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OTOP Marketplace Update – Economic Recovery Edition
The OTOP (One Tambon One Product) marketplace I wrote about a couple years ago is now booming. For the first few years of its existence, it struggled along as a…
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Tasty Links for the New Year
In no particular order: Smoke Screening Charles Mann is shown by Bruce Schneier just what a joke our airport security has become and makes a case that “the continuing expenditure on…
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Raiders
I pity all the Star Wars fans that died before they could see the great stuff on the internet.
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South China Brand Sewing Machine
A close friend of ours has bought an antique foot pedal-type sewing machine that had been converted to motorized belt drive to use for her alterations side business. She got…
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“…credible and meaningful in foreign cultures.”
The university where I teach, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham, used to be a teacher’s training college. My uni is just one Rajabhat institute of about 40 spread all over Thailand, that…
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Mina in the lobby of a Cambodian Casino
New years day, 2012. It was our first trip to Cambodia. Casinos are always sad, but this one was even more so, packed full of dirty gambling addicts and their…
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Sliding on Christmas
You would think that it would be hard to get hurt on such a small slide. You would be wrong (blooper reel to follow).
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Biggest load
Yes, please use the whole goddamn highway (@ Rayong outskirts).
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Side trip to Elephant Island
We came to visit students on a side trip. Much fun was had. We’re on the ferry back now to rendezvous with the university van back in Pattaya.
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Thai HMMV
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Walking Street, Pattaya
Last night we were rolling with five-0. More on this later.
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Yesterday’s lunch
This is a highway rest stop outside of Bangkok we always stop at when headed to Rayong, Pattaya, Hua Hin, etc. It used to have just Thai food shops and…
