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Today I rewatched the film The Killing Fields. Four CH-53 helicopters and crew from my Marine squadron were using during the filming. There were no close up shots of my buddies; but a couple of them can say they appeared in the movie. 
After it ended, I got on the Google and found the book on which The Killing Fields is based. The Death and Life of Dith Pran, written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author Sydney Schanberg. I found the entire book on https://archive.org/ , where I was able to read for free. It is a short, 78 page account including several pages of photographs. But, it was well written and a nice complement to the freshly watched film version. Highly recommend both.

Today I learned…

Come on, everyone here knows the Bridgestones went to the guy that ordered the Michelins.

On 3/19/2024 at 8:30 PM, Lirchenfeld said:

I always send pictures of all the different Lays flavors we have here to my sister. I’ll try to slip these Doritos by her to see if she’s paying attention.

Hopefully; as this is their last trip to Thailand, it will be much longer than planned.

From my last turbine job. In Washington; near the Canadian border, we overhauled three gas turbines over about four months. 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/407992/ladyboy-monk-full-about-face
 

Here’s an interesting story of someone who grew up basically as a ladyboy, estranged from the father, then quit being a katoey to become a monk for a while.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/steve-lawrence-dead-singer-1235845675/
 

I always saw him as he guest starred with his wife Eydie Gorme on shows like Carol Burnett or The Love Boat.

My first job was bagging groceries for $2.60 an hour after school. With my hours limited, I brought home about $60 a week. I was promised a nickel an hour raise every thousand hours, which coincided with a similar raise in minimum wage, so after two thousand hours, I was still at minimum wage. After I mentioned that to my boss; who shrugged his shoulders, I gave him two weeks notice and started at a competitor for a dollar more. I stayed there until I graduated high school and enlisted in the Marine Corps, which paid about $600 a month, plus food and a bed. 

 

My next door neighbor from California is here in Thailand on vacation with his girlfriend so I went to Bangkok and spent the day with them. We did some tourist stuff like going to the Golden Buddha and the Reclining Buddha. But, I think this picture I took with my iPhone 13 is my best shot of the day. It’s a vase at Wat Benchamabophit. Other than slightly cropping it, there are no digital effects but it looks like a painting to me. 

59 minutes ago, Siam Addict said:

George looked and said, “don’t worry, miss. You’ll look great in a dress.”

 

On 2/10/2024 at 9:39 PM, Glasseye said:

 

Lol. The old bulldog had a lot of good ones in him.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. One of my favorites..

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68431621
 

Stand up comedian Richard Lewis is gone.

7 minutes ago, fygjam said:

Swimmer refuses to leave the water complaining that the helicopter with siren blaring is disturbing his swim.

 

4 metre Great White shark as seen from helicopter.

Years ago on Pensacola Beach, I was guarding the beer cooler while my wife and stepdaughter were swimming. I looked up because a strange woman was yelling at them. I got up to see what was going on. It turns out there was a shark swimming around them. The lady said she didn’t want to scream, “SHARK!” and cause them to panic. They got to shore, no problem and later on we discovered that my stepdaughter had started her first period.

A couple years later on the same beach, a shark attacked a young boy and bit his arm off. The boy’s uncle jumped into the water and pulled the 250 pound shark onto the shore. Then, a sheriff’s deputy shot the shark and pried open its jaws to retrieve the boy’s arm. The arm was reattached; but the boy will have a life time of health issues after losing so much blood.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92932&page=1

https://www.sunherald.com/entertainment/article278274698.html

 

On 2/17/2024 at 8:52 AM, forcebwithu said:

For those that wonder what it would be like to travel through an electron beam at full power...

 

I don’t know if an electron beam is same same particle accelerator; but this guy accidentally stuck his head in one when it was on and lived.

https://www.iflscience.com/the-man-who-put-his-head-inside-a-particle-accelerator-while-it-was-switched-on-59474

I took this picture earlier today to show a friend how the plugs look here. I didn’t notice when I snapped it that Andy and Aunt Bee were looking at it too.

16 hours ago, Golfingboy said: