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

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NES – A Cappella

For anybody who played the original Nintendo Entertainment System: Redefined Of course, if that gets you all teary-eyed and nostalgic (nerd!), here is the place to go for video game…

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April 20, 2005
Work

Japanese Office Trivia of the Day: FedEx

Did you know that FedEx actually has FOUR official FedEx Box sizes? Small, Medium, Large, and unmarked. The unmarked size is larger than all the others… and the very existence…

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November 8, 2005
Chillin'

Summer Thundershowers Over Upper Thailand

Newsflash: The intense high pressure system from China remains over upper Thailand. This causes summer thunderstorm i.e. thundershowers with gust over the country during 14-15 March, 2009. People should beware…

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March 14, 2009
  • Chillin',  Thai Society/Culture

    Water!

    January 28, 2009 /

    Nam was trying to sleep in this morning as Max has been keeping her up at night for the past few weeks, but the funniest thing happened: A man selling jugs of distilled water drove his pickup by the front of the house yelling, “nam na krup! nam na krup!” (water! water!), so Nam came running out of the bedroom a couple minutes later rubbing her eyes and asking who was here… When she saw the guy selling water down the street she asked me to please kill him.

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  • Web

    Facebook chat

    January 28, 2009 /

    Is it just me, or does the chat function on Facebook feel like it was written about 10 years ago?

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    “Elmo?”

    January 27, 2009 /

    Yes, Elmo: This is officially the best misogynistic muppet video, ever… And that’s how you gotta roll, Yomiuri TV!

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    yomiuri television sucks rooster

    January 27, 2009 /

    …and by rooster, I mean the big purple-headed veiny one. The day after I embedded the youtube vid in my Missing Osaka post, they had it removed via copyright claim. If you love your IP, set it free, bitches! Show Elmo some love already! UPDATE 20090215: I embedded a new instance of the video on the post in question

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    November 12, 2008

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    Space toilet humor

    January 26, 2009 /

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    tako face

    January 25, 2009 /

    Maxie and daddy performing synchronized upper lip balancing. This is the only photo we took of him during the period he has been afflicted with the rash from roseola. Even so, this is a couple days before the rash peaked and my anti-noise filter (Noise Ninja) actually wiped it quite effectively. One of the only tricks I could perform as a kid was to curl my upper lip up far enough to block my nostrils. This was extremely handy when playing underwater and I considered it a kind of superpower (hey, when you’re a kid having even the lamest of supernormal abilities is pretty cool). Hopefully I can pass this…

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    Simply greenish Max is composing his next masterpiece

    February 25, 2010

    First down, second down

    August 18, 2010
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    El Luchador Mascarita Dorada

    January 25, 2009 /

    Wow. There’s a compilation of more of his clips on YouTube here: LINK

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    Black & White Max Wants Another Cracker

    January 24, 2009 /

    …and is most able to blackmail you with tears to get one. *this photo is pre-roseola. He still bears the marks of the chosen one. //////////////////////// Previous colors in this series: red red max orange max sepia max coppermine max blue max

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    Missing Osaka

    January 22, 2009 /

    The idea being tested: Even strangers in Osaka will play along when you pretend to shoot or cut them down. Some of these seem staged; I’ve seen crazier stuff though, and if nothing else, the fact that it seems possible is why Osaka is so fucking cool. For the record, I’ve never seen this done to a stranger in Japan, but you see it all the time among friends. Come to think of it, among friends at least, everybody overacts like they’re being shot. An alternative to the standard ban! (bang!) is firing an imaginary revolver dry. That sounds something like this: ban! ban! ban! ban! ban! ban! kacha.. kacha..…

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    New Years in the Fields – Preview

    January 21, 2009 /

    This is a preview to a photo series I shot during our New Years holiday. I’ve been meaning to put it together since I shot it but Max got sick and life got in the way, etc., etc., and so forth (quote from KoS). I’m now busy doing other things, but perhaps I’ll get around to it this weekend. /////////////////////// On the second day of the new year, our nanny invited us to her village for the bi-annual emptying of a communal fishpond. We piled into our trusty ’71 Crown, picked up a Japanese teacher who wanted to experience village life, and headed out deep into the rice fields. Actually,…

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