The Brand-new Lexus Self-Parking Demo

As always, the early adopters always suffer the pain of new technologies such as this one.

Bottled Music

Someone said you can use your foot to blow the whistle by stepping on yellow line at a BTS platform.

Obviously, you can play a song with just a pair of rollerblades and a bunch of bottles!

Speeder's Nightmare

German police department just hired Brabus to build a speeding chaser which should be able to catch any speeder pretty easily. Isn't this awesome (and it looks cool too!)

Evil Customer

Ha... Hope I don't have to face this kind of customers at any point my career.

The Best of Jon Stewart

His show has been on the top three on my list and only one of the two talk shows I watch (the other is its brother show: The Colbert Report). He's undoubtedly my favorite show host. Big thanks to Youtube that allows me to share these great episodes with you guys.

My recent favorite: Bush's vs Kerry's jokes...


Donald Rumsfeld was caught lie by an ex-CIA guy. Thanks for the service sir... See you, not so soon.


His take on Ted Stevens's definition of the internet.


A huge bunch of Pres Bush's great clips is coming. That's one of the reason why I don't give any hoot that I don't have the rights to vote in this country! Looks like someone doesn't know what his job is :P


His infamous "open mic" oops:


What's he talking about again? Maybe I'm too foolish:


Hmm... Politicians are pretty similar around the world. The most famous is not the exception.


The President on geico commercial.


... and the best of all, he kicked CNN guys' asses on their own show called Crossfire which was later taken out of the schedule because of this.



This is his response on his show Monday after:


Enjoy,
Jon Stewart's fan

Dilbert

How many times do I have to tell you that Dilbert is the best Organization Management handbook (with specialization in Software Engineering context). What's more to ask?



Some of you might have heard that Scott Adams, its main creator, suffered with a never-before curable disease making him unable to form conversations. However, he tried curing himself and made the impossible possible. His inspiring blog is here.

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Tech Antique at Siam Cement

My friend is working for a child company of SCG. He discovered this during the โละของเก่า activity. Too bad we don't have any kind of museum to keep all these "valuable" stuff.

Thai Sloanie Blog

Here's the blog of Thai people at MIT's Sloan School of Management; the folks I have been hanging out with when I'm still stuck at local projects here in Boston. Thanks for your friendship and your calls when you plan to do anything fun.

It's most likely that I will be in Boston a lot less than before. Will keep you guys posted where I will be. You guys can always swing by... you know... free house/hotel/rental car :)

SLR Movie

Very amazing...

Speed Reading Techniques

Found a great post about how to speed up your reading. Most of the tips are pretty helpful. Hope I can get back to the reading goals (1 book per month) I set before soon (I'm well far behind though)

Net Speed Test

I found this cool network speed test tool, SpeedTest.net, from Digg again. Not only it allows you to try downloading and uploading files from multiple locations, the UI also looks really cool.

South Park & RIAA

Wow... this might have made me stop downloading free music online ever again ;)

Who Needs TV

I've been pretty strict with myself not having TV since I got here two years ago. This is because whenever I'm near TV, I just browse through and watch worthless programs or the movies I've ever seen (both are full of commercials, of course) which are really wasting a lot of my time.

Fortunately, Web 2.0 enables the socially posted video clips from the shows people think are good. I've been following Jon Stewart's Daily Show on the web. If you sort the postings by Date Added, likely you'll get good part of the show last night. Just 10 minutes a day and I can follow the show I want to see without having to be strict with its schedule. The best thing is that it's free!

A side note here: I've been wanting to follow the good current news. Web 2.0 allows that again. Digg has the feature to sort most popular user-posted stories within the day, week, month, and so on. If thousands of people think they're good, they must be at least okay and worth reading, right?

"I'm a PC" guy on Net Neutrality

Jon Stewart rocks again. John Hodgman was the guest of the show last night talking about Net Neutrality. He also pointed out how our honorable Sen. Ted Stevens got it wrong. Well... he must know it pretty well for sure. He connects to it everyday.

