Old Blog Entries (archives)
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sunny rain
A couple weeks ago I was engaged in the never-ending battle to figure out why my Crown hates running cold so much (Next step: Replace coil pack and plug cables, plus various tweaking with components expensive to replace but cheap to check/clean). I took her out on the Sarakham bypass that’s close to our house and runs for a couple unimpeded kilos in a straight line. It was a glorious sunny day, dry and hot, and I was running with all four windows open. As I started up the bypass, it suddenly started raining, though there was hardly a cloud in the sky (weather like this always reminds me of…
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Taro as Miyagi
So we just saw the new Karate Kid movie. It was total crap (and a great reason for China to hate us even more), but it was a surprise to see my pal Taro Machino starring in it:
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New Theme – Twenty Ten Weaver
In lieu of posting new content, I started playing with my blog’s appearance and settled on this new theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. Me likey. Still playing with colors and tweaking, but this is fun and today is one of the few days I have time to play with it.
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Random Links 10/21/2010
Why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux Hint: Rebels suck at preventive maintenance. Tracing the fate of Aliens’ commandos (the Colonial Marines) Game over, man, game over. Create 8-Bit Style Graphics with Authentic NES, Gameboy, and Sega Colors (Photoshop tutorial) Max as Mario? Mina as the Princess? Lost, Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces Having kids enables the enjoyment of One Fish, Two Fish a second time around. One way to deal with a stupid homeowner’s association I ROTFLed. Why the hell do people back home put up with that kind of crap at all? 2 Years In Prison – A Man’s Story Not for the…
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Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings
It’s made like how it sounds (plus braised in Japanese sake to finish). It tastes how it looks. I suppose you could call them water buffalo wings. Did you know that shoyu (soy sauce) is the root word of “soy” in English? And that perhaps the best of example of a loan word from the Thai language in English is “bong?” Cooking and linguistics are both a delicious jumble of influences and flavors.
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Shoot up this page
Speaking of games, click here to start a game of asteroids on this page (use arrow keys, space bar, and B). (via)
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I know a lot of people who are into Scrabble…
…and if you are one of them, you need to check this out: Massively Multiplayer Online Scrabble
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max’s wittle bitty (part 2)
Getting rid of Bitty turned out to be a mistake. Max demanded to know where his pet had gone. Upon learning that Bitty had been returned to the pond (“to be with his friends…”), he threw an epic fit. It was so incredibly heart-rending and long, we all piled in the car. Destination: Pet store. The main pet store in Maha Sarakham is five minutes from our house, but it seemed like ages with Max screaming the whole way. The last time I’d been there was a few years before, to buy charcoal for my DIY air/water purification project (mission status: Incomplete). I had been horrified to see the neglect…
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Good Morning.
Mina wakes up smiling every morning (note her little baby teef).
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Holiday OT
We finished finals a couple of weeks ago, which signaled the beginning of three things: Our mid-year (academic year) one-month break, the second term for weekend (BA and MA) classes, and some special conversation/TOEFL night courses for university staff offered for free at our university’s Language Center. I am teaching all of the above so my weekends are very busy – from early morning to 8PM or so. Nam stays at home with the babies and our nanny comes all Saturday and a half day on Sunday. //////////// Max’s conversation reached a tipping point a few weeks back, and he uses new words that he learns independently, in Thai and…
