Archive for October, 2005

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Stuff of Legends.

  • Mr. Jobs:
    The iPod’s success largely derives from its ease of use, which derives from his insistence, when shown prototypes, that one should be able to pick any piece of music within three button presses from turning it on.

  • Time Machine in Your Cranium.:

    Your brain is a time machine with three modes that control everything from instantaneous tasks like moving to maintaining long trains of thought and ultimately staying in synch with night and day.

  • Happy Birthday!:

    “Are there any decorations you would like on the cake?” I launched into this, verbatim, “…well…umm…so it’s for my mom’s birthday, and she’s turning sixty, and she’s kinda perverted, so I was wondering if you could put a penis on it if that’s possible.”

  • Cat pR0n (3P Double Penetration) NSFW: ????

Nasty Week.

Is That Natural: What Crawled up Your Ass and Died!?

Since, the facilities on the 2nd floor of Daiei have loose pipes that leak, I have taken my *business* to the 4th floor WC. The western toilet comes equipped with a nice sensor to flush with and the plumbing is solid. As with anything, the 4th floor has its short comings.

To: Young High School Student.
Re: Stank.

I know the human body produces waste and that waste is usually unpleasant.
Unfortunately, whatever it was you left in the stall behind me, was wicked
and unnatural. 

Recommendation: Get yourself checked out.

From Wikipedia Pancreatitis:

Patients with chronic pancreatitis can present with persistent abdominal pain or steatorrhea (diarhhea resulting from malabsorption of the fats in food, typically very bad-smelling and equally hard on the patient), as well as severe nausea.

Is That Natural: Your Muffler Is Busted.

To: Middle-aged Businessman.
Re: Noise Pollution.

There was a plethora of sound emanating from your side of the wall. What
was going on over there? There was definitely flatulence of the wet
and cheek flapping type accompanied by a distinct squirting sound.
I hope you didn't get any of that on your clothing. There was also
some sort of deep whumping sound between the cheek flapping and squirting.
I can only assume that was something solid. As unpleasant as the experience
may be, in the future, please refrain from groaning and letting
out yelps in the process.

Recommendation: Change your diet and visit your local clinic.

From Wikipedia. Diarrhea:

Diarrhea can also be a symptom of more serious diseases, such as dysentery, cholera, or botulism and can also be indicative of a chronic syndrome such as Crohn’s disease.

Safe?

Amagasaki Rail Crash:

So, there was a major accident earlier this year:

The Rapid Service bound for Doshisha-mae (a seven-car commuter train) came off the tracks on the JR-West Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, near Osaka, just before Amagasaki Station, and the front two carriages rammed into an apartment building. The first carriage slid into the first floor parking garage and as a result took days to remove.

Apartment building?

Japanese building codes currently do not regulate the distance between train lines and residential buildings due to high confidence in the engineering of the rail system. Railway lines often pass within several metres of apartment buildings in metropolitan areas.

Staying Safe on Public Transportation:

How does one stay safe or minimize getting all jacked up? It seems the solution is to ensure you are holding on to one of the straps or poles when standing. This keeps your from flying head first.

Idle Hands.

Show Your Shame.
I blame Coco for this: Between my arms. She IMed me:

Coco: It [a link I suggested she post to Tokyo Metro] is
totally useless information.
Me: tokyo metro is a blog. blog == totally useless information.
Coco: okay….. well, you might like this. it is for you: おしり[Butt].
Me: I cannot read it.
Coco: just find pictures.

If you are on flickr, join the group and up yours.

In The Flesh.

Question 47:
Did your parents ever force you to dress up in a birthday suit, on top of your original birthday suit?

  1. Yes, and I liked it.
  2. Yes, and my friends never let me forget. Dad, I hate you.
  3. Yes, but only because my mother begged me to
  4. No.

The correct answer here should be D. Obviously, I am wrong. A Family Costume (NSFW +2).

Fake.
Fake Flesh - A guide to your supermarket’s imitation meats. By Dahlia Lithwick:

Less than a third of the way through the fake pig course it became evident that one should never serve fake meats to real friends. Never was a salad more cherished or appreciated than our “between flight” side salad was. People actually fought over the last cherry tomatoes in the vain hope of filling up on something not made of twisted, colored gluten. What is wheat gluten, you ask, and did it ever know love?

Intelligent Design? Evolution? Creationism?

Proof!

He is among us! Everyone assumed He would make His reappearance in Israel or Utah, but He is here! No more than 15 minutes away from my house! And, guess what, He is looking for young girls to work in His bar.

