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Kancho King
The best writing in the “I’m a teacher at a Japanese school” genre that I’ve read in a long while: I am a Japanese School Teacher (the link above is…
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Weaning Japanese from the Brush
Mechanical input of Japanese is a subject that has always fascinated me, so I was happy to find this history of wapro (word processors) in English: http://www.honco.net/japanese/05/ When I first…
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Shizzolating Japan
If you have Japanese language input/display capability, go check out this Javascript that changes standard Japanese into the Kansai dialect: Nandeyanen v2.0
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Back in body, if not in mind
This is my state of mind after 3 days of hitting the slopes in Hakuba (quite literally, I’m afraid). It was an awesome trip, overall. Nobody got hurt too badly…
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Fridays kick ass!
Taking a three day trip up to Hakuba with Adam and T for some boarding – I haven’t been on one that long in ages. Time to unwiiiiiind… Should have…
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Idiot Test
My results: I am 12% Idiot. I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me.…
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Google Kills Goose, Finds No Egg
Do the 50 invites bug anybody else, or is it just me? Why 50? Why not 100? Why not 36,687.02? I know… Why not a google of invitations? The number…
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Wherein nature’s fury becomes relevant
In an official document today, I used the following reason for changing a parts supplier: “Supplier’s factory destroyed by typhoon.” The situation described isn’t funny; I just never imagined someday…
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Adam’s Mullet
The other day, Adam saw a school of fat mullet under a bridge near my house, so we decided to try and catch them with the only bait I had…
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R.I.P. to Asian Jungle Punk
The London-based Asian Dub Foundation used to be one of my favorite bands. They brought out 3 solid albums over the space of 7 years, each with its own distinct…
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Osaka Stories (part 1 of ???)
////////////////////////////////////// NOTE FROM SITE OWNER: It has come to my attention that the link to this page has recently been included in several blog spams. I am in no way…
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Osaka’s Depressing Underground
I used to ride the Osaka subways to and from work every day and after a while you either get really good at blocking things out – crazy subway people,…
