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A sight that makes eyes sore
Really think about forming a team and cleaning that shit up. A bunch of men together, and you can be done in a few hours.
At the Kon Tiki
I got curious about what “Ekahi” means, so I looked it up. It’s apparently Hawaiian (or some Polynesian language), and it means something like the Japanese “ichiban,” i.e., “Number One.”
Kon Tike from the beach
The place with the inconstant spelling!
Although, the thought did occur to me that in the 1960s[,] I never heard music from the ’20s being played.
I guess if you go from 2024 to 1964 (i.e., mid-60s), that’s 60 years. So in 1960, if you go back 60 years, that’s 1900, well before the Roaring Twenties.
Surely, there can’t be 81 million Bobs out there.
As someone wrote on Instapundit: “81 million votes, not 81 million voters.” Who wins depends on who counts the votes.
Biden himself said that. Along with his mentor Stalin. And conservatives are to blame for being so passive, over the decades, as to allow lefties to occupy all the positions of power in our culture (news, the arts, academe, the military, etc.). Burn it with fire and start again, but more carefully and prudently next time.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/May/2024 @ 7:44 pm
The local schoolhouse
Looks sinister.
Hung out to dry
I hope the clothes don’t end up tangled with the plants.
I love the countryside out here
Looks peaceful.
The station wagon of motor scooters
Holds as many as a compact car!
A newly constructed road that appears to go nowhere
Maybe someone had extra money in their budget, and they had to spend it on something before the fiscal year was up.
The Rite Spot menu.
A chili burger sounds good right about now. And that is an extensive menu. I’m reminded of a retro “burger, etc.” joint up the street on Route 1 in Alexandria, not far from where my brother David lives. Damn… now I’m thinking about burgers and dogs and milkshakes and fries and everything bad for you.
I remember arguing then: if you are scared, stay home, and whatever I choose to do won’t impact you.
I agree with your attitude, but they’ll never leave you alone. That’s a signal trait of the left: like the fundie Christians they ironically claim to hate, i.e., the Christians who get in your business because they think it’s for “your own good,” the left cannot leave well enough alone.
Look what I’m up against
It’s a bit like the people who say “my truth.” There’s THE truth.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/May/2024 @ 7:25 pm
Should the ‘Postrophe Posse be concerned about your use of “thems the breaks?” Shouldn’t it logically be “them’s,” a contraction of “them is?”
Good catch, Drain Snake!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/May/2024 @ 7:22 pm
DaKudos (which is apparently changing its name to Foxhole)
Good move. I never liked the dopey sound of “DaKudos.”
Congrats to your dad on making it into museum lore.
I think that should read “Gentlemen’s,” but who am I to criticize?
You are correct. Unlike the Germans, we use apostrophes to indicate possession. “Kevin’s book,” not “Kevins Buch.”
So is the rainy season finally upon you? We’ll be getting our own monsoon sometime in July.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/May/2024 @ 7:28 pm
I love this recently built cabin with the mountain view. I can see myself sitting on the front porch sipping a cold beer.
I’d love to know what facilities the cabin comes with. Bathroom? Kitchenette? Tiling? And how good is the protection against wind, rain, etc.? Does it ever get cold in that part of the world? If so, what protection does that sort of cabin provide?
And on a personal note: back in the 90s, I had a student who’d given me a huge Christmas card in which she had written, “Merry Christmas, Cabin!”
The dreaded hill climb into Alta Vista
But the breathing was okay?
“I got the Hashit, the Subic Hashit, for being stupid on trail today. I have to hold it until I pass it. Won’t someone take my Hashit away”
What’d he do that was so stupid? Oh, and he looks a bit like George Carlin.
I’m reminded that today marks thirteen years since my father passed away.
Condolences.
That’s dad at the original Rite Spot, a burger joint he managed in the early 1960s.
Surely some of those burger-making genes passed down to you, yes? What was the name of the burger joint? Is it still around?
I’m getting over 57 pesos to the dollar these days, the best it’s been since I moved here.
On the good side, the more pesos per dollar = more buying power in the PI (stronger dollar). On the bad side, it means trouble if you’re sending dollars to the US and converting from pesos. This is my problem since I send money to my US account semi-regularly. The dollar remains strong against the won (1:1358).
“Stuck with You” is one of my favorite Huey Lewis songs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/May/2024 @ 8:19 pm
A vocative comma.
And why’s that, Angus?
Remember the old poster:
“Eat, Grandpa.”
“Eat Grandpa!”
