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The Story of Sriracha
Sriracha sauce that is: A Chili Sauce to Crow About My parents had a bottle of Sriracha on the table ever since I was about ten, so I literally grew up with it. Last year when a university van drove us back home from Pattaya through the actual town of Sriracha, I was all jazzed about buying local sauces there, but that wasn’t their specialty – their specialty was marble mortar and pestles, and we did buy a good set of those. The equivalent chili sauces in Thailand are horridly sweet except for a few brands, which are decent but not nearly as good as Sriracha. When you go to…
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taco bell folk song
Is it me or do they sound a bit like the D?
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Home Alone with Max
The nanny took the day off today and mommy had a meeting from the afternoon, so MAx and daddy stayed home and played all day. The highlight if the day was letting Max eat yogurt by himself on the front porch and then hosing it off afterward. It’s been rainy recently but in between storms the sky can be quite dramatic. Here’s a couple shots from not too long ago:
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Wolfram|Alpha is racist (wherein I channel Angry Asian Man)
Check out Gizmodo’s post: Wolfram Alpha: A Bit Racist? Searching for the word “dumb” brings up “results for Racist synonym trees that associated the word dumb with black.” W|A explained this essentially as follows: “One thing Wolfram|Alpha gives is synonyms for dumb. An example is “dim”. …So, “dim” is a synonym of “dumb”. But what are synonyms of “dim”?” What this doesn’t explain, in my mind, is the results and synonym trees for the “N word.” Better yet, contrast that with the the synonym tree for “honky”: Now can someone please lexicographically explain the fuck out of that shit?
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The Kuj is back
Total damage: 9,400 Baht (about $300 US) An unwelcome expense but much much better than losing my car. Plus the aircon compressor was replaced and a new fan installed so the cooler works better than even some new cars I’ve been in. And the compressor is now tuned to the engine so it no longer stalls when the RPM suddenly dips like it did before.
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Star Wars ABC Illustrations
A is for Ackbar, B is for Bantha… LINK
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Close call (the Kuj, the Kuj, the Kuj is on fire)
Just as I left for work in the Kuj today, not even half a kilometer from my house and still inside our neighborhood, the air conditioner (under dash box unit) cut out and black smoke started pouring out from the dash. I stopped the car and cut the engine, but smoke continued to pour out and I could hear either the sound of something shorting out or the sound of plastic burning from the cable bundles under the steering column that are encapsulated by the dash. Then, through the hole where the original ignition was mounted (it’s now on the steering column like a modern car), I saw flames. All…
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Fallout 3 Trailer
I know this is all backward because you usually watch a trailer before a game is released or you actually play it (and I know I found about about all this so late), but Fallout 3 is so good… The last time I felt even close to this way about a game is when BF1942 was first released.
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Wolfram|Alpha is retarded*
No, I’m sorry, it just is. And all the people who called it a “Google killer” are also retarded (in an ” isn’t sure what to do with your input” sense, that is). * don’t worry – like all post-1999 web sites it will “learn over time”
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Where food ends up
