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Costco Onion Banchan Documentary
How the heck did I miss this until now? Kinda like the best documentary ever, using the oldest pawn shop equipment available. Awesome. This is the reddit page my mom thoughtfully sent me: Costco Kimchi I’m sure Kevin must have mentioned it at some point, but I’d never heard of this practice until today.
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I found a dinosaur
I found this on the street just in front of our house last week. Either it got run over during the rainstorm the night before, or the cats claimed another victim.
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Smoking Pork Ribs with Lamyai Wood
Outside cooking in Southeast Asia sometimes means grilling in between thunderstorms… But the beer is cold and the cats are comfortingly selfish, plus the freshly cut lamyai (longan) smells so damn good when it burns.
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Finnish Polka Idoru – A Video Chronology of Loituma (from 17th Century Scandinavia to Modern Day Japan)
Disclaimer: The following is an approximate timeline; mistakes are inevitable. This is more of a way for me to record a collection of nodal points in case I want to revisit them in the future. Methodology: YouTube embeds with sparse linkage to other sites. Why YouTube only? I’m inclined to track views on the embedded videos as well, because I have a hunch that they tie into something larger than Japanese Anime-Finnish Polka synergy. 1. In the Beginning, there was Stiff Bread Finnish quartet Loituma releases “Ievan Polkka” (Eva’s Polka) in 1996. They seem to be as popular and relevant as you would expect a Finnish quartet to be at any…
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Max and Mina’s Fish and Chips
Uncle Andreas got us a bottle of malt vinegar, so we decided to make beer batter and fry up some fish. Unfortunately, the local Makro didn’t have much of a fish selection, so we settled on (ahem!) Issan cod. Max and Mina did most of the prep, and I was on fry duty. Today’s cooking vocabulary included: Deboning, scaling, pin bones, fins, gills, gutting, ounces, even spoonful, heaping spoonful, all purpose flour, sodium bicarbonate, sifting, dredging, frying oil, and fire extinguisher. #englishforcooking #cookingwithglenmo #culinarylinguistics
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Triumph Motorcycles Production in Thailand
Triumph is alive and thriving in Thailand (300 units/week): OK, but why did they ever go to Thailand in the first place? “It was primarily for us to be able to do certain processes that we wouldn’t be able to do in the UK… So, every company has had to make a choice, in terms of where it’s going to source its components from globally. And some companies are comfortable with saying, “OK, I’m going to go and work with a supplier in China, or – I’m going to buy my complete engines (in some cases) from a different company”. That’s never been Triumph’s way of doing business. John Bloor…
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Issan Streetsweeper
You lookin’ at my mudflaps, boy? Hells yeah.
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Mainstream Thai Funk Sample
Tracing a sample from Thai funk –> modern hip hop: I saw this particular song filter through Soundcloud and various Thai funk compendiums over the past five years; what a great riff! Original (Onuma Singsiri – Mae Kha Somtam): July 2017 Usage (Action Bronson – The Chairman’s Intent): On a related note, it’s great to see the resurgence of Ajarn Chawiwan in Thailand again – I’ve seen her a lot on TV recently. I have footage from when she performed at our wedding oh so long ago. I want to show it to her sometime soon.
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Chicken Eggplant Curry
Just trying to get every worthy flavor profile embedded in my favorite Lodge pan.
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Plimpton 322 and Base 60
This is a crazy interesting video: “Babylonian mathematics may have been out of fashion for more than 3,000 years, but it has possible practical applications in surveying, computer graphics and education. This is a rare example of the ancient world teaching us something new.”
