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A first-person race report from the Krabi International Trail 2020 describes a 20 km course (that measured closer to 24 km) featuring slippery mud, multiple stream crossings, a cave, steep climbs near a waterfall in Khao Phanom Bencha National Park, and four falls due to wet conditions.

The blog post reviews a surprise KFC x Lays Thailand collaboration chip, with the author finding the flavor so accurately reminiscent of KFC’s seasoning that they joke Lays stole the Colonel’s secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

Using RStudio projects instead of setwd() simplifies file management when working with multi-file R projects involving data, code, and outputs by automatically handling working directories. The post includes a screencast demonstration and links to further resources from Jenny Bryan and Software Carpentry on project-oriented workflows.

A tutorial demonstrating how to write a custom R function (brede) to calculate turfgrass green speed from stimpmeter ball roll distances using the Brede equation, and how to use ifelse to correct speed measurements based on which stimpmeter notch was used.

A tokay gecko was spotted hunting from the kitchen ceiling, joining the household kitten in an impromptu pest control team — tokay geckos are known to eat both insects and small vertebrates, making them a potential threat to the rats troubling the kitchen.

A homeowner in southern Thailand traces a chain of unintended consequences—from welcoming mosquito-eating geckos, to tolerating a rat infestation, to adopting a kitten that turns out to hunt geckos instead of rats—that ultimately lands him in a Bangkok grocery store deliberating over which brand of rat glue trap to buy.

A screencast tutorial demonstrating how to import a CSV file into R, calculate green speed using the Brede equation from uphill and downhill stimpmeter measurements, and visualize the resulting data with density plots and histograms using base graphics.

A screencast tutorial demonstrating how to read a CSV file into R using the read.csv function, illustrated with 2019 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship green speed data, and covering the distinction between opening a file and loading it into the R working environment for analysis.

A personal account of learning R from 2011, walking through four progressive stages: installing R and discovering R-bloggers, adopting RStudio as an IDE, and finally organizing work into structured project directories with separate folders for data and scripts.

Lays Thailand’s 25th anniversary retrospective lineup includes two returning flavors: nam phrik phao (a sweet-savory chili paste variety) and grilled scallop, both offering familiar but approachable tastes that the author recommends pairing with lime soda or a cold lager.