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Baby Update
The baby and Nam are fine. He is 2,500 grams of red-faced crying glory. I put my hand on his head and he immediately stopped and went to sleep. Life is good. Thanks for all your prayers!
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The Baby Cometh
Just a quick notice: Nam’s water has broken. I am sitting in a VIP post-op room by myself, as I am not allowed in the maternity ward. This hospital has a strange policy of not allowing husbands into the delivery rooms. It’s a policy we came asking about just yesterday in anticipation of the baby’s target date of May 11. It’s this policy that started us planning on checking out hospitals in the big city of Khon Kaen, an hour away. We were going to go this weekend, when a doctor we saw before is on duty. Hell, we were talking about going today after lunch. Then her water broke.…
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Related Childrearing Links
From the department of overprotection: Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone The Incredible Shrinking World
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Move, RDF
This is a test post. My rdf feed was hosed for over a month before I noticed. Sorry.
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Scenes from a University Van
From our road trip to Pattaya a couple weeks ago. If you love frogs, you probably shouldn’t read the latter half of this post, but I’m not hiding it in the extended entry, either. Do or do not, there is no try, as it were. (as always, click on any photo to open a larger version in a pop-up window) This post goes out to my brother Adam, who definitely might be man enough to eat skewered frogs after a few beers (although we did it sober here). The one I pulled apart in the tissue shown above was pregnant, so the blurry black and white dots are eggs. Actually,…
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F*ck Songkran
So we’re in the middle of the Songkran holiday period that marks the Thai New Year. The reason I feel so strongly about this holiday, which is also called the “water festival” in English, is that in typical third-world fashion, safety is being totally sacrificed for alcohol-fueled shits ‘n giggles. Apparently the current state of affairs is a perversion of the old tradition of pouring water over the hands of elders to wash away bad luck (just as we experienced during our wedding here). What I mean by “current state of affairs” is roads lined with drunken idiots (and all of their children, brothers, and sisters, also drunk) who throw…
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Hey Bulldog
Beatles studio footage is rarer than one might think… The guitar section in this song is awesome.
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Best Tracker
Just an FYI for hardcore BT users: Demonoid is back up.
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Rejected Star Wars Merch
Behold the Death Star Grill, the Darth Vader Gumball Machine, and the Han in Carbonite Mini-Fridge: LINK I guess all I really need is a “Greedo didn’t even have a chance to shoot!” t-shirt.
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Creepiest Gaming Hardware, EVER
An electronic sculpture that spurts fake blood when someone dies on the attached Counter-Strike server. Looks like it needs a super-gusher feature for head shots.
