Monthly Archives: March 2011

Feeding Time

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

@ animal area next to ancient Isan house exhibit, Maha Sarakham University (new campus side of town)

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YouTube iframe embedding

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

It seems that the new way of embedding YouTube videos is really slow to render when you have multiple videos on a single page. Offhand, I can’t remember tweaking anything else that would cause this blog to be loading in segments like … Continue reading →

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A-OK

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Everything here is alright; we’re just busy. Mina is almost over the chickenpox, which means a beach trip is coming up in April.

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Panyee FC Story

Posted on March 24, 2011 by
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Max & Water Buffalo

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

@ Ban Donnad

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Muay Thai WWF

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

FINISH HIM! You know you’re watching the real thing when you’re at the REGGAE BOXING ring.

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Hunting Parts for a Kujira Crown

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

After owning a 1971 MS60 for a few years now, I can tell you one thing: It’s been pretty damn near impossible to find spare parts for it. After spending countless hours trying to find parts overseas on the internet … Continue reading →

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Specifying a starting point in YouTube’s Flash 5 Player

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

In my previous post, I set an embedded video to start from a determined point partway through. The video was embedded with the new iframe tags (specifying HTML 5 instead of a Flash player, which is usable by a broader … Continue reading →

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Tom Green Chain Gun

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

This album contains explicit lyrics. Note: I set the video above to start playing midway through (to the part relevant to this post’s title); you can of course watch it from the beginning by adjusting the slider.

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Why the newspaper died

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

At first I thought this was an early April Fools thing, but it wasn’t. The Bangkok Post was/is the widest circulated English language paper in Thailand (possibly initially funded by the OSS/State Department!), and printed a half-page article on how … Continue reading →

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Food Dreams (CUTTLE FISH THE WATER)

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Quite often, Max awakes from a deep sleep craving certain foods – strawberries seem to appear in his dreams quite often, as do hot dogs and toast with jam. Just now, I carried him from one room to another after … Continue reading →

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Thailand’s Got Talent

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

—————– A few years ago, I had a conversation that went like this: LostSoul: I accidentally slept with a guy, I thought he was a girl. JY: Yeah, I hear stories about that all the time. LostSoul: The thing is, … Continue reading →

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Jammin’ solo

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Max was so jazzed about playing his toy guitar, we broke down and ordered a real one off the internet. It’s called a Plum Blossom, if I remember correctly. I arranged for one of my second year students to come … Continue reading →

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This made me laugh at 4am

Posted on March 19, 2011 by
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No Holiday in Cambodia

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

We had been planning to go to Cambodia with Nam’s faculty for a couple days from the day after tomorrow. Max’s chickenpox had cleared up almost completely this week and he was going to go with mommy and daddy. Mina … Continue reading →

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Woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun…

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

…but only two little birds were right outside our doorstep. On a tall plant next to the stairs leading up to our front porch:

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The Enomotos are Safe

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Our relatives have apparently been found. There are no details yet, but this is good news. Thanks to everyone who helped out. – The Sendai webcam in Izumi-ku is back up again.

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Sendai before and after

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Via ABC Australia: Japan Earthquake: before and after By the way, to all of the assholes mentioning Pearl Harbor karma, only 8.9 disappointment, and DDOSing the person finder app, FUCK YOU. ————— UPDATE: More shots from Google Earth: Before And … Continue reading →

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Looking for Yoichi Enomoto, Sachiko Enomoto

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

We are looking for my grandmother’s cousins, Yoichi Enomoto and Sachiko Enomoto. They live here, about seven kilometers from the coast of Sendai, one of the hardest hit areas. Their eldest son, Yoshi, lives in Tokyo. We do not know … Continue reading →

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Japan Updates

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

NHK in Japanese has the best live coverage (the other JP news channels have been unstable today): High speed 1 High speed 2 Low speed link In English, NHK International is useless and US news channels are a FUCKING JOKE, … Continue reading →

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