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Grillin’ and chillin’

John,

Yeah, slice thinness is a problem, which is something the article mentions. Ideally, your steaks should be thicker. Stop buying them pre-packaged and go to a local butcher to control thickness. If you’re stuck with thin steaks, you could try a traditional searing method: quickly sear the hell out of the steaks to get the surfaces the right color, then place them in an oven-safe pan or tray and gently finish them in the oven. As that linked website recommends, a probe thermometer helps a lot with this process. Ideal internal temp for most beef is around 130F.

“Reverse searing” is exactly the opposite procedure: cook your steaks in the oven first (or sous vide them), then sear at the very end. Ever since I started sous vide-ing, this is the method I use, and it’s idiot-proof for me, which is good since I’m a steak idiot.

Whatever you do, good luck.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/October/2023 @ 3:10 pm

Well, bit by bit, you’re settling in, at least. Food looks good. Keep working on that sear, though. Adding fat (via brushed-on butter, etc.) will give you a more pronounced sear. The heat needs to be aggressive so you cook the outside quickly while leaving the inside rare. Here’s a good article on perfect steaks, and here’s a pic of a nicely done steak from that article (especially the image on the right).

Continued good luck as you figure out what your new normal is.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/October/2023 @ 6:18 pm

I did a 69 yesterday

I’ll be doing Hashes in La Union and Angeles City later this month, and that’s my nightmare scenario–not knowing where to go or how to get back because of a poorly marked trail.

Have you ever used the real-time navigation feature on Google Maps? I think you can download the Google Maps app and use the navigation feature that way. I use Naver Map (“Map” is singular with this app) in Korea because it’s so much better than Google, probably because it’s locally made, more detailed, and updated way more frequently. Now, there’s no guarantee that the nav app will take you along the Hash trail to reach whatever your destination is, but it’ll get you, by hook or by crook, to your destination. So if your nightmare scenario happens, just flip on the app, type in the destination, set your starting point to “my current location,” and away you go. Might want to practice with it first. Start just outside of town and see if it’ll guide you reliably home, then see if it’ll guide you from home to one of your favorite bars.

I’ve seen worse.

Reminds me of some spots here in Hangukistan.

Cement sidewalks and bridges

I keep expecting Ewoks to pop out of the foliage.

Looks to have been a good, arduous walk. Sorry about the lack of real 69ing, but maybe there’s some in your future. Somewhere. Sometime. And not with Lucky. (Ewww, he went there!)

Good luck as you continue to settle in. Did Swan and/or your other helpers assist with the unpacking?

Oh, and where was Buddy when Lucky was chewing you up? He wasn’t out having a smoke again, was he?

If your lacerations are anything like the ones I got during that ill-fated nighttime walk (frankly, I think yours are worse), it’ll be about a month before you’re close to normal. Some aloe-based ointment/lotion might help to speed the healing slightly. Keep taking those antibiotics, and make sure you’re not experiencing any urge to howl at the full moon.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/October/2023 @ 6:40 pm

Abbrev.

Why is my dog suddenly aggressive toward me?

Why dogs turn on their owners

There are many, many other videos on this topic. I’m not sure either of the above is satisfactory, but it’s a start.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/October/2023 @ 4:25 am

re: muffins

At least the oven works! Nice.

Good to see the dart board up. May there be much practicing. It’ll be therapeutic.

Lucky, being a dog, has no choice but to follow his particular dog-nature. You can get rid of him (which might make Buddy sad but might be safer for Swan), or you can figure out what makes him tick. Tons of dog-whisperer vids on YouTube.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/October/2023 @ 7:43 pm

By the dawn’s early light

Here’s a chart I came up with to illustrate the likelihood of my giving up the bar life:

I guess you’ve made your choices, then. Hey, if the bar life is what you love, then I’m rooting for you. Hit those beers hard. Drink yourself stupid. They’re your brain cells to kill. But you can’t have the life you’ve led up to now and expect to have a deep, fulfilling, committed relationship. Superficiality and depth don’t mix. So you can save yourself a lot of trouble by dropping one or the other now rather than later.

re: hand/arm

Did you see a doctor? I saw no mention of that.

I admit I’m morbidly curious to see what happens next in your ongoing soap opera. For what it’s worth, good luck.

More seriously, good luck as you continue to settle in. I hope you like the new digs.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/October/2023 @ 5:26 pm

So much to unpack

Sorry to read about Lucky biting you several times. I hope you’re getting that checked out by a professional.