Another Stupid Moment from Pooyai

I blogged a short while ago about Senator Ted Stevens showing his understanding on internet during his talk to support Net Nutrality regulation. Yesterday, President Bush forgot to turn off his microphone and accidentally spit out some not so nice words in the middle of G8 meeting.

Thai politicians are not so bad after all...

Next Trips

It looks like there are a bunch of whale-watching tours in Seattle area that offer broad range of whales we can expect to see. This one looks really good. Although it's almost double the price of what we did yesterday, the mountain background and opportunities to see orcas and grey whales are quite worthwhile.

The Way Back

These are all the girls joining our trip yesterday. We then walked to China Town to meet with other folks who visited Boston Aquarium (Quote P' Oil... for your own sake, don't!). The place we chose for Dim Sum is Chau Chao City just next to China Town's Super 88 and opposite Da Da hair salon. The food quality was fantastic - fresh and not oily compared to China Pearl.

Highly recommended... 

Puff!

But at lease you should see them breathe... 

The Couple

This is the best I could take with my great camera. These two humpback whales swam around our ferry for quite a while showing us good look of their backs and one great look at one of their tails. Just a word to someone who wants to do the trip, don't expect to see them jump (aka breaching) or anything. Just a look at the tail is rare enough.

Whale-watching at Boston Harbor

Thanks for the initiatives! Those were six hours well spent on a beautiful day like yesterday. We went on a cruise to whale-watch at Boston Harbor Cruise. Here are all the guys in this trip. 

Grand Canyon - Day 7

I became so tan now. Looks like a soldier who just finished a war and spent a night in Vegas. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 7

Last stop: Paris... 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 7

Still at Zion. I didn't prepare at all for this less-than-half-a-mile river hike so I ended up doing all in the river bare feet. Pain... 

Grand Canyon - Day 6

We spent our last night in the wood at Zion. Kinda sick of rocks and mountains by now. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 6

Another Arch (but called "Bridge) at Bryce Canyon. We was trying to find a lot of creative ways to take this shot. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 5

We finally arrived at Bryce Canyon in the evening. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 5

Another jump shot at Glen Canyon. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 5

It was almost impossible to take any photo without a tripod in there. This one was at the brightest spot... and I was lucky :) 

Grand Canyon - Day 5

We slept in a little bit on Day 5. Then, we took Antelope Canyon Tours which I thought was a little overpriced (and overrated) 

Grand Canyon - Day 4

I would say this was my favorite spot of the trip. The Horseshoe Bend. If you follow the link, you'll see how beautiful it is during the daytime. But this was what we could take given a very minimal level of light when we arrived as well as everyone's fear of height at the lookout. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 2

My bad. I forgot Mesa Verde at the beginning of Day 2. Here is most part of the gang we did this awesome road trip with. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 4

Sunrise at Grand Canyon. Frankly, it was too early and we were too sleepy to appreciate. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 3

Still at Grand Canyon...

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 3

Sunset at the Grand Canyon's Moran Pointn Overlook. Man... we knew from then why it's called Grand Canyon. It was really grand. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 2

We didn't have time (and, more important, energy) to finish 4-mile trail to Delicate Arch. This is what we can get from half-an-hour walk to the viewpoint. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 2

We proceeded to Arches National Park on our way to Grand Canyon. Too bad that I forgot to bring my hat from home, it was super dry and hot that day. I then had to borrow P' Win's cap which makes my hair a little bit straight up. It looks funny.

BTW, this was Landscape Arch.

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 1

My favorite person of the trip :) Still in front of Bear Lake. 

Grand Canyon Trip - Day 1

This marks as the first day of our Grand Canyon - Las Vegas trip. The first "mandatory" jump shot was taken at Bear Lake which is a part of Rocky Mountain, a couple of hours away from Denver.