the best book?".  I ask him if he's looking for something I like.  Nope.  Its the question as it was stated.  Same with the comics.  "What's the best comic?".  I looked at him with exasperation.  I told him it depends on what he likes.  I told him to peruse my collection and whatever he likes he can have.
At times, he'll ask me "why?" questions too.  These I can't even comprehend as to why anybody would ask anybody else these types of questions if they aren't of a personal nature or you're a child.  For example he'll come into my room and ask me what I'm doing.  If its the news I'm reading I'll then tell him about the article I'm reading.  He'll then ask 'why?'.  Why what? Why are people or businesses doing such things to each other?  Why is this happening in the world right now?  Why am I reading this?  I have no idea what he's trying to ask.  Funny thing is I'll bust out the little Korean I know and ask him to re-iterate his question and its still the same: "why?".

With his brother here, could it be possible it can get weirder?

Steve Jobs.....

Today Steve Jobs has passed away.....
Considering how many people have been affected by him, I only find it fitting that I write today to pay my respects to one who has redefined the world we live in.
He was truly a revolutionary.  Not in terms of technology, but of ideas and tech culture.  Who doesn't know of Apple.  Steve Jobs was able to bring Michael Jordan status of the 90s to technology in the 21st century.  Everybody I know covets Apple products and if not for Steve Jobs, nobody would.  Even when I bought my parents their first smartphone (a HTC Panache/MyTouch 4g, which I returned), they looked at it as an iPhone much to my chagrin.
I loved Steve Jobs for what he did, but I also despised him.
I feel like he was a sell out to the open source community by taking OS X and commercializing it.  I also know that it was a double edged sword that Ol' SJ was swinging.  Business and humanist ideals rarely mix, if ever.  Apple, I believe, is a victim of capitalism at its worst.  Their lawsuits against Samsung, iOS 5 similarities to Android, iCloud similarities to Google Cloud....they look at themselves as a company afterall. Not much more to say to that.
Regardless this is how I'll see Steve Jobs.  I believe he fought for a more open technological community.  I believe that, as much as he was pressured to create a profit making machine, he tried his best to make it so that everyone can partake in the wonders of technology.  People outside of Apple look at Apple's ecosystem as closed and narrow.  Its true that it seems like an elitist/hipster circle, but it really isn't.  If my parents can understand it (being old and Korean), then its open to everybody.  The only barrier was cost (i.e. thus a victim of the profit motive). Explaining how to use Windows and the internet to my parents was like trying to explain how subluxation affects general locomotion and neural pathways to my patients (at least those that were interested in listening), in other words, forget about it.  I love that Steve Jobs had the vision to allow those that were behind 20 years in technology to see what I see.  I recently bought both my parents an iPhone4.  I'm excited that I can Skype and video chat with them on my Android or even Facetime with them on my iPod touch.  I'm excited that I can receive Korean SMS from them when they want to tell me something.  All this because Steve Jobs had the balls to fight as hard as he did, similarly against the illness he had, to give everybody the opportunity to see technology the way he did.
Although I'm personally of two minds of Apple, I can see and appreciate what Steve Jobs was trying to do.  What he successfully did.
God Speed Mr. Jobs.
Rest In Peace Mr. Jobs.
We will never forget.