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Unconventional
This is a good story about thinking outside the box: TO MEASURE THE HEIGHT OF A BUILDING WITH BAROMETER
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Osaka Taxi
Just remembered this from Sunday: Four of us got in a cab and headed toward the Hankyu department store to grab a bite on one of the upper floors, before…
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My Ainu Roots
A while back, somebody explaining my family ancestry told me that I’m part Ainu. Which is funny, because when I first met my fiance’s dad, he said I looked part…
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Pedro offers you his protection
What could even hope to match the Goonies 20th Anniversary Celebration? (my sister actually attended it!) Only one thing: The Napoleon Dynamite Festival
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Nuclear Duct Tape
Dammit, they really should be marketing this stuff as the perfect Father’s Day gift: High Performance Duct Tape, Nuclear Grade
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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…