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Sourdough lab
Simebody gave me some sourdough starter from a baker in Bangkok. I love sourdough, but am currently on keto, so I wanted to experiment with a long-term storage technique that…
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Classroom Observation
We ran an English Camp for the International Business program at Mahasarakham University over the weekend and it went really well, but we were freaked out by the motion tracking…
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Salon Result
This is the first time in 4 years of trying that a salon has bleached all of my hair for real. I’ve been to 4 or 5 different places in…
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Justified
When you listen to your tingling Spidey sense, liberally apply mosquito spray before heading out the door, and the first thing you see at your destination (a hair salon) is…
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Banana Stew
Upon seeing this, I was reminded of the forever stew at Wattana Panich, which I’ve never eaten, but can clearly taste in my mind… I’ve been to tons of stewed…
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Popsicle Sky
The sky over our house looked like a Rainbow Paddle Pop, a kind of popsicle sold by mobile Wall’s Ice Cream vendors here in Thailand. My son really liked them…
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Should you be polite to your future overlords?
The internet is split on this. However, in their online Elevate curriculum, Microsoft gives examples of saying saying thank you when chatting with Copilot: My gut feeling is to be…
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Ding Ding
As horrible as this product sounds, I want to try it because snakehead is perhaps my favorite freshwater fish, and suancai is just Chinese pickled mustard greens. So this soup…
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Caterpillar P-5000 Powerloader
It seems we are just around the corner from a core Gen X dream. You should really mute this video, but this is apparently a real product now. Like, for…
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Temple Art in Kosum
Last week, we visited a temple in the neighboring district of Kosum Phisai (which I long ago dubbed Monkeytown; see here and here). Thai temple gable murals often depict the…
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l337h4xx
While waiting for an answer from an ethics review board about my proposed research for the coming term, I’ve been on a hard certification binge. My latest target is Microsoft…
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I Forgot to Take My Truck Today…
…so I got the authentic Thai experience. I even went to buy noodles on the way home and the staff had a good laugh when they saw me get out,…
