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John,
I’m betting you can round that up to a 94% (I’m about to make the change on my blog). Assuming you got a 31 out of 33, that’s 93.93%, effectively a 94%.
You civics badass, you.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/January/2014 @ 6:40 am
Awesome bird. Cute hangari. When’s it goin’ in the ground? Kimjang season is already past.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/January/2014 @ 6:14 am
Two things I haven’t done this year
Congrats on quitting smoking! It may be difficult to stay quit, as you say, but I bet your accumulation of good, healthy habits—thanks to the weight-loss program—has given your willpower enough momentum to overcome the ciggy hurdle. Staying quit would be a lot harder were you not also improving yourself in other areas.
I now regret that Itaewon/bomber jacket jibe. I said that mainly because there are so many gray-haired white dudes in Itaewon who look as if they’re trying to recapture lost youth, and it really does seem kinda’ sad to me. Because I know you better than I know them, I wouldn’t lump you in with them. Far from trying in vain to recapture what can’t be recaptured, your efforts at getting healthier are more an embrace of the future: a “new you,” not an “old you” from the past. That sets you apart. So wear that dead-animal skin proudly, White Man!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/January/2014 @ 4:07 pm
Thirty-one and undergoing open-heart surgery? I’m going to guess this was due to complication from whatever torture he had experienced while a prisoner of the Chinese.
What a life, eh? Shorter than Jesus’.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/December/2013 @ 2:27 am
Looks amazing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/December/2013 @ 12:45 pm
Finding my geographic center of gravity
Just tried to find my geographic omphalos. I ended up somewhere in the water, in the middle of the Hudson Bay, Canada. Heh.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/December/2013 @ 9:28 pm
Your very first link doesn’t seem to be working, alas. It redirects me to your blog—to a “This is embarrassing” screen that’s the equivalent of “404 File Not Found.” I saw the proper URL to go to, though, so I’ll be trying this nifty app out shortly. Thanks.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/December/2013 @ 6:53 pm
Did you invent a new word in your blog post’s title?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/December/2013 @ 1:06 pm
Luck.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/December/2013 @ 2:10 am
Idea theft: the sincerest form of flattery.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/December/2013 @ 3:55 am
Whoops—Looks as if you’re gonna BE off the no-carb regime…
(I keep telling my students not to forget major verbs. They say stuff like “I can’t English very well.”)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/November/2013 @ 2:21 pm
Looks as if you’re gonna off the no-carb regime until all the leftovers are gone. Happy post-Thanksgiving!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/November/2013 @ 2:20 pm
Dinosaur. I dub thee “Steg.”
Thanks for the shout-out.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/November/2013 @ 3:13 am
A working class hero is something to be
“One perk of being a mailman (especially a single mailman) is that you tend to meet a lot of women along the route.”
This explains the popularity of the mailman scenario in porn.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/October/2013 @ 11:09 am
Damn. And he did that one-handed. Pretty badass.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/October/2013 @ 2:33 pm
Your kid could teach some awkward, overly showy, Korea-based podcasters a thing or two about proper on-camera delivery. Kevin(!!) is very articulate, fluent, and clear in his presentation—all business, no BS. His ability to string a series of ideas together in a non-stop, but not incomprehensibly stream-of-consciousness, manner is uncanny. Kudos!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/October/2013 @ 2:55 pm
So they’re all pulling a John Kerry.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/October/2013 @ 2:04 am
Hey, are you talking about me?
It’s a bit like the paradox that occurs whenever we have this exchange:
Bill: How’s your cold?
Sam: Better, thanks.Sam’s intention is to say that his cold is actually worse, i.e., Sam is getting better, but his cold is on the wane. Taken literally, though, Sam is mistakenly saying that his cold is what’s improving, i.e., strengthening.
Upshot: maybe we shouldn’t take Tom Waits too literally. But if that’s so, then why believe Tom Waits at all?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/October/2013 @ 11:34 am
Yes, John, your blog is a searing, agonal walk through the fiery pit. My eyes melt every time I visit. My skin burns; my soul corrodes.
But I’m wondering what Waits is actually saying. He says that bad writing “[destroys] the quality of our suffering.” If the suffering’s quality– its purity and intensity– is destroyed… isn’t the suffering being reduced, somehow, such that there’s less suffering? If my migraine degrades into a dull throb, isn’t that actually an improvement of my situation? And if a pill destroys the quality of my migraine-pain, that’s a good thing, yes?
So maybe Waits is really saying that bad writing will save us all… in which case you’re not helping humanity’s lot, since you’re actually a much better writer than you give yourself credit for. Further, it means that Waits’s overly ambiguous quote is an example of bad writing, which makes Waits more of a savior than you.
Can’t win ’em all, eh?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/October/2013 @ 11:30 am
I’m sure that, if you look around you, you’ll see plenty to do, eat, and otherwise experience.
You’re lookin’ positively thin, by the way!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/September/2013 @ 11:55 am
Inadvertently funny:
“When I went in the church, I saw something on the floor which I could only describe as flesh, which I thought was part of his arm but that was one of his testicles.”
And that’s why the guy hacked off his own balls: they looked too much like arms!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/September/2013 @ 9:14 am
Still—congrats on the win!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/September/2013 @ 11:15 pm
Hilarious! And a true brush with fame, that.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/September/2013 @ 1:30 am
Saving the world one city at a time
Careful, now:
it’s = it is
its = possessive of “it”Too many incorrect “it’s”es!
Otherwise, I found this to be a fascinating proposal. How viable it is, I have no idea. The people currently in power in Detroit might have something to say about your idea.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/September/2013 @ 12:34 pm
And the walls come tumbling down
Congrats on the continued plunge, and on entering a new BMI frontier!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/September/2013 @ 4:41 pm
I think the comment I just wrote is in your moderation queue again (I inserted another hyperlink).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/August/2013 @ 11:53 pm
What’s your goal? To make the documents actually visible to the reader of your blog without the reader’s having to download any files? There are ways to create an embedded document. See here, for instance.
I clicked on the above links in your blog entry and was presented with a “download” dialog box. I didn’t opt to download the files, but I’m sure that they all would have downloaded just fine, had I wanted to download them.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/August/2013 @ 11:51 pm
Happy 29th, John.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/August/2013 @ 11:21 pm
Congrats on the continued weight loss!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/August/2013 @ 6:41 pm
«« Back To Stats PageJ,
I just submitted a comment that had a few hyperlinks in it, so it’s in your moderation queue (probably as an anti-spam measure). Just a heads-up.
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» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/August/2013 @ 10:40 pm