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I switched from a Google Pixel 6 to a Xiaomi 15t
Of course, it’s a much newer phone, but it’s pretty hard to deny that even the newest Pixels don’t have big flaws. I am mainly attracted to them because of the cameras and stock Android. But the Xiaomi is no slouch on the photo front, and has better reception and battery capacity/usage. I debloated it by deleting all the preinstalled crap first thing by running commands from my PC, and I’m happy with it. Here are some photos I snapped, mainly from car windows. I got them off of a chat group I sent them to, so they’ve been degraded a bit. YOU ARE PASSING ANOTHER FOX I actually quite…
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It’s time for a road trip
These are some photos from last year, taken on my expired Pixel 6. If in this lifetime self-driving cars become the norm, I will miss driving. I see the greatest things on the road, but usually when I’m driving myself. Otherwise, my phone is much more interesting. I’m going on a trip to Nakhon Pathom tomorrow, a bit past Bangkok from here. We’re taking students to an academic competition at the Rajabhat there, in a van.
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Quest with Questers
I was making a thumb drive with videos for my cars and kinda went down an old school rabbit hole. I remember when we had groundbreaking sounds, lyrical feats, and French hip hop was a thing. Remember Luck of Lucien? That’s this dude: AKA Lucien Revolucien. But hip hop kinds fell victim to its own success. I know, because I grew up through the revolution. Hip hop won the war against against old values and just became the BGM. My daughter saw me flipping through YouTube videos and lamenting the current near-absence of female rappers. She said, “Well, there sure isn’t any Lauryn Hill.” Damn, I raised my kids right.
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I dropped my phone
I mean, I really dropped it. It slipped out of my sweaty hands when I was checking a message while walking. I kicked out with my foot and the phone hit the soft part of the padding, but bounced off, so I technically punted my phone into the asphalt. It immediately died, and after trying various online recovery techniques, I could not get it out of a bootloop. The multicolored “Google” logo appears and disappears endlessly, as the device seems to scream THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR DROPPING ME. But that’s when it’s plugged in. When it’s not plugged in, there are no signs of life at all. So maybe…
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Pickle is gone.
My cat died today. Sad. She had FIV from getting into fights with neighborhood cats and her health was in decline. There were a lot of trips to the vet over the past year. She became lethargic and incontinent for the last few months and we put her in a cage outside with a litterbox (which she had never seen before but instantly took to) at night. We fed her rich foods she wasn’t used to having like mackerel and chicken liver to supplement her normal meals. Basically, we tried to make her life very nice, because her mouser days were kind of over (although I found the remains of…
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There are two main objects in this photo
They are commonly carried by university students/teachers. If you can identify them both, you are hardcore Thai.
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Edward
Edward is one of the two turtles I saved from the road this year. He was crossing from a pond toward Wang Yao Market on the shortcut from Your Place Hotel to Makro. I kept him in a box for an hour until I could release him.
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Phuket sky
We were waiting for our friends to come hiking back up the steep hill at sunset when the sky exploded. Southern Thailand hits different.
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eryngii father and son
aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes*, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster *According to wikipedia, this is misleading nomenclature because boletus (which has pores) and eryngii (which has gills) are of different orders. All I know is that eryngii is delicious and it’s very hard to cook wrong.
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the ballad of pokey pokey dude
I swear that I’d posted this before, but I guess not.
