C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

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

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Japanese Society/Culture, Videos

Shorts

I’ve been having fun experimenting with YouTube Shorts, basically trying to understand the algorithm. I haven’t had much luck deciphering it yet, but I’m still just a week or so…

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June 15, 2024
Exploits, Japanese Society/Culture, Photos

Biwako Hot Dog (??????????)

This is a foodblogging post I have put off for a year and a half. The photos were waiting patiently to be edited on my desktop for all that time,…

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August 13, 2006
Chillin'

Endangered Species

The path I have chosen is the very model of assimilation into broader culture. – My blood is nearly 100% Japanese (whatever the hell that means), although I may have…

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November 28, 2005
  • Exploits,  Photos,  Toys & Tech

    I dropped my phone

    December 17, 2025 /

    I mean, I really dropped it. It slipped out of my sweaty hands when I was checking a message while walking. I kicked out with my foot and the phone hit the soft part of the padding, but bounced off, so I technically punted my phone into the asphalt. It immediately died, and after trying various online recovery techniques, I could not get it out of a bootloop. The multicolored “Google” logo appears and disappears endlessly, as the device seems to scream THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR DROPPING ME. But that’s when it’s plugged in. When it’s not plugged in, there are no signs of life at all. So maybe…

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    A night outside

    January 18, 2015

    A walk on the riverbed

    April 17, 2005

    Lego Time @Highway Rest Stop 90km from Korat

    May 5, 2013
  • Photos,  Yoda the Kitten

    Pickle is gone.

    December 7, 2025 /

    My cat died today. Sad. She had FIV from getting into fights with neighborhood cats and her health was in decline. There were a lot of trips to the vet over the past year. She became lethargic and incontinent for the last few months and we put her in a cage outside with a litterbox (which she had never seen before but instantly took to) at night. We fed her rich foods she wasn’t used to having like mackerel and chicken liver to supplement her normal meals. Basically, we tried to make her life very nice, because her mouser days were kind of over (although I found the remains of…

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    Fermet? foment? ferment!

    September 14, 2023

    Ship’s Bow

    November 17, 2023

    Mediterrasse

    November 22, 2005
  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    There are two main objects in this photo

    December 6, 2025 /

    They are commonly carried by university students/teachers. If you can identify them both, you are hardcore Thai.

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    Nam assembling lunch

    May 21, 2014

    A Wedding in Ratburi

    November 26, 2007

    caped.

    March 4, 2013
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Exploits,  Photos

    Edward

    December 1, 2025 /

    Edward is one of the two turtles I saved from the road this year. He was crossing from a pond toward Wang Yao Market on the shortcut from Your Place Hotel to Makro. I kept him in a box for an hour until I could release him.

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    Pokemon Go in Thailand – Day 7

    July 20, 2016

    NY Fireworks

    March 27, 2024

    Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Elementary)

    March 7, 2020
  • Exploits,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Phuket sky

    December 1, 2025 /

    We were waiting for our friends to come hiking back up the steep hill at sunset when the sky exploded. Southern Thailand hits different.

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    Volunteering in Kalasin

    November 1, 2008

    Night Beer Hiking in Downtown Chiang Mai

    January 27, 2011

    Rainbow on the Bypass (Maha Sarakham)

    May 5, 2013
  • Food,  Photos

    eryngii father and son

    December 1, 2025 /

    aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes*, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster *According to wikipedia, this is misleading nomenclature because boletus (which has pores) and eryngii (which has gills) are of different orders. All I know is that eryngii is delicious and it’s very hard to cook wrong.

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    Assekoeken

    October 15, 2025

    Lunch break

    March 1, 2011

    Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings

    October 21, 2010
  • Exploits,  Videos

    the ballad of pokey pokey dude

    November 24, 2025 /

    I swear that I’d posted this before, but I guess not.

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    Max, Into the Arms of America

    March 27, 2019

    I found a dinosaur

    September 20, 2017

    Both Kids Now Studying Overseas

    September 7, 2022
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

    buff

    November 24, 2025 /

    @Nam’s mom’s house

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    Ford Modern Horse

    March 3, 2019

    Pokemon Go in Thailand – Day 5

    July 15, 2016

    Spit Roast Pig

    August 14, 2011
  • Web

    A Good Day Day?

    November 9, 2025 /

    Can’t believe I missed this update 11 years ago: The Return To Finding Out Ice Cube’s Good Day The original post blew up the internet a couple years before that. I found my link to it searching for an old post. A big problem with blogging for so long is that most links and video embeds end up broken… Which was a selling point for social media back in the day (your memories are safe with us!), but of course, even Facebook has started deleting live videos this year after realizing storing that shit costs money.

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    Wolverine or Two Bat Men + The Defaced Bard of Avon

    February 28, 2011

    Mytrip.com travel agency review

    May 8, 2018

    Stone Cold Killer

    August 11, 2005
  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Phuket Shopfront

    November 9, 2025 /

    Just a cool shot from the driver’s seat. From a few months back.

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    Greyscale Angel

    July 21, 2008

    Just Say…

    July 29, 2004

    How cold is it in Thailand?

    December 10, 2008
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