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Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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  • Cars,  Toys & Tech

    New Toy – 19xx Yamaha Chappy

    This is an original ad for my new (old) toy, a Yamaha Chappy most probably made in the seventies, imported from Japan into Thailand. Actually, it has all the signs…

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  • Toys & Tech,  Web

    A couple tech links

    These are really good: Our Electric Future by Andy Grove (of Intel fame) A Trio of Videos of Neal Stephenson Talking About SF

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  • Gaming,  Toys & Tech

    Crude/Elegant S-Video connector hack for solving B&W output on Nvidia graphic cards

    The title basically sums it up. I think it’s really stupid that Nvidia hasn’t fixed the TV output issues for several years, through tens of driver upgrades. Anyway, I tore…

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  • Toys & Tech,  Web

    Hiropro Gear Update

    This is a quick update to my post from a few years ago, entitled, Stephenson as Prophet. A company called Dainese (apparently not Italian for “Die Chinese”) has developed a…

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  • Japanese Society/Culture,  Toys & Tech

    Goodbye PHS

    It seems that DoCoMo killed off the Personal Handyphone System service last week (Slashdot JP link). The PHS phones were attractive when we were students (specifically around 1995) because of…

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  • Chillin',  Toys & Tech

    15 Months no BT

    Bittorrent, I’m back. I know you missed me. But Demonoid’s gone! NOOOOOO! I was one of the few users to upload half a terabyte; I was going to use that…

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  • Toys & Tech

    RE: MT4 Captcha System

    It sucks.

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  • Toys & Tech

    I love PuTTY.

    Just testing out the new software, yo.

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  • Japanese Society/Culture,  Thai Society/Culture,  Toys & Tech

    I traded my 100Mbps FTTH for mangosteens and monkeys…

    …And I think I made the right decision. This article by Robert Cringely hits home, though. My theoretical download speed is now 1/50 of what it was last year in…

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  • Toys & Tech

    Apple Form Factor Graphic

    This chart is pretty cool because every model I’ve ever owned is on it (including the Apple //c our dad bought for us), except for my trusty old Powerbook 190.…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture,  Toys & Tech

    odo trick – I [heart] OCD

    One of my “borderline” traits is my fascination with numbers, especially numerical readouts (this also partially explains my fascination with pachinko and the like). Some numbers and patterns just mean…

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  • Toys & Tech

    TF-DVD7100 Region Free hack

    The TF-DVD7100 (or TFDVD7100) was marketed under different brands in different countries, including the PRISM and COBY brands. Depending on the firmware, the following region hack can be performed by…

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