Commas save lives.» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/May/2024 @ 12:51 pm
That appeared to be a huge swing
I should Photoshop a kid being flung across the sky.
I went with the sausage, cheese, and egg sandwich.
Any butter, or something to spread on the bread?
MEME: “And why’s that Angus?”
What’s missing from the above quote?
Happy Hashing… but I imagine it’s over now.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/May/2024 @ 8:50 pm
Damn. I wrote:
At first, that seemed that a pervy thing to be singing to that little girl.
Should be:
At first, that seemed a pervy thing to be singing to that little girl.
My brain. It farts.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/May/2024 @ 4:25 pm
Come and get it!
With the obligatory bit of litter on the ground, I see.
I’m burnin’, I’m burnin’, I’m burnin’ for you…
At first, that seemed that a pervy thing to be singing to that little girl. Then I saw the fire. And realized I was the perv.
This woman is bringing a bag of mangos for Swan. That happened twice yesterday.
Make a mango-shrimp salad. Those are awesome.
What the hell? You almost never see this kind of nasty graffiti around here.
The PI is evolving… just not in the right direction.
but the crap internet makes this post frustratingly difficult.
You can save yourself a lot of frustration if you have a “compose offline” option. That way, all the headaches happen only at the moment you try to upload your composed blog post to your blog.
Have a fun Hash, tame though it may be.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/May/2024 @ 3:17 pm
Swan and I will be participating in the ACH3 anniversary Hash on Sunday.
So she’s officially Hashing with you now, after holding out for so long. When does she get initiated?
we are going to try and drop by before we go to say farewell
I forget—and I think you mentioned this before (sorry)—farewell for good, or just for the season?
why don’t Filipinas use birth control?
At a guess: old-school Catholicism. These aren’t American Catholics, who basically spit on their own religion but vaguely adhere to its trappings when convenient.
I’ve met two different gals working in the bars trying to eek out [a] living
Spot the error! As with “discreet/discrete,” we’ve been over this one before.
Enjoy your trip. And congrats on your medical numbers.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/May/2024 @ 12:42 am
re: litter, litter everywhere
So when does the Great Litter Crusade start? I bet you could move literal mountains of trash if you got members of the local Hash community to help out every week. I know you’ve talked about how the trash will only ever keep reappearing, but that’s the crusade; it’s never done, but it gives you and your gang purpose, and it weaves you into the local community a little more tightly: you’re giving back to the country that sustains you. Candy and goodies for the bargirls are a good start, but Rudy Giuliani, when he was NYC mayor, had it right with his “broken windows” policy: the quickest way to make people feel better about where they live is to take care of the superficial stuff first—the graffiti, the broken windows, the obvious litter, etc. No less true in the PI, I bet. And conservatives love to talk about the importance of local, voluntary action as opposed to government mandates, so how about it? A nice Get Off Yer Ass and Clean the Streets campaign in Barrio Barretto! Turn it into a competition! And see if there’s a way to get locals, not just expats, involved.
Chili con carne in the crockpot
Nice pic, but it’s obviously upside-down. 180-degree rotate!
Muffins and brownies look good. So do the skewers.
Night falls
I should Photoshop in another distant dragon.
The party in full swing
So interesting to see that Muslim-like separation of the sexes. I saw that firsthand when I visited a Sikh gurdwara in Washington state in 2008. Sikhism combines elements of Islam and Hinduism, and in terms of religious spaces, it’s patterned a bit after Islam: men on one side, women on the other.
I do not believe he will be on the ticket come November.
Some are speculating Old Joe will drop out either just before the debates or right after the first debate. I’d say it’s even money. He has the ego, if not the marbles, to stay in, but a lot of Democrats want him out. Did you see the very left-skewing Daily Show’s recent parody of Kamala “Word Salad” Harris? If the left is finally doing what the Babylon Bee has been doing for four years, you know it’s bad.
I haven’t watched the Reekay video yet, but do you feel it contains lessons you’ve actually learned? Or are they merely lessons you’ve heard but not internalized? Are there bits of wisdom that you disagree with? What’s the biggest steaming nugget of wisdom, in your opinion?
Good luck with Dr. Jo.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/May/2024 @ 4:42 pm
Watch dem lungs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/May/2024 @ 5:12 pm
I looked up the hanja (Chinese characters) for Sohee, and the “hee” is indeed the “hope” character I showed above (希/희/hee), but the “so” is 素/소/so, which means “root” or “original” or “fundamental.” So “Sohee” really means something like “basic hope” or “original hope.” Kind of sad in light of what happened.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/May/2024 @ 10:34 pm
re: blood work
Good luck with that, and with the upcoming doctor’s appointment.
