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Ever wonder where you took a specific photo?
Drag and drop it onto this program, click the button, and the location will display on Google Maps: Quick Photo GPS Extract Elegant software made for a specific purpose.
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Lost in a Thai Forest
Well, the forest behind the English Program building at my uni, anyway.
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truck shot
Just before the new provincial art project statue thingy bridging the halves of the old MSU campus. Said thingy will probably be the subject of a future post.
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Dragonfruit BBQ Sauce Ribs
Behold, dragonfruit ribs on my ghetto oil can smoker! There were no leftovers that day.
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Solution: The FINALS Error Code TFAV1012
It seems that EAC doesn’t like any hardware changes, because after I turned XMP on in BIOS, I started getting this error and others that caused crashes on startup and even during matches. “An internal anti-cheat integrity check failed.” I don’t cheat, and neither do many of the others seeing this message. However, it does seem to be triggered by hardware profile changes, and this solution (among many, including verifying file integrity in Steam, reinstalling the game and Easy Anti Cheat software, and granting EAC programs Full Control) was the only one that worked for me: You can easily open the AppData folder by typing %AppData% in your Windows search…
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Pitaya BBQ Sauce
I tried making a barbecue sauce out of red dragonfruit at the end of last year. It was colorful and pretty tasty, but nothing is coming close to the mango BBQ sauce I like making every year during mango season.
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Bar No More
Mina went to an “English Camp” event at the Khon Kaen hotel a couple months ago. Nam’s family used to own the blue and beige buildings across the street from the hotel, but they sold them a few years back. It had been a bar or cowboy saloon of sorts for many years, then had sat in a state of disrepair for a while, an obvious eyesore in the neighborhood. It was good to see that the new owners fixed it up. The blue banner with faded lettering has been there as long as I can remember (~20 years?) and it advertises NATENIGHT BAZAAR – but I can’t remember ever seeing…
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Old Tom and the Law of the Tongue
Yesterday, I was still recovering from a cold I came down with at the end of the year, so I had a good excuse to put off work and feverishly surf old RSS feeds. I ended up stumbling across the best Wikipedia article I’d seen for ages: Killer whales of Eden, New South Wales I want to start in reverse chronological order. New South Wales, Australia, is home to the Eden Whale Festival, which celebrates the southern migration of the humpback and other whales. This area is historically important for being the home of a whaling industry after the arrival of Europeans, and much further back, subsistence whaling by native…
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Stargazy
The girls alerted me to a meteor shower happening a couple months ago, so we drove to a nearby empty parking lot (MALIN PLAZA) and proceeded to take mediocre night photos with our phones. The blue space invaders looking thingy above the white gas station sign (with the red/blue droplet logo) was a reflection from an unknown source that showed up in all my photos there — thanks, light pollution!
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Sampeenong in Yangtalat, Kalasin
This is our typical order at Sampeenong, our favorite Isan food joint in the area. Gai Yang (grilled chicken) Somtam Lao (Lao-style Papaya Salad) Tap Wan (literally, “sweet liver”) Kor Moo Yang (Grilled Pork Neck) And here’s my homie, Aot, working on a new coffee drink in a Chemex at his coffee stand in front of the restaurant:
