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Monkey Time at Kosamphi Forest Park
A few weeks ago we decided to go out for a drive. It was time to take Max for his first visit to the monkey park in the nearby town of Kosum Phisai, so we put his car seat in the trusty old Kujira and were on our way. We took the Kujira instead of the Cefiro because: Monkeys are little bastards that scratch up cars for fun Max sleeps really well in the Crown with its worn suspension and lulling vibration It’s a proper cruising car!! Max spots some fellow monkeys! To a normal person, this might just look like a bunch of monkeys sitting in a row, but…
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Saccharomyces Draught
Over at Wired: Brewing Beer From 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast Unspeakably cool. In most of Asia, they’d probably still drink it with ice, tho.
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“The travels and trevails of two honest workmen”
This has got to be one of the greatest webcomic series, ever: vulcan & vishnu
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Adless Gmail
I don’t really mind the ads in Gmail*. I’d actually feel kinda guilty/uneasy if Gmail were totally free, because I depend on it so much. This is interesting, though: How to avoid Gmail’s Sponsored Links Forget Big Brother – we need top worry about those who we willingly trust with our privacy every day. ///////////// *If they bother you that much, you can always use a dedicated email client with Gmail.
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smell my armpit
I forgot to post my instructional photo on how to harvest bananas, caveman style: Unable to hold the clump with one hand while chopping with the other (the clump was hanging over into the neighbor’s yard in an awkward position – don’t worry they got their cut!), I instead used E. Honda power to rip it off. This was taken a couple months ago in our backyard. We pretty much have the best tasting bananas in the world, and they are the perfect food for babies. We even sun-dried some and made chips. Yum! P.S. That’s an empty bird’s nest constructed in between the fruit. We’d spotted it before but…
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long shadows
@ cameraphone (sgh-j700i; trying out a samsung slide phone)
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birch pollen allergies
Very interesting article on food allergies: Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser
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Where do stolen Japanese bikes go? ????????????????
Well, many of them end up in Thailand: One of two bicycle stores in town selling only stolen bikes from Japan that we visited this week (we’re looking for a Japanese-style child seat). This shop is the bigger one and has perhaps 50 bikes in stock. They park the merch on the dirt in front of the shop (a townhouse across from Big C Mahasarakham) during the day. Anybody in Japan want to call Mr. Makino and tell him where his mountain bike is? He can have it back for 3,500 Baht plus shipping. I should get an award from the police or something for doing their jobs. It’s been…
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Facebook is Gankin’ Yo Pics
…for profit, just like they stated they would in their terms of service. If you’re logged into FB, change the setting on this page to “No one”: Of course, they’re being very nice about letting you change this setting at all, because they really don’t have to.
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Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards: Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai… Translation: Little skylark, lovely little skylark Little lark, I will pluck your feathers off I’ll pluck the feathers off your… /////////////////////// At least there’s no equivalent song about the ortolan.
