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Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Man Spa
About two miles from our previous apartment, there was a day spa whose advertising seemed predominantly aimed at women. You could go in for a day of relaxing, having people do your hair and nails, get a massage, generally decompress … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, random
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This is a thing.
This is a real thing: No, seriously, this is an actual thing.
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Finding my limits
The biggest purchase I made in Japan was an Xbox 360S, partially because my US 360 is four years old and will presumably die any day now but mostly because I wanted to play Japanese-only releases of shooters and Idolmaster … Continue reading
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Let’s get these out of the way
Here’s a pile of random Japanese-English signs and so on that I’m just going to throw into a single post, make a couple snide comments about, and move on to more important things instead of pretending that each one is … Continue reading
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This will be a day long remembered
Lucky find at Goodwill today. It may be a bit of a challenge making all of these work in a modern operating system, mind you, but I’m looking forward to it.
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Achtung, Buddy
Unfortunately for the Great Backlog Project, I didn’t play many video games for the last couple of months while I was in Japan. Even worse for aforementioned Great Backlog Project, I did buy quite a few. However, I have been … Continue reading
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We prepared the seat.
Another cheap shot at Japanese-use-of-English here. This was on the window of an Italian restaurant in Kawasaki-shi. It’s actually a fairly literal translation of the text, and it makes perfect sense in the original, so I feel bad about making … Continue reading
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Deep archives
This was kind of amusing to me, and I tend to assume that things that amuse me must necessarily amuse others, so I thought I’d share. I was reading a discussion about Japan recently and someone used the word “fukeiki” … Continue reading
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Partying as if it were 1999
So, back in December of 1999, I wasn’t playing many games. I was playing game, one, singular, that being Everquest, which both my wife and I were hooked on at the time, so I wasn’t looking through the shelves of … Continue reading
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Illusions, crushed
One interesting thing that came out of spending two months with a bunch of college-age people experiencing Japan for the first time was getting to watch illusions crushed first-hand. An awful lot of them were anime or manga fans, and … Continue reading
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Baud Attitude 