February 2008
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Thaksin back home, faces charges - CNN.com →
“Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on bail Thursday after appearing in the country’s Supreme Court to face charges of corruption and abuse of power.
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The 58-year-old telecommunications tycoon and owner of the English Premier League Manchester City Football Club has lived abroad since being deposed in a bloodless military coup in September 2006,...
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“Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true,...”
– Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See (My boss sent me this quote in an email titled “Employee Handbook”)
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I woke up thinking this:
LeVar-Burton’s-Head-on-a-Dog > Barack-Obama’s-Head-on-a-Dog
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I finally bought my plane tickets
Officially leaving Friday morning at 9am; Officially arriving Sunday morning at 1am; 28 hours of flight time.
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Angry residents threaten to fire homemade rockets... →
Yes, this is Bangkok airport. Yes, that is the day I am expected to land at Bangkok airport.
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“The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but the way to a...”
– Vogue Magazine, circa 1936
FutureMe.org →
Of course, the person I’d REALLY like to get in contact with is Past Me, but what are you going to do?
$200 Sticker
I got my Thailand visa in the mail today. Still waiting on my Citibank Visa…
Lit Crit
E: I liked it fine. The only thing I would change about it is to separate each description with a semi-colon instead of commas...
auds: kurt vonnegut says to never use a semicolon :(
E: If Kurt Vonnegut is so smart, why is he dead?
Bangkok's True Name
กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์
The official romanisation, certified as the longest place name in the world in the Guiness Book of World Records:
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan...
Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool →
“Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.”
RPM Challenge 2007 Jukebox →
What are you doing this month?
“There are several different classes of bus ranging from the 5 baht small...”
– Stickman’s Guide To Bangkok
