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Club Sazae Umeda
Through a fiendish twist of events involving Air France stewardesses and fresh squeezed lemon chu-hi, I found myself at a club in Umeda on Saturday night, actually their opening weekend.…
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Star Wars Analysis by Neal Stephenson
Over at the NY Times: Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out The first “Star Wars” movie 28 years ago was distinguished by healthy interplay between veg and geek scenes. In…
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Luc Besson is a fucking sell out
I mean, is the guy hard up for cash, or what? I sure as hell couldn’t forgive him back in 1994 for whoring Nikita out to Hollywood for an effortlessly…
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On the Crossvader
In a way, hearing these breakbeats over the Imperial March was better than the entire second trilogy.
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Cooperative Art
This is most interesting when there are people who can draw on the same page as you: The Scratchpad I chose pad #2 because there are hordes of 13 year…
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The Cow Says…
Found this really cute site featuring onomatopoeia performed by children in different countries: ***bzzpeek***** (hint: click one of the symbols around the main window there to start things off)
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I am a Molam Singer
My fiane is currently finishing her doctorate at Osaka University in the field of linguistics, which we both studied at Tenri University. She is writing her dissertation about Molam (alternatively…
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Uniformly Wrong
Gatson came by the house last night to install the English version of MS Project, and he told me about our new work uniforms, which we will be issued around…
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Fingerprinting Correction
Did I say something about doing away with mandatory fingerprinting of gaijin yesterday? Sorry about that, what I actually meant to say is that they are doubling it: Japan plans…
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Blame the Gaijin
Another reason I’m definitely leaving Japan next year: Japan to have all foreigners carry IC cards for crime control The LDP and the government claim the new policy is aimed…
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Resurrection
I decided to check around on some of my favorite “dead” sites – ones that people quit updating some time ago due to job issues, necrophilia rehab, deep vein thrombosis,…
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Troxler fading
An awesome optical illusion: Rapid coloured afterimage (via kottke)