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toluene dreams
So we spent all day cleaning up the new house, something I swore we wouldn’t have to do because labor is so cheap here. As it turns out, the problem isn’t getting people to do menial tasks cheaply (we borrowed some workers from our housing developer for free, even). The problem is getting people to do menial tasks with any degree of proficiency (none) or to the hirer’s satisfaction (ditto). So I spent the whole day painting over stains, removing sprayed furniture glue from our floor tiles with paint thinner, developing new and exciting ways of removing mysterious black stains from our bathroom wall tiles (nylon brush + concentrated dish…
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Jungle Cruise Tees
Sometimes it’s nice to know that others feel the same as me. Real men shoot hippos (or at least pretend to with cap guns), indeed. (via)
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hello world
We are flat out at the moment. The week has been very, very busy as we rush to move into the new (98% complete) house during the four day vacation I have from tomorrow. I spent Christmas day waiting for delivery trucks. When they came three hours late, they didn’t have everything they were supposed to have so we had to wait for trucks the next day, too. So pretty much, I hated Christmas again, but in a different way this year. My experiment living and raising a family overseas is off to a great start. When I can finally stop sinking money into curtains, screen doors, appliances, fixtures, repairs,…
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kanebo
We took a trip to Khon Kaen today to hit HomePro (the local mega home center) for various items and made a stop by our favorite mall, Fairy Plaza, on the way back for some double cheeseburger eats, and for Nam to buy some foundation. The girls at the counter insisted on doing Nam’s make up since she’s a card-carrying Kanebo loyalist. It was amazing; just like a car being painted. They stripped off the existing layers of pigment, laid down a solid primer coat followed by 2 main coats and sealant – it was even metallic pearl, yo. As I sat and watched, I wondered how to say, “Stop…
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Stairway to Abbey Road
“From the early 90’s Australian TV show The Money Or The Gun by The Beatnix, Australian Beatles Tribute Band.” UPDATE: I hadn’t checked Adam’s blog for for a while and didn’t know he’d already posted this vid.
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Quick reading links
The 7 Missing Wonders of the World over at the Wall Street Journal American Lawbreaking over at Slate, a “five-part series about the laws we are allowed to break in America and why.” The Year’s 10 Craziest Ways to Hack the Earth over at Wired ////////////// BTW I’m listening to Al Jazeera News in English in the background here and they just announced that Japan has officially taken Humpback whales off the hunting list this season. Yay, Japan. Or something.
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Not-So-Usual Photos
English Russia has the scoop on a Russian online community, members of which enjoy making staged photos such as: “A Cheating Wife: You need to make a photo of a man, “a lover”, hanging outside the real window. The window should be not lower than a 3rd store of a multi-stored building. “A husband” should lean out from another window with a gun, aiming at “the lover”. From yet another window “the cheating wife” should look out in despair.” “The Waiter: A man dressed like a water should crawl out of a refuse chute in some multi-stored building, right from the disposal opening. He should hold a tray with some…
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Bull with tits
Baby water buffalo are cute as hell
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Beer Lubrication
So I want to relate a story about beer. Last Sunday I attended a wedding of a guy who I’d met only twice before; once in a liquor store in the presence of a crazy almost-naked dude wearing a loincloth, and the second time in the deafening molam haze at a local live house. The first time was about eight months ago. T was visiting from Japan and we were buying beer for a front yard barbecue. We bought all the Leo longnecks and loose cans of whatever, as well as a case of Archa if memory serves me right. There were two (Thai) guys behind the counter, one of…
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Cosmic Buddha Shreds
This collection of shreds videos on YouTube is just awesome… Pick a guitarist you are familiar with, and give a close listen. /////////////////// And of course, there’s this:
