Archive for January, 2008
Sabai
This is the first post I’ll write about life in Thailand - my thoughts on living here, visiting here, and some advice to people who are coming here, much of it learned through down n’ dirty experience. Each post will be written… well, whenever I get inspired to write about a particular topic. All [...]
Going, Going…
Let’s face it, love it or hate it, America - as a culture, as an empire - is not what it used to be. In fact, as a fan of entropy, I have to agree with one - and only one - of the many ranting diatribes that Muslim fanatics spew toward America - [...]
Of Rice and Men
My friend John recited something very funny to me today, a quote from around the 15th century from a Thai person describing the then-strange sight of white European explorers. We laughed a lot because, despite being written about half a millennium ago, it’s still an amazingly succinct and strangely accurate description. I imagine [...]
Old School Telephony
So after nearly seven years in Thailand, I finally lost my phone. Fittingly, I lost it in a taxi as I scrambled across the back seat getting out of the door on the other side. It wouldn’t have happened, but a motorbike taxi was parked beside my door and I had to improvise; [...]
Comics are dead. Right?
Who doesn’t remember the halcyon days when the mighty Calvin and Hobbes ruled the funny pages? It’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t know the dynamic duo of the smart-ass kid with a huge imagination and his stuffed tiger who could talk - but only to him. From 1985 to 1995, Bill Waterson [...]
Back from ‘Nam
Good news, everyone! The lovely T and I made it back from Vietnam okay, with a couple of bags of souvenirs, a memory card full of pictures and a few hundred bucks less cash. We landed in Hanoi and after a night of sleep took a van to Halong Bay where we set [...]
