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Bangkok Water Taxi
It’s nice to know that the inner city canal system is still in use, even after most of them were filled in from the 1960s. If you get the chance, it’s a little bit off the beaten path and it’s a cheap way to both get around and see some funkier areas of Bangkok: Khlong Saen Saep Boat Service
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been busy
Finishing up the term and taking care of visiting students from Tenri University, our alma mater.
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50 Years of SNL Music
Also worth a watch:
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Triton is no longer the Bang Saen Special
We wanted to transfer my lowrider to Nam’s name from her sister’s, in order to prepare it for possible sale. The prefectural inspection officer we ran into at the Land Transport Office either wanted a bribe and didn’t ask for it clearly enough, or was just having a bad day, and decided to insist that my truck was too low and had to be restored to standard height (which is technically not a law here). Either way, we were not in the mood to pay into corruption and thought it might be easier to sell the truck at standard height anyway, so we took it for modification to Nam’s old…
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More Noro-san Videos
Noro-san apparently gained a few kilos on his trip to Thailand. Come to think of it, he never stopped eating!
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21 Years of Steam
If that’s not a cringey Steam profile, I don’t know what is. I’d like to say I registered for Steam on dial-up, but looking back on posts from 2003 just before I signed up*, it was either my first FTTH line (NTT 100Mbps service on a Japanese island 20 years ago!), or Dual ISDN (128 kbit/s and more expensive than the FTTH, if I remember correctly). I was one of the only Dual ISDN subscribers on Awaji Island according to the techs who installed it. After I upgraded to FTTH and they came by for maintenance, they said I had the fastest hikari (fiber) connection they had seen, as well.…
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Noro-san in Thailand
My pal T brought his 80 year old uncle to Thailand for an end of the year trip and we hung out for a week. It was his first trip on an airplane for 30 years, and everyone had a great time with him. I’ve been putting together a series of Shorts with the highlights.
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Faithful Steed
My daily ride, a 2005 Honda Wave 100S. A friend sold it to me cheap when he moved away. The most reliable vehicle I’ve ever owned.
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BBQ Prawns
Hope to shovel more of these guys in my tummy later this week. Some friends are coming from Japan, so we are doing an end of year trip to see them in Pattaya, Bang Saen, and Bangkok. Ironically, it’s hard to find good seafood near the sea in popular places here, so we have to scope out good places online before we go. Over the past decade, Google Maps has become the best in gauging places from their reviews, and more importantly, the kind of people posting them.
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Noodle Nirvana
I’m currently on an extended keto and IF experiment which is turning out very well. Starchy noodles, like my beloved bami egg noodles, pictured above, are off the table. But I can dream.
