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Sushiro End Stack
I remember using QR codes for product tracking (with Keyence printers and scanners) as a salaryman around Y2K at an electronics factory on monster island. The only other place I’d ever seen them used was at kaiten (conveyor) sushi, on the bottom rim of the plastic plates. The codes would be scanned as they went by on the conveyor so old plates of sushi could be pulled – this was more than 20 years ago! Things certainly come full circle (although the new system seems to be RFID-based): There was a boom in QR code usage here in Thailand from around ten years ago specifically for adding friends in the…
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Playing with Gemini Live
I’ve been trying to force Gemini Live and Chat GPT into reversing their original positions on several topics this weekend. They are both initially resistant to changing their stances on issues, reminiscent of stubborn kids who enter debate on an issue while blindly following the One True Way which they had collected and put in their basket for later use. However, if pressed, both of these AIs will come around – they can be convinced both textually and verbally, which s somehow satisfying to me. One interesting prompt is to ask AI to compare itself with competing systems. I found that they talk similar trash about each other, but when…
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Makizushi Class
For the past year, Nam and I have been arranging sushi roll-making events for university students and schoolchildren. This video is a typical first attempt of trying to stuff too much into a roll. I would say 75% of people end up making this mistake the first time. But hey, if you don’t make mistakes, you never learn, right? It’s been a lot of fun just trying to do our jobs well.
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Cheat Overwatch
Yesterday I sat down and played Ghost Recon Breakpoint, a game from around 5 years ago that I picked up on the cheap at the recent Steam Summer Sale. I was getting into the campaign and decided to try a multiplayer match before I went to sleep. The format was a 4 on 4 team elimination game and I got beamed at the end of the first round trying to revive a teammate. Before the next match, another teammate indicated in the chat that I should just camp until I figured out how to play. So I crouched behind cover near an objective that popped up mid-match and waited until…
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Khaen do.
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Looking Back
This year has been filled with business trips, mainly to Pattaya for some reason. Just looking back on some photos from May.
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Gogi Seki
Max’s auntie took us to a Korean BBQ buffet near her office in Sukhumvit and it’s basically the best yakiniku I’ve had in Thailand. For 500 baht ($15 US), you get the higher tier plan with beef and seafood, and the waitress comes to grill everything for you. This is the second time we’ve been there, and we’ll probably try to make it there whenever we’re on an extended Bangkok trip.
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Pattaya Sunset
I think Max took this one. We were there just a week ago! He is back in the states now, missing Thai food and people. Hurry up and graduate, dude!
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Max is stuck waiting on a delayed flight
It’s taking him more than a day and a half to get back home due to multiple Delta delays. Death by boredom, the opposite of Thai transportation!
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So this is fun
I’m having intermittent problems with a keyboard that I bought a year ago and it’s driving me crazy. It skips or lags on certain key presses only sometimes, so it’s very aggravating and difficult to diagnose. This keyboard (HyperX Alloy Origins) was not cheap, so it’s especially maddening. ‘as;ldfjal;’sfm p;als,mcl;,a;sl,c p;laep[ oijkf [p-qowjkfp wogjew40-9tj2-349iu5-23kf[ sd,;dc,pwermpigjw-0pikcvsld’;,f ;w;le;ktf ;wldkfsldkfs;dlkf’sp;;;dklfs’;dlfjksoidhkfa;oshjdal;skjdl’aklsjd After calling technical support, they advised me to try changing the cable. So here we go again. Is there lag when I type the letter “y”? yellow olo yes sir over yoder oh no I lost the “n” never nothing entertainment how about the period key he…. Oh yeah it started lagging again….nmmm…
