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

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    Miami Vice Theme Song

    Speaking of movies, apparently Michael Mann decided he wanted “nothing to do with the TV series” and hence did not use Jan Hammer’s original masterpiece in the new Miami Vice…

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  • Japanese Society/Culture

    The Fast and the Very, Very Okotta: Hick Drifter in Tokyo

    Even though my masochistic hobby of watching horribly shitty movies is fairly wide known, I am still fairly ashamed to say that I sat through the entirety of The Fast…

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    Pug Bowling

    The intro drags on a bit, but they get a +2 for laying the Gipsy Kings over pug footage:

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  • Web

    Red October

    Could it be said that these photos of an underground Russian submarine base are the pinnacle of glasnost? Or am I just being nekulturny? And now that I’ve expended my…

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  • Web

    Google Ads Blocker Detector

    This is a great way to greet new users to your site: Gee, I wasn’t aware that Google Ads pay per pageview. Dumbshits. Also, FUCK ADS! (this rant brought to…

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    Eating the Gift of the Magi

    I can’t say much about the Hongshuai Soy Sauce scheme involving production of “soy sauce” from human hair and medical waste, except that the perpetrators should be force fed their…

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  • Japanese Society/Culture

    Fugu Tip

    If you are eating fugu liver pate and start feeling a tingling sensation on your lips or in your mouth, down a cup of hot sake and then immediately slit…

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  • Japanese Society/Culture

    Lend me an ear

    TK is an older guy who works in my office. He’s married, with kids who have long grown up and moved away from the island for the usual reasons; the…

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  • Web

    Just drive.

    I can’t figure out if this is a joke or not. “iLane[TM] consists of a powerful and small device that interacts directly with existing Bluetoothâ -enabled handheld devices and vehicle…

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  • Web

    Oh My Technorati

    Remember that rant about “Web 2.0” I wrote a few weeks back? That post resulted in angry geek hate mail (ooo, scawy), but today I stand vindicated: Who turned the…

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  • Exploits

    Three days – a lifetime

    Visited some cousins from the states I haven’t seen in years Went out drinking with friends for the first time in months Had some damn good yakitori, too (mmm, namagimo)…

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    Michael Jackson – Malaysian Idol

    Enjoy!

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