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Osaka Parking
Courtesy of the G-man, who declares, “I LUV OSAKA.” ($100/hour fine for unauthorized parking)
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Mapped Up
This is an interesting way to watch news headlines: Mapped Up It will be interesting to see how it develops, especially when it moves to its own domain.
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Something stuck in one’s ear
Chinchin! One of the photos Nam took today, her last full day in Japan for the foreseeable future. We went on a drive out to Akashi to look for a dog (shiba-ken) her cousin wants us to send to Thailand (long story). I bought her a Coolpix S6 last week to take home, so she was taking her first shots with it today. She leaves to Thailand tomorrow morning. I go to work as usual. That sucks total chinchin.
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Cleanup
For the past month or so we’ve been cleaning up the house and finally sent 3 cubic meters of stuff to Mahasarakham via Pakmail this past Monday. Nam is taking off in a couple of days, and I’m still inspired by her seriously amazing ability to root through ten+ year old crap and throw it all away. We’ve probably thrown away over 70-80 bags of trash. So anyway, I’m digging through all of my computer backups on floppy, CD, DVD, ZIP, EZ drive, MO, JAZ, etc., etc., and so forth. I found some of the artwork and posters I used to do before gigs, when I was in my Photoshop…
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By the Time I Get to Arizona
Some of this extreme cuisine article is pretty funny until you start to suspect what a stupid redneck twat the author is… In this day and age, he can’t even pull off a convincing Long Duk Dong… Other than that, fine effort, Cletus.
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Six Drummers
(video is close to ten minutes long, let it load for a while before playing) I talked to T on the phone today. He said he’s going to a factory for part time work during his spare time these days, and that he’s going to record the sounds of the machines with which to make a song. This video can be kind of an inspiration, I guess. Side note: The horizontal volume slider on the TV really brought back some memories.
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Zato #3
I’ve been delinquent in my Zatoichi viewing. I will finish them all before I leave, however. Katsu Shintaro embodies so much of what is lost in modern Japan. And that is of course what makes these movies so cool.
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Nipponese Vatos
Japanese Lowrider Life It’s true, we even have them out here on my island.
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This repository, my head
I just remembered one of the funniest things I ever heard. About seven years ago I got trapped in a conversation with a roomful of girls, and the topic of the conversation of course turned to the topic it always turns to in a roomful of only girls, that is, feminine hygeine products. Anyway, the funny part: This one Chinese girl admitted that the first time she used tampons, she had no idea how to use them and she ended up shoving in 7 or 8, and then proceeded to go about her normal business for the day. (I’m hoping there’s a Confucian equivalent to Kegels.) That story still makes…
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307 is my magic number
I’m not a Numerologist or anything, hell, I hardly even believe in math. Yet, I become strangely obsessed with numbers and compulsively count things out in my head on occassion. You know, the number of steps I take from point A to point B, or the number of cars I pass on the highway. Stuff like that. Or even simpler things, like tapping my fingers on a desk and counting the beat – performing a repetetive action for the sake of counting. I think I do this when I’m bored, but I’ve been doing it for so long now, it’s become a kind of meditation as well. Another thing I’ve…