I was making the most of a nice morning in Seoul.
Looks like Yeouido.
Later that evening, I attended Matt and Sohee’s wedding. Things didn’t end well for them. A divorce, and Sohee committed suicide. Damn, memories are such a bitch sometimes.
Sorry to hear it, but I dimly recall that you’ve mentioned the ill-fated Sohee before. I don’t know which Chinese characters she used for her name, but given her suicide, I’d venture 小希/소희/So-hee, or “small hope.” Apologies. That was morbid.
I am happy to announce that my relationship with Swan has reached the level of intimacy where I feel free to fart around her with impunity.
You’ve been doing that for a while, haven’t you? While sleeping? Of course, if the farts were happening during sleep, you weren’t feeling any “impunity.”
“The answer, my friend, is blowing in my wind…”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/May/2024 @ 7:53 pm
The venue owner in question did post an apology for the threats to the Hash Facebook page today.
Did he also refund what he’d overcharged?
…and one Hasher got very upset and said this was all an overreaction and blamed the Hash leaders for not handling the situation more discretely.
Spot the error!
We started in Alta Vista once again which makes things easy for me.
Spot the error!
And through the fields, we go.
Oh, noes! Spot the error!
The trail turns right and goes up a hill. We didn’t.
Do you plan out your shortcuts in advance, or do you make them up as you go along?
This is my favorite Hash venue—nice outdoor ambiance after a hot hike.
Unless they overcharge you. (Assuming this is the one that did that.)
Neighbor Davina served us some blackened salmon, which was amazingly good.
It does look good.
And now the jokes on me
I assume that was deliberate.
Aside from the controversy, it looks to have been a fine day.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/May/2024 @ 6:16 pm
Oh, yeah: that guy in the video really seems to be speaking to your situation, especially when he talks about alcoholism. On the romantic front, you may be evolving now that you’re with Swan (mainly thanks to Swan herself), but when it comes to bar culture, evolution is, shall we say, harder to see. Keep at it, though: self-control can be yours!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/May/2024 @ 5:21 pm
Bags of candy
Do you ever worry about all of that chocolate melting in the PI’s heat?
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
That could well be a yellow Mandevilla flower. I love my browser’s “search image with Google” function. It’s how I try to identify plants these days.
You can see it’s huge top from my patio
Spot the error!
Hmm, that sounds a tad Hannibal Lectorish, doesn’t it?
Ah… it’s Lecter, with an “-er.”
Thirteen years ago, I bought this house in Columbia, SC
And thus did you avoid an alternate future in which you’d have retired and become just another lawn-mowing suburbanite. You’ve repeatedly said you’re happy with not following that path, so… good for you.
Whatever you say…
Horrible English translation. It really says, “Pedestrian, bicycle, farm machinery combined-use path.” So it’s a path where you can encounter all of those things. It’s interesting that there’s a “no cars” icon, but nothing in the Korean text says that cars aren’t allowed. I’ve seen cars on bike paths all over the place. Strikes me as illegal, but maybe the locals know something I don’t.
so hopefully, I’m on the road to recovery from whatever has been ailing me. I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
You’d had breathing issues before, then those got treated, but I’m worried the treatment’s effectiveness is fading, and you’re returning to Square One. Anyway, good luck with the truncated Hash, and good luck with blood work, etc.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/May/2024 @ 4:37 pm
re: Sandpaper Sally
I’ve heard that one before! She wasn’t called by a nickname in the version I’d heard, and she was an ugly old woman. But there were scabs as well as pus.
re: humor hierarchy
Puns can be dumb, simple, and easy to reach for; those definitely ought to rank low in the hierarchy. But some puns are clever and require a bit of thinking to get right away. Saturated with meaning, such puns really ought to rank higher. And while I personally love slapstick more than irony, would you agree that slapstick ought to rank higher than irony on the chart? Hmmm. That in itself might be ironic. Metahumor.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/May/2024 @ 10:36 am
They told me the repair process would take one or two weeks.
Sorry to hear that. Since I live in Samsungland, there are Samsung offices all over Seoul. You enter the facility, find an electronic kiosk, click on the image relating to your issue/need/problem, and get a ticket with a number on it. When your number is called (wait time depends on the number of customers, but it’s normally not obnoxiously long), you go to the booth where a staffer will help you. I’ve had repairs done to my Samsung Galaxy twice or three times; the repair itself rarely takes more than 20-30 minutes. Nice to have the technician on site.
