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Bon Jovi Rocks out to Nissan Cup Noodles
Nissan instant ramen noodles are a fabulous food placeholder as they fill you up until you can eat some "real" food" and they were my inspiration behind creating my carbon fiber chopsticks (so my
nice wooden ones wouldn't get eaten away by the MSG and other toxic chemicals in the broth.) Now even Bon Jovi is singing its praises... in Japanese!
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Pogoplug. Ugly but Awesome.
As a geek I've spent a lot of time over the years messing with different setups trying to find a way to get all my files available over my network, and available online if need be.
This is a standard task for geeks everywhere. I started down this path because simply carrying external drives from machine to machine is, well, inefficient. It was handy when bringing files to a buddies house to share your files etc, but it was always a pain having to ... << MORE >>
1080p So Good That Movies Look Bad.
I was recently walking around the local Best buy which is normally a bad thing for me to do since i find the idiocy in those places painful. In my stroll I happened near the TV section. I have a 46inch HD ready tv and it has served me faithfully for a lot of years. But it's aging and I think it may soon be time to retire the old girl. The picture that was once amazing isn't so much anymore. Its a crt rear projection unit that that gives a nice bright clear picture. But being crt it has multiple projection guns inside and one of them is tweaked from some rough handling during my moves. Since its rear projection its deep for its size. Its monstrously heavy, and after my most recent move I have discovered that during lots of motion on TV it shows a bizarre grid like pattern where the motion is heaviest.
My beloved TV is aging poorly.
So I had done some research and decided that to keep me at all happy with the size I need to get no smaller than a 46inch tv. It will be shorter but wider and I can live with that. I had planned on a 60-65 inch rear projection tv since the price difference on a projection tv versus a flat screen at that size is staggering. But having given it a good bit of thought I decided a flat screen would be better just from a logistic stand point and the size difference on the screen is negligable.
So I'm walking around best buy and come across a display. The display ad a 55inch 1080p Sony LCD screen being run with a blue ray player. The player was playing short clips and segments of movies to show off the clarity during special fx and various action sequences.
I stood there for about 10 minutes watching.
Necessity is the Mother of... Holy Crap it Works!
Laziness is the mother of invention. Why spend all day making something when you can spend all day and $170 on a machine to make it for you?
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The Real Cost of Things
Illuminated Elegance a new venture in the Reckless Family
Illuminatedelegance.com is the new home of these lanterns. They are handmade, serialized, and signed works of art. Each piece is one of a kind and made when ordered. Each design is limited to only 250 pieces and then the design is retired. As new designs are perfected they will become live on the site as purchasable items. More complex designs may get a smaller run.
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Sex and Perversion – From Japanese to English to Japanese and Back Again
Foreign words are great. Sometimes we use them to soften or obscure the meaning of a traditionally vulgar or taboo word or subject. Other times they are used to add a certain flare to a subject, or to form a slightly different connotation than that of its literal interpretation. It seems that both the Japanese and the Americans, or at least a small otaku (nerd / anime and manga super-enthusiast) subculture thereof, have been doing this with each others' words and in some cases the words get passed back and forth.
I recently ran into the word ecchi (pronounced like eh-chee with a slight pause in between) a few times on English-speaking sites, which I found really amusing because I know it's a word that's been tossed back and forth across the world a few times. Here is the gist of its lineage to the best of my knowledge:
It starts with the word hentai (pronounced like hen-tie) which is composed of two kanji characters, “hen” meaning change, strange, odd, peculiar, eccentric, etc. and “tai” meaning state or appearance. They come together to form the word hentai which means either (transformation / metamorphosis) or (abnormality / pervert). In the many Japanese movies, shows, and cartoons that I’ve seen, this word is always used the same way we would use pervert. It usually applies to someone that is overtly sexual or somewhat sexually deviant. In anime (Japanese cartoons and animated shows), there is inevitably a scene where a girl enters a boys room for the first time and accidentally discovers his porno collection. She will then flip out and call him a hentai. It is not a nice word to call someone, of course, but it is a lot nicer than chikan (pronounce like chee-kahn) which might also be translated as pervert but has more of the connotation of being a molester. If you have an odd porn collection or you like to sniff panties you would be called a hentai. If you are trying to “accidentally” grope girls on a crowded subway car you have crossed the line into chikan land.
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I recently ran into the word ecchi (pronounced like eh-chee with a slight pause in between) a few times on English-speaking sites, which I found really amusing because I know it's a word that's been tossed back and forth across the world a few times. Here is the gist of its lineage to the best of my knowledge:
It starts with the word hentai (pronounced like hen-tie) which is composed of two kanji characters, “hen” meaning change, strange, odd, peculiar, eccentric, etc. and “tai” meaning state or appearance. They come together to form the word hentai which means either (transformation / metamorphosis) or (abnormality / pervert). In the many Japanese movies, shows, and cartoons that I’ve seen, this word is always used the same way we would use pervert. It usually applies to someone that is overtly sexual or somewhat sexually deviant. In anime (Japanese cartoons and animated shows), there is inevitably a scene where a girl enters a boys room for the first time and accidentally discovers his porno collection. She will then flip out and call him a hentai. It is not a nice word to call someone, of course, but it is a lot nicer than chikan (pronounce like chee-kahn) which might also be translated as pervert but has more of the connotation of being a molester. If you have an odd porn collection or you like to sniff panties you would be called a hentai. If you are trying to “accidentally” grope girls on a crowded subway car you have crossed the line into chikan land.
Now we go back to The States where... << MORE >>
