User talk:Somtow

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Image Tagging Image:Naak2sm.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Naak2sm.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Image:PrincessandCardinal.jpg

Don't you have a bigger version of that photo? It would also serve as a good illustration for the article on Cardinal Kitbunchu himself, which is currently without photo, however for future printed versions higher resolution photos would be much better. Also, as your photos would also fit for the wikipedias in other languages, it is probably better to move them to Wikipedia:Commons, our repository of free images (and other multimedia).

BTW: In case you haven't found it yet, there's also the Wikipedia:Thailand-related topics notice board, where the Wikipedians from or interested in Thailand meet. andy 08:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Inquestor

Really enjoyed the Inquestor stories in the mid-1980s. Even have "Fire from the Wine-Dark Sea" somewhere under this pile of books ("Sunsteps" was seriously weird, but in an interesting way...) AnonMoos 08:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks so much for your kind words ... Somtow somtow

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Somtow

Thank you for The Shattered Horse. I read it many years ago (several times) and feel that its robust spirit helped to drive some of the changes in my early life.

Michael

response from Somtow

Michael thanks for your kind words about my book (you must be one of the few who read that one) ... Somtow

Fiddling for Waterbuffalos?

Story: Archaeologists dig up an object in Isan that they break in trying to figure out what it is. It was an intergalactic space beacon, and its owners are pissed. Locals not impressed -- aliens pop into Isan all the time [I'm one] and, if they mind their manners, are welcome -- don't have to conform to local customs, either, just show a bit of respect. The ETs didn't, a local stole the beacon and held it for ransom. When the ransom was paid, the local turned over -- a knockoff, keeping the original. Would that be Fiddling for Waterbuffalos, Analog, April 1986?

BTW, representatives of Thailand's Fine Arts Department are ETs in these parts, too. While unearthing the original That Glong Khao Noi Kaa Mae ธาตุก่องข้าวน้อย บ้านสะเดา, they found an unusual Buddha image at the Wat of the Field. They had a copy made for the yokels and think they have the original in Bangkok. Wanna bet? Pawyilee (talk) 17:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)