Exploits
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A Shared Meal
Catching up with photos from last year. This was a trip to Pattaya in July to visit students interning at hotels with my pal Tee. We ourselves arrived with no reservations and had to stay at a seedy hotel run by nice old people that had wall-length mirrors next to the beds. We went out for noodles at 3 AM after people watching on the busy streets and I met the cutest doge. This may or may not have been the same night we checked out one of the new Indian night clubs at the end of walking street. It was a pretty crazy place and the 99% Indian crowd…
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I dropped my phone
I mean, I really dropped it. It slipped out of my sweaty hands when I was checking a message while walking. I kicked out with my foot and the phone hit the soft part of the padding, but bounced off, so I technically punted my phone into the asphalt. It immediately died, and after trying various online recovery techniques, I could not get it out of a bootloop. The multicolored “Google” logo appears and disappears endlessly, as the device seems to scream THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR DROPPING ME. But that’s when it’s plugged in. When it’s not plugged in, there are no signs of life at all. So maybe…
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Edward
Edward is one of the two turtles I saved from the road this year. He was crossing from a pond toward Wang Yao Market on the shortcut from Your Place Hotel to Makro. I kept him in a box for an hour until I could release him.
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Phuket sky
We were waiting for our friends to come hiking back up the steep hill at sunset when the sky exploded. Southern Thailand hits different.
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the ballad of pokey pokey dude
I swear that I’d posted this before, but I guess not.
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Hidden AI Prompt
Found hidden in a resume today (ala the ancient SEO gaming tactic of white text on white background): UPDATE: This exact wording has been around for a year.
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I hit a rat with my Honda.
It dashed out into the street from under a parked car and bonked against the front fairing of my Wave 110i. I don’t think I ran it over and I didn’t look back.
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Sticky, sticky
May the force. UPDATE:
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More Noro-san Videos
Noro-san apparently gained a few kilos on his trip to Thailand. Come to think of it, he never stopped eating!
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Thailand’s best Crispy Pork resto
We found the holy grail of crispy pork shops on Koh Chang over the summer. Everybody on that trip still talks about it. We were there to visit students interning on the island, so I was with a couple coworker pals and we brought Max along as well. Tee drove us to Bangkok, where we stayed at his condo for a night, then we set out for a few days of island life. This was probably the best meal of the whole trip because the prices were cheap (less than 2 dollars a dish) and the portions were huge! Of course, the place is a total hole in the wall,…
