C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Teaching with Google Plus

I’ve now fully implemented my improved ad-hoc Google+ system for my weekend classes and have found the greatest barrier for entry to be that some students cannot use the net except for clicking on virtual cows and Like buttons.

After having them sign up for Gmail and Google Plus and showing them how I want work to be done for the first couple of classes, I now have a couple of active “Communities” where I post assignments and class announcements, and students ask questions and check their grades. It seems to be working smoothly. I’ve had some inquiries from people who saw my workshop at the conference last month, so it’s been good to experiment with new ideas and functions for this system.

Mussels and Archa

Archa, the Official Blue Collar Beer of Thailand

One of the best dinners I’ve had this year, at a friend’s house a few weeks ago.

9 Butts 990 Baht

Right on the heels of the Best Product Name of 2013 comes a damn fine contender for Best Marketing Campaign, but I forgot to take note of the brand of jeans using it. I’ll have to check it out next time.

UPDATE: The brand is Maximus Roma Jeans, who do’t have much of a web presence but apparently put a value of 110 baht on each of their individual asses.

Late xmas photo

@ Sermthai Complex

Videos
Work

bleatz

Finals week has come and gone, leaving me with a sore throat and plenty of grading to get through. One last push with a huge synchronized test for combined classes this afternoon and it will be done. In this time of paper flurries and worried sophomore ministration, only one thing can snap me back to my happy place at any given time:

Mina is little Mika/Merin

There is no denying it:

Just as there is no denying that Max is little Adam.

jeebus, i miss my silvia ps-13

He’s right, though… Street racing is a young man’s game.

Mosquitoes Eating Fruit (Part 2 – Eggplant)

I thought I was going to have to rename this series to “Mosquitoes eating Fruits and Vegetables,” but as luck would have it, it seems that the internet mostly agrees that eggplant is actually fruit. So anyway, here’s what a typical vegetarian mosquito sucks on:

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Click to see the entire Mosquitoes Eating Fruit Series.

Best Product Name 2013 – “I Like Vaggie”

I’m going to declare this the automatic winner for 2013, even though it’s only January. I found it for sale in the canned goods isle of our new Tesco Lotus megastore.

This is a can of vegetarian fried rice that I assume was supposed to be, “I Like Veggies.” It isn’t “I Like Veggies,” however, it’s “I LIKE VAGGIE.” That’s rude, crude, and totally the best product name of 2013.

Music
Videos

The Beginning of the Golden Age – Freestyle Cool J 1985

This video is mindblowing on so many levels – it’s the earliest footage of LL performing vocally (there is apparently earlier footage of him breaking). There’s a small crowd in the college gym that’s apparently getting its first taste of rapping/scratching. LL explains what he’s going to do before actually doing it; at this point, he hasn’t even released his first album!

If you click through to the YouTube page, the son of the man that hired LL for this performance reveals details in the comments.