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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…
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Just Rike Home
Please enjoy this simple post like it was written by a real, live human being.
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Steady Diet of Work Screeds
Oh yeah, it’s my favorite time of the week, every week: The Friday Work Wind-down Period. This is the period that my employers should take special care not to speak…
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Salute to the Commissar
This is a shout out to that commie propagandist over at the Politburo Diktat, who seems intent on impaling himself on a whole series of bandwidth spikes! I found a…
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Bargaining Is a Lost Art
As I have explained in the past, I am a terrible gadget junkie. But I’m frugal, in some ways. The main reason I can hardly ever bear to pay top…
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Black Beetle
Taro’s aunt Tatan got all hipster and bought a bubblecar. Cute. But Strange.
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Drum Box
In Taro’s genkan. I think this is the shipping box for a Meinl djembe or other African drum. Not really African since they’re made in Thailand, but in this great…
