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Full site feed, finally
I just hacked together an Atom feed with full, formatted entries (plus inline graphics), because I felt guilty for putting it off for the past three years or so. I tested it briefly and it seems to work fine in Bloglines. You can find it here: http://www.cosmicbuddha.com/blog/atom.xml Alternatively, you can subscribe with Bloglines by clicking here.
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Bloglines Tip
Are you using Bloglines to read this entry? Hit the “M” key. Cool, yes? (via the Bloglines blog)
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Google Page Creator
Recently, quite a few people have been asking how to make their own homepages (not blogs). I dug around a bit because I haven’t been keeping up with all the new tools – and I know there must be some kick-ass ones out there now. Well, the solution appeared in my Gmail inbox. I can heartily recommend Google Page Creator as a starting point. I think literally anyone can make a homepage with this tool; it cannot get any easier, and that is saying a lot. In no time at all, you’ll be authoring inspiring masterpieces that can effect true positive impact on society in general. Or something. Note: You…
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Yet more wedding photos
It’s crunch time. The hardiest of you have persevered, putting your lives on hold for the cause. Work left unfinished, families forgotten, babies left unfed… I am speaking, of course, of our ridiculously huge collection of wedding photos. I asked for complete photodocumentation of this all-day event before it occurred, and you all delivered. I currently tally all the wedding-related photos on my Flickr account at around 4,700 and over 5 gigabytes. There’s perhaps another loose gig spread around Shutterfly and Yahoo albums, all of which are linked to on the Thailand Wedding Photos entry. Today I added the long-awaited photos from the “professional” photographer we hired for the event.…
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Subtlety in Self-naming 101
What is it with Asians giving themselves western names at the workplace? I work with Tommies, Jacks, Johns,etc., on a daily basis, yet these are all assumed names. More often than not, these are names that corporate English teachers or clients (that can’t pronounce native Japanese/Chinese names) have bestowed upon those in question. Today, the G-man informed me of the best one we have heard to date. One of his wcorrespondents has dubbed himself Great Wang. No shit, that’s what the guy calls himself; it’s even in the first part of his email address. I don’t even know where to start analyzing something like this. – I need one of…
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Dream Job: Monterey Bay Aquarium
My sister Mika has started a volunteer gig at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one day a week, at the penguin exhibit. MY SISTER IS A PENGUIN WRANGLER! AT THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM! I believe the official job description is “Assistant Aviculturist,” or “Executive Chopper of Small Dead Fishies,” or something like that. For the Yoshida family, this is a major coup. Now we can be associated with the jolly Asian guy who makes teriyaki sauce (Yoshida Sauce), Japanese who make the world’s best zippers (YKK), and an honest-to-God AVICULTURALIST at the MBA! Good luck with the new job, sis! UPDATE: Oh. My Shaka. I just realized you can see her…
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The Grinch of Hanami Present
Hanami is when Japanese people start acting like a bunch of Mexicans, laying around under trees and drinking beer. – Grinch-san, 2006 You know what? Grinch-san’s comment cracked me the fuck up. Can’t really refute what the man says. What I can say is that, once again, the weather has taken a turn for the worse during the sakura bloom again. We haven’t had good weather throughout the bloom for quite a few years now. You know what bothers me about going to hanami more and more over the years? The number of gaijin twats. They aren’t acting like twats, mind you. They’re just being themselves. /end hanami rant 2006
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Location, location, location
It’s always amusing to see columnists writing about places they’ve obviously never been: Clash of the superstores / Yamada Denki enters Osaka’s competitive electronics market Basically, it’s hype like this that led us to take a trip down there yesterday. The night before was Adam’s birthday/farewell party in Umeda, and we stayed the night at a cheap hotel located in the illegalalienwhore district. As we all had some electronics shopping to do (a cranial implant here, a bionic limb augmentation there, you know, standard DenDen cyberware stuff), we decided to check out the vaunted new Yamada Denki complex (hereafter referred to as “Labia 1” – hey, they asked for it).…
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Uncle Po
One benefit of getting married is that now I have an uncle Po. I guess I have always secretly wanted an uncle named Po. I mean, who wouldn’t? Uncle Po wore a pimp ass purple silk shirt to my wedding, and was aggressive in getting the photos he wanted with his weathered Nikon – film, of course. Uncle Po is OG like that. Anyway, go check out his work: Photos from Uncle Po! And just in case you missed out on any of the other photos we have put up until now, you can find a link to all of them here: LINK “Annointed by an angry monk”, a photo…
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Devo: Girl U Want/Gates of Steel
Ko bought me an Energy Dome when he went to a Devo (1.0) concert in the Freedom of Choice years… Alas, I know not where it went. Sometimes when it is raining outside and I get a sudden attack of the 80’s, there’s nothing I want more than that shiny red Energy Dome.
