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Crystal Cove
Just some quick news from back home: Crystal Cove State Park has reopened! Crystal Cove is one of my favorite places back home. It’s been a long decade plus away,…
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Miami Vice Theme Song
Speaking of movies, apparently Michael Mann decided he wanted “nothing to do with the TV series” and hence did not use Jan Hammer’s original masterpiece in the new Miami Vice…
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The Fast and the Very, Very Okotta: Hick Drifter in Tokyo
Even though my masochistic hobby of watching horribly shitty movies is fairly wide known, I am still fairly ashamed to say that I sat through the entirety of The Fast…
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Pug Bowling
The intro drags on a bit, but they get a +2 for laying the Gipsy Kings over pug footage:
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Red October
Could it be said that these photos of an underground Russian submarine base are the pinnacle of glasnost? Or am I just being nekulturny? And now that I’ve expended my…
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Google Ads Blocker Detector
This is a great way to greet new users to your site: Gee, I wasn’t aware that Google Ads pay per pageview. Dumbshits. Also, FUCK ADS! (this rant brought to…
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Eating the Gift of the Magi
I can’t say much about the Hongshuai Soy Sauce scheme involving production of “soy sauce” from human hair and medical waste, except that the perpetrators should be force fed their…
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Fugu Tip
If you are eating fugu liver pate and start feeling a tingling sensation on your lips or in your mouth, down a cup of hot sake and then immediately slit…
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Lend me an ear
TK is an older guy who works in my office. He’s married, with kids who have long grown up and moved away from the island for the usual reasons; the…
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Just drive.
I can’t figure out if this is a joke or not. “iLane[TM] consists of a powerful and small device that interacts directly with existing Bluetoothâ -enabled handheld devices and vehicle…
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Oh My Technorati
Remember that rant about “Web 2.0” I wrote a few weeks back? That post resulted in angry geek hate mail (ooo, scawy), but today I stand vindicated: Who turned the…
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Three days – a lifetime
Visited some cousins from the states I haven’t seen in years Went out drinking with friends for the first time in months Had some damn good yakitori, too (mmm, namagimo)…