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

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  • Thai Society/Culture,  Zatoichi

    Zato #9 – Adventures of Zatoichi

    In a sense, I’ve been employing a Zatoichi of my own here. The baby in Nam’s belly is a week bigger than normal, and Nam feels very heavy, so she…

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  • Toys & Tech

    A Useful Periodic Table of Elements

    This is really cool; I forgot who sent it to me. Sorry.

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  • Videos

    Showdown: Death Metal Bird vs. Accordion-shredding Nerd

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  • Exploits,  Oh, baby!

    We hates steps with overhangs, preeeecious!

    Daddy took Max to work today and Max tripped on the marble steps to the main building because there are 1″ overhangs on each one… there is no apparent reason…

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  • Videos

    Where the Girls Gone Wild Things Are

    Max is gonna love this! Also: Maurice Sendak tells parents to go to hell

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  • Food,  Photos

    Max loves bitter melon (bitter gourd)

    How very, very strange. We’ve never heard of a child liking this stuff. Bitter melon is called mara in Thai, and nigauri in Japanese (goya in Okinawan). It’s much the…

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  • Music,  Oh, baby!,  Old Blog Entries (archives),  Photos

    Getting Musical (Thai Ranat Xylophone & Toy Snare)

    The Doraemon snare is a $5 cheapie we bought at the bicycle/toy store in Kalasin where we went to buy a baby seat for the nanny’s bicycle a month ago.…

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  • Chillin',  Thai Society/Culture

    Quick update

    I’ve basically dropped off the edge of the world trying to get over this cold. I think I’ll be back full swing tomorrow. In the meantime, I caught this article…

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  • Chillin'

    The fever has passed… (Dimetapp flashbacks kick ass)

    But I felt strangely drawn to reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez as strongly as I usually feel like watching TV after popping heavy duty cold medicine. I realized that reading 100…

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  • Chillin'

    RIP Pinky

    I was away on a scouting trip for our upcoming International Camp all today and seem to have come down with something nasty, hopefully not the piggy flu. The worst…

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  • Videos

    Why YouTube is blocked in China

    The Family Guy officially approves of this video.

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  • Toys & Tech,  Web

    Hee-larious

    Quick! Type “why won’t” into Google and look at the drop-down suggestions…

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