Epimetheus was the son of Iapetus and brother of Prometheus and Atlas; husband of Pandora. “Epimetheus” is Greek for “hindsight”.
スネーク フライト (Snake Flight)!=Snakes on a Plane
To: Idiot Catch-Copy Writer From: Me Subject: Your Sucky Renaming Scheme for Snakes on a Plane. Body: WTF, why did you go from Snakes on a Plane to Snake Flight? Do you know what is going to happen once Samuel Jackson hears how you butchered the title? Do you? Huh?! HUH?! You are dead! DEAD! And I will not mourn your loss. Idiot. Snake Flight. Lame. Sincerly ME
What’s great is, the file name is snakes_on_a_plane.html
The Problem with Cats.
You have seen Jesus on a fish stick, a potato chip, and in an ultrasound but you have never seen Jesus like this! Jesus Dress Up!
Jesus sporting Cat in the Hat head gear has got Cats that Look Like Hitler beat. Yes, yes I am going to hell. Who wants to join me?
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SFJ Podcast
Here is the first episode. It is rough and full of errors. Oh, and it is longish. Oh, and the feed doesn’t work in iTunes. Gotta do some reading up on iTunes feeds.
Episode 1: Food, hospital visits, and disease. The iTunes feed for future podcasts is here
After living in Tokyo for close to twenty years, I finally made my way down to the Koenji Festival. Every other festival will just feel ghetto from here on out. The photos are here: Awa Odori Festival.
Got plans to master Japanese Kanji? Think again.
basic characters. This requires time and effort to recall the meaning associated with each ‘kanji’. In addition, one would have to learn the different readings or compounds of each ‘kanji’. Compounds are words comprised of more than two ‘kanji’. Associated with the 1,945 characters are 4,032 readings/compounds, some 2,000 of which represent independent words.
“Taro an apple ate”.
—or even both—when they feel that it will be understood from the context, that is, when the speaker or writer is confident that the person being addressed already has certain information about the situation in question. In such a case, the sentence given above might become, ringo o tabeta (”ate an apple”) or simply tabeta (”ate”).
Guess what, you don’t have to worry about any of that. By the end of this post, you will know the only two words needed to be considered a true Japanese speaker.
“Atsui ne,” which translates into “It is hot, huh?!” Is all one needs to be considered a native speaker by Japanese people on the street. I shit you not.
There you have it. If you want to appear fluent during the winter season the key phrase here is, “Samui ne,” or “Samui desu ne.”
Maybe I should setup a paypal account.
When the window/door to my balcony is open, I can hear trains pulling in
I looked out the window and noticed that traffic was not moving.
“Uh, oh.” Last, my mind informed me that it
‘t heard a train pull in or out of the station for awhile. All the signs were pointing to a bad
Sure enough, due to an “accident”, the Oume line had come to a
“Cool, the
” was, “I am going to be late for work.”
Unfortunately/Fortunately, I managed to
Let’s learn some new words. Okay?
Now that we know what each word means, it is time to use them. My bicycle ride
“authentic text/context”.
My initial reaction to not being pulled over was, “Mezurashi!”
“Gakkari. Why didn’t they pull me over? Do I not
” Looking back at “Gakkari,” I thought, “Fushigi. Why am
”
Okay, that is today’s Japanese lesson. Have a good day.
Little kids are creative. During a lesson, one little tyke decided his nose needed wiping and that my hand would work as a suitable tissue substitute.
My hand is also a toy. One little girl found removing the hair on my hands highly entertaining.
Inability of the eye to focus sharply on nearby objects, resulting from loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens with advancing age.
glasses for those who are farsighted.
This sounds too good to be true. Improve Vision: natural vision correction kit for natural vision improvement
Those nifty Japan Tobacco “Smoking Manners” train posters are now available as screen savers.
here. You can also view the entire Manners Gallery.
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