Author Archives: baudattitude

Achtung, Buddy

Posted on August 27, 2010 by baudattitude

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.

Posted on August 26, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on August 25, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on August 24, 2010 by baudattitude

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

Posted on August 23, 2010 by baudattitude

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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So whatever I type shows up here?

Posted on August 22, 2010 by baudattitude

Obviously I’ve taken a few weeks off blogging. 🙂 There is a reason for this, and to my mind it’s a pretty good one: I realized, after about two weeks of studying in Japan, that I needed to do a … Continue reading →

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Glass houses

Posted on July 2, 2010 by baudattitude

So I’m talking to a French guy in my Japanese class, and he’s complaining that his cell phone doesn’t work here. I explain that Japan (and South Korea) use different cell tech than most of the rest of the world, … Continue reading →

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Cheap shots at Japanese use of English

Posted on July 1, 2010 by baudattitude

OK, everyone loves to make fun of the generally use of random English on stuff in Japan.  I’m going to hold myself above that – mostly – and restrict myself to making fun of situations where they really really tried, … Continue reading →

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Font choices, poor:

Posted on July 1, 2010 by baudattitude

Seriously, Japan, you don’t need to make things this easy for me.

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Oh, god, not Tokyo Tower again

Posted on June 29, 2010 by baudattitude

So this is my fifth trip to Japan. The first time, I went to Tokyo Tower as a tourist. And the second time I went there because I’d broken something my wife had bought there on our first trip and … Continue reading →

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