No bells or whistles here. Your options are:

• See my pictures.
• Jonesing for real Thai food? My top choices for cookbooks and local restaurants.
• Try out my fabulous Brazilian moqueca recipe, direct from Salvador.
• Video did not kill the radio star.
• Read about:
• I admit it -- I fed gingerbread houses to the goats. (Note: now immortalized as a best-of at Craiglist.)
• My extended Southern family.
• My first (and only) attempt to play golf.
• Zee Kult of Kool -- Belgian branch.
• That time I bought a coffin.
• The beauty of unemployment.
• When I tried to become James Bond.
• What it was like to be a first-semester MBA.
• Letters from Asia (1995-96): arrival in Bangkok, Manila and settling in, Manila again and Singapore, coffins and eclipses, Loi Krathong, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and leaving.
• Nujaa or Nooja? Nobody knows. It's Thai, and transliteration systems are inconsistent. As for nujaa9, that's just because 9 is a lucky number. Well, not here, but elsewhere. If you like, you can write nujaa at yahoo dot com, OR nujaa9 at gmail dot com, and get me!