A few months ago, my dad said that he needed to learn how to use email because he would be getting more involved at his church. For my parents, who have never double-clicked anything in their lives, it was a big step. I took the old laptop that I had, pasted some Korean letters on the keyboard, and deleted everything except for two icons on the desktop: email and Joonmedia, the not-quite-legal Korean video streaming site. And they loved it.

Initially I got daily emails in Korean from both parentals, but once they started writing to their friends and families, I quickly became chan bop. And when I visited for the holidays, I would see my mom in the evening watching her Korean shows on the new laptop that we bought her for Christmas. I even had hopes of teaching her Skype. So things were good.

I had dinner with Sharon yesterday, and in between our usual arguing, as I was telling her about my parents' technological leap, she dropped this:

Sharon: Oh, Joonmedia got shut down.

Me: What?

She: The only thing on the homepage now is a video of Rick Warren.

Me: Why?

She: I don't know, but my roommate came to me yesterday and asked me if Joonmedia was working for me, because all she saw was Rick Warren.

It's true. All that remains where hundreds of Korean video links once were is one purpose-driven white guy. Because my parents' grasp of the idea of the internet is still rather tenuous, I'm not sure what they thought when they tried to open Joonmedia this week. My mom hasn't called me about it, probably because she doesn't want to bother me, but I'm guessing that she thinks she did something wrong. Don't worry, Mom, it'll be okay, I'll find you another site. This place is bigger and smaller than you can imagine.

I've been meaning to update, but I guess not really. The past few weeks have been a little busy, meeting up with people that I hadn't seen in ever/two months/six years/ten years/forever. And it was fun/strange/awkward/funever, but I don't have the energy to rehash everything.

My resolutions are the same as they've been since last year, and possibly the year before that. It wasn't that bad, though. I mostly/rarely/rarely/rarely kept them. Okay, it was that bad. Let's see if I can bump one of those up to a sometimes.

Other than that, I still have no idea what I'm doing with anything. Happy New Year!