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RIP Bloglines, wistrab Loris
So Bloglines is dead. Just as well, since it seems the owners are busy licking Twitterific balls. I’m glad I switched, even though it was a couple years late. Feeling nostalgic, I logged in one last time and encountered a captcha – a brilliant one. Inspired by a series of captcha cartoons my brother showed me last week, I spent a whole five minutes creating my own: …I guess I’ll be keeping my day job.
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Visa Run 2010
I’ve been living overseas for half of my life and applying for visas regularly throughout that time. It never gets easier. Hell, now I have to report every ninety days to immigration (in person or by mail-in form) just for the honor of living here. At least tomorrow’s visa run is just an hour away, in Khon Kaen. It used to be in the border town of Mukdahan (famous for peppery pork sausage and a shitty Indochinese market), and before that, the border town of Nong Khai (famous for a “friendship” bridge that Japanese engineers would scoff at, plus a shitty Indochinese market), but I suppose they got tired of…
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If dyeing cats is a crime, then my brother is a criminal
Seriously. But, seriously?
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Baby Updates 9/26/2010
Max is 2 years and 5 months old and can identify around forty animals in English and Thai (we’re holding back on teaching him Japanese so far) He can sing the ABC song and did so on stage with thirty kids at least twice his age this morning (at a strange baby TV expo at a local hotel [Takasila #2] I still don’t really understand) He is going through a crybaby phase (please let it be a short one) and goes to mommy when he really wants something He is currently getting over a serious cough that’s spread around schools all over Thailand /////////////////////// Mina is nine months old and…
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Giant Thai Lady Bug
Those are my nasty fingers, not Max’s.
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dominant eye
Max can play with his legos and blocks all day when he’s in the mood. He actually prefers clay sculpting, drawing, and painting, but legos are great once in a while. Unfortunately, all he has is a cheapo set that doesn’t fit together too well (too loose), but I’m saving up to buy him a big bucket of the real thing.
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T-shirt of the day 9/21/2010
I am never lonely when my darling is in sigh Amen.
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A concrete mixing tub…
…makes a damn fine kiddie pool.
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A coyote ate my cat
Not here in Thailand, but back home in SoCal… I waited for a few weeks since nobody actually saw what happened (a coyote was seen near my house and Yoda disappeared shortly after), but I guess he’s gone. Goodbye, Yoda, you lucky one-eyed bastard. Fuck a coyote.
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The best spam to make it through my Gmail filters in recent times
It’s apparently Persian; I just think it looks cool. Reminds me of starting out in DTP straight out of Japanese university and learning how to lay out these texts running right to left.





















