Assuming cool is required, the following 41 results were found.
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element. Instead, this man was exhaling rapidly-evaporating fog--giving off a contradictory image of both James Bond the cool smoker and James Bond the medical device-using asthma patient. What entranced me the most was that he wasn't polluting the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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working out the NAS issues. Forklift – 15-day trial / $30 to buy Forklift is another rock-solid contender, and it has a very cool batch renaming feature that's not easy to find in such a feature-rich file manager. Although I personally found Pathfinder...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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skills required when talking to cute girls. How do you learn to talk to girls when there are no girls at your school? The cool football jocks used to make fun of us wimpy drama dorks, but we were the ones that got to hang out with cute girls all day at...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Back Together One of my students asked me to join his band, so I did. So far we've had 2 practices, and it's been really cool. We're putting together a bunch of cover tunes, as well as a few songs from my old band back in the USA. I'm also gonna perform...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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and said that they put it in a storage area. He even showed me where the storage area was and sure enough my bike was there. Cool! I didn't lose my piece of crap bike after all. The $45 Guitar I went shopping one day (cuz there's often little else to do...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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show in November. Some members of the staff (who play in another band) offered to play with me next time. It would be really cool to do a show with a full band, but we have to see if we can pull it off with a minimum of in-person rehearsal time. My...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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in Tokyo to continue my IT job search on the battlefield. Kayo and I went to this rental company called "Leo Palace." It's a cool system because their apartments are fully furnished and include utilities and Internet service. I just pre-paid the rent...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Why Japanese TV Suckshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/show-biz/10053-why-japanese-tv-sucks
don't watch it!" I won't. Luckily, I recently implemented an XBMC PC loaded with the "Navi-X" python script. You're totally cool if you know what that is. This computer dork gadget/software gathers hundreds of online video feeds so that I can enjoy as...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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Stupid But Fun Purchaseshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10082-stupid-but-fun-purchases
truck-like PA complete with animal noises, sirens, and of course ice cream truck music. The upgraded system was insanely cool. The cacophony traveled miles and audibly echoed off tall buildings. Cars pulled over thinking a firetruck was approaching, and...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Take Off Your Shoeshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10092-take-off-your-shoes
off, you filthy American. Why? Because it's nasty--incredibly nasty. It's like eating a poopy sandwich washed down with a cool, refreshing glass of an old man's urine. It's THAT nasty. Trust me, it makes a huge difference. The soles of your shoes are...
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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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Rude Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10010-rude-japan
If she gets killed, don't go in there! Nevertheless, what's common courtesy in the Western world is not so in the East. The cool thing here is that actually letting the lady go first gets a lot of notice. Do it, and the Japanese ladies will swoon. You...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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lack of a working DVD eject button demoted this box to a "just in case" Windows PC. Positive Stylish look. Runs quiet and cool. HDMI out. Super easy to open up and work on. Negative Stupid touch-sensitive DVD drive eject button requires a special driver...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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mini-plug audio device (e.g. old-school iPod, PS3's audio out, etc). I may eventually check this out since it would be cool to use my bluetooth headphones with my PS3 (e.g. late at night). I'm not 100% sure if this would solve the volume control...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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one from the Japan Immigration website. In my case my wife wrote a short statement explaining that she vouches for me--I'm cool and not a criminal mastermind. A close friend of mine who went the 10+ years working route asked his boss to write it. I...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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what the doctor ordered for my day-to-day Tokyo subway commutes. My only reservation is that the touch controls aren't as cool as I had expected. I sometimes skip a track when I was trying to adjust the volume. But this is forgivable considering I...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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that Netflix USA 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...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Home Remedieshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10190-home-remedies
not for breakfast anymore! Mix 2 cups of Quaker Oats and 1 cup of water in a bowl and warm in the microwave for 1 minute, cool slightly, and apply the mixture to your hands for soothing relief from arthritis pain.
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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My Toshiba 37Z2000 TV has a cool feature that allows me to record TV over my network to a CIFS (aka Samba) file share on my FreeNAS server. Unfortunately, however, the TV is extremely sensitive when it comes to the settings on the server. Upgrading...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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preferable. Let's see what we can come up with... That Thing Called "The Internet" Lucky for (most of) us there's this cool thing called the Internet that may be able to help. Even though you may live in Japan, you're not bound to Japan's limited IT...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General