J.C.

Once again, He is full of compassion, “Want to see if this job is for you? Come on in and work for 1 hour and make 3500 yen or work for 2 hours and pull down 10,000. No obligations beyond that.” What a swell guy that Jesus is.

Job Opportunity.

Hmmm, how the mighty have fallen.

Kirogi: Wandering Typhoon #20.

From The Digital Typhoon Blog

It seems that Typhoon KIROGI is the bane of weather forecasters and meteorologists in Japan Meteorological Agency. It moves northward when they forecast an eastward motion, and vice versa. Figures above are the time series of typhoon track forecast published on the Website of Japan Meteorological Agency, and these figures illustrate the frequent modification of forecast circles by weather forecasters thinking over the results of numerical prediction. The reason of the frequent change of forecast is that they cannot decide whether the typhoon will move on the strong flow in the upper troposphere or not.

メイド美容室 モエシャン 秋葉原のメイドヘアサロンへようこそ!

Get Your Geek On!
Male?
Need a hair cut?
Like Cosplay?
Dig Anime?
Got a favorite anime or manga character?
Like their haircut?
Want it?

Moe + Shampoo = Moesham
If you answered, “Yes,” to all of the above, then メイド美容室 :: Moesham a “Maid Hair Salon” is for you. The hired help all seem to be cute, eager, and proud to be Moesham beauticians, in their maid get ups. They are also otaku. Your haircut or shampoo comes complete with a mirrored ceiling - I don’t know why, - a hand massage, some otaku talk, and a two-shot.

Moe? Mirror? Hand massage? Two-shot? Huh?

Glossary.

Moe : 萌え 【もえ】
Moe is a Japanese term used in connection with manga or anime to describe the ideal of youthful and innocent femininity. Written with the kanji for “to bud or sprout” (萌), the concept covers a narrow range of ideal behaviour for youthful female characters in manga or anime. To be properly moe, a character must be eager or perky, not overly independent, and call forth a desire in the viewer to protect them and nurture them.
Mirror: Definition supplied by prncssh.
Mirrors allow the customer to see the nape and backside of the beautician. I have been informed that this is the “view”.
Hand Massage:
A hand massage, assisted by drops of lotion, is offered to each customer. The area covered is from the tips of the fingers to the elbow.
Two-shot
A two-shot consists of two people photographed together. In the case of Moesham, the customer can select the maid/beautician of their choice to be photographed with. A two-shot is offered as an option and costs 1000 yen a shot.

Stuff.
Moesham Blog.
Moeten::Maid Cafe
Price List
Online Reservations
Moe diet.

MPEG Weekend.

Alternative Realities.

Rob’s Incredible: So Rob’s incredible reimagining of the Shining trailer has made its rounds around the internet, might as well show it here!

It seems that some countries take things a bit toooooo far: Turkish Star Wars.

Bugged.

Grasshopper:
noun
a plant-eating insect with long hind legs that are used for jumping and for producing a chirping sound. It frequents grassy places and low vegetation.
• Family Acrididae, order Orthoptera: many genera.

A: What would you do if you were a grasshopper.?
B: Where would you hang out?
C: Would you walk?
D: Would you fly?
E: Or, would you walk around the same rotating sign for 15 minutes until you got dizzy?

If you selected ‘E’, then this is what awaits you.

Links:

Puttin the I in fine.

My Diary by Lachesis:
Date: 24 Sept, 1967

Dear diary, today I had the pleasure of measuring out the life of a very nice young man. Unfortunately, as with every life, his will have trials and tribulations. From what I can see, he will face a cheating wife - Effing slut -, have to pronounce an acquaintance’s friend as “dead”, have two years of health problems, suffer through his parents divorce, end up in ICU after a car accident, never attend the Suzuka F1 GP, and for several months in 2005, work is going to suck ass - Oh, you just don’t know how close I was to quitting. If I had only had options.

I need to offset that with something nice, so on October 13th, 2005 he will ride home in the perfect carriage.

My Blog by Me:

Okay, fate must like me or something. Today, after roaming up and down the platform, twice, I ended up in the perfect carriage car. The Carriage:

Well dressed men and women.
Overall, everyone was good looking.
No drunks.
No teens.
No crying babies.
No loud G.I.s.
No unwashed geeks.
No fat chicks.
One fat dude: How many layers of fat can one man have!

It was such a nice ride.