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C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    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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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

    NY Fireworks

    The neighborhood was lit up. Taken in front of our house.

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Squid Yum

    It’s yum.

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  • AI art,  Toys & Tech

    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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  • Cars,  Our New Thai House,  Photos

    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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  • Food,  Photos

    Chicken Katsu

    It was hard deep frying inside the house until we upgraded our Electrolux hood with a 1HP Mitsubishi blower on our roof.

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  • Our New Thai House,  Photos

    Allomyrina dichotoma

    Female, I guess. AKA Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Japanese horned beetle, or kabutomushi (カブトムシ). They show up in our yard at least once a year. The males are more impressive, with…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Secret Kiln

    If you know, you know. Seeing this made me want to watch True Detective S1 again. True Detective set in rural Thailand would have the perfect atmosphere.

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  • Music,  Videos

    Inanna Summons Kenny G

    So surprisingly well-done, I had to post it: IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT – Merkurius Gilded (ft. Kenny G and Max Gorelick) File under: Black metal, Experimental metal, Avant-garde metal (ew!)

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  • AI art,  ChatGPT,  Toys & Tech,  Videos

    Sky vs Light

    Having played with many of the first AI video generation sites, I am ready to subscribe to either: Sora vs. Lumiere As a side note, Claude has replaced ChatGPT for…

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Gaeng Liang (Spicy Thai Vegetable Soup)

    If I had to describe it in two words, I might say “peppery” and “fishy” – which is strange, because I hate most fishy things. For some reason, it really…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Blue PVC is Real Thailand

    And for some reason, in most of Asia, the common word for spigot seems to be, “cock.”

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