Monthly Archives: July 2008

Secret Recipe

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Half full

I just came in from picking chillies off our bushes in the front yard and began errantly picking my nose when checking email. At least I’ll never make that mistake again.

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New Word: Monkeypig

Avert thy gaze if thee be eeeasily frightened: Hark, a monkeypig!

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Maxie Waxie

P.S. Baby blogging is a lot more enjoyable than I ever imagined it would be – it doesn’t feel gay at all. I’m sure it looks pretty gay sometimes, but please bear with the apparent gayness (which actually isn’t gay … Continue reading

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Oh my nerd (Star Wars-MJ dub)

If (Cyndi Lauper) + (Gamorrean Guard) doesn’t make you smile, you just don’t deserve the Force.

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Motorex Skylines

The sordid history of Skyline importation into the US as told by 0-60 Mag: Access Denied

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Murasaki Inu

A lifetime ago (13 or 14 years ago to be a bit more exact) I sat in a stuffy classroom in Tenri, Japan, and started penning my first essay in Japanese. Not having yet learned any kanji, I wrote it … Continue reading

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b00mshine

The ultimate chillout chain reaction bubble game. (It’s all about level 12, yo)

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Beaker Beaker Beaker

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An Admission (Update to Greyscale Angel)

In my previous entry I was trying to pass off my own photo as Max, without much success… Besides the comments, some people sent mail asking if it was really Max’s photo, so I guess we don’t look as similar … Continue reading

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Greyscale Angel

Max is now 5.4 or 5.5 kilos. UPDATE: An admission

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New Toy – 19xx Yamaha Chappy

This is an original ad for my new (old) toy, a Yamaha Chappy most probably made in the seventies, imported from Japan into Thailand. Actually, it has all the signs of having been stolen at some point, and it wouldn’t … Continue reading

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grty

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Doggy-Baby Duet

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A couple tech links

These are really good: Our Electric Future by Andy Grove (of Intel fame) A Trio of Videos of Neal Stephenson Talking About SF

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Food link shortage

Here’s some food-related links a reader sent me a while back: Meatwater, High Energy Survival Beverage Incredible Sushi Art Beijing takes dog off the menu for Olympics

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agp

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native mt captcha note (CaptchaSourceImageBase)

I sometimes get inquiries about implementation of the native Movable Type captcha system for comments, often from people who are on the same webhost as this site but cannot get the captchas to work. You might just be in luck … Continue reading

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vaccination homework

My free time this week was spent poring over charts like the ones viewable through this WHO portal and checking the feasibility of delayed schedules… More pics to follow, of course, but Mr. Max is now up to 5.2 kilograms! … Continue reading

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random morlam remix

- Just because the scenery in the background looks like the kind of riverside restaurant you often see driving the highways around here. There’s nothing like the funky beat and syncopated yowling of molam to make you feel happy and … Continue reading

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