
I guess you could call them yardlong beans, but most of the world switched to a better system long ago, and besides, where’s the fun in that?
Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
I’ve done a clean install of WordPress because things were getting slow and I had problems using Jetpack and some outside services as well.
It was a pain in the ass, and I may change my webhost in the next month or two, but things are running a lot faster now.
This is a test. Or a pineapple pen.
Muscle-Up from Robert McIntosh on Vimeo.
Mine is first year (1971; pre-facelift) fourth generation, and was an abject market failure because it was too strange-looking for its time. Of course, that’s why it looks so cool now.
Comment of the day.
My favorite singing voice of all time…
This is probably the best Matsushita knockoff name, ever (combined with a retailer’s misspelling) – and that’s saying a lot since Matsushita and National brands were folded into Panasonic years ago. These trusted brand names live on in developing countries, even if new product lines do not.
I’ve seen quite a few Matsushita, National, and Panasonic knockoff names (and that’s just a few from this electronics group), but the most often honored here and elsewhere is probably Mitsubishi, including the following permutations:
Mitsuboshi:”Three hats”
Mitsubashi: “Three bridges”
Mizubashi: “Water bridge”
Matsuboshi: “Pine hat”
etc.
“Mitsubishi” literally means “three water chestnuts,” but “-hishi” is what we call a diamond mark so it’s just descriptive of the logo.