To the Moon, Alice!
Posted on September 29, 2006 - Filed Under News, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
…but it will cost you $190,000 and you’ll have to wait ’til 2009. Sir Richard Branson showed off a mockup of his Virgin Galactic space ship yesterday. To be launched from the New Mexico desert, the craft, based on the design of Burt Rutan’s Spaceship One, will carry six passengers into sub-orbital space. Not “to […]
Read More..>>The Meaning of TIT: What Would Jitplecheep Do?
Posted on September 27, 2006 - Filed Under News, Audio, Thailand, Culture | Leave a Comment
TIT, she said about the military coup in Thailand in an email from Bangkok. TIT to farangs means “This is Thailand.” That is not the title of a bad travelogue but the notion that “hey, stuff happens here we may not understand but mai pen rai, no big deal.“ Another friend emailed me […]
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BIG: Tom Hanks Could Probably Hang Forever in Bangkok’s New Aerotropolis
Posted on September 27, 2006 - Filed Under News, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment
I think I saw Victor Navroski the other day waving at me from the window of Suvarnabhumi Airport. That poor Tom Hanks character, the unfortunate tourist who got stuck for months in an airport was grinning down at me standing on the sizzling hot Bangkok tarmac. Looks like Victor was doing the same thing I […]
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