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Korean Hostage Crisis as Seen by Overseas Korean Volunteers
Yesterday, I asked a group of four young Koreans who have come to teach our students computer skills the following questions: Were the Koreans who were taken hostage missionaries, or…
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cute fish (and not-so-cute fish)
Go see for yourself: Cute Not-so-cute (To my knowledge, I’ve only eaten one of the fish on that list. Hint: It wasn’t the coelacanth) //////////////////////// In related news, the last…
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Google Earth – Strange Sights
PC World has a cool gallery up: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth (thx k)
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Pink armbands for Thai cops
Over on AOL news: Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring Hello Kitty, the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of…
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24 Treehugging?
Before I got crippled in the bandwidth department, I was on the front lines of 24, seeing more than a few episodes before they even aired on television, so it…
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heine
Nam and I went out for steaks; it was the first t-bone I’ve had since god knows when. I drank a few or more beers and ended up back at…
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3 is the magic number
…and I’d just like to point out I’m 33 today. That’s right, I came into this world on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Just call me what I am,…
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fruit sacrilege
Thai farmers dumped a ton of mangosteens on the street in front of city hall to protest the low selling price. I’m pretty sure all the government workers rushed out…
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Precursor to official Ubon Candle Festival post
I don’t have time to go sift through all the photos I took at the candle festival we saw in Ubon Ratchathani last weekend, but I wanted to post a…
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millimeters matter – chaque millimetre compte
For those who are curious, like me (but also lazy, like me): chaquemillimetrecompte.com HOLD IT! As it turns out, the above viral video must have been an early cut. After…
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Something… for nothing!
The first person WHO HAS A PAYPAL ACCOUNT and types a comment in this post can have the remaining balance of my current account. That’s right, you will be a…
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Beheading a Whale
Link: Head of the Humpback (via minh)
