Assuming home is required, the following 72 results were found.
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Home Remedieshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10190-home-remedies
the job done. Cleaning liquid that doubles as bug killer... If menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets get in your home and you can't find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409. Insects drop to the ground instantly. Smart splinter...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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the Metro Red Line. I insisted on using the stairs in the Red Line stations. I was hoping to ride a bike to the station from home, but I dreaded the horrendously steep evening climb up the Hollywood Hills after a full day's work. I met a happy...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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* very popular with a large following and frequent updates * Incredible enterprise storage features make me feel like my home NAS is a datacenter, minus the freezing cold AC and whirring fans. * The updating process is more automated than it used to be....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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GUI * very easy to setup & get up and running quickly * free version is very functional--plenty of features for most home networks * updating is fully automatic Bad * must pay for high-end features * slow boot-up & shutdown times PFSense free & open...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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it makes getting a quick STD test at your local clinic all the more socially cumbersome and logistically inconvenient. In my home country an AIDS/HIV test was usually "thrown in" with a yearly physical. I didn't even have to explicitly request it. STD...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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has, I am most definitely keeping my Smart DNS subscription. Living abroad in Japan I often miss out on cool stuff that my home country comes up with. Netflix USA and Pandora are prime examples. On one trip back to the States, my friends demonstrated...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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How to Look at Internet Pornhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10142-how-to-look-at-internet-porn
and the idea here is to protect yourself from harmful crap coming in from the Internet by using a hardcore firewall. Some home router manufacturers have started offering web-filtering and anti-spyware features that go beyond rudimentary NAT protection,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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announce your approaching stop in its monotone yet elegant way, and then go, go, go. You can sleep on the train ride back home. My body is trained to sleep in transit. I don’t think at this point it will ever adapt otherwise. Anyways, so there I...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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easier on your wallet. Don't Buy Beer Commensurate with the above is the sin of beer. Ahhhhh, beer. How I miss it so. My home country's beer prices are something to write award-winning novellas about. Not so in Japan, where beer is taxed worse than...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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good to go! I'm hoping to go this coming weekend. "I Don't Want to Become Fat." One of my students is going to do a 6-month home stay in Canada very soon. She asked me a funny question last lesson. She said that she doesn't wanna get fat during her home...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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The Power of Vodkahttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10189-the-power-of-vodka
I received this email forward many years ago. Props to whoever wrote this. * To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The solvent dissolves the adhesive. * To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I Was A Freakhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10066-i-was-a-freak
only 1 earring, though), so I had a partner in crime. What a couple of freaks. My math-teaching mom saw them upon return home: "You ruined the symmetry of your face." What a typical math teacher response. I didn't care. Her disapproval encouraged me all...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Stupid But Fun Purchaseshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10082-stupid-but-fun-purchases
but these particular ones reverberate in my wistful memories. Thank God for Ebay! The Cotton Candy Machine I once beheld a home cotton candy machine for sale in a catalog specializing mostly in useless, single-purpose home appliances. I just had to have...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Living abroad I often find myself comparing the best and worst of my home country with that in Japan. How cool it would be to mix-and-match to create the perfect country precisely customized to my desires. Just as I may visit a friend's house and stare...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I know it's Unix, so it doesn't have those windows-y drive mappings, but why do I often find myself having to save to my home folder, then later copying, then deleting? I have 3 TB of storage on my Netgear ReadyNAS, and I wanna use it, dammit! Safari...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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just aged myself by writing that. * I scan mildly-important to semi-important documents to PDF, then trash them. * I use a home NAS for all my data storage, then back that up multiple ways. * I think before I print. Doesn't everyone? * Why write that...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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intuition, and I know 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...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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and web browsing are OK. I pay half what I did with Softbank, so I'm not going to complain (yet). Plus, I have wifi at both home and office, so it hasn't been a deal-breaker for me. * After more research I learned that Docomo-supported Xi phones will...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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hit single played acoustic coffee house-style all in the hopes of going viral. "Anonymous tips" just don't exist in my home country. We want recognition, dammit! Why? Maybe Hollywood just pays too damn well, inflating our high-cholesterol veins with...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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years that money grew into a significant nest egg that I was later able to invest and grow into a down-payment on my first home purchase. My mom and dad's smart money sense early on influenced me to follow suit. I studied accounting and economics at...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General