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watching "Family Guy" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Costco 24-pack of beer in bottles for $18 (see Costco) beer from countries other than Japan a good martini in a glass the size of my head no snow in the city, but then driving 1.5 hours to go snowboarding...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Kettle of Legendshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/1006-kettle-of-legends
I said a fond farewell to my old kettle today. In other words, I threw it in the trash. It was purchased 2.5 years ago at Donki Houte (ドンキホーテ) in Nakano-ku. I used it solely to make tea, so the inside was horrendously caked with 2.5 years of tea. In...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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drama dorks, but we were the ones that got to hang out with cute girls all day at rehearsals. They got to shower with each other and snap their asses with wet towels. Made Me Clean My Room Maybe it's because my mom is a math teacher, but whatever the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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on a conference call with their regional manager. I sent the email to their cell phones. I waited a few minutes and sent another fake email seemingly from my coworker Rebecca that said I was really upset. Akiko called me in a massive panic apologizing...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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to my house, so I've been going there lately to study Japanese. It's nice and well-equipped, but there always seems to be a mother in there with a noisy, bratty kid that won't shut up. Why would you take your noisy, bratty kid to a library of all...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
better treatment than that. It was reiterated that it wasn't my fault. The company's most important client had been Lehman Brothers, whose portfolios had been responsible for a significant amount of my former company's revenue stream. Called the "Lehman...
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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
with my cotton candy obsession came an even stranger obsession with fog. When I discovered that DJ music stores sold otherworldly machines that could fill rooms with eerie fog within seconds, the fog machine shot to the top of my list of must-haves. My...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Japan's Smoking Addictionhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10083-japans-smoking-addiction
The country still has a long way to go, but non-smokers are finally winning baby steps toward a smoke-free Japan. Just the other day I was delighted to find that a favorite cafe near my house became 100% non-smoking. I ravished in the small victory as I...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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no expert (even though I taught English for 2.5 years), but isn't it supposed to read, “Must be translated if in a language other than English?” Isn't the creatively menacing use of “another” and “other” in the same sentence in fact redundant? I'm...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I am the Office Farterhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10091-i-am-the-office-farter
they're the perfect location to release post-lunch worries. I actually wanted to be a doctor, but my digestive system had other plans. Only those closest to me know of the real degree of my circumstances. I once farted so long and loud in front of a...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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the 10-yen coin before the 100-yen coins because the machine will issue change as soon as it hits 160+ yen. There are many other situations where you can "do the math" to get rid of coin buckets. If you don't have exact change, try to quickly compute...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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stroll through the neighborhood blasting cacophonic candidate promotion and rambling propaganda. Multiple vans drown each other out so that any single intended message becomes a eardrum-busting stew of noise. It's the most obnoxious form of promotion...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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more than a hyper-powered vibrator high on Jolt cola, so it makes perfect sense to put function before fashion. Sadly, like others, I too used to criticize Japan for their seeming lack of elegant architecture fashion, but those days are long over. I've...
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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
Trusted Porn Sites and Don't Click Links There's really no such thing as a trusted porn site, but some are less shady than others. Stick with ones you know and trust to provide quality virus-free adult entertainment. For God's sake don't click any links...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Arvixe Web Hosting Reviewhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10143-arvixe-web-hosting-review
my quick review: The Good Excellent price They have ffmpeg installed on their servers, which is a feature not often found on other hosts. They're generally responsive to emails and reasonable to work with. The Bad You get what you pay for. Their server...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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trying to shove them in farther than necessary (they stick out more than non-bluetooth buds). Summary After selling off the other 4 headphones, I graduated to these. They're the most feature-rich bluetooth buds I've ever used, and I'm quite happy with...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Speak Up I'm writing this article so that other potential victims can be spared. I encourage others to do the same. Harvest the infinite power of the Internet to blog, post, podcast, tweet, facebook, youtube, etc. about these criminals. The Endgame...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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-i audio-file.mp3 -shortest -acodec copy -f mov video-file.mov Notes * The above is on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. Other ffmpeg versions may require tweaking of command options, hence the reason this took me extensive research and testing. * Ffmpeg accepts...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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some things I tried that didn't work: * Changing wifi channels had no effect. UPDATE Sometimes it's necessary to shutdown other PCs that use CIFS and restart the CIFS (Samba) service on FreeNAS. My theory is that the first device that connects to...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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and allow you to see how awesome you look today. Most can also hang on walls, so they're out of the way. * Pictures and other stuff that hangs on walls. Again, these things are out of the way. Just don't overcrowd your wall space. I even hung tissue...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General