After having the baby, I ran out of money to complete my list of thing to do with the Kujira Crown. Since I reverted to stock tires I alleviated bottoming out problems and can hence wait on any suspension upgrades. She needs to be stripped and repainted, though, before the rust gets too bad. I don’t think of it as overly humid here (compared to Japan or even Bangkok), but paint started flaking off as I used the Kuj every day and rust started appearing in those places as well as under the paint in some spots.
Additional victims to the humidity were my plugs. Behold:
I can’t even believe the car was still running – I noticed sputtering on the low end and suspected the plugs since they were the only consumables I hadn’t changed – but there was no indication that they had degraded this much. This car is a witch. And now she runs so smoothly…
Month: May 2009
Crazy exer-ball trick
Popular Science breaks down the science of it here, but after the first couple paragraphs it just started to look like blah blah blah blah blahblahblahblah…
Pond Scum Soup
It doesn’t sound or look appetizing, but it was actually pretty good.
On Sunday we went to an outdoor market in a park downtown where many fresh produce vendors gather. It’s an excellent place to find strange new (to me anyway) fruits and veggies, and sometimes even plants for our garden. This day proved to be no exception and we found a lady selling what looked like Japanese aojiru powder (green juice powder made from barley and other healthy crap) from a bucket. Upon closer inspection the granules were too large to be aojiru and were also quite damp. The old lady didn’t really explain what it was that well to Nam, so we had our nanny go ask. Nanny already knew what it was and said she could prepare a soup with it, so I of course bought some, about a pound, for 15 Baht (45 cents).
It turned out to be some kind of vegetation that grows on the surface of a pond, or as I like to call it, pond scum.
The soup she made was quite good; it smelled pleasant and tasted hearty with a hint of lemongrass, and the texture of the scum was like miniature flying fish roe, or soft grains of sand. Nanny said it would have been better if she’d had pork belly to add to it, but really, what food couldn’t benefit from some pork belly?
Democracy in Obama City
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but homeboy gets points for pseudo-fundoshi and giant Garfield flying kick cop-out.
DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
Max is almost walking by himself
Although in this photo, he’s just omnomnomnom.
Mommy and I sit on the floor a few feet apart and make him walk alone back and fourth, and he does that just fine… But he’s not quite comfortable walking instead of crawling yet. Friends tell me that any spare time I’ve enjoyed while the baby’s awake will no longer exist after he learns to walk.
Internet Anagram Server
For future reference: An impressive anagram generator
The first two that come up for “Max Yoshida” are:
- Shady Axiom
- Dismay Hoax
Fail Whale
As far as I can tell, Twitter is filled with rich people who made their money online and inexplicably want to share their secrets to success with EVERYBODY!
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As I re-tweeted a while back: “For a small fee, I can teach you how to make money on Twitter asking for a small fee.”
Best Easter Egg Ever – Konami Code in Google Reader
1. Do you use Google Reader?
2. Do you know the Konami Code*?
Try inputting 2 when in 1.
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It’s all about the NES, yo.
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UPDATE: I got this off of this page, which you also need to input the Konami Code into in order to view at all.