Creepy as hell, and fascinating: My Grandma the Poisoner
Category: Web
ALL YOUR BUSH ARE BELONG TO US
Takes a long time to load…. sorry, I’m too lazy to optimize.
Into the Muk
The start of the new school term means that I am juggling full-time teaching, weekend studying, steady part-time work, and intermittent lecturing gigs all at the same time while parenting, so for the past couple months, I’ve been busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Today I’m off to Mukdahan, where I will teach a seminar at the Mukdahan Grand Hotel tomorrow morning. It’s about a three hour drive, and I’ve been trying to pin down a gearbox problem with Nam’s car on long drives, so we’ll see what happens.
“dy-solutions” is a scam
This is what was sent to me:
(Letter to Head of Brand Business or CEO,thanks.)
Dear Ladies/Gentlemen,
This is a formal email. Please check it seriously and transfer it to responsible person, thanks. We are the auditing department of a professional domain name registration and dispute solution organization. Today, we formally received an online application that a company claimed “Anhong Int’l Co., Ltd” were applying to register “cosmicbuddha” as their Brand Name and some “cosmicbuddha” Important top-level domain names. Now we are handling this registration,after our audit department checking,we found this is conflict with your company’s using name.
According to the registration principle,we will audit every application of our customer in order to avoid the conflict of the intellectual property. You are the original name owner,so I am sending you this E-mail to check if your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you have authorized this,we will finish the registration at once,otherwise,please inform me as soon as possible.
Our time limit for dissent application is 7 workdays. Out of the period, we would regard this application was authorized by you and accept their application legally. Looking forward to your prompt confirmation. Have an outstanding day!
Best Regards,
Max Wong (MR.)
Registration Dept.
YES, IT’S A SCAM.
Do not reply to the message.
Do not check out their shitty website.
They want to sell you shit you don’t need and/or cheat you somehow; it’s what they do.
That is all.
P.S. People looking down on you love to use the word “dissent.”
Couple of music links
Just kinda testing again after all the problems I’ve been having here:
Sun Ra – Historic master tapes, stampers, and mothers auction on ebay
Somebody needs seed money for a microdot startup! “Which might or might not be Sun Ra’s. ” Classic.
Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World
One of the best street performers I ever saw in Japan used an electric shamisen and a Cry Baby; that was the day I had to sell my Groovebox.
Traditional Cambodian Music: Land Mine Victim Band
A video I took amongst Khmer ruins on a hot, hot day.
The Best YouTube Script for Chrome
This post will be compiled almost entirely of material taken from other sources, because I am lazy. If you follow the instructions and install the script successfully, you will have the best YouTube functions integrated directly into Google Chrome. This includes turning off DASH (where YouTube segments videos into parts that prevents you from preloading whole videos – handy for slower or overseas connections), downloading videos in all available formats, and many, many other options.
A Chrome extension for this script is downloadable from the Google Play store, but it seems to be causing a lot of problems. The workaround is to install an Opera extension, which is counter-intuitive, and this is why I’m compiling this short guide.
What is YouTube Center? (via Github)
YouTube Center is a userscript designed to expand the functionality of YouTube. It includes the ability to download the video you’re watching, auto selecting your preferred video quality and much more. Here’s a list of all the features.
How to Install the Opera Add-on into Google Chrome
- Download the .crx file from this page. The exact procedure to do this as of October 18, 2013, is to click on the green “Add to Opera” button. A pop-up will appear as shown below. Click on the link to “get it anyway.”
- Click the Chrome menu icon
on the browser toolbar. - Select Tools > Extensions.
- Locate the extension file on your computer and drag the file onto the Extensions page.
- Review the list of permissions in the dialog that appears. If you would like to proceed, click Install.
For me, even just the downloading function is worth the hassle of installation, but really, this is how YouTube should look and work by default.
Error message of the day
How I got this is very difficult to explain…
The State of Insect Farming in Northeast Thailand
Summarized well at the Irrawaddy: Thailand’s Insect Farms Creating a Buzz
I still prefer bacon to fried grasshoppers, but not by much.
A Breath Before Shouting
“We heard them yell, shout and scream. But, who ever pays attention when they take that deep breath before they shout it out? Nobody does except for me.”