I wonder whether Lucky is more loyal to locations than to people.

At least your stuff got moved, so there’s that. Putting everything in place while dealing with dog bites, though, is going to be annoying and painful. Here’s hoping that this bit of bad luck shoos away any other potential bad luck as opposed to being the beginning of a landslide of bad luck. Fingers and tentacles crossed.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/September/2023 @ 5:29 pm

A titanic undertaking

I reject the premise that visiting bars or judging a dance competition is indicative of a lack of commitment. I’m not doing anything in the bars I wouldn’t do if Swan were there beside me. Moreover, from the beginning, I told Swan about my bargirl “friends” and that I occasionally buy lady drinks for them. I brought her with me to an SOB so she could see for herself that it was a legitimate event. I expect I’ll be spending less time in bars because Swan provides a better option, but I have zero remorse or shame about visiting my favorites in the bars occasionally.

And here’s the heart of it: the basic unwillingness to do what really needs to be done or to see things as they really are. There’s a sort of self-protective self-image dynamic at play, here—a reality-distortion filter. If often seems to me that you spend a lot of time and effort fooling yourself into thinking your actions are nobler than they are.*

As commenter Jimbo put it:

You still go out drinking daily, go walking daily. That’s the same.
During your drinking, you enjoy talking and flirting with bargirls, and buying drinks and food for some of them, at least one of whom you’ve had sexual relations with. Since all these are transactional and largely benefit the girls, I’m certain that they’d prefer that you don’t stop these activities. Even you can see how it’ll be impossible to continue drinking in these places if you bring your lover….how would you take admiring pictures of Joy erotically enjoying the food you buy her? (Yes, this is your cue to claim that it’s all innocent, generous and not that deep)

Here is the shape of your samsara:

1. Commenters act as Greek chorus, warning of impending doom, their warnings rooted in experience, common sense, or some combination.
2. John: Oh, this is nothing. Come on, guys. It’s meaningless. The ladies mean nothing to me.
3. Commenters: the fact that these interactions are all with ladies definitely means something. Open your eyes.
4. John: I refuse to open my eyes.
[Disaster happens, as the chorus warned.]
5. John: Oh, well. I guess this is my lot in life.
[No deep self-examination happens, just a superficial intellectual acknowledgment that “the one thing in common in all these situations is me.” Reset to Square One, but with a different woman this time.]

This is why Indian traditions see life as a painful, grinding wheel that you need to escape from. Otherwise, it’s a hell that repeats over and over, and it’s your own ignorance and stupidity that chain you to the wheel. Liberation from the wheel requires, shall we say, smarter behavior.
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*I think all of us stand accused on this point because we all want to think of ourselves as the heroes of our own stories. So this isn’t just you, and I’m not saying this from any moral high ground. Facing facts and realizing we’re not always heroic is a painful experience; God only knows how many times I haven’t really lived up to my own self-image. So the instinctive preservation of a noble-seeming ego isn’t irrational; it’s baked into our nature. But the only way for any of us to improve is to pierce through the veil of self-deception and take a good, hard look at why we continue to fail. And it’s right there, at the level of our most basic habits, at the place where we refuse to make fundamental-but-necessary changes, that changes need to be made.

James Clear, in Atomic Habits (which I’m reading now), says:

You get what you repeat.

Act the barfly, attract barflies, live a barfly’s life. Maybe it’s time, at age 68, to aim for something higher and better.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/September/2023 @ 11:14 pm

I’m not one of the commenters who necessarily thinks you’re headed toward doom. Swan seems to be an improvement over the type of woman you normally go for. Her lack of communication about the important things is problematic, but it’s also not atypical for Asian people to be silent about the things that matter. That said, other commenters have brought up some interesting possibilities about how Swan might be using you as the guy who pays the rent on her property and also pays her as an employee (how is that supposed to work, again?).

I think I’m in tune with the other commenters who see this as an “if-then” type of situation. If you say you’re committed, then it follows you shouldn’t be acting uncommitted by continuing to visit bars, photograph and feed the ladies, attend and judge SOB dance contests, etc. These things are not “innocent,” and they’re not “meaningless.” If you didn’t claim to be committed, I wouldn’t care one bit about how you spend your time, but over and over, you’ve expressed some level of devotion to Swan, and you still can’t seem to bring yourself to realize what a devoted man supposedly worthy of someone’s affection must do to truly be worthy of that affection.

