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Backmotorfinger!
Q: So just how kick ass is this year going to be? A: Soundgarden reunion.
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Year of the Tiger
This is my year! I just have to follow the basic karmic rules, and everything I want will be mine! Here is a bad example of following karmic rules: I don’t remember who showed me that video originally (Adam?), but I think it was a couple years ago…
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Last Post for 2009
There is a horrible show/channel we get on true visions satellite TV service here. It’s called Lin Ping Reality/The Panda Channel. It’s not that I particularly hate pandas, just that I think they’re boring as hell. Why do they deserve their own channel/reality show for xmasman’s sake? One good thing has come of this, though. I now know what color a panda’s bunghole is: This is just one handy fact I learned this year – here’s to even greater discoveries in the year to come.
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The Chinese Torpedoed Copenhagen
Surprise, surprise… How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
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Max getting down…
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Hustle with a belt and a pencil in C minor
A good read on Mohammed Ali’s opponents, searching in the not so distant past, and how we all grow old and disappear: Shadow Boxing Note: According to the MeFi article where Google directed me, the hustle referred to seems to be this: Fast and Loose. (thx dm)
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Friendly Yellow Longtail
My coworker caught this fine specimen somewhere near our offices. Curiously enough, he let us hold him and didn’t try to run away at all. When I got back home, P’Kaew told me that this kind of lizard usually bites and doesn’t let go, so I guess we were lucky…
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I am so late with xmas stuff this year…
Gearing up for season 8, yo!
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Little Drummer Boy
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Doctor Fish Foot Spa
In the true spirit of Christmas, we visited the biggest shopping mall in this part of Thailand, Central Plaza Khon Kaen, that just opened a few weeks ago. We were mostly there to buy Max a new booster seat for the car so Mina could inherit his old one, but we stumbled across a very recently opened foot spa featuring 15 minute doctor fish treatments for 99 baht. We’ve seen doctor fish spas on TV for the past ten years or so, and we always wanted to try them out… I mean, a stupid fish willing to gnaw on my stinky dogs? I had to try that! The verdict: It’s…
