Thai Society/Culture
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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…
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Salmon Lays
I somehow imagine this flavor would have come out in Japan rather than Thailand, either way, it wasn’t as bad as the salmon cream pizza I had in Tenri in the late 90’s.
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Thai Spirit House on Top of a House
In Thai they are called san phra phum. Never seen one on top of a house before. Taken down the street from Max & Mina’s great grandmother’s house in Sankha, Surin Province, Thailand.
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Mama Herb
This is not BC, this is NE Thailand.
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Mystery VIP Car, Khon Kaen
I raced this car home back to Sarakham last week. I guess the driver was worried about spilling his Grey Poupon, because he had me on the straightaways (kind of rare because my wife’s VQ30-powered Cefiro A33 smokes almost everything under 2 million baht; such is the sad state of affairs in many road-tax-by-engine-displacement countries) , but slowed way down on the curves. I’m kind of sad because I don’t even know what kind of car it is, but if I had to guess — Chinese Bentley? Korean Cadillac? Either way, it was hideous. Almost as bad as the ugliest car ever made, which I’ve been seeing kind of often…
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Do Not Enter (Pirates Ahead!)























