Middle school was the worst time for me. It was so bad that my parents sent me to a private H.S. which looking back was the best thing for them to do. The public schools I went to was so sports oriented to the point that if you had interest other tha...
I was in Japan 2 years ago and really liked the train system. Especially the bullet train (新幹線). Next time I go over, like to spend the whole day in Aikihabara and spend more time exploring around in Tokyo and also go to Kyoto. The closest thing h...
I have been in computers for almost 30 years. The first one, of course was an Apple ][ . Over the years, I done mostly PC's and in my work, started with SCO Unix (when they were still located in Santa Cruz) and went to Linux. Over the years worked wi...
Hi "Thai" - I love Davis, California - great very biker friendly and could bike from one part of town to a different part easily ! I usually do my annual trip to CA around May/June and includes a few days in Davis - to bike and visit the Davis Anime...
What pig pens. A couple of places, I dealt with very messy people. One place I was the lead Unix sys admin. One guy had a Sun SPARC 20 "pizza box". The system had exhaust on the sides. He had a hard drive fail and he demanded the machine get fixed. I...
I prefer cars with a manual transmission (stick shift). You get a better feel on how the car drives and becomes an extension of your body especially stepping through the gears as you are accelerating up to speed.
That is pretty cool. I think I would spend days there if I ever visited MIT. At my university, we have been talking about the future of our anime club. Some people would like to expand out to do other things besides watch it. Some things would involv...
I always liked the IKEA merchandise. Pretty clean and simple. On those desk I looked at ordering those but here in the USA but they are not available to buy online. Here in Colorado, the nearest IKEA is in Draper UT (by SLC) which is an 8 hour drive....
I looked at his other pictures on the Flickr site. A lot of items were on cable management. One thing I like is how clean things look. At my house, my loft has several machines and cable management can be a pain. I did one tube where all the power li...
If I was 17 or 18 years old again and if I was in a Japanese High School, I would have a blast ! If you look at my background, I teach part time at a local University and I find the students are a blast.
There are these "busybodies" that get upset if you enjoy something rather than be miserable like them. Here in the USA, it is part of our puritan "heritage". Part of it is why we have some of the crappiest vacation policies. Companies like management...
Here in the USA, I don't patronize McDonald's except to use their bathroom. The ironic thing is Wal-Mart, another corporation I don't like happen to have McD's in their stores. Shop at Wally World and get crappy products and then eat crappy food ther...
The father should have been locked up with the key thrown away ! The girl will be mentally damaged for life especially in the area of future relationships and eventual marriage.
I want to comment on Image ID #24442 concerning bathrooms. I agree American public bathrooms are "less than desired" in terms of privacy. Having been to othher countries like New Zealand and Japan, the oublic bathrooms are conducive to taking a dump...
Pretty interesting..... When I was in New Zealand two years ago, I was there long enough that I could have got a NZ license and somehow if I came to Japan, used it to get a Japanese license since they have the same deal as well as with Britain. The o...
I have been into Anime since 2002 and it is a great pleasure even at my age of 42 years old. One thing in mind, there is an old saying, "mediocrity always hates excellence". In my own experiences, I have encountered a lot of opposition especially in...
I have been to that bathroom back on New Year's Day in 2007 ! It is located in the Sofitel Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand. The pictures on the wall has been changed. The original picture that can be found actually have local models looking at a mal...
