C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

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

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Yoda the Kitten

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…

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September 18, 2010
Web

On Jellies and Fireweed

This is depressing as all hell, but is also a must-read: A Primeval Tide of Toxins We are human; of course we all know how this is going to turn…

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August 2, 2006
Exploits

Admitting Change

I backed down from a fight in the parking lot this morning. The funny thing is, I would have been completely morally justified in beating the shit out of this…

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January 13, 2006
  • Gaming

    Solution: The FINALS Error Code TFAV1012

    January 13, 2024 /

    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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  • Food,  Photos

    Pitaya BBQ Sauce

    January 10, 2024 /

    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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    Matcha set – Eka Cafe

    May 16, 2014

    Captain Ahab: The Man Who Brought Us Lizard Salad

    April 10, 2008

    Moo (buta [pork]) Katsu

    May 18, 2014
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

    Bar No More

    January 10, 2024 /

    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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    March 7, 2017

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    October 11, 2012

    The Boobie Mushroom and Leafy Mothra

    August 8, 2010
  • Society & Culture,  Web

    Old Tom and the Law of the Tongue

    January 2, 2024 /

    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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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Stargazy

    December 23, 2023 /

    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 β€” thanks, light pollution!

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    Sampeenong in Yangtalat, Kalasin

    December 21, 2023 /

    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:

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    Mahasarakham University Convention Center Building

    October 1, 2023

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    July 22, 2011
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Videos

    Tokyo Sasumata Incident

    December 4, 2023 /

    One of my YouTube vids from six years ago shows police in Maha Sarakham using a sasumata (a nonlethal man-catching staff of samurai-era design) to subdue a knife-wielding suspect at our local bus station. I posted about it at the time and there are a couple links (amazingly still live) about other incidents down at the bottom. Weapons similar to the sasumata have a long history in many cultures. They were known as “man-catchers” in Europe and used until the 18th century, although their non-lethality may be up for some debate: The flanges on the top of that are spring-loaded and were designed to open up after it was thrust…

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    February 12, 2024
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    espresso

    November 26, 2023 /

    At my friend’s place out on the MSK bypass. I’ve been working weekends for the past couple weeks and I’m tiiiiiired.

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Videos

    kreb

    November 21, 2023 /

    I came upon this little guy on my daily walk at the old MSU campus a couple months ago, when it was raining every day and the roadside ditches were filled with water.

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    Sarakham Music

    August 28, 2013

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Cars,  Photos

    SUZU

    November 18, 2023 /

    Thailand, where old Japanese trucks go to thrive once again. @ Maha Sarakham University old campus

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