It could be that the other commenters are right, and this might all end in disaster. I’m more hopeful mainly because, despite Swan’s red flags, they’re not the same as the red flags for all the other girls you’ve been with. So Swan could be your escape from samsara, or she could represent a totally new kind of soul-hurt. I think I asked you this once before, but I don’t remember the answer: if things don’t work out with Swan, will you kick her out? Retaining an ex as a housekeeper/helper could be awkward. (Of course, retaining a significant other could also be awkward.)

Good luck with your move. It was good to see Buddy on guard duty.

re: writing your story

I’ve occasionally thought your samsaric life could make for a good tragicomedy. Maybe as a play.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/September/2023 @ 12:05 am

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Good wisdom from Motorrad.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/September/2023 @ 1:51 am

Swan declined my invitation with a curt “I don’t want to.” Alrighty then. Looks like I’m still at the bottom of her priority list. Honestly, these past couple of months have been my loneliest time since moving to the Philippines. Since I consider myself in a relationship, I can’t be with anyone else, but the one I care about doesn’t seem to want to be with me.

Have you put the matter to her in exactly this way? She might simply lack nunchi, the hard-to-translate Korean word that means something like perceptiveness, the ability to read people. Maybe she has a tin ear and has no idea how this sort of thing affects you. Or maybe this is an opportunity for you to self-examine and ask yourself what exactly it is you want in a woman. It seems that one thing you want is for her to share a liking for the activities you participate in. “She needs to be, not just willing, but eager to do the things that I do.” From the beginning, you’ve mentioned the fact that she doesn’t like group walks. Given the frequency with which you’ve mentioned that fact, I assume it sticks in your craw a bit. So the question is: is this something you can compromise on (assuming you find other ways to connect), or is it a deal-breaker?

The bar manager saw the pic on Facebook and commented that I made the statue look better. I hope that’s worth a free beer!

Was it Rodney Dangerfield who recommended that, if you’re fat, you’re better off hanging around with even fatter people to look thinner?

We discussed changing our scenery, but in the end decided, why bother? I admit my discount coupon may have influenced me.

For an Irishman, you can be a really cheap Scotsman.

re: Bobby McFerrin

I wrote a few years ago about this, which moved me to tears. It was such a human moment, and a little indication of the great things we can potentially do together.

Here’s hoping you find some kind of human connection with Swan.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/September/2023 @ 6:51 pm

The way I done it

I don’t know if all of the lyrics below apply to your situation, but the refrain might:

I’ve been phoning night and morning
I heard you say, “Tell him I’m not home”
Now you’re confessing, but I’m still guessing
I’ve been your fool for so so long

Girl don’t lie, just to save my feelings
Girl don’t cry, and tell me nothing’s wrong
Girl don’t try to make up phony reasons
I’d rather leave than never believe

If this is it, please let me know
If this ain’t love, you’d better let me go
If this is it, I want to know
If this ain’t love baby, just say so

You’ve been thinking
And I’ve been drinking
We both know that it’s just not right
Now you’re pretending
That it’s not ending
You’ll say anything to avoid a fight

Girl don’t lie, and tell me that you need me
Girl don’t cry, and tell me nothing’s wrong
I’ll be alright one way or another
So let me go, or make we want to stay

If this is it, please let me know
If this ain’t love, you’d better let me go
If this is it, I want to know
If this ain’t love baby, just say so
If this is it, please let me know
If this ain’t love, you’d better let me go

If this is it, I want to know
If this ain’t love baby, just say so
If this is it, please let me know (I wanna know)
If this is it, please let me know (I gotta know), ooh
If this is it (you better let me go) please let me know, ooh (just say so)
If this is it, please let me know, ooh
If this is it, please let me know, ooh

Name that tune!

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/September/2023 @ 1:40 am

re: Trek meme

That’s from Strange New Worlds. The guy with the twerpy mustache is supposed to be Samuel Kirk, brother of James T. That’s Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory) in the role of Spock.

Once again, RIP to Goldfinger.

Good that you avoided the rain. It looks to have been a nice walk. And a local hospital will definitely be nice.

re: that narrow road shoulder

Yeah, I had stuff like that during my east-coast walk two years ago. Never again.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/September/2023 @ 5:28 pm

Party time!

