Category Archives: random

Weird 90’s Anime: Weathering Continent

Posted on September 30, 2010 by baudattitude

I have a long and complicated history with a rather forgettable bit of 90s anime called “The Weathering Continent”, or Kaze no Tairiku if you want to get all Japanese on me. Like a lot of anime, I ran across … Continue reading →

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Predictions, accurate:

Posted on September 4, 2010 by baudattitude

As often happens, I was looking up information about something completely unrelated when I ran across this gallery of classic computer ads on BoingBoing.  I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I’m old enough and was a geek from early … Continue reading →

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The Man Spa

Posted on August 31, 2010 by baudattitude

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 →

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This is a thing.

Posted on August 30, 2010 by baudattitude

This is a real thing: No, seriously, this is an actual thing.

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Let’s get these out of the way

Posted on August 28, 2010 by baudattitude

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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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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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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I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Posted on May 20, 2010 by baudattitude

Seen in a Staples:

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More lightly vexing things.

Posted on May 19, 2010 by baudattitude

Completely unrelated to my inability to buy cheap games, noted earlier: I downloaded a song this weekend, and it turned out to be in “tta” format.  Which has weird associations for me, actually, because it’s an acronym I’ve only seen … Continue reading →

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Progress!

Posted on March 29, 2010 by baudattitude

So I was on the bus this morning and for some reason couldn’t remember the difference between MNP4 and MNP5. Don’t ask me why I was thinking of this. It was raining, and I think it’s a scientific fact that … Continue reading →

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