Andor made Star Wars relevant to me again, after ignoring everything that came out the past years. It was really good, especially because I followed it up with Rogue One (and almost A New Hope as well, but I prefer to keep that one in my mind’s Pee-Chee folders/bubble memory). Anil Dash has a great run down of all the extras.
Author: Justin
Wrapped
Max took private Muay Thai lessons when he came back during the summer last year. He really enjoyed it, especially since private lessons in the states are too expensive. His gym and teacher were the same from when he studied with Mina when they were bobies.
When Yahoo was King
I was recently asked about beta testing I did for Google’s cHTML site for NTT DoCoMo i-mode 20+ years ago on a clamshell keitai. Most of it was done between shots of Cuervo at Tramps (pout one out for Tramps, y’all!) in Kyobashi with my pal and Movable Type mentor, Bill.
I actually corrected the color on the Google logo for i-mode (for which I received payment in the form of two black XL tees with the old school Baskerville Google logo that elicited many a “what is Google” at the company hanami on the banks of the O River in Sakuranomiya).
I haven’t really felt that kind of freedom or hope that we got from being online in those days for quite a while… the corpos and sellouts all but ensured that. Fuckin’ people, man. Maybe that’s why I kept this blog up the whole time. I just want it to be there in the end to say it lasted a lot longer than some of this other crap.
In other news, this is what passes for a logo these days:
The Last Marvel Supper
My brother-in-law opened a boat noodle shop last year. The noodles are good (and the crackling toppings are great), but the wall art is just fantastic:
As you can see, the boat props for boat noodles are very important.
On Maps: รวมพล ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเรือ
I switched back to Firefox again.
I’ve switched between using FF and Chromium-based browsers (mainly Opera and Brave) several times over the years. They both had times when they were so good! Now it seems like we’re forced to use the one that sucks the least… Chrome’s most recent transgression was making uBlock Origin unusable, but I was leaning this way for a long time. I just kept putting it off by building PCs with more and more RAM.
I hit a rat with my Honda.
It dashed out into the street from under a parked car and bonked against the front fairing of my Wave 110i. I don’t think I ran it over and I didn’t look back.
CPR Training
We attended a CPR training course over the weekend at a local rescue foundation. Thai CPR practices follow international standards.
Soi Negro, Bangkok
This is one of my favorite posts in r/Thailand this year: Soi Negro: From Nobles to Hair Cream (and actually good coffee)
Thai Cat Food
Or mostly Japanese, actually.
At the original Big C supermarket location in Maha Sarakham, which has been on a steady decline since so many competitors opened – Makro, Tesco (many branches of varying sizes), some independent stores that usually go bust within a year, and most recently, CJ. What Sarakham really needs is a Tops supermarket, which is is more high-end (but not as high end as Villa).
Pickle really likes wet food recently since she’s getting older, and she crunches reluctantly on dry food like her teeth are sensitive. She likes this Nekko brand a lot (although it’s pretty expensive at Big C, as pictured here), and won’t eat some of the other brands. She still keeps in shape as a mouser and regularly presents us with trophies like rats, mice, squirrels, birds, and lizards. I try to keep her full with cat food so she doesn’t eviscerate her prey on our doorstep like she used to – this system has been working pretty well so far.
Koh Chang
We visited students interning on the island last year and stayed in a nice, deserted-due-to-low-season resort. A big storm came and the power went out for a few hours, but otherwise it was a great trip.
This was Max’s favorite meal on the trip, Khao Soi.
