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A Visa Crawl
Long-term foreign residents of Thailand not fortunate (unfortunate?) enough to have a permanent residency or Thailand Elite card must apply for visa extensions, usually every year. It’s pretty much expected…
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lipton baracus
In Japanese, this specific position might be called a reverse inari-otoshi (falling inari). If you’ve ever seen an inarizushi up close, you may understand why. It’s usually performed on an…
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Dutch wives et al
Speaking of writing class, one of the earlier assignments was to write from the point of view of an object. Imagine my surprise when one of my students said she…
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Pink Water Buffalo Photos!!
A few weeks ago, Nam wanted to buy some more maternity clothes so we got in the car and headed off to Non Kuan Chang (sp?), a nearby village with…
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Wherein I confront craziness
In the interest of getting everything on the record, we decided to confront the crazy bitch, at her request, at the police station last Thursday, dependant on a couple of…
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Bill’s Bar Sound, Nara ( ????)
A sodden karaoke snack is all that remains. Thx to T for the pic.
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No work accomplished today
I wanted to get some midterm grading done the past five hours, but I ended up entertaining Max instead. He wouldn’t go to sleep and Nam was busy putting together…
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Where do stolen Japanese bikes go? ????????????????
Well, many of them end up in Thailand: One of two bicycle stores in town selling only stolen bikes from Japan that we visited this week (we’re looking for a…
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Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards: Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai… Translation: Little skylark,…
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Thai funerals are chill
I went to a funeral over the weekend; a coworker lost her father. I always find it remarkable at funerals here because they’re such pleasant affairs. Is this a Theravada…
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Jobless PhDs
This article was making the rounds a while ago, but I forgot to link to it: The Case for Working With Your Hands There are a huge number of people…
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MJ
Okay, if you’re a normal person, you had enough of Michael Jackson news approximately 2.4 hours after his death. It took me considerable time to ignore every single headline with…
