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Mad Doraemon
Dave sent this to me today and I found it a nice break from the usual cheery images of the world’s most famous blue cat robot. Note: I showed it to T and he says it’s been on sites like 2ch and in iMode chain letters for a few years.
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The good leaf
Now that the excitement is over, I suggest everyone have a nice bit of something leafy, settle back, and relax a bit. The ultra-right gloating and the ultra-left whining is too much to bear. It’s all about taking a middle path, dudes.
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Tunnel Vision
My surfing is limited to one page today: http://news.yahoo.com/elections refresh, refresh, refresh Regular blogging here will resume when people (including myself) start to give a rat’s ass again and can turn on the TV without compulsively flicking to CNN every 30 seconds.
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Lazy Travel Writers
Taken from a newsletter found in my inbox today: Here are (sic) some advice from travelers who have been to Japan in the past: “Do as Japanese do” Holy shit, is that the best you can do? Yeah, eat raw sea cows and putrefying fish guts, shit your guts out while squatting over a dank smelly hole in the ground, then jack off to hentai anime with your parents sleeping in the next room, separated only by a sliding rice paper door. “Do as Japanese do?” No wonder I despise travel writers and guide books so fucking much. That’s the laziest fucking advice I’ve ever heard.
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Buddha: 1, Disney: 0
I love the sweet smell of vindication in the morning. Now that we have them on the retreat, let us remember why it came to this, why we hates them so, my precioussssssss: LINK Until this abomination is corrected and pirate grabassery is returned to its former glory, for us the song remains the same: YO-HO YO-HO UNPUSSIFY THE PIRATES FOR ME!
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Friday Facial
One good reason I don’t want to go fishing for squid this winter (although half my island’s population will be lining the shores): LINK
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Praying Mantis style
Even though it’s way late, my complete and utter devotion to Neal Stephenson’s writing compels me to point out his interview on Slashdot. That’s the most interesting read I’ve had all year; I was watching the progression of the scroll tab on my browser and dreading its end. Also, check out this article featuring Stross and Doctorow on the PopSci site: Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?
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Touching Base
Between the damage done by the typhoon last week and a freak wave of work that slammed over my desk quite unexpectedly, I just haven’t felt like writing lately. It’s kinda depressing driving around because the traffic is really bad – the drive to work usually takes less than 15 minutes, but now it takes up to an hour. Last week I mentioned that a couple bridges had broken, but it turns out that several more suffered structural damage that wasn’t seen at first and have since been closed to traffic. Road conditions have been appalling – the thick layers of river silt on the asphalt dried out the first…
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Damage Report
First off, me and mine are OK. I know the rest of the world can hardly be expected to notice yet another typhoon hitting our little island this year, but let me tell you, this one was by far the worst. It has caused destruction on a scale I have not seen in person since the Hanshin earthquake almost a decade ago (although, luckily, it wasn’t nearly as destructive as that). The big river that runs through Sumoto overflowed for the first time in anyone’s memory (perhaps the first time, ever), as did most of its branches and tributaries. The city, for the most part, was not prepared for flooding…
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Riding the Big Lizard (Typhoon Tokage)
So typhoon Tokage (lizard) almost washed me and my poor car away (liveblogging posts are on my sidebar today; here is the permanent link), but after 2 hours of endless waiting at flooded intersections and negotiating some gnarly mudslides, I have gotten home safely. Unfortunately, not everyone was as fortunate, so I helped push one car out of a ditch and gave someone else a ride to their car. I can’t believe they turned us out of the office just in time to face such heinous weather and road conditions. “Why did we have work today at all?,” was a common complaint overheard in the moments after the announcement to…
