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He got sauce
Fure, fure, Yoshida! Fure, fure, Yoshidaaaaaaa! Sauce maker big in Japan I’m all for the rags-to-riches aspect, but those chop-socky Yoshida Sauce ads just scream Japsploitation. (Yes, Master!)
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Today’s Question
Why is it even news that Toyota is expected to overtake General Motors as the world’s top automaker? I don’t think anybody can dispute that Toyota makes better cars, or that they are the healthier company. The market wins out, right? Besides, GM has been shooting itself in the foot so persistently for so long, they might as well switch over to shoemaking.
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Hachi-roku it ain’t
Fairly entertaining drifting video: LINK
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Just because he kicks ass
Go listen to Christopher Walken reciting The Raven And look at the domain name it’s hosted on! I betcha I know the author of this page.
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The Lyin’, the Biotch, and the Po-po
Yo, it’s Narnia rap time, ya’ll: SNL – The Chronic of Narnia Rap
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On the left side, on the right side
This story helps illustrate the importance of accurate documentation and redundant checking, which I have a hard time explaining to people sometimes. The link above reminds me of a story I heard about a DC-10 accident when I was a a kid. The right engine caught on fire, so the pilot hit the kill switch, but the left and right engine switches were cross-wired…
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As My Elephant Softly Weeps
Note: Sorry if I’m boring the hell out of you with wedding stuff, but I only intend to get married once, and I want to document the entire process. Plus, it’ll be all over in a couple months. Yesterday, spurred by my incessant urging, Nam called the pachyderm rental company. The closest one is apparently located in Surin province, an hour or so from Nam’s house in Mahasarakham. A while ago, I wrote that it only costs thirty bucks or so to rent an elephant for a day, so I had intended to rent several of the peanut-sniffing louts – Small, Medium, and Large, at least. Indeed this would have…
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Rub my tusk
Every informational plaque I’ve ever seen about the Narwhal at various aquariums and museums has stated that the true purpose of the tusk of the “unicorn of the sea” is unknown. Revisions, anyone? Mystery of Narwhal Tusk Solved That is one cool animal.
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Do suru, Aiful?
Who would have thought that in the land of Nintendogs, airport pet hotels, and 20,000 dollar chihuahuas that: A. There’s apparently a sizeable market for dog meat (but not heads – an indication it isn’t going into pho dac biet), and B. Importing dogs for eating into Japan apparently isn’t illegal This is definitely something to think about during your next visit to all-you-can-eat yakiniku. Update: The poster above really has nothing to do with the dog remains found dumped in the Tokyo moat. It’s a poster protesting the largest Japanese consumer finance (read: high-rate, collateral-secured loans) company, Aiful… I used the tagline for their commercials as the title for…
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Part-time jobs I have done in Japan
Here is a partial list of arbeit I have done in Japan: Teaching English Ah, the staple of most westerners…I started various English teaching jobs my first year of university, in Tenri. Teaching friends of friends on a private basis was the very first paid work I did in Japan. Luckily, some were nurses from a local hospital and could afford about $40 an hour. Never got enough hours, though. Later, I had a heart surgeon from the same hospital as a student, and he shelled out $90 an hour. Better yet, he paid whether he showed up or not, and he only showed up about 7 times out of…
