Thai Society/Culture
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Buddhist perspectives
Shooting (through) security bars mounted on a temple window in Laos.
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Scenes from a border crossing bus
Been riding a lot of buses recently; this one had the most character. It’s an old Hino Blue Ribbon.
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RIP Koh Samet
We have several guests arriving next week, including my brother and sister from the states. We were going to pick them up in Bangkok and head to the beach, possibly Koh Samet, but that seems impossible now that they’ve effectively destroyed all the beaches and marine life with the oil spill. I guess we’ll have to go somewhere else so we don’t have to smell the seafood for oil before we eat it as recommended by government officials. You can’t make this shit up. Even if you could smell crude oil on a deep-fried delicacy, does anyone even know what the chemical dispersants smell like? Because they probably aren’t very…
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Daddy holding Max and a big snake
@ the Cobra Village in Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Video: Junior Snake Handler Bitten by a Cobra at the Cobra Village – Khon Kaen, Thailand
We have a lot of guests coming from overseas in August, so I’m sure we’ll go there again soon. I want to write more about this, but I just don’t have the time today on this fine Lazy Sunday.
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G is for Gun
or Gat: I like how people in a sane world can use certain words and not totally lose their shit. Besides, it’s a warm & fuzzy single action.
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Silverlake Vineyard, Pattaya
Awesome view! …and the biggest eggplants of this round Asian variety I have ever seen. This is, however, the only vineyard I’ve ever seen with fake grapevines (presumably for evergreen photo props).
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Random Temple in Hua Hin
From our work trip that I brought the fam along on. Damn those power lines.
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Thailand’s True Move H APN settings for internet
So basically create a new APN with the following settings: Name: TRUE-H INTERNET APN: internet User name: true Password: true MMC: 520 MNC: 00 APN type: internet Personally, I think anyone using MMS in this day and age should just give up and go back to using a typewriter, so I won’t cover that. You can find device-specific info on the True page from which I borrowed the above graphic: http://www.truemove-h.com/helpsupport_apnsettings.aspx True seems dedicated to the curious corporate tactic of changing the location of any helpful information on their website every few months, to the point where I can no longer find it. Anyway, the settings described above are still valid…
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All hail Nexus 7
I have started down a new path on the way to tech happiness by (almost) throwing away my smartphone and replacing it with dedicated tools: a dumb phone, a tablet computer, and a camera (when I need one). I am tired of carrying around a device that is a compromise in every area it was designed to cover – a smartphone is the Swiss Army knife of handheld devices, and while it can be used for many things, it does none of them as well as tools designed for those jobs. A smartphone, in general: Is too big, complicated, and laggy to be considered a good replacement for a simple…
