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Human Nature
One thing that has become apparent with this overseas wedding is simply an old truth – it’s just best to ignore the big mouths. Nam and I have been planning to get married for years; we just never got around to it. Over those long years, I remember each and every person who urged us to have the wedding in Thailand so they could take a vacation there. They promised to attend, of course, like it was no big thing. “For you guys, OF COURSE I’ll be there, you’re family/good friends/important to me…” Well, invitations were sent long ago and the requested RSVP date was the first of December. Guess…
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Afro-puffs
I have been mistaken for AngryBlackBitch. Life is complete (karma’s a bitch, innit?). explanation
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The end is near
The latest round of comment spam here is for GAY FEET. I shit you not.
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Kodak’s New Logo
“In another break with the past, Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a new corporate logo designed to help the company forge a new image as a cutting-edge, 21st century innovator.” Is it just me, or did some board member’s nephew’s design startup just laugh all the way to the bank? I didn’t think it was possible to make a lower case “a” look both retarded and “cutting-edge” at the same time. If that’s the direction lower case vowels are heading, cOUnt mE OUt, fOOls! It almost goes without saying that the new logo looks much better backwards (this is J’s first axiom of 2006 – ALL SUCKY, REDESIGNED LOGOS LOOK…
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Wedding Schedule – Airset
In order to better facilitate planning for the wedding, we are using a free site called AirSet that provides calendars, etc., as well as flexible security settings. I need to send an invitation via e-mail and you need to register at the site in order for you to get into our group. I sent out a bunch of invites today, but if I forgot you, please drop me a line (cosmicbuddha at gmail dot com).
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News on Korea Site
This is a public warning. I thought a long time before posting this, and it needs to be said. NewsOnJapan.com is a useful site that aggregates, well, news about Japan. I visit it almost every day. It has a sister site, NewsOnKorea.com There is an option on that site to subscribe for e-mail updates. About a month ago, I accidentally found the UNPROTECTED DIRECTORY where they store complete, unobfuscated e-mail addresses of (what I assume to be) their subscribers. I subsequently notified an apparent admin of that site in case they wanted to take action to protect their subscribers’ e-mail addresses. I received no reply. The directory remains open and…
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Fuck a cop
So my wife came back from Thailand last night. This morning, rather. Goddamn Thai Air flight was late 90 minutes, so she missed the last hydrofoil to the island at 9:50 PM. Took a conventional ferry that arrived in the next town over at 2 in the morning. It’s a $50 cab fare (for a fifteen minute ride w/o tolls, don’t get me started on Japanese taxis today), so I went to pick her up. I have to wake up at 6:30 these days, so I went early, parked in the ferry parking lot, and went to sleep with the engine on. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Woke up with a maglite beam in…
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Famous Japanese Americans
This post actually started off as an update to my previous post because I had forgotten to mention one of my newest finds. Guy Kawasaki has started a blog: Let the Good Times Roll He’s kind of an idol for business-minded Japanese Americans, along with Robert Kiyosaki. Politically-minded JA’s are probably more into Senator Inouye or Congressmen Matsui/Honda (or in Hawaii, George Ariyoshi, the first JA governor of a US state. Also, in Los Angeles this might be Paul Tanaka, the current Mayor of Gardena and assistant Sheriff). Academics? Francis Fukuyama or Michio Kaku. Musicians? Hands down, Hiro Yamamoto (original Soundgarden bassist), Seiji Ozawa (Boston Symphony Orchestra), or, more recently,…
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First Links 2006
Nothing too serious to start off with, of course. Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds You know what? This article is from 2004. I wonder how many of those nerds regret having tattooed PWNED around their assholes now. The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever My prediction for 2006: The Universal Serial Otaku collective at Solid Alliance will continue to lead the industry for the first half of the year, but will be eclipsed by commercialization of actual flash drive implants into user’s thumbs which will be developed at a hitherto-unknown Korean university (in defiance of the international outcry from anti-gargoyle groups, of course).
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It’s a new year, and you can fellate if you want to
My official resolution for the new year: I Shall Not Get In Your Way If You Want to Suck Several people, coworkers and distant net acquaintances alike have contacted me with obviously doomed-for-failure-and-not-even-worth-trying-for-the-sake-of-trying ideas they have for the new year. I feel this is all a natural part of the new years spirit. I also feel guilty for shooting down people so obviously infected with post-holiday infused joy every year, so I’ll shut up in person and simply state here: An idea that is obviously sucky even now will probably not thaw out and bloom in the spring. And to the WordPress evangelists spamming my blog about the newly-released version…