The gal Goldfinger brought to the Hash with him each week showed up yesterday. Apparently, she hadn’t heard the news. Sad and weird. She just got up and left when she found out Goldfinger wasn’t coming. Ever.

Pretty safe to guess, then, that she wasn’t that close to him. Wow.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/September/2023 @ 3:19 pm

Yesterday’s Swan-hosted event at her/our house seemed to go well.

The “her/our” makes me wonder whether there’s gonna be any weird politics about who owns/runs the place.

I arrived at the appointed hour of 1:00 p.m. and was a little surprised to see so many children running about.

Catholic families the world over. Except America, where the Catholics skew liberal and heretically use birth control.

Chips and salsa. The gals at my table drank red wine; I was having beer.

Chips and salsa with red wine! Nice to see people not standing on ceremony.

It is usually some kind of card game, but yesterday it involved a box of these tiles and dice.

That’s looks kinda like mah-jongg.

Thanks for having me, Swan

At last! The great reveal! Gotta love the “Dickies” shirt.

He hadn’t been physically able to do a trail for a couple of years, but he still attended the Hash circle most weeks. Sorry to see him go.

RIP, Goldfinger. May you ddongchim many angels with your golden finger.

Well, it seems to have been a good, lively, happy gathering. If these happen often enough, you can show off your grilling skills by whipping up a ton of steaks.

It could be that one of the great benefits of being with Swan is the network of care that comes with her. Once you’re “part of the family,” so to speak, you know that there’ll be people who have your back, and they’ll be your people. It’s taken a few years, and I still might be saying this prematurely, but Welcome Home.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/September/2023 @ 3:30 pm

Meet the family

Is she close to allowing herself to be photographed?

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/September/2023 @ 5:56 am

Good luck with the coming-out event. I think you’ll do fine as long as you don’t arrive drunk or pantomime dry-humping Swan in front of the relatives.

Chili in the crockpot

What a coincidence! I’m making chili, too, for our team’s pre-Chuseok celebration this coming week. (We’re off on Chuseok break starting on Thursday, and we won’t be back in the office until the following Wednesday.)

The bar also has several of these couch seating setups that look quite comfortable.

Interesting clash of motifs in the design. On one wall, you’ve got the Swiss flag. On another wall, you’ve got a local flag saying “Freistaat Bayern,” i.e., Bavaria, which is in Germany. Maybe the interior designer was like, “Meh… it’s all Teutonic, anyway.” Switzerland has (in order of size and population) German-speaking, French-speaking, Italian-speaking, and Romansch-speaking regions, but it’s true that Teutonic culture heavily influences all of the regions.

Let’s hope things go well at my meet-the-family event today.

I’m sure it’ll be fine, but good luck all the same.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/September/2023 @ 2:39 pm

Finding a way to persevere

Getting lost can be miserable if you’re trying to stay on a schedule, but if you’re just wandering about with no pressure to be somewhere at a particular time, then it’s not so bad. Getting lost is how I learn a new city’s geography. Sure, there’s the risk that I’ll end up in the wrong part of town, but what part of life is risk-free?

At least neither of you got severely injured or anything.

La Oficina wins! More home-field advantage, I guess. Are some of the judges bribed to always award first place to the home team? Heh.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/September/2023 @ 9:50 pm

Coup on the highway

Now, I’ve been scammed a few times and been overly generous to undeserving recipients occasionally, but never in the amounts that this guy routinely gave…. So, perhaps there is hope for me after all!

Maybe this is a difference of degree between you and that guy, but it’s not a difference in kind, so you ain’t off the hook, even if that last sentence is meant facetiously. Toward the end of the video, the narrator speculates that Slow Learner was a slow learner because he couldn’t control his lust. This has been a recurrent theme in my comments here as well. Lust and neediness can blind you to the ugly realities of the low-quality women you so often meet, which is once again why I’m happy you’re now focused on Swan, who seems to be in no hurry to put out. Good for her, I say. Swan strikes me as classy. She has her flaws, as we’ve previously discussed, but if she helps to make you a better man by forcing/persuading you not to spread your DNA around the village, all the better.

And that fuck up with the last girlfriend’s niece was something I never would have even thought about trying.

Says the guy who was only recently banging an 18-year-old! Well, at least you don’t have some long, sappy phone-text history that can be used against you.

Or do you?

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/September/2023 @ 5:07 pm

Broken arrows

re: poor showing at darts

I’m sure you’ll be back to your old, heroic self after some practice.

Joy is back to flashing her teeth, I see.

