Half-Mind Weblog

Using patented Half-Mind Quadroscopic TomorrowVision™ technology, Major Update peers into the future, seeing the shape of hash events to come.  And now, for the trip-planning convenience of road-tripping hashers everywhere, he presents those events in an easy-to-read calendar format! To view the calendar, just click on the image or select the button labeled “Half-Mind Events,” [...]

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, [...]

Update (7/26/10): I cross-posted a hash list letter from MTM, a frequent InterHash attendee who offers additional insights into the voting process at Kuching. Update (7/14/10): Not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but if Asian hashers are determined to keep InterHash in their neck of the woods, they’ll overwhelm the vote again [...]

If you read this blog, you know I have a love/hate relationship with haring.  Until I actually go scouting, I worry and fret.  Once I walk or ride a trail, I’m pumped. RDR fashion tip: pumps yes, fanny packs no! Two months ago, friends in Tucson’s jHavelina H3 asked me to co-hare the annual red [...]

Flying Booger’s Goodie Bag is a occasional column containing hash-related observations too short to justify stand-alone Half-Mind Weblog entries. Barterbitch from Melbourne takes me to task for differentiating between male and female hashers with the labels “harrier” and “harriette.”  Looking back at past posts, I have to plead guilty.  We are hashers, every one of [...]

Below the fold: a letter about the Malaysian Hash Council’s recent takeover of InterHash 2010 mismanagement. The hashers who passed it on to me asked me to share and comment on it. The share part is easy. Commentary? I don’t really have a lot to say. I can’t afford to go to Borneo anyway, so [...]

Looks like we need some (rumor control, that is).  Got this today from an Indonesian hasher: Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:16:33 +0800 Subject: Fwd: Interhash OC step down From: XXXXXXX To: XXXXXXX Check up the  Kuching interhash web site, Interhash Oc Charlie was overthrown at Hornbill hash EGM on 1st Feb 2010. Interhash bank [...]

Two more from my recent weekend in El Paso (click for larger): FB lost on trail Hashers & gators