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A figure-8 walk. Interesting. There’s a lake on the Korean east coast that has a narrow, pinched waist. I’d like to do a figure-8 walk around it someday.
Good scenery! I wonder what became of the pig. A huge family’s lechon now?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/March/2022 @ 11:46 am
So many beaches, so little time
Yeah, I’m not sure how much I’d like the whole wet/dry/wet/dry thing when you’re crossing streams and rivers. Especially with sand in the mix. Very annoying. And in my case, likely to lead to blisters.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/March/2022 @ 5:57 pm
Up this morning at 4 a.m. Yep, I am back on my “lonely old man with no girlfriend” schedule once again.
So, selfishly, I can expect 6 a.m. comments on my blog again. Well, good.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/March/2022 @ 7:16 pm
Sorry—I meant the Hashers on Black Rock.
#SenilityComesForUsAll
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/March/2022 @ 10:55 pm
Were the faraway Hashers on Easter Mountain ahead of you or behind you?
Nice pics, and good to know your route contributed to some folks’ sense of adventure.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/March/2022 @ 6:19 pm
I remember being surprised by the “suicide is painless” lyrics the first time I saw “M*A*S*H,” the movie. I’d seen many “M*A*S*H” episodes on TV by that point and didn’t even know there were supposed to be lyrics. The movie, at least, was intended to be a commentary on the Vietnam War, using the Korean War as a somewhat heavy-handed metaphor. I don’t know whether that interpretation applies to the TV show, which ran for years until many in the cast were getting gray-haired.
Comedy equals tragedy plus time is a bit of wisdom uttered by a character played by Alan Alda in Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” but supposedly dating back as far as Mark Twain. Kind of applies to “M*A*S*H” the TV show, I think.
Here’s hoping the kennel appreciates your trail!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/March/2022 @ 3:42 pm
The experts normally say not to over-sauce your pulled pork, but the term “over-sauce” is fairly subjective. Maybe John’s pork seemed a little dry…?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/March/2022 @ 8:01 pm
Congrats on your darts victory. Thanks for the hiking photos, even the one with the bad lighting.
“And it occurs to me I might be making that same mistake again.”
No comment.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/March/2022 @ 10:22 pm
“I had the meatball sandwich and another beer. Or was it two?”
I’m reminded of the beginning of Albert Camus’s The Stranger, about a disaffected, detached man who ends up shooting someone at random: “Mother died today, or maybe yesterday. I don’t know.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/March/2022 @ 5:51 pm
As long as the views remain lovely, I’ll keep a-comin’ back.
So John Kim moved, yes? It’s not that he opened a second place? I’m guessing he moved based on “an upgrade from his old location at The Pub.” That sounds a bit more like a full-on move than the mere opening of a new branch, but the wording could be interpreted either way. Gotta say, though… his sushi bar doesn’t really look like a sushi bar. I guess what counts, though, is whether the food tastes good. He has a reputation for quality, which is reassuring… but is he a trained sushi chef? Or has he hired a trained sushi chef?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/March/2022 @ 3:04 pm
I need to buy some new shoes as well. The ones I bought last year are barely hanging on. Sorry about the darts loss, but you went on your own terms, so there’s that.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/March/2022 @ 5:13 pm
I’m trying to remember—how many times have you been up Easter Mountain?
Anyway, great pics as always. The adventure continues!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/March/2022 @ 8:58 pm
Joni Mitchell has gifted us with an impressive legacy of music. Too bad she went as nuts as fellow Canuck Neil Young. Sometimes, you have to separate the art from the artist.
Speaking of which, I’ve long meant to comment on the use of music and lyrics on your blog. It’s almost as if rock and pop are like a vox populi Bible for you: the holy scripture by which you define your life. If so, what lessons would you say you’ve learned from this scripture?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/February/2022 @ 2:47 pm
‘Twas just another Saturday night
Making the rounds. I expect your spirit will be haunting these bars someday, just as mine will be haunting the Four Rivers trail in Korea.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/February/2022 @ 6:02 pm
Nice shots of land and sky. Hilly adventure!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/February/2022 @ 6:15 pm
The steaks on the grill were obviously in the early stages, based on that photo, but the steak on a plate looked pretty darn good. I don’t mind soft garlic bread, for what that’s worth. Don’t mind it toasty, either. Good either way.
Maybe think of this as the first supper of a new beginning.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/February/2022 @ 6:38 pm
More darts victories = more congratulations. And that looks to have been a decent walk even if there was a bit of randomness thrown in. How bad can life be, right?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/February/2022 @ 5:53 pm
Oh, yeah, I meant to comment on that motto:
“Where good times begin & end.”
The “& end” part sounds kind of sinister, as if leaving that place means you’re back in the land of misery, or that the only way to leave is to die (i.e., your good times end here with your life).
