C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

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

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Mainstream Nyotaimori

Hadaka Sushi, West Hollywoood At least cut off your pinky finger, waps! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| (definition: nyotaimori)

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March 25, 2007
Oh, baby!, Photos

First Day of School

This is from a few months ago, but I forgot to post it until now. Don’t worry, the little kids at Max’s school aren’t self conscious enough to care about…

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August 24, 2011
Cars, Old Blog Entries (archives), Work

Daddy needs money for a new clutch

Luckily, a rush editing job came in and daddy is going to do an all-nighter. Mommy took the kids to grandma’s house and our house is quiet and lonely. Max’s…

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August 30, 2010
  • AI art,  Toys & Tech

    ChatGPT 5 Code Interpreter and Data Analysis

    October 27, 2025 /

    If you want to make sure that ChatGPT 5 can generate Microsoft Word (and other file)s in a chat, you can do so by creating a custom GPT. The older versions of ChatGPT could grant the tools for new chats to do this more intelligently, but the current version is random as to whether it will be able to provide actual files for download or not. The big problem is that even if it can’t provide files for you, it will bullshit you and say it can until it’s forced to provide one (even going so far as to provide links for you to click on, that mysteriously time out).…

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  • Music

    guwop

    October 25, 2025 /

    Sad to hear about Gucci, but happy to hear he’s been dealing with it and has someone to lean on. I’ve been listening to Trap House 5 every day since I heard, and it’s got that hungry from-the-gutter vibe. No One Else, foo.

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  • AI art,  Exploits

    Hidden AI Prompt

    October 22, 2025 /

    Found hidden in a resume today (ala the ancient SEO gaming tactic of white text on white background): UPDATE: This exact wording has been around for a year.

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  • Food,  Photos,  Society & Culture

    Assekoeken

    October 15, 2025 /

    Couque d’Asse is a popular Korean-made cookie featuring a delicate, crisp biscuit with a creamy white chocolate or coffee filling, often sold individually wrapped. The name is a nod to the French word “couque,” meaning “cake,” and “d’Asse,” which refers to the Belgian city of Asse, although the cookie itself is a modern snack from Korea. To add a bit more to the cultural mix, this is a Japanese cookie being sold in a Thai department store. Why did they make the “D’asses” plural if it refers to a singular Belgian town? Because they love couques?

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Knockoffs,  Photos

    Marco Pony

    October 15, 2025 /

    I found these at Big C Maha Sarakham (still slowly dying). I just found the brand funny for some reason. But AI told me that it’s an established brand that’s been around a long time. Because of course it is. The typesetting is just everything I ever expected.

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  • Photos,  Yoda the Kitten

    Pickle is Old

    October 15, 2025 /

    She’s been getting sick a lot and has skin lesions since she has FIV and is over 10 years old now. Sad. I’ve been taking her to the vet pretty often for over a month and she has had a fever on and off for a few weeks. I kept taking her to the vet for antipyretic shots and antibiotics and various boosters, and then out to various parks and ponds for fresh air. The fever finally broke today and she is meowing again.

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    “It would be an honor if you would go to homecoming with me”

    October 7, 2025 /

    I’ve been gone from the states for so long, I didn’t even understand what a hoco proposal poster was. My immediate thought was that it must put an awful lot of pressure on the girls. But when I asked my daughter, she said girls feel insulted if you don’t make a poster. I’m so old and out of it. The title of this post was an answer to “how to ask someone to hoco without a poster,” which appeared among the first page of search results for “hoco poster,” along with an illustrated WikiHow guide.

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    October 3, 2025 /

    Seriously, how did I ever live without it?

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Our New Thai House,  Photos

    Flooding 2025

    September 30, 2025 /

    This was not too bad of a year for flooding, but it has definitely gotten worse than when we moved here. The enlargement of the pond in front of our house and the concrete road sinking has contributed to making the stretch right in front of our house the most prone to flooding. Luckily, we built our house more that a meter off the ground anticipating this or worse. Most of the houses around us get wet inside. Seeing your house surrounded by water is like living in Ponyo world, so it’s not all bad.

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    September 30, 2025 /

    This soft indoor cat came into our backyard and Pickle was like nuh uh. I felt kinda bad for it and hoped it would come back sometime, but I haven’t seen it.

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