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Natty Dread
A few months ago I wrote about the dragonfruit trees in our backyard secretly blooming at midnight. Well, these are pitaya by day: Bob must have been thinking of pitaya…
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loltokays
After looking over that last post, I just couldn’t help myself: (click on photo to open large version in pop-up)
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Wild Animal Day / Akrachat’s Most Wanted
Since we live next to a forest, we are used to seeing both wild and domesticated animals just over the wall as well as in and around the house. Out…
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Curtain
We were really busy running around to our schools and searching for the perfect set of tiles in a dusty warehouse all day, so the rain was most welcome when…
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Nam Nuong
Nam Nuong are the little grilled sausages on sticks shown below, but it’s also the name of this dish. It’s Vietnamese in origin, but I don’t know what it’s called…
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How I found out I’m not shaking my shoes out hard enough every morning
A heart-shaped frog procrastinated loudly when I jammed my foot in. Then, when I tried to pry him loose from the cavernous regions of the toe compartment, he secreted something…
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D&D
Meet thine foe: The Giant Centipede These things just look evil, and Nam insisted I dispatch it when we found it in her university’s parking lot. “Dangerous for students walking…
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Book Recommendation for Thailand
I just finished reading Narrative of a Residence in Siam, a book written by a chap named Fred Arthur Neale in the 1850s. It was, in a word, excellent. The…
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Cheating Problems with Thai Students
This week is the final week for both my regular and weekend classes; the last final for my last class is tomorrow and I just threw a pretty good one…
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Ant Infestation
They appear with no warning When they sense the rain coming (and they are never wrong about it), ants can move an entire colony inside the house overnight, as happened…
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A Hyperlinky Ode to a Damn Fine Fish – Soft Tilapia Pr0n
Oh, Tilapia, how versatile thy be! You are on my plate nearly every week, and my favorite New Years repast. In fact, you are farmed in such numbers, so misused…
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Tokay lizard caught off-guard
I swear these are the ugliest, trippiest looking things you’ll ever see… Here’s my previous post on them, with facts aplenty.
