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phobia?
After reading this, would you still call my fear of sharks irrational? After years of watching shark documentaries on various nature channels, it is still baffling to me that even…
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Tupelo Honey
Was listening to Van Morrison late last night and got caught up in memories when the said track played. When he first started his practice, my father often accepted barter…
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While I’m on a musical tip…
I’ll point out this one as well: Beatbox Harmonica
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Yeah, but can he play Wipeout?
Buddy Rich vs Animal on the Muppets set: http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/27357
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My Superhero Name is “Itchy Pest”
The mosquito-free period in Japan seems to be shrinking every year: I clearly remember having stray skeeters bumbling about the house as late as the last week of January, and…
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Illiterate kidnapper script
Create a threatening letter in Japanese (JP input/display needed).
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Kancho King
The best writing in the “I’m a teacher at a Japanese school” genre that I’ve read in a long while: I am a Japanese School Teacher (the link above is…
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Weaning Japanese from the Brush
Mechanical input of Japanese is a subject that has always fascinated me, so I was happy to find this history of wapro (word processors) in English: http://www.honco.net/japanese/05/ When I first…
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Shizzolating Japan
If you have Japanese language input/display capability, go check out this Javascript that changes standard Japanese into the Kansai dialect: Nandeyanen v2.0
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Back in body, if not in mind
This is my state of mind after 3 days of hitting the slopes in Hakuba (quite literally, I’m afraid). It was an awesome trip, overall. Nobody got hurt too badly…
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Heavy machinery in winter
Even better…
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Skidoo
Jacking a ride at Hakuba 47 base camp.
