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Stargazy
The girls alerted me to a meteor shower happening a couple months ago, so we drove to a nearby empty parking lot (MALIN PLAZA) and proceeded to take mediocre night photos with our phones. The blue space invaders looking thingy above the white gas station sign (with the red/blue droplet logo) was a reflection from an unknown source that showed up in all my photos there — thanks, light pollution!
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Sampeenong in Yangtalat, Kalasin
This is our typical order at Sampeenong, our favorite Isan food joint in the area. Gai Yang (grilled chicken) Somtam Lao (Lao-style Papaya Salad) Tap Wan (literally, “sweet liver”) Kor Moo Yang (Grilled Pork Neck) And here’s my homie, Aot, working on a new coffee drink in a Chemex at his coffee stand in front of the restaurant:
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Tokyo Sasumata Incident
One of my YouTube vids from six years ago shows police in Maha Sarakham using a sasumata (a nonlethal man-catching staff of samurai-era design) to subdue a knife-wielding suspect at our local bus station. I posted about it at the time and there are a couple links (amazingly still live) about other incidents down at the bottom. Weapons similar to the sasumata have a long history in many cultures. They were known as “man-catchers” in Europe and used until the 18th century, although their non-lethality may be up for some debate: The flanges on the top of that are spring-loaded and were designed to open up after it was thrust…
