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Underground
What compels people to shun the world above ground, the sunlight, the weather, the outside? The unnatural lighting of the underground makes faces look sallow and haggard. Everybody’s eyes are…
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Kyorisoku – New Mapion Feature
Mapion is my favorite map site for Japan because of its huge-resolution BB (broadband) maps and excellent GUI. I was on the site today looking up directions when I noticed…
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Zatoichi #4
Real men wear haramaki (to literally hold their guts in if they get slashed).
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-phagy
One of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while: Eat Me: The Soviet method for attacking infection that we can learn from Favorites passages: – “You send your…
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Love letter to Senior Vice Justice Minister Taro Kono
Right back at you, asshole! (Update 2006/07/05: That link is hosed. I’m pasting a copy of the article below.) A Justice Ministry panel studying an overhaul of Japan’s immigration administration…
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Feverish Meat Dreams
I’ve been down with a completely unprovoked itchy throat/summer head cold the past week (damn you, yahweh!), which I think is more than evident in my writing. Not that I…
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Scary
“Hey Justin, can you call back in ten? Nam’s driving right now.”
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“The devil is beating his wife”
Someone at work asked me what this phrase meant the other day. I just got around to looking it up. It refers to the weather condition when it is sunny…
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Ye olde win/mac debate
This guy makes me feel much better about not buying a sleek new MacBook Pro. I want a pretty, shiny new toy, but I just cannot justify it. Sidenote: Why…
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Don’t bread on me
I’m starting a war in the office. Let me explain. Today, I intentionally broke the Tamanegi Convention. This convention simply states that no one shall consume raw onions right before…
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mizuwari
This is a huge joke, because 99.9% of Asians do not know how to drink whiskey. I have no doubt that 1,000,000 yen buys you a damn smooth mixer for…
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In a world of white Toyotas…
I have to admit, Mitsuoka makes some real works of art; they stand out from everything else on the street. Take a look at their lineup. My favorite, of course…
