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Old keyboard amp
I bought this off a retiring colleague a couple years ago and used it a few times. The last time I tried, though, it was broken. This amp actually sounds…
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Potak Soup
“Potak” apparently means “shipwreck,” although I haven’t confirmed it beyond a Google search.* This may be considered a variant of Tom Yum Goong, although it really depends on who’s making…
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Japanese Hyosatsu (Name Plate) in Thailand
When we built our house in Thailand 17 years ago, we had a Japanese-style name plate carved in granite. When we were thinking of selling our house and moving back…
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Rice paddy view
These particular fields (next to a needle shop and art village) have lain fallow for so long, I’m not sure if there’s actually any rice left.
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Someone brought a puppy to class
They were nice enough to put a nappy on it.
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Viola the Bird
This is most entertaining for at least 15 seconds: Viola the Bird (Google Labs Experiment)
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Thai meatball
Thai meatballs (luk chin or look chin, depending on your preferred Romanization) are, like sausage, popular and of mysterious formulation — you never really know what they’re made of, even…
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NY Fireworks
The neighborhood was lit up. Taken in front of our house.
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Squid Yum
It’s yum.
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My new buddy is so smart
“Based on the response you shared from ChatGPT, it does seem that ChatGPT currently has more capability than me when it comes to directly processing information in Thai and Japanese…
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It’s nice having a truck
Someday, I will make a list all of the vehicles I have owned over the years. A truck has never been among them, until recently. After our neighborhood and my…
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Chicken Katsu
It was hard deep frying inside the house until we upgraded our Electrolux hood with a 1HP Mitsubishi blower on our roof.
