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Overheard at Big C
I picked up Mina at school a couple days ago and we stopped by (the about to die at any minute) Big C on the way home to do some shopping for the few things it’s worth going there for – coffee beans, pistachios, keto sweetener. Mina overheard a staff dude asking one of the butchers in the meat area,”do chickens have spines?” The butcher confirmed kind of incredulously that they do, indeed, have spines. This set Mina off laughing for a good couple minutes. Then we got to the checkout, where either my pronunciation when I asked the old lady running the register if they had bags was off,…
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big load
On a windy day, you can see caravans of these bad boys shedding hay and weaving all over the highway.
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Thanon Tanao Entrance
The entrance to Khao San Road last August. Tee and I drove down from Sarakham to meet up with my cuz and his wife. Merriment ensued.
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fish balls? pig balls? beeg balls?
This is Thai luk chin (ลูกชิ้น). I believe they were served at a highway noodle resto between Sarakham and Borabu on a uni trip with Tee last year. I haven’t used the word beeg for more than 20 years; it was Adam’s invention back in the day. Wrinkleh.
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Modernized!
I stuck with the previous theme for quite a while, but it was really just a new take on the old two-column blog layout I’ve used since blogspot, yo. It’s been a QUARTER CENTURY! But we are not going to talk about that today. Below, I am adding a photo of a waitress (the owner?) of a plate lunch joint in Pattaya we ate lunch at last year when visiting students interning at hotels and resorts there. If the photo does not appear, my new template needs additional tinkering. When I wrote the word “below” in the first paragraph, I should have said “above,” because that’s where it appears on…
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Duck what?
So thicc.
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A Shared Meal
Catching up with photos from last year. This was a trip to Pattaya in July to visit students interning at hotels with my pal Tee. We ourselves arrived with no reservations and had to stay at a seedy hotel run by nice old people that had wall-length mirrors next to the beds. We went out for noodles at 3 AM after people watching on the busy streets and I met the cutest doge. This may or may not have been the same night we checked out one of the new Indian night clubs at the end of walking street. It was a pretty crazy place and the 99% Indian crowd…
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a nice iced latte from last year
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Having a truck is nice
Yes, I can fit all of these things in my normal cars. But I don’t need to dust them off or lay down plastic because it’s a TRUCK. Honestly, the Mitsubishi pickup truck fills a very specific role in Thailand – it has enough loyal fans that buy them new to enable secondhand value hunters like me to find customized gems that are good for another couple hundred thousand kilometers or whatever. These things lose value like crazy compared to the top-tier pickup brands like Toyota and Isuzu, yet are equal in most functions to other mid-tier brands like Nissan (best for towing) and Mazda (best interior). If you just…
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka Dynamic Chunking
So after years of paying for ChatGPT, I switched to a (discounted) paid Gemini plan. Not because of the cost of paying for both, but because I don’t have time/energy to try and main both at the same time. At the end of the discounted first month, I cancelled the Gemini subscription and all but convinced myself to try a paid Claude plan next. But Claude is a stingy, elitist asshole who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else and ignores green text bubbles, so fuck that guy amirite? Anyway, because Gemini is freer than Claude (you can barely get in a few sentences before he abandons you for paying customers),…