A few blocks later, Swan gets a call from the Samsung store. A late-arriving female employee had managed to fix the phone.
Well! Never send a man to do a woman’s job. Then again…
Still, I’m not comfortable having to do a Mickey Mouse fix whenever this happens. A $500 phone shouldn’t be such an inconvenience. Swan called the store and is going to take the phone back for a proper repair tomorrow.
Probably for the best. No ghetto, third-world fixes! And your warranty doesn’t allow you simply to get a replacement phone?
This morning, I was able to complete my regular [dog-walk] route, with only some heavy breathing on the uphill portions.
And you feel no urgency about seeing a doc or hitting the hospital right away? I mean, I can understand the stubbornness: when I had my incident, I didn’t want to be admitted into the hospital, and I felt pressured by the ER staff, my boss, and my coworker.
It does look tasty!
And what a pretty flower on top! I wonder what species that is. Hopefully not V. dentata.
As I suspected, my kind of laughs are at the bottom. I guess that makes them the foundation of humor.
I saw that meme resurface recently and remember slapping that one up on my blog a few years back, along with a snide comment about puns’ place in the hierarchy. You commented in response. I guess, with time and forgetfulness, it feels like a new discovery!
Please think about getting your symptoms checked out soon.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/May/2024 @ 7:13 pm
re: shortness of breath
The lesson I learned from my recent episode is that shortness of breath might not be from what you think it’s from. Please get that thoroughly checked out.
As we exited the village of Naugsal
I’m guessing that’s a typo.
Looks to have been a productive and eventful day. Again, please be sure to get checked out re: your lungs, just to confirm it’s not actually a heart problem as it was in my case. Thoracic ultrasound or electrocardiogram might be the ticket.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/May/2024 @ 9:30 pm
When we arrived at the shop yesterday after more than 8K walking, the guy briefly looked at the phone, then told me to take it back to the Samsung store.
Ugh. Sorry to hear the phone is giving you so much trouble.
She’s such a dick!
SNL hasn’t been funny in years, but for a brief while, there was the “It’s Pat!” era, about the androgynous Pat (Julia Sweeney), whom nobody could figure out. One of the best of those sketches involved Harvey Keitel as the SNL guest host. In his version of the “It’s Pat!” skit, he ends up stranded on a desert island with Pat. He writes in his diary, and we hear voiceover narration as he writes something like: “I’ve had sex with Pat three times now, and I still don’t know if Pat’s a man or a woman.” SNL has always been a leftist stronghold, but you couldn’t do that sort of un-PC humor these days. Or could you? Only in certain circles.
Enchilada looked good but a bit meager. Only one?
Have fun not SOBing.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/May/2024 @ 7:24 pm
The climb was all concrete steps, but it still kicked my ass.
The “but” and the “still” imply that concrete steps are normally easier (than something else… like dirt trails?). Is that what you’re saying here? That steps are normally easy, but these steps were ass-kickers? I thought you generally hated steps and preferred dirt trails.
Saw this sign along the way and it gave me a chuckle
The sign implies gun ownership. What are the gun laws like there? Do you think the owner’s really armed?
I’d done this hike once before years ago but had forgotten how endless it feels
Reminds me of the long staircase up to Pai Mei’s temple in Kill Bill.
A Canadian friend/ex-coworker once told me of how he had gone to China and climbed six thousand steps up to a remote mountain temple. I can’t even imagine such a feat. That would take me all day, assuming I didn’t die along the way. But those were stone steps, not concrete.
The view from the top
Looks like a Brazilian favela.
Perhaps that cemetery down there is full of those who didn’t make it to the top
I’m reminded that the paths up Everest are littered with ever-frozen corpses.
Like this. No, thank you, I don’t leek cocks. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
I looked up the soup. Seems almost Asian.
No comment
That whole “don’t end a sentence with a preposition” thing is a load of hooey. I don’t know where it came from or why it’s still around. Lots of preposition-final sentences are that way because of a phenomenon called “petrified expressions,” i.e., expressions whose word order you can’t change. Example:
WRONG: That is not something up with which I will put.
RIGHT: That’s not something I’ll put up with.“Put up with” is a petrified expression.
Enjoy your rest from stairs work. And you’ve got blood work coming back soon, yes?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/May/2024 @ 6:56 pm
Debbie Harry still looks pretty good for being in her mid- to late 70s.
