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long shadows
@ cameraphone (sgh-j700i; trying out a samsung slide phone)
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birch pollen allergies
Very interesting article on food allergies: Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser
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Where do stolen Japanese bikes go? ????????????????
Well, many of them end up in Thailand: One of two bicycle stores in town selling only stolen bikes from Japan that we visited this week (we’re looking for a Japanese-style child seat). This shop is the bigger one and has perhaps 50 bikes in stock. They park the merch on the dirt in front of the shop (a townhouse across from Big C Mahasarakham) during the day. Anybody in Japan want to call Mr. Makino and tell him where his mountain bike is? He can have it back for 3,500 Baht plus shipping. I should get an award from the police or something for doing their jobs. It’s been…
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Facebook is Gankin’ Yo Pics
…for profit, just like they stated they would in their terms of service. If you’re logged into FB, change the setting on this page to “No one”: Of course, they’re being very nice about letting you change this setting at all, because they really don’t have to.
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Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards: Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai… Translation: Little skylark, lovely little skylark Little lark, I will pluck your feathers off I’ll pluck the feathers off your… /////////////////////// At least there’s no equivalent song about the ortolan.
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Cooling down period
I had to be extra careful for the past day or so because little problems started popping up in the same 24 hour period, and I took them as signs from James Brown in the sky that I had to be careful not to freak the funk. There were four signs in total: Yesterday, I noticed a wasp’s nest on a sapling in our front yard when I got home and immediately thought to spray it with insecticide, but decided to be nice and refrained from doing so. Later, when I was watering the yard with the hose in one hand and Max on the other arm, I must have…
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Sunday Drive
Last Sunday we took a family drive around the outskirts of town and ended up at some sluice gates we always see from the highway. They are adjacent to the parking lot of what may still be a popular outdoor live house called Amazon Park. The sky was perfect and Max fell asleep as I coaxed our trusty sedan over muddy back roads usually used only by gravel trucks and water buffalo.
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webdev joke
Most expensive javascript ever? That is all.
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Thai funerals are chill
I went to a funeral over the weekend; a coworker lost her father. I always find it remarkable at funerals here because they’re such pleasant affairs. Is this a Theravada thing, or a uniquely Thai thing? I suspect Laos is much the same but I’m not sure about Cambodia, Myanmar, or Sri Lanka… At a typical Thai funeral (I’ve actually been to around fifteen and driven by hundreds), blue canvas pavilions are rented and placed in the street in front of the house for guests to sit under. Monks come from a local temple and their amplified chants fill the streets for all to hear. This is one social occasion…
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Another on the way
I wanted to wait a while before announcing this here: Nam is pregnant again! The baby is due in December. We still don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, and we’ll be happy either way. What can I say? Sometimes life is great.
