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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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UK Power Food
UK, some of the best western food in Osaka. Until today, we hadn’t been here for 7 or 8 years.
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No diesel, except for bikes?
Gas prices at a Shell station in Takaida, Higashi Osaka.
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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…
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Wedding News Link
For those of you mainly coming here for news on our upcoming wedding, I’ve consolidated all relevant posts into a single category: Our Wedding in Thailand Just bookmark that link and visit it for the latest wedding info…
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Wedding Slideshow Tunes
Nam left for Thailand today, mostly to get things in line for the wedding. I hate coming home to a cold, empty house, so I’ve put myself to work choosing music for slideshows/videos to be shown during the wedding. I went upstairs and dug out most of my CDs and am now sorting through them – it’s been years since I’ve been through some of these binders and cartons. It’s fun, though. I’m sure it will turn out really well, too. I’m in perfectionist mode, so this might take a while.
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Speaking of del.icio.us…
What’s up with this error message I’ve been getting all day? “del.icio.us is down for maintenance. we’ll be back in one hour.” One hour? Why so specific? Especially if it’s obviously not true? Maybe I’m being tough on them, but this has never happened before. I just remembered why I’m so irritated at Yahoo… It was that whole turning over private information that led to one of their users in China being jailed thing. They can try and justify that by saying that’s the price of doing business, but that makes them no less responsible or morally lacking. Hmm… Back to Furl?
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Reader response 12/15/2005
A recent comment from an entry on my moblog: “I HAVE BEEN BUYING YOUR WOODPECKER CIDER FOR MANY YEARS AND RECENTLY GOT MY BOYFRIEND TO ENJOY IT WITH ME AS HE DOSENT NORMALLY LIKE CIDER BUT ENJOYS YOURS VERY MUCH!!UNTIL TODAY WHEN I BOUGHT A BOTTLE OF YOUR WOODPECKER CIDER 2 LITRES WHEN I POURED HIM A GLASS AND A HUGE FLY CAME OUT OF THE BOTTLE!!!WE WERE VERY DISSAPPOINTED AT THIS AS WE REALLY ENJOY YOUR CIDER.” – DEBORAH CLARKE // Deborah, That isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. PLUS, COULD YOU PLEASE STOP SHOUTING IN HERE!!HURTS MY EARS.
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hootyl.icio.us
How much did Yahoo pay for your del.icio.us bookmarks? Here is a good answer, if not a very specific one: LINK Yahoo now owns both my photo archiving account (flickr) and bookmarking (del.icio.us) account. Google owns my main webmail account (gmail). In the future, companies will buy and trade your everything. Maybe that’s just evolution… For now though, I have a fuzzy ball of lint in my pocket that I rub when I’m nervous or stressed out, and it’s ALL FUCKING MINE, BABY!
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Gyoza and Beer
It occurs to me that I haven’t gone on a manly-man food binge for a while. Manly-man food. You know, the kind you eat straight from the pan. The kind that smears on your shirt cuz you can’t be bothered to use a napkin. The kind that makes for good belching sessions, preferably in direct competition with other manly-men. The epitome of a manly-man meal in Japan is two orders of gyoza and a draft beer at Osho. Osho is a nationwide chain of Chinese-ish greasy spoons, famous for their gyoza. In all truth, their food is strictly average at best, but their gyoza might rate a 7.5/10 stars at…