Too late to change the motto now, though.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/February/2022 @ 5:34 pm
Congrats on the win. Such good things may be small potatoes, but at least you can be thankful there are any potatoes at all.
You got an address where I can mail you a book? I’ll gamble it won’t get lost in the supply-chain shuffle.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/February/2022 @ 2:40 pm
That garbage is disappointing. So much for the natives being “in touch with nature.”
Hey—only just noticed you’ve still got The Drudge Report on your sidebar! Time to replace that with The Liberty Daily.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/February/2022 @ 4:51 pm
Good luck with the Hash! Glad you enjoyed yesterday. Sorry if my grammar quibble was a fart in a church.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/February/2022 @ 3:07 pm
One of these is different from the other
And for what it’s worth, the Chicago Manual of Style (my go-to reference), section 5.195, says the following regarding what comes after “different”:
different (adj.): from (but when a dependent clause follows different, the conjunction than is a defensible substitute for from what: “movies today are different than they were in the fifties”)
Just so you know I don’t just pull this stuff out of my ass. CMOS doesn’t mention different to because it deals primarily with American English.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/February/2022 @ 3:39 am
“untroubled by information on semi-literate 18th-century grammarians and the mysterious mating habits of the comparative adjective.”
Ha ha. I can smell the descriptivism from here. Then again, the rules I quoted are actually rooted in descriptivism as well, i.e., in how the language is actually used.
(descriptivism = looking at how things are without judging; prescriptivism = telling you how things ought to be, i.e., prescribing)
So the MW article concludes:
If you don’t give a fig for what nitpickers think about your language use, proceed with different than or different from depending on how you feel.
If you give a fig, or part of a fig, use different from, except when beginning a clause, or when to do so would sound terrible.
If you are British, or would like people to think that you spent enough time in the United Kingdom for it to have influenced your approach to language, use different to whenever you feel like it.
This is pretty close to what I said, with some subtle differences, like the implication that the British “different to” can be used in front of a clause, which is not really the case in actual British English.
Note the article says “If you don’t give a fig” versus “If you give a fig.” I align with the “give a fig” crowd, so the second sentence, quoted above, comes closest to where I stand.
Note, too, that the article, in giving this advice, is being very subtly prescriptivist. This is something I’ve argued in the past: descriptivism is actually a form of, or subset of, prescriptivism.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/February/2022 @ 3:31 am
Don’t know what happened to that final quotation mark. Yikes.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/February/2022 @ 9:17 pm
Alas!
“there different than)” should be
“therefore different than“
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/February/2022 @ 9:16 pm
On a language note regarding your post title: “different than” is used in front of clauses. Otherwise, Americans say “X is different from Y” and Brits say “X is different to Y.”
different from (US):
Your cat is different from my cat in many ways.
This ice cream tastes different from the last ice cream.different to (UK):
Harry’s wand was different to Ron’s.
A Cornish pasty is different to an empanada.different than (US and UK):
The results were different than I expected.
(“I expected” = clause, there different than)A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb in it. A clause can be as short as two words: Jenny slept. It can also be longer: Mark looked at the incoming data and trembled. (1 subject [Mark]; 1 compound predicate [looked, trembled])
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/February/2022 @ 6:44 pm
On second glance, I noticed your shoes were different, too. Was that the point of the post title?
My dad had varicose veins. He had a lot of them, fairly early in life, but I don’t recall them jutting so far out of the skin. He went in for surgery to have them removed; this was back when I was in grade school.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/February/2022 @ 3:29 pm
So what’s up with the weird lumps on your left calf? Thought you were gonna talk about those.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/February/2022 @ 2:15 pm
I can see why the hike was the highlight of your day. Seems almost impossible to have a boring walk where you live.
As for depression—well, I’m confident you’ll fight your way through it. As you said, you’ve done it before.
Not sure what’s going on medically, although as I near my mid-50s, I can sense that life for us older folks becomes more and more about patching up this or that problem as it arises, like dealing with a boat that keeps springing more and more leaks. But that’s life, and you use the boat you’re given.
Maybe plan a long, multi-day walk to a far-off town along safe routes if that’s at all possible. Find a buddy who might want to join you on such an adventure. There have to be “hiking the Philippines” manuals out there in bookstores or online.
Stay sane, hone your character-judgment skills when it comes to women, and keep on walking. I find that continuing to walk can solve a lot of problems both physical and mental/emotional.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/February/2022 @ 5:39 pm
«« Back To Stats PageLooks to have been a beautiful day. Congrats on the darts win, and aside from the one tractor pic, it’s good to see you’re not taking things lying down.
“Chris crossing.”
I bet he gets that a lot.
The drying-rice pic is reminiscent of what we see here in Korea in the fall.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/February/2022 @ 6:56 pm