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Thai Red Shirts
The Big Picture covers the red shirts clashing with police and military. This is the unrest I referred to when we visited the US embassy two weeks ago. And yes,…
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Khon Kaen Passport Office
We spent this morning getting Max and Mina’s Thai passports. The only reason this is remarkable is that the passport office, located at city hall in Khon Kaen was the…
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Japan – The Strange Country
The author got too much flak for drawing little squinty eyes (with his own little squinty eyes), so he pulled the English version. Those people were missing the point, really.…
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What Mina Thinks of Bangkok (Daddy Concurs)
Quite predictably, the long car ride to and from Bangkok was not appreciated by either baby, which they were quite vocal about. This was a kind of test run; do…
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We Against the World
I have a master’s class to teach this morning, then our whole family + nanny are off to Bangkok. We have an appointment tomorrow morning at the embassy’s ACS building…
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Michaelsoft Binbows (?????????????)
Secondhand PC and parts shop somewhere in Japan photo credit: Unknown awesome person
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Dictionaries banned from California schools
Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”. These people are gonna die when they…
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Let my Coco go
Conan must emigrate to Comedy Central. He has enough money already, now it’s all about the power. That is all.
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Koyuki Highball
Japan’s greatest gift to the world of delicious beverages: The Kaku Highball Tell me you wouldn’t try that.
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Input – Output
Two fascinating reads: Using Menu Psychology to Entice Diners Sitters Vs. Standers – The Great Wipe Hope
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Doctor Fish Foot Spa
In the true spirit of Christmas, we visited the biggest shopping mall in this part of Thailand, Central Plaza Khon Kaen, that just opened a few weeks ago. We were…
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Props to Kris
This Hainan Chicken recipe vid that my cousin Kris made yielded a meal so good, we won’t eat it outside anymore (there are tons of these chicken rice vendors in…
