C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

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

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Japanese Society/Culture, Web

Ekusupato vs. Ekisupato

Is there anything more annoying than the jet set expert on (pick any foreign country)? I just read a guide to eating sushi by a self-proclaimed successful author who visited…

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June 16, 2008
Work

whereupon, I rant.

I’ve put up with the various quirks and idiosyncrasies common to westerners working in corporate Japan for quite some time now and I think I’ve done very well, overall. But…

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May 24, 2005
Around Mahasarakham, Photos, Work

Sports Day for Humanities and Social Sciences

In the old gym at Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University. Posted from WordPress for Android

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December 23, 2013
  • Toys & Tech

    Beautiful Gmail

    April 26, 2019 /

    If all you need out of Gmail is the e-mail functionality, check this out: Darwin Mail If you want to try something similar with a Chrome extension that changes the look of Gmail and was created by the former lead designer of Gmail, you can try Simplify Gmail. This is what I’ll be trying first, since I use Hangouts and sidebar categories a lot.

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  • Toys & Tech,  Videos

    What’s your name on Insta

    April 26, 2019 /

    an ape figuring out how to use a smartphone is the beginning of the end for us idiots pic.twitter.com/ElDrsbkrZz — J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) April 24, 2019

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    RIP Bloglines, wistrab Loris

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  • Music,  Videos

    Masa Harakham

    April 26, 2019 /

    Says the Daver: “I could see Cosmic Buddha doing this in the sticks of Masa Harakham” Indeed.

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    Garrard 301 in Khon Kaen

    November 12, 2017

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    August 26, 2015
  • Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Hey Max

    April 10, 2019 /

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  • Work

    Color Theory

    April 4, 2019 /

    Color is an element of art. My kids love this lesson. I wish this website was still up; it looks like it’s being squatted now.

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    Building 4 at RMU

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  • Videos,  Web

    smilepup

    April 1, 2019 /

    TikTok is all Mina would do all day, if I didn’t force her out of the house to go shopping and stuff.

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    August 25, 2017
  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    How do you like them jackfruits?

    March 31, 2019 /

    My favorite urinal in the whole world because peeing while staring at swollen jackfruit pairs is somehow fascinating. This is at an all-you-can-eat hot pot/grill buffet that has unfortunately changed owners, upped their prices, and is no longer worth going to. RIP Mum Aloi Ban Din Dam… Your 99 Baht buffet was the best in town!

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    Mahasarakham University Convention Center Building

    October 1, 2023

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  • Exploits,  Oh, baby!

    Max, Into the Arms of America

    March 27, 2019 /

    Max is going to stay with my sis in Washington for a couple months. He’ll be there until the end of the last term of 2nd grade there to see what it’s like. We’ll see what happens from there, but anything is possible. We can uproot and move within a couple years, if that feels like the right thing to do. We aren’t really keen on splitting up the family in different places while the kids are so young. But Max wants to go, and hasn’t wavered at all, even while playing with Mina for the last time in a while earlier tonight. Meanwhile, my days are filled with keeping…

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  • Music,  Site News,  Web

    We are Cosmic Buddha

    March 19, 2019 /

    Aadab arz hai. They are not us, yo : Cosmic Buddha has never charged for music, mostly because we know we suck (although that obviously does not stop others). We have not released music for many years, but we have the Real Media files, several mixtapes, and Y2K coding errors to prove we were first. Our band predates our blog on this domain by 10 years or so, and it’s been going since 2003. Also, here’s some album art and gig posters from back in the day: Seongbulhaseyo. UPDATE: Really?

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  • Knockoffs,  Music,  Web

    Marchall Amps AKA Weiduka

    March 18, 2019 /

    I was online looking for a cheap amp to replace my current cheap one (which has bust a capacitor or something and picked up an oscillating ground loop type hum) when I stumbled onto this beauty of a knockoff: At first glance, I thought it was a legit Marshall product made for millennials, because with the similar font, my brain just skipped over the odd letter. But this is only part of the reason this is one of my favorite knockoffs this year. The other lies in the specs: Wongchongkrong noise is the sound of the People’s high-end AC power filter… Wongchongkrong for the people! WONGCHONGKRONG FOREVER !! Buy your…

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    Misushit?

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