Half-Mind Weblog

Back in the day, hashers treasured hard-to-get copies of Tim “Magic” Hughes’ World Hash Handbook & Directory.  After Magic’s death in 1998, the webmasters of the regional and national hash directory sites pooled their efforts to keep the directory alive. Coordinated by Australia national webmaster D2HD, using information supplied by other regional and national webmasters, [...]

I’m feeling vain about the Half-Mind Hymnal this morning.  Why?  Because of you. You’re awesome.  You got what I was trying to do with the Half-Mind Catalog and helped make it a collaborative effort, not a one-man show like most other hashing sites.  You supported it by contributing articles, improvements, and added features, then took [...]

In yesterday’s post, I commented on an email someone sent me about Phil Kirkland’s famous quote: “If you’ve half a mind to try hashing, that’s all you’ll need.” Re-reading the message, something else catches my eye. The message, addressed to regional and national hash directory webmasters, contains a proposal to adopt a standardized set of [...]

Everybody loves “A Drinking Club with a Running Problem” motto. Not me. I always loved the one Phil Kirkland came up with in a newspaper interview back in the 1970s: “If you’ve half a mind to try hashing, that’s all you’ll need.” Used to be, every hasher could quote that line.  Used to be, you’d [...]

Citizen 69 and I just returned from scouting trail for the Feb 21st Pedalfiles bash.  We’re starting and ending at a favorite bash hangout, with a beer check at a pub we haven’t been to before (it has outdoor seating so we can keep an eye on our bikes, something hares should factor in when [...]

On-On Magazine www. gthhh.com www.worldhhh.com www.worldhashspace.com Stray Dog None are confirmed morts, but things ain’t lookin’ good.  Anybody knows anything, I’d appreciate a SITREP.  That is all.

Sux2Blow, the webmaster of HashSpace, announced the start of HashSpace Wiki a couple of months ago.  Since then, hashers have been correcting, updating, and adding information to this user-edited repository of hashing information. Sux2Blow set up some broad categories: Hash History Hash Traditions Hash Kennels Hash Events More categories can be added . . . [...]

A few months ago I made a pitch for my friend Princess Grace, who makes a slim living off her hash haberdashery business, about the only thing her sack-of-shit husband left her when he split. Princess Grace’s haberdashery is now online, so you can look at the goodies she has for sale and read details [...]