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

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Cars,  Photos

    truck shot

    Just before the new provincial art project statue thingy bridging the halves of the old MSU campus. Said thingy will probably be the subject of a future post.

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  • Food,  Photos

    Dragonfruit BBQ Sauce Ribs

    Behold, dragonfruit ribs on my ghetto oil can smoker! There were no leftovers that day.

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  • Gaming

    Solution: The FINALS Error Code TFAV1012

    It seems that EAC doesn’t like any hardware changes, because after I turned XMP on in BIOS, I started getting this error and others that caused crashes on startup and…

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  • Food,  Photos

    Pitaya BBQ Sauce

    I tried making a barbecue sauce out of red dragonfruit at the end of last year. It was colorful and pretty tasty, but nothing is coming close to the mango…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

    Bar No More

    Mina went to an “English Camp” event at the Khon Kaen hotel a couple months ago. Nam’s family used to own the blue and beige buildings across the street from…

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  • Society & Culture,  Web

    Old Tom and the Law of the Tongue

    Yesterday, I was still recovering from a cold I came down with at the end of the year, so I had a good excuse to put off work and feverishly…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Stargazy

    The girls alerted me to a meteor shower happening a couple months ago, so we drove to a nearby empty parking lot (MALIN PLAZA) and proceeded to take mediocre night…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    Sampeenong in Yangtalat, Kalasin

    This is our typical order at Sampeenong, our favorite Isan food joint in the area. Gai Yang (grilled chicken) Somtam Lao (Lao-style Papaya Salad) Tap Wan (literally, “sweet liver”) Kor…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Videos

    Tokyo Sasumata Incident

    One of my YouTube vids from six years ago shows police in Maha Sarakham using a sasumata (a nonlethal man-catching staff of samurai-era design) to subdue a knife-wielding suspect at…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    espresso

    At my friend’s place out on the MSK bypass. I’ve been working weekends for the past couple weeks and I’m tiiiiiired.

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Videos

    kreb

    I came upon this little guy on my daily walk at the old MSU campus a couple months ago, when it was raining every day and the roadside ditches were…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Cars,  Photos

    SUZU

    Thailand, where old Japanese trucks go to thrive once again. @ Maha Sarakham University old campus

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