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  1. "The Annihilation Score", by Charles Stross. Latest in the "Laundry" series, about an obscure British intelligence service that protects against occult threats. Lots more fun than it sounds from my description. Excellent. I just started "The Mind Play Study Guide", by Mark Wiseman. This is nonfiction, a gentle introduction to erotic hypnosis. Too soon to tell how good it is. (This one is a "small sips" approach, as opposed to the "drinking from a firehose" approach I got from Mark Cunningham, in various seminars over the years.) At the insistence of a very comely blonde Sweet Young Thing, I am trying to plow through "50 Shades of Grey". It is slow slogging. The writing is TERRIBLE, and Christina Abernathy's "Erotic Slavehood: A Miss Abernathy Omnibus", while no-fiction instead of rebranded "Twilight" fan fiction, is a far better introduction to the topic.
  2. Cav, that's my club bro you're talking about. We're both full-patch members of the Bangkok charter of the most exclusive club on the planet, the DVT/PE Survivor's League. (There are no meetings, no newsletters, no T-shirts, and we've already paid our dues!)
  3. Perfect timing, Hugh! I'm at T minus 29 days, landing at Swampy just after midnight Sunday the 23rd, for two weeks in town. Sounds like it is time to declare some kind of get-together.
  4. You and me both. And I don't speak Thai.
  5. I've always been treated well at Royal President on Suk Soi 15. And there's always the Nana Hotel...
  6. That reminds me. It was midafternoon at Swampypoom. I was checking in with Cathay Pacific, for a late night flight to Hong Kong, connecting to SFO, ORD, and eventually Huntspatch. The coach checkin line was full of men, apparently Indian, and every last one had a giant flatscreen TV with him.
  7. I remember a get-together at Molly Malone's. I was exhausted that day, having flown in the night before (I think). That was quite a crew, and a very good time was had by all.
  8. Thank you. I stand corrected and suitably chastised. As my penance, when and if you and I next happen to be in the same disreputable bar at the same time, first round is on me. (And I'm at T minus 7 weeks and counting...)
  9. There've been a couple of accidents like this. They usually get traced back to the human technician forgetting to throw the robot's kill switch before entering the work cell. The kill switch disables power to the robot. If the kill switch is thrown, the robot CAN'T move. USUALLY, there's a big rotating warning light connected to the switch, so that everyone in the area KNOWS whether the robot is live or not. Now, if there wasn't a kill switch, that would be criminal negligence at the very least, and it would be far more likely to be classes as reckless indifference homicide. If the kill switch was inside the work cell, that's just as bad. You absolutely do not want the technician to have to go into a live work cell to throw the kill switch in the first place. If someone else reset the switch while the technician was in the work cell, there's good reason for an investigation. A GOOD kill switch will allow the technician to throw it and then LOCK it, so that he's the ONLY one who can reset it after he's finished.
  10. The last time I saw any reliable data, the CDC recorded exactly one (1) case of HIV transmission through cunnilingus. It was two girls who, reading between the lines, were very fond of "earning their red wings", to use the 1%er MC euphemism.
  11. The Nightlife section is dead because SOME of the board members got VERY abusive toward the guys who were posting prolifically in Nightlife, and the prolific posters decided that enjoying another beer with a Sweet Young Thing was a lot more enjoyable than taking the abuse. I was a long-time user of a certain national BBS system in the US, years ago. It got bought, the new owners decided it wasn't making enough money, they shut it down. The guy who'd originally built it managed to get permission to build a follow-on. Most of the old users showed up again, but not all. Unfortunately, *ALL* of the fuggheads showed up, and continued their fuggheadedness. One by one, non-fuggheads got tired of dealing with the crap, and quit. I was not the first to quit, and I am fairly certain I wasn't the last, either.
  12. The C6 has mechanical door releases on the floor next to each seat, but, if you didn't read the owner's manual very carefully, you are very unlikely to know about them. I personally have no use for making the electrical latch primary, and the mechanical latch the backup.
  13. T minus 10 weeks and counting, once again. Current plan is to land at Swampy just after midnight, Sunday 23 Aug, DEROS Monday 7 Sep. Only definite plan is birthday celebration "nominally" Thursday 27 Aug. Details still TBD.
  14. I've never had a problem with the Duck Tongues there. I know a couple of girls who like them. I've had them twice: they're a novelty, but not something I'd likely make a staple. Yam hoi kraeng, now: I surprised the heck out of one girl there when I ordered it one night. She hasn't quite grasped the concept that farangs who like Thai food even exist, much less that there are farangs who like spicy Thai food. (Mega-kudos to the girl who introduced me to yam hoi kraeng!) I did have a problem once there that I suspect was a bad oyster. My own fault: the doctors at Bumrungrad have warned me more than once to be careful about raw food in Bangkok. I doubt that this particular waitress ever worked bah.
  15. Sitar on Jordan Lane is Indian. They're still open, but I haven't eaten there in some years now.
  16. The new one is Big Bowl, on University, in the same L-shaped strip center with 88 Buffet and the various armed forces recruiting stations, a few doors down from the Subway end. Smaller sign says "Thai Cuisine". I spotted it months ago and have been waiting for it to open. The other three I know of are Phuket (on Providence Main), Surin (on Airport), and the place in Five Points. Charm Thai was farther out University, but is long gone (and is now Pho, a Vietnamese place that I have yet to try).
  17. In Huntsville, AL, we have good news, GOOD news, and REALLY! good news. The good news: A new Thai restaurant has opened in town. The GOOD news: The waitresses are all Thai. The REALLY! good news: It appears that the kitchen is, too! Best shrimp pad Thai I've had outside of Thailand. Second best overall: First Place still goes to the food cart and picnic tables on the covered patio on the corner of Suk and Suk Soi 3/1 ("Soi Arab"). Talking with one of the waitresses last night: She mentioned that one of her favorite Thai restaurants in Krung Thep was on Suk Soi 23. I think I surprised her when I named "Love Scene" instantly. She confirmed it.
  18. I've been very fond of Royal President, on Suk Soi 15, for several years now.
  19. That sounds like the spot that used to hold the fish restaurant, with the big tanks. Vacant for years now...
  20. Has anyone heard how they're going to handle tourists, who buy a new prepaid SIM when they arrive from AIS or 1-2-Call or some such, because the previous one has expired?
  21. I confess to mixed emotions about this. While I don't mind seeing the endless tourist ripoff vendors removed from Suk, removing the street food vendors is a different story. They're a fairly critical part of the Bangkok economy, providing good, very affordable food to workers and tourists alike. And I'm reminded of a very late night at the corner of Suk and Suk Soi 3/1, in the little covered patio with the five food carts (now three: someone built Yet Another junk costume jewelry shop on the south end of the patio. A sweet young thing from one of the clubs in Nana Plaza had the munchies, and she took me there. Best shrimp pad Thai I've found ANYWHERE! I would never have gone there on my own.
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