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Oh. My. Shaka.
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the fact that this site exists, or the fact that my family’s Shitzu has a bee costume, too. Or the fact that I bought…
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New Quark Logo Issues
In a brave struggle to become less irrelevant and direct attention away from the fact that they lost the Desktop Publishing Wars a long time ago, Quark Inc. has adopted…
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Compulsory Commentary on the Japanese Elections
Summary: Koizumi is the FUCKING MAN! ALL HAIL KOIZUMI! BANZAI!!! BANZAI!!! It must be nice winning an election and watching the stock market rise like this. Plus, let’s face it,…
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A Day at Awaji Bokujo
Chilling out on the farm, a photoset on my Flickr page.
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INDIAN GUIDES!
AHA! A possible explanation for my recent Indian chief dream (see my mom’s comment at the bottom). I completely forgot about that! Actually, catching that sheepshead won us the “fishing…
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Itsy Bitsy
The first time I tried to catch him, he jumped out of the tupperware and onto my hand. Talk about goosebumps… I nearly shit my pants. Nam yelled at me…
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This Just In
Attention all Americans in Japan, whipped cream in cans is NOW AVAILABLE AT A JUSCO SHOPPING CENTER NEAR YOU!!! Fear not the Euro-sounding Chantibic brand name, this stuff looks, smells,…
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Yoshida Porter I am not
What the hell? (see comments at bottom of that page) May as well have some fun with it, I guess.
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Speech-to-text it is not
Speaking of cars, the new voice-controlled car navigation systems are a total fucking trip. A couple weeks ago, I caught a ride with a guy from work to an after-work…
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Toyota Presents: Driving for Dummies
Annoying beeps and auto-braking are quite possibly the most unwanted features I can think of, for a car. And yet: Toyota Computer Makes You Watch the Road What we really,…
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The Pedantic Culinary
It’s not easy being a leading authority in the English-language realm of Japanese Fish Sausage, and yet, I feel I have accomplished something very important. For my next project I…
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Another dream…
I dreamt of speaking with an Indian chief over a campfire. Unfortunately, it was not an Indian fire, but a “white man’s fire,” and it drew our enemies in closer…
