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Ping pong anywhere
Well, it looks like I’m going to have to buy this boy a ping pong table (table tennis table?). Luckily, it looks like used ones go for 1/3 the price of a new one here…. but they’re mostly down in Bangkok. Wonder how much shipping will cost. Fact: There is no space at our house for all of our stuff. Also: Mina and Max will eventually need their own rooms, which we did not plan for when designing this house (when we didn’t yet have kids). In retrospect: Duh!
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The Curse of RSS
Looks like I get to play my one of my favorite games again: Note the passing of another free RSS reader, not have the will to protest its disappearing, and halfheartedly look for another free replacement. Yay Reddit and Facebook, you win again! Google+, don’t even look at me, man. Your cousin Google Reader was twice the social network you’ll ever be, and it wasn’t even a social network.
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Auto-parking Slipper Resort in Japan
Alternate usages: Segways for cats (light load bearing) Go Go Gadget Rollerslips (heavy load bearing) Tech-enabled procreation aid for rapidly aging population (G Parking) Ad-hoc conveyor sushi party set I wish Nissan would quit spending resources on clickbait and just make better cars… My RB-20 cries itself to sleep every night knowing that its great grandkids are (under) powering ugly hybrid bimbo boxes with whiny CVTs and ridiculous start/stop features.
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Giant Thai Lemon
My mother-in-law gave this to us last week, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen one. The flavor is 90% lemon and 10% pomelo (grapefruity), which is surprising since it looks mostly like a pomelo. This probably means it can be used as a lemon substitute for many cooking applications , and in fact, Nam put it in a killer Tom Kha Gai last night. The pomelo flavor was not noticeable at all. Overall though, it wasn’t quite as sour or pure as a normal Thai lemon – the flavor was a bit muddled. In the first pic, I included a few objects for size reference: A small…
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BaBQ
My little grillmasters – their basic protein education is already mapped out: Beef, then pork, then fish, and finally, chicken. Although utilizing local food sources means the syllabus can be expanded to rat, snake, bugs, dog, ant eggs, pond scum, mongoose, lizard, etc.
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Potak (spicy Thai seafood soup)
This is the hard-to-find but often superior alternative to Tom Yum Goong.
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Ghetto Pong
No ping pong table? No problem! This school is full of tables and makeshift nets…
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Sick baby, Mina
Max is at his first night away from home (away from family) on a school trip to the nearby town of Kut Lan. Meanwhile, Mina is getting over a fever and has reverted into a baby. Luckily, Nam found an old Dora bottle.
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Visa Denied
The best immigration headline I’ve seen all year: Swiss town denies passport to Dutch vegan because she is ‘too annoying’ I have now seen real democracy in action.
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The perfect cappu
Now that I’ve been served a perfect cup, all other cups after this will somehow be lacking, even if they aren’t. @ The Bizarre Island, Rayong
