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History of Chop Suey Fonts
For the typeset nerd in you: Derided by typophiles as crass, “ethnic type” has a revealing taxonomy and, surprisingly, serves a purpose.
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Manzai Conspiracy Theory (not really)
So I didn’t even know about the Two Ronnies until today. They apparently had a show on BBC from 1971. In Japan, Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi formed their manzai…
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Want your wallet back, daddy?
The other day I was holding him and trying to get money from an ATM. When the cash was about to pop out, I opened my wallet in anticipation, and…
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armless ganas
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I scream
This has nothing to do with the photo, but last week we went to the fish sanctuary again and suddenly found ourselves surrounded on five sides by a billy goat,…
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ouch..
In other news, I would have posted this on Facebook but the uneditable captioning there kind of ruins the punchline..
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…and we’re back!
Daddy did something incredible and isolated a problem with the inverter for the broken LCD monitor, which enabled the broken component to be replaced by an unlicensed professional working out…
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Yoshi Ikuzo – Precursor to Japanese Hip-hop (yo yo)
He’s kind of the Grandmaster Flash of Japan, except he didn’t contribute anything to turntablism and he raps in the Tohoku (instead of Bronx) vernacular. Also, he includes kamishibai (link)…
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Torrent alternative
Download your torrents via http: furk I tried it. It was free and it worked as advertised. It probably isn’t an RIAA honeypot; they ain’t that smart.
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Still in broken PC limbo
The homebrew LCD hack didn’t work, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. My backyard repair dude rewired and replaced one old broken set of fluorescent tubes with old working…
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There were better days..
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Nikkeis from South America paid to leave Japan (and not come back to work ever again)
I’ve really been out of the loop, but this was a really interesting read: Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home Even though the dumbass running the program can’t keep…