What is the official tournament height at which a dartboard must be placed? Ah—I just looked it up: 5’8″ or 1.73 m. So that chick in the “It’s been a long time since I participated” photo is really short. Does it feel good to be darting again?

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/September/2023 @ 5:45 pm

Darting through time

Good to know the traffic’s clearing up. Good luck with darts since you seem to be dipping a toe back into that pond. Here’s hoping you do practice at home. And congratulations on getting most of your lease work done.

I guess payment is the final bit of icing on that cake. Is that money you’ll ever see again, or is it permanently gone? If I want a nice apartment in Korea, I can pay a jeonse/전세 of around a million bucks (yes, a million bucks), which is like a down payment (but it’s often called “key money” here), but when I leave the apartment, I get that million bucks back. Meanwhile, the building owner earns interest off my jeonse.

re: nasal polyps

Glad to see you’re now on track to do something significant about them polyps. Imagine how glorious life will be on the other side of that operation. Any indication as to healing time after the procedure is done? And are you allowed to do simple things like blow your nose once you’re out of surgery? Oh, and here’s a question I know you won’t ask: can the docs plop your polyps in a bottle of formaldehyde to present you as a souvenir? I already know the answer is no: when I had my wisdom tooth pulled years ago, I asked the dentist about whether I could keep the tooth, and she said the tooth, once extracted, was technically medical waste and thus a biohazard. Her institution was quite inflexible on that point.

Happy girl-feeding and have fun enduring your power outages in the tropical heat.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/September/2023 @ 3:58 pm

Lights out!

Zambales II: Electric Boogaloo!

That sign seems to indicate the outage started today at 6:03 a.m. What am I missing? How do you know the outage starts tomorrow? And the sign says the outage is for an indefinite period, but you’re sure it’s “day-long.” I guess knowing this stuff is less about logic than it is about experience.

Looks to have been a nice walk. Rock on!

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/September/2023 @ 7:03 pm

And on the seventh day…

You really don’t have to use HTML code; those tabs at the top of the comment box give you the standard options like boldface and italics.

Interesting! The version of your comment box on my screen has never had those features. I add all my HTML manually.

bold
italic
strikethrough (which I almost never use)

For me, your comment box is little more than a featureless rectangle.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/September/2023 @ 6:28 am

…and then, of course, I added an unnecessary quotation mark and fucked up my HTML, leading to crazy italics when I meant to put the phrase in boldface. The ravages of age on the mind. Sigh…

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/September/2023 @ 2:04 am

to die as a giant woman’s dildo

Vaguely poetic, but also ambiguous. I should have said:

to die as the dildo of a giant woman”

—just so people know we’re not talking about a normal-sized woman with a telephone-pole-sized dildo.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/September/2023 @ 2:02 am

I should work on my reading-comprehension skills. You did say the people who were walking had gotten out of “Jeepneys and trikes.” So they were passengers disgusted with the slow rate of the traffic. Got it.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/September/2023 @ 8:05 pm

Were those walkers people who had gotten out of cars driven by other people, or were they drivers who abandoned their cars?

Wow, more orb-weaver cousins! You can always tell by the shape of their webs.

If your last act as an astronaut is to die as a giant woman’s dildo, well, there are worse ways to die.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/September/2023 @ 7:12 pm

Money for nothin’

OK, I watched the “bad Filipina” video, and I thought what the guy had to say at this moment totally applies to your situation. Transcript:

You’ve gotta think, “Okay, I’ve had this happen four times in a row. Maybe my selection process needs to be a bit more refined.” If all the women you keep running into are bad apples, either you’re lookin’ in the wrong place, or you’re getting led astray by their looks, and you’re not paying attention to their character. It’s like, “As long as they’re pretty, of course they’ve got to be of good character.” No, that’s not true.

The guy is at pains to say that your bad experience with Filipinas should not be extended to apply to all Filipinas, i.e., there are good eggs out there.

This is very similar to what I’ve been saying the whole time: find a better-quality woman. Don’t do the typical expat thing and confine yourself to the trashy end of the spectrum, especially if you’re looking for a relationship with substance. I say “typical expat” because, as seems to be true everywhere in Asia, a lot of foreign guys—not just you—end up following the same fucking path because they have no goddamn common sense. And thus it is that trash follows trash, slut follows slut, scam follows scam, over and over, in what I’ve described as samsara (the painful wheel of existence in Hinduism and Buddhism).

