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Evacuation Tip
If you are in Japan during a major disaster and need a place to evacuate, do not blindly follow the people in front of you – they are just as…
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Typhoons # 18 and 19
The company is making us go home at an unprecedented 2:00 in the afternoon so you just know we are in for a real beating. I haven’t been this happy…
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Fugu Fishing
Adam displaying our first catch of the season – a trophy fugu!
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Sure Won’t Happen Here
Even more news from our future host country this week: Follow the Leader: Israel and Thailand set an example by arming teachers. Thailand has followed Israel’s lead by allowing school…
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Eating Fido
As a wannabe chef, I might have thought about making a submission to the Carnival of the Recipes #3, a showcase for recipes from all around the blogosphere, but got…
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Gettin’ windy again already
The earthquakes passed and the gigantic wall of water ala Lucifer’s Hammer never came… But someone’s must be doing an effective rain dance because there’s another goddamn typhoon due to…
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Big Aftershocks
There was a magnitude 5 shaker in Wakayama earlier this evening when we were in a liquor store – all the stacks of bottles started moving back and forth, which…
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Lowriders of Thailand
These pics are from last year. We pulled into a highway reststop in the Thai countryside and were delighted to find a young entrepeneur selling coconuts from the back of…
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Thai Frog
I just liked this frog. He had this attitude like, “come TRY and step on me motherfucker!” and I was all like, “No, I’m faux-Buddhist when I visit Southeast Asian…
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The Glass Is Half Empty
This isn’t a good picture, but you can clearly see why I hate ordering draft beer in Japan sometimes. Where many would argue the aesthetic value of a 70/30 (in…
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Not Syrup Of Ipecac, But It Might As Well Be
Creamy wasabi dipping sauce??? No thank you.
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The Missing Kitten Epilogue, or, How a Ferret Stole My Thunder
So I suddenly got to thinking about the little black kitty I rescued a few months back, because, well, I miss him (BTW, the name Yoda stuck). I realize that…
