Later on today I start my first actual Thai lessons. I get the informal lessons from Thais who introduce certain words to me or try to explain to me why Ratchadamri spelled in Thai has a mystery “M” (ราชดำร = R-ah-cha-d-ah-ri as far as I can tell). And I’ve listened to tapes and have a …
This has nothing to do with poker but I was just so blown away when I read it. Man uses nail clippers in DIY circumcision A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. That’s the lead-in to a story the gets more and more bazaar …
When I was up in Amsterdam my Nokia N95 suddenly quit working. I bought it awhile back in Bangkok at MBK relatively cheap. At the time I was really wavering back and forth whether to get the N95 or plunk down the cash and get an iPhone. I was happy at the time because most …
Last night I went out with a bunch of friends to a club called 808 on Royal City Avenue (RCA). The one and only Grandmaster Flash was the featured DJ. For those of you too young to remember Grandmaster Flash he was one of the original pioneers of hip-hop and DJ’ing way back in the …
Several weeks ago an old friend from high school pinged me on Facebook and told me that one of our mutual friends, John James, was in the hospital receiving chemo-therapy. During junior high, high school and for a while afterward John and I were like brothers. We lived right across the street from each other …