Even you have shown some awareness of your situation with your repeated jokes of “looking for love in all the wrong places.” True love isn’t going to be transactional, especially not on the monetary level. It’s also not going to be a one-way street of servitude—”I just want someone who will take care of me,” which is nothing more than a selfish thought. True love will mean things like commitment, sacrifice, and other-orientation. Partnership.

Alas, you also have a history of being exposed to wisdom, nodding yes to it, then not internalizing it (whether we’re talking relationships or grammar!). This is why the same mistakes happen over and over. Breaking out of samsara means actually internalizing and practicing the life-lessons you encounter. It means really learning from your mistakes and doing better next time instead of constantly being a prisoner of your urges. It means changing. You don’t seem willing to do that. When I harped about the continued posting of photos of other women while you attempt this committed relationship with Swan, you’ve rationalized and justified in an attempt to maintain a self-image that does not correspond to reality. Nothing will change until you can see yourself more honestly.

The last bit of advice the guy gives is a bit dangerous because it can cut two ways: he ends his video by saying “Don’t let it make you bitter,” referring to having a string of bad experiences with Filipina women. It’s not a bad idea to stay positive where possible, but I wish the guy had placed more emphasis, in the video’s last moment, on the idea that you should definitely learn from your experiences, gaining in caution, in wisdom, in emotional maturity. If you remain psychotically happy after every bad experience, you’re never going to learn anything.

My father is a good example of someone who’s so emotionally retarded that he can suffer a tragedy, then be his usual bouncy, happy self in just a couple of days. Nothing penetrates his psyche deeply. He learns nothing fundamental from any of his experiences. As Matt Groening cynically put it in a Life in Hell comic years ago, when describing “The 22 Stages of Heartbreak,” the final stage (for men) is “Ready for further punishment.” We men can all be stupid, each in our own wonderfully unique ways, but in most cases, the stupidity is utterly unnecessary.

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/September/2023 @ 8:39 pm

Off topic: I’ve been watching a lot of this “Green Berets React” channel on YouTube, and the term “buddy fucker” came up. So I now know the term comes from the military, and it refers to the guy in your platoon who is most apt to fuck you over—to rat you out, run off in a crisis, or otherwise betray you. So that’s a buddy fucker. Hell of a Hash name.

Oh, and what about Nikki and the brownies? Nikki didn’t show up for work, so she missed out again. The other gals seemed to enjoy them a lot, though. So, her loss.

I get the feeling that Nikki’s not the brightest bulb. Darling Nikki.

In other news, I heard from my current landlord yesterday, and he has found a replacement tenant for me. I was happy to hear that because I felt guilty about breaking my lease.

Congratulations. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

I don’t wear it because that depiction of the spiritual adviser is just a tad too crude for public consumption.

Ah, that American prudery. You see images like that all over the place in Europe. Visit the big cities in France or Germany. I bet that, if you wore that shirt more often in the PI,
no one would even notice what was on it unless they were staring hard at you.

re: mask/science meme

I understand colloquially what’s meant by “believe in science,” but real, hard-nosed scientists would argue that science isn’t about belief at all—it’s about evidence and proof. This is a pedantic point, of course, and a philosopher could argue that science nevertheless includes elements of faith (especially if knowledge is defined as “justified true belief”), e.g., faith that there exists a reality outside of my head, and that effects follow causes (which may not even be true at the quantum level).

That lying/cheating video is now in my queue. I’ll watch it soon.

re: “Worcestershire” being hard to say

We Amurricans tend to say “WIS-tuh-sheer,” but I think many Brits will just say “Wooster,” with the “oo” sounding like the “oo” in “book,” not the “oo” in “food.” In Korean, the phrase “W… sauce” is hangeulized as 우스터소스/u-seu-teo so-seu, i.e., “Wooster Sauce.”

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/September/2023 @ 7:13 pm

SOBsequences

If we all stand together[,] they won’t be able to fuck us this time.

Here’s hoping.

I don’t bother much with politics on social media these days, it just seems so pointless.

Spot the error!

I keep tellin’ ya’, if you learned what dependent and independent clauses were, you wouldn’t have this problem.

Meanwhile, here’s hoping the PI government doesn’t bring back the mask mandates. Masks and isolation were some of the most illogical responses to the pandemic based on what we now know. And don’t even get me started about “vaccination.”

» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/September/2023 @ 8:20 pm