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All Your Yen Is Belong to Us
It’s official: The Japanese can improve on anything, even 99 cent stores. In Japan, the Hyaku-en store is sometimes referred to as the “video game arcade for adults” because one…
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Click Away!
The most addictive flash page ever: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/tinygrow Might be even more fun when smashed. Also: Flash Battleship
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Remmings
I stopped buying macs for personal use after they started charging for .mac e-mail accounts (after they had promised to provide them for free for life). I was the biggest…
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BLOGCHALK
This is my new blogchalk:Japan, Hyogo, Sumoto, Sakaemachi, English, Japanese, Justin, Male, 26-30, Photography, Glossolalia. 🙂
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Finding the One True Way
A recent post about pachinko over at the USS Clueless rubbed me the wrong way. The line that bothered me was: There’s no skill involved and no real way for…
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Yoshida
I was happy to see my brother’s name on Instapundit today, although the post wasn’t in reference to him at all. It’s not the first time this Adam Yoshida was…
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Sushi = Sumo?
While preparing for a post on my moblog, I found a handy list of sushi terminology featuring entries in Japanese kanji/kana and respective romaji readings as well as translations in…
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Logjam
Went to kaiten sushi with Taro and Mimi. A large tuna roll jammed the dishes rotating off the conveyor. A flying fish egg roll almost fell off onto Mimi-chan. The…
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Duck and Cover!
wuzzat the air raid siren?
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Modern Drunkard
Our friend Frans is a famous university professor in Germany. He has a nice website with respectable looking photos of himself on it. I want the public to know the…
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Octopian
It was one of those “Oh yeah, I’m in a foreign country!” realizations when I came upon a tray of freshly-beheaded yummies of the family Mollusca in a dingy neighborhood…
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Sandpaper AKA Japanese Toilet Paper
The backing of a sheet of my favorite Japanese sandpaper. If only I were kidding…