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Random Links 10/21/2010
Why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux Hint: Rebels suck at preventive maintenance. Tracing the fate of Aliens’ commandos (the Colonial Marines) Game over, man, game over. Create 8-Bit Style Graphics with Authentic NES, Gameboy, and Sega Colors (Photoshop tutorial) Max as Mario? Mina as the Princess? Lost, Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces Having kids enables the enjoyment of One Fish, Two Fish a second time around. One way to deal with a stupid homeowner’s association I ROTFLed. Why the hell do people back home put up with that kind of crap at all? 2 Years In Prison – A Man’s Story Not for the…
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Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings
It’s made like how it sounds (plus braised in Japanese sake to finish). It tastes how it looks. I suppose you could call them water buffalo wings. Did you know that shoyu (soy sauce) is the root word of “soy” in English? And that perhaps the best of example of a loan word from the Thai language in English is “bong?” Cooking and linguistics are both a delicious jumble of influences and flavors.
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Shoot up this page
Speaking of games, click here to start a game of asteroids on this page (use arrow keys, space bar, and B). (via)
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I know a lot of people who are into Scrabble…
…and if you are one of them, you need to check this out: Massively Multiplayer Online Scrabble
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max’s wittle bitty (part 2)
Getting rid of Bitty turned out to be a mistake. Max demanded to know where his pet had gone. Upon learning that Bitty had been returned to the pond (“to be with his friends…”), he threw an epic fit. It was so incredibly heart-rending and long, we all piled in the car. Destination: Pet store. The main pet store in Maha Sarakham is five minutes from our house, but it seemed like ages with Max screaming the whole way. The last time I’d been there was a few years before, to buy charcoal for my DIY air/water purification project (mission status: Incomplete). I had been horrified to see the neglect…
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C. Buda’s Apresurada Reflexiones
What a wonderful sounding translation of my blog… Muchas gracias.
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Good Morning.
Mina wakes up smiling every morning (note her little baby teef).
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“Sometimes the pig walks to slaughter because he knows it’s better for the farmer”
first.
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Holiday OT
We finished finals a couple of weeks ago, which signaled the beginning of three things: Our mid-year (academic year) one-month break, the second term for weekend (BA and MA) classes, and some special conversation/TOEFL night courses for university staff offered for free at our university’s Language Center. I am teaching all of the above so my weekends are very busy – from early morning to 8PM or so. Nam stays at home with the babies and our nanny comes all Saturday and a half day on Sunday. //////////// Max’s conversation reached a tipping point a few weeks back, and he uses new words that he learns independently, in Thai and…
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max’s wittle bitty
Just about a month ago, we had a big storm come in at night due to a typhoon battering Taiwan. It rained a lot more than normal, even for rainy season, and the pond in front of our house must have flowed over onto the road at some point during the night. I say must have because I didn’t actually see it happen, but found some evidence to that effect including washed up debris on our curb and a half-dead pla salit (Snakeskin Gourami). Upon poking with my finger, he wiggled a bit, so I decided to try reviving him in a spare six liter PET water bottle I had…
