Assuming too is required, the following 78 results were found.
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You feel guilty about leaving work on time. When someone asks you how long you've lived in Japan, you simply reply, "Too long." When someone compliments you, you deny it replying 「いいえ、いいえ」. You make that chopping hand motion when moving through a crowd...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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PROBLEM After updating my Joomla Gavick template to the latest version, the embedded YouTube videos appeared massively large on desktop browsers. Mobile browsers looked OK. SOLUTION The problem is caused by the fitvids library introduced in later...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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uses Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. It makes sense, but it sucks because the degrees are so big. When I use my AC, 24 is too cold and 25 is too hot. I really want 24.5, but I can't do it! I constantly have the remote in my hand so I can ping-pong...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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post office, convenience store, etc. Do most Americans get this amount of natural exercise? Probably not. The Portions Are Too Damn Big - The Claimjumper Phenomenon Not too long ago I took my Japanese girlfriend to LA, and we ate at some of my favorite...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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say that I no longer have the same enthusiasm for pasta that I once did. I'm not really sure, but something about "too much of a good thing" perhaps? My wife and daughter were opposed to this purchase in the first place, so they refuse to assist with...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Not surprisingly, they never called me back. The receptionist at NHK told me that some guy would call me. I thought that too was BS. "Don't call us. We'll call you." But later that day, someone actually called me and said he wanted to feature me on a...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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I know that the big boys Amazon, Google, and Microsoft offer cloud servers in Japan; however, their pricing models are just too damn complex for me. * An English control panel and English support would be nice, but it's not an absolute requirement. *...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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and scan for malware. I compiled a list a services I use to check website reputation and scan for malware: Website Reputation Tools Are the logos fake? Nothing inspires confidence like a nice shiny "Secured by McAfee" website logo. Click it. Does it go...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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If you're reading this, you too probably want to get your impossible-to-unlock iPhone carrier-unlocked. You did some googling and found officialiphoneunlock.co.uk (also doing business as iphoneimei.net). You read a lot of positive reviews. You saw...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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comedy in Japanese is not understanding what the MCs or other native-speaker performers are saying. They often talk too damn fast. This used to bother me a great deal because I didn't want to look stupid on stage. But comedy is often meant to be stupid....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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First Movie Rental I finally started renting movies here. I rented "Amelie" because I'd always wanted to see it. I took it home and realized that the only languages available on the DVD were French and Japanese. So I watched a French movie dubbed in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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how to travel with my life in just a handbag and pretty much nothing else. I actually just got back home from work, and I took everything I needed with me, including what I could need in case of the aforementioned undead zombie uprising. I spend about...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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or the Philippines today? One guy from Taiwan is so fluent that I never know what the hell he's talking about cuz he talks too fast. At first I thought he was the teacher. It's kinda fun being by far the stupidest student in class because I have nowhere...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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compute what total will give you a clean, even amount of change. Luckily, Japan's price tags include the tax, so it's not too hard to figure out while waiting in line at the convenience store. Even better is the 100-yen store (actually 105 yen), a...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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river village of fish origins?" * Oh, it looks like a kanji I just studied the other day in my dreams. You were there too. (NOTE: Don't use this one.) * I'd like to meet your parents and discuss your name's kanji with them. (NOTE: Don't use this one...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I stumbled upon a parcel forwarding service known as Shipito. They provide you with a USA address (and even a European one too) that you can use to order things online. Then for a reasonable fee they forward your purchases to you in Japan or elsewhere....
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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you to create stimulating sound-on-sound performances. Ever since seeing Joseph Arthur perform jaw-dropping live looping, I too wanted to explore this fascinating world of live looping performance. This is my tale... NOTE: I mention lots of gear makers...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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kids' menu at Denny's well into my teens. Individual sports were a much better fit. I learned to swim at the local YMCA. I took jujutsu too. Later I took taekwondo and got my black belt when I was in college. I also bonded with music. My mom signed me...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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on my left heel. It hurt so badly that I went to the hospital a few days later fearing that I fractured something. They took an x-ray. Luckily, nothing was broken, but it took a solid 3 weeks for it to finally heal. I felt like I was in that scene in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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even filmed some of it from my balcony. There is supposed to be another one on the way. Fortunately, Tottori doesn't get hit too severely by typhoons. Further south is a different story. Earthquake! There were some earthquakes here recently too. I felt...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside