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Ridley Scott Interview
This interview at Wired regarding the final rendering of Blade Runner is awesome: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined
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Yearly Indian Music Video Fix
Because sometimes, you just need to get down. The artist: Prabhu Deva The song: Kalluri Vaanil The video:
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Nam Nuong
Nam Nuong are the little grilled sausages on sticks shown below, but it’s also the name of this dish. It’s Vietnamese in origin, but I don’t know what it’s called…
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How I found out I’m not shaking my shoes out hard enough every morning
A heart-shaped frog procrastinated loudly when I jammed my foot in. Then, when I tried to pry him loose from the cavernous regions of the toe compartment, he secreted something…
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First Glimpses of Posterity
Here is little Fetus swimming about like a tadpole at six weeks: And here’s another shot, as well as a closeup at 8 weeks: The doctor couldn’t get the right…
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Free Burma
There’s some messed up shit going on in this part of the world…
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D&D
Meet thine foe: The Giant Centipede These things just look evil, and Nam insisted I dispatch it when we found it in her university’s parking lot. “Dangerous for students walking…
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ganas
Para mi papa. mp3 available from the creator’s site – link (right click to download)
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Book Recommendation for Thailand
I just finished reading Narrative of a Residence in Siam, a book written by a chap named Fred Arthur Neale in the 1850s. It was, in a word, excellent. The…
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Cheating Problems with Thai Students
This week is the final week for both my regular and weekend classes; the last final for my last class is tomorrow and I just threw a pretty good one…
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Ant Infestation
They appear with no warning When they sense the rain coming (and they are never wrong about it), ants can move an entire colony inside the house overnight, as happened…
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Dueling Giraffes