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Oh my ESL
A friend showed me some homework his students turned in last week (the assignment was to bring in examples of different charts, graphs, diagrams, etc.) and I had to pass along the joy: Yes, they will be graduating university in a few years, and yes, you may pay them minimum wage.
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A Tribute to Buildings 1&2, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University
They are knocking down our “Little House on the Prairie” schoolhouses and will soon replace them with new facilities. They were probably the oldest buildings on campus with solid wood construction, and were a lot cooler than the concrete buildings that have come to represent typical SE Asian construction… In recent years, some of the rooms had been upgraded with whiteboards and sound systems, but there was nothing like going into class every morning and asking students to clean the blackboard erasers. They would knock the erasers on the outside wall below the window sills, which is how students coming in late could hear that class was starting. These classrooms…
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Conrad Hotel, Bangkok
Tagging along with friends who got an upgrade to an executive suite… Welcome drink, sir? Champagne. The room keycards have leather jackets and there’s a Herman Miller chair in the room.
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Burger King and Heinie, Khao San Road
Double Whopper with cheese. 6 am.
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A moment of peace…
…while Max contemplates pushing his sister over (don’t mess with her when she has that look in her eyes, boy!). (taken at a local temple being used as polling place for the national election; we were waiting for mommy to cast her ballot)
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Three little monkeys (@ Koh Samet)
It’s amazing how when I repeatedly called all three (Max! Mina! August!), only one would look up at a time. Then again, it was ice cream time.
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poo poo
You can’t handle this photograph in color. It has made all who viewed it feel queasy. And this is the work of a 1.5 year old; when her power is fully unleashed, entire worlds will tremble…
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Essentially Isan
This was taken last week at Rajabhat Maha Sarakham, my university, at a welcoming ceremony for freshmen (aka “freshies” in Thailand). In the foreground, English program students are praying during a traditional bai sri ceremony around a Christmas tree-shaped arrangement of folded banana leaves, as other students play takraew on the courts in the background and molam blasts from the unseen stage to the left.
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Mitsubishi Strada Dragon
This was waiting for an engine swap at my mechanic’s shop yesterday. I vote for a supercharged V8 diesel for a balance between economy and kicking ass.
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iPad 2 Camera vs. Kodak DC120 (2011 Apple tech vs. 1997 SOA tech)
The Kodak DC120 was the first megapixel camera I owned. I got it back in 1998 or so and maybe sprung for an enormous 4Mb compact flash card as well, to add to the industry-leading 2Mb internal memory in the camera (enough to store 2 whole photos in RAW mode, but they didn’t call it RAW yet, it was simply described as uncompressed). After I posted about the iPad 2 yesterday and decided against pitting its hapless camera against the one on my phone, I realized that I might have photos in my archives with which the iPad2’s test photo could be compared. My digicam archives go back to 1998,…
























