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Chris Delivery
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being Chris Delivery’s bodyguard (I got the job by looking “ex-yakuza.”) Fortunately, there were no kidnapping or assassination attempts, but he did get jumped…
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Bang up
Ah, dammit. Today started off kinda bad, and I’m flat out busy. I went out in the Cefiro to buy fried dough crosses for Max and Mina before they woke,…
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Want x 2
Classic Battle: Strength vs. Technique
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Thai Yellow Eggplant
I bought these golf ball-sized eggplants at the fresh market after not seeing them for a few years and never having tasted them. Up here in the Isan region, some…
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Cheap Nikon Body
We picked up a Nikon D40 body, the successor to my trusty D50, with a charger and two batteries for 3,000 baht (exactly $100 US today). On the D50, I’ve…
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face deco
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The second best Wired article, ever
The first, of course, being Neal Steph’s Mother Earth Mother Board (I miss his entertaining writing for us serfs; I would give my left nut for another Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon,…
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Who’s out there
A car could be heard pulling up to the front of the house… “Who’s out there, Max?” “Fishies and turtles, and a shark!” I hate it when marine life tries…
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Prime Harshness
From my student’s essay on problems in Thailand: “If I were Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is help beggars in Thailand, because the beggars are pathetic. They…
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I, cultural interpretor
WARNING: If you are vegan, watching these videos will melt your eyeballs. There couldn’t possibly be a western equivalent to this horrifying act of culinary cruelty, right? Wrong: Attributing this…
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Max’s first fish
A couple weeks ago, we went to my coworker and good friend’s father-in-law’s place for his new house celebration. He’d built a new house on top of the foundations of…
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Sewious Biznis
FYI: This is what happens when you insist that daddy draws on your face with mommy’s lipstick pencil. There are some great photos in this set that I’ll post later.
