The Kumachan – Page 219 – Unique perspectives. Independent voices.

Betty White Advice

Dave 2014-08-15

Japanese Red Lobster Vending Machine

Dave 2014-08-15

I love Japanese vending machines. You can literally get an ice cold beer and a hot coffee from the same machine. You can get an ice cream and a hot dog from the same machines. Here was an interesting vending machine I found outside a Red Lobster.

Clash of Clans

Dave 2014-08-10

We have started a new clan in the game Clash of Clans. If you are interested, just search for clans and type in the name “The Ku machan” Anybody is ok to join. The only thing we ask is that you observe our three rules:

1. Have Fun
2. Be respectful
3. Keep it clean (there may be children playing)

Other than that we look forward to seeing you there.

Always Wear Underwear

Dave 2014-08-08

Pattaya, Thailand Photos

Dave 2014-08-01

Here are different photos from different places around Pattaya City, Thailand.

Things You Have Probably Never Seen

Dave 2014-07-14

Housing estate – Denmark

7,000 trees planted to form guitar on a farm in Argentina

India – As if one head wasn’t bad enough!

A Bugatti Veyron

Buttress tree roots – Costa Rica

Camouflaged mobile phone tower – U.S.A.

Carpet of flowers – Brussels, Belgium

Secondhand mobile phone market – China

Ship & tugboat – Corinth Canal, Greece

Statues bigger than you thought – Easter Island

El Penon de Guatape – 650 Ft stone – Colombia

Ferrari World – Abu Dhabi

Nature’s bridge – India

Golf course – Somewhere in Australia

Living on the edge

Magdeburg Water Bridge – Germany – 500 Million Euros, 6 Years to build, 918 Metres in length

Mandarin duck – China

Most beautiful horse in the world

Night Lights – Times Square, New York

Aerial view of Central Park, New York

Rooftop garden – New York

Niagara Falls – Canada

Supercell storm cloud – U.S.A.

Tibetan Mastiff Dog – Sold for 1.5 Million Dollars

Tosua Pool, Samoa

Window washers at Children’s Hospital – U.S.A.

Through a Child’s Eyes

Dave 2014-07-11

Creator Humor

Dave 2014-07-03

Real Facts

Dave 2014-07-01

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

A cat’s lower jaw cannot move sideways.

Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.

In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.

It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year.

If you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all

Indians Don’t Use Saddles

Dave 2014-06-28

A woman from New York was driving through a remote

part of Arizona when her car broke down.

An American Indian on horseback came along and offered

her a ride to a nearby town.

She climbed up behind him on the horse and they rode off.

The ride was uneventful, except that every few minutes the

Indian would let out a Ye-e-e-e-h-a-a-a-a’ so loud that it

echoed from the surrounding hills and canyon walls.

When they arrived in town, he let her off at the local service

station, yelled one final ‘Ye-e-e-e-h-a-a-a-a!’ and rode off.

“What did you do to get that Indian so excited?” asked the

service-station attendant.

“Nothing,” the woman answered “I merely sat behind him on

the horse, put my arms around his waist, and held onto the

saddle horn so I wouldn’t fall off.”

“Lady,” the attendant said, “Indians don’t use saddles.”

Okinawa Expo Park and Churaumi Aquarium

Dave 2014-06-20

Went and visited the Okinawa Expo Park and the Churaumi Aquarium that is located within the park. This was definitely something to see. The Aquarium is known for having five whale sharks in captivity in this massive tank. The size of it was very impressive. There were other nice things to see around the part such as the vegetation, the spectacular views, the dolphin show, and you must see the whale sharks. There were some other things that were kind of neat such as using PVC pipes to act as mangrove tree roots for fish to live in.

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7 Reasons Not To Mess with Children

Dave 2014-05-14

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. ‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor..’
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’
A little fellow shouted, ‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
‘Take only ONE. God is watching.’
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’

Lesbians Eat What?

Dave 2014-04-21

Getting Old

Dave 2014-04-13

Flowers in Japan

Dave 2014-04-02

This was a real small flower that I was trying to take some photos from different angles to see which point of view would turn out better.

Flowers in Kanagawa, Japan

Dave 2014-04-01

Here I was playing around with taking some macro photos of cherry blossoms and other flowers with my camera in Kanagawa, Japan. Here are the photos from that experience.

Odawara Castle, Japan

Dave 2014-03-28

Took the train and went over to Odawara castle today to take some photos of the castle and the cherry blossoms. To my surprise there was a festival and a couple taking some wedding photos in front of the castle. This castle is not as big as some of the other castles I have been to, but it was still a neat experience because this castle is located close to both the mountains and the ocean.

Replacement Windows

Dave 2014-03-23

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind.

Today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He complained that the work had been completed a year ago and I still hadn’t paid for them.

Just because I’m blonde doesn’t mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year… that these windows would PAY FOR THEMSELVES in a year.

Hellooooo? It’s been a year, so they’re paid for, I told him. There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally hung up. He never called back.

I bet he felt like an idiot.

Purple Flowers in Japan

Dave 2014-03-23

As I was passing by I noticed these pretty purple flowers on a tree in Kanagawa, Japan, so I decided to stop and practice taking some macro photos of them. I wish I knew what type of tree and flowers these are because it really is pretty.

Odakyu Train Line

Dave 2014-03-22

Japan is world renowned for public mass transit by moving millions of people every single day. The Japanese train lines are very good with being on schedule and clean. Here are some photos of the Odakyu Train line showing trains coming in both directions near Chuo-rinkan train station.