Looks as though you went a little off the chain after your doctor visit. I know what that feels like. Best day to enjoy some indiscretion before getting back on the discipline.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/May/2024 @ 9:15 pm
On my way to Snackbar, I saw this unique CR.
re: “paki sakto para di pumanghi” (written on that board)
It apparently translates to something like, “Please be precise and don’t sneeze.” I guess sneezing would throw your aim off.
re: “wimping” out
There’s nothing wrong with following your instincts. You may very well have avoided heatstroke and/or fainting on the path.
Have fun at the doc’s.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/May/2024 @ 6:11 pm
Fire on the mountain. I have no idea why.
Looks almost like lava, “lava” being the operative term. Makes me think of that horrifically comic scene from Bridesmaids.
Today, I’ll be making my 296th run with the SBH3.
What sort of party will you have for 300? And will you make an extra effort to go extra long and hard on that day? Maybe do a Kevin-style walk on a difficult trail: 25K with a 12-kilo pack on your back.
Have a lovely Hash Monday.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/May/2024 @ 5:57 pm
Just reread your old post. This part struck me:
She KNEW me. And despite that, she still loved me.
The McCrarey essence, in a nutshell.
RIP, Linda.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/May/2024 @ 7:34 pm
I started the day with my Standard Saturday Solo Street Stroll.
A serpentine acronym, that: SSSSS.
Surf and turf for Swan
That looks really good.
And a tenderloin for me.
Not quite as visually spectacular, but I assume it tasted great.
Thank God we have a strong leader in Washington, DC, to keep the peace. Oh, wait.
Hang on. As the Stark family says, November is coming.
Does such a thing even exist?
You get a woman with a big’un, and it’s easy enough to find. But then, you have to worry that, if it’s too big and looks more like a little dick, does that make you ghey for enjoying it? That was a running joke in Clerks 2, I think: Dante’s fiancée has a clit so big that his buddy Randall, who knows about this thanks to an unforced confession from Dante, keeps insinuating Dante is gay.
Enjoy your feeding and the quality time.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/May/2024 @ 6:25 pm
Happy sixth anniversary. Time flies, and you’re an old hand in your retirement community. Hopefully, you’ve learned how to live in and appreciate the present, and whatever woes you experience these days are minimal.
I made the mistake of posting a photo of one of my meals (when only takeout was permitted by the powers that be) that I thought was innocuous, but he somehow identified the location and then outed them on Facebook.
Hopefully, you’ve learned something about discretion and small-town life since then.
Long may your journey toward wisdom and bliss continue… although I suspect the alcohol thing is going to keep tripping that up!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/May/2024 @ 9:36 pm
I know you keep going back to it, but please don’t trust the Grammarly app. If, however, you visit Grammarly’s main website to look up grammar points/explanations, those grammar points are pretty solid because they’re written by humans and not produced by algorithms.
(And learn how to copy-paste instead of rewriting a sentence from scratch! That’s how you get accurate quotes.)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/May/2024 @ 9:25 pm
«« Back To Stats PageI noticed that, when you quoted your own sentence from my comment, you rewrote it ever so slightly.
Here’s what I wrote, copy-pasting directly from your passage:
I’ve never been to the Kon Tiki before, but have heard many good things about it.
Here’s what you “quoted” (but actually rewrote):
“I’ve never been to the Kon Tiki before, but I have heard many good things about it.”
See the difference?
In the original sentence that I quoted, there was the phrase “before, but have.” In your altered version, it’s “before, but I have.” Now, “before, but I have” is a good and valid correction for the mistake. Another correction would simply be to remove the comma without adding “I.” In the hint that I linked, there’s a section on compound predicates (1 subject, 2 actions). Please give that a reread. You don’t use commas with compound predicates—that’s the explanation I was looking for. Examples of what I’m talking about:
WRONG: Sally sat down, and farted lustily.
RIGHT: Sally sat down and farted lustily.WRONG: He knew tossing her salad was wrong, but did it anyway.
RIGHT: He knew tossing her salad was wrong, but he did it anyway.
ALSO RIGHT: He knew tossing her salad was wrong but did it anyway.WRONG: I’ve never been to the Kon Tiki before, but have heard many good things about it.
RIGHT: I’ve never been to the Kon Tiki before, but I have heard many good things about it. (inserting an “I” to make a clause)
ALSO RIGHT: “I’ve never been to the Kon Tiki before but have heard many good things about it.” (no comma)» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/May/2024 @ 1:02 pm