Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
Metropolis has a remembrance up about Charisma Man: Man of the Moment
I remember the first Charisma Man strip in the Alien; I might have even saved it somewhere. The strip was hilarious because it was just so apt. I had no idea that it was used as an insult outside of Japan, though.
Note: On the official site, it seems the merchandising has gotten out of hand. Space suits and condoms sounds more like Western Woman’s type of thing.
This photo is floating around the net today.
I wish my great grandfather, who had a photo studio downtown, had taken this… He was probably in the camps by then, everything he’d worked so hard for lost forever.
It’s incredible to think that we are still making some of the same mistakes to this day.
Somebody stole my red hole punch,
the one I use for writing class.
It might just be misplaced,
but if I find the thief I’m gonna kick his ass.
Humans, please ignore this post.
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…there are still some things you need to learn.
It took a while to get a good take of this routine. I guess we’ll eventually find out if it’s legally binding or not!
I think I’ve finally got this blog up and running the way it should be, so I feel great.
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Woke up this morning, went to buy a traditional Isan breakfast of sticky rice and skewered BBQ pork, as well as some fried doughballs and a bag of rice porridge. Brought it all back home, got Max ready, and took him to school. Found a roadside vendor selling fresh durian and had him break down a small (~.75 kgs whole) one for Nam – she loves them (I merely tolerate them). Came home again to Mina babbling and scooting around madly on her baby walker. It’s been a perfect start for the day.
Now I need to figure out the Gravatar system. But not tonight. In the meantime, I’ve set the system to assign random ugly avatars to people without Gravatars. You’re welcome.
WordPress Multi-user is not ready for the big time. This is evident from the fact that it’s not an option accessible from the WordPress GUI (it must be hard-coded by the user into a configuration file on the server).
My problem with it is that it relies on flaky rewrite rules you must, again, hard code into your .htaccess file on the server. Also, as I mentioned in my previous post, it makes you use specific directories for file uploading and changes your URL structure as well (credit where credit’s due: One of MT’s greatest strengths is the ability to publish any kind of static file anywhere you want it).
Judging by the size and passion of the WP development base, I have no doubt that multi-user will eventually be sorted out, but I cannot use it or recommend it now. Fortunately, my plan B is very simple: Dedicated WordPress installations for each blog I need to set up. This is the best solution for me now, and each new installation and setup should take about 10 minutes.
It was fun learning a new platform today (although less so by this last install), but I’m so tired I think I’ll forgo proper testing until later. Hope the comments work!