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Cool season
Last night was the first night it felt a bit chilly since last “winter.” From now through January is the best part of the year in NE Thailand. We start the new term at Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University on Monday. I teach weekend classes all tomorrow; today’s class was cancelled because we were locked out of the building. Nobody complained, because my students are also teachers preparing for next week.
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Watching the Nam Chi
Thailand has been suffering from record flooding in recent weeks. What sets this situation apart from years past is that previously safe areas have also been flooded out. Rainfall has been heavy in some areas, but what seems to have caused the problems this time is the steady meddling with waterways and ignoring what might happen when they overflow. Maha Sarakham is said to be at risk from today until October 31st. I think the area where our house is should be okay, but of course there is also the possibility of the roads being wiped out, so I went aggro at Big C last week and stocked up on…
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Extremely cool “kinetic typography” animation
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sunny rain
A couple weeks ago I was engaged in the never-ending battle to figure out why my Crown hates running cold so much (Next step: Replace coil pack and plug cables, plus various tweaking with components expensive to replace but cheap to check/clean). I took her out on the Sarakham bypass that’s close to our house and runs for a couple unimpeded kilos in a straight line. It was a glorious sunny day, dry and hot, and I was running with all four windows open. As I started up the bypass, it suddenly started raining, though there was hardly a cloud in the sky (weather like this always reminds me of…
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Max doesn’t like going to school
He will do anything to avoid going. Once he’s there, it seems that he has a great time, but he just hates going (this is how I felt about school at his age, too). He is clever enough to say he is sick, and determined enough to say that he wants to go to the doctor and get a shot (!). He will refuse food for over an hour, and then suddenly eat with gusto just as we’re about to go out to the car. Once in the car, he will say he wants to eat this or that from a roadside vendor, or suddenly want to visit a specific…
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Taro as Miyagi
So we just saw the new Karate Kid movie. It was total crap (and a great reason for China to hate us even more), but it was a surprise to see my pal Taro Machino starring in it:
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New Theme – Twenty Ten Weaver
In lieu of posting new content, I started playing with my blog’s appearance and settled on this new theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. Me likey. Still playing with colors and tweaking, but this is fun and today is one of the few days I have time to play with it.
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Random Links 10/21/2010
Why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux Hint: Rebels suck at preventive maintenance. Tracing the fate of Aliens’ commandos (the Colonial Marines) Game over, man, game over. Create 8-Bit Style Graphics with Authentic NES, Gameboy, and Sega Colors (Photoshop tutorial) Max as Mario? Mina as the Princess? Lost, Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces Having kids enables the enjoyment of One Fish, Two Fish a second time around. One way to deal with a stupid homeowner’s association I ROTFLed. Why the hell do people back home put up with that kind of crap at all? 2 Years In Prison – A Man’s Story Not for the…
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Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings
It’s made like how it sounds (plus braised in Japanese sake to finish). It tastes how it looks. I suppose you could call them water buffalo wings. Did you know that shoyu (soy sauce) is the root word of “soy” in English? And that perhaps the best of example of a loan word from the Thai language in English is “bong?” Cooking and linguistics are both a delicious jumble of influences and flavors.
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Shoot up this page
Speaking of games, click here to start a game of asteroids on this page (use arrow keys, space bar, and B). (via)
