Today we got our first real snow of the winter, and it’s actually stayed on the ground for now. So far it’s given me terrible flashbacks of hard winters in Canada.
I hope it goes away by tomorrow morning. They say it might snow tomorrow too though. Here’s a wide pan shot of the garden covered in snow. Click on it to get a much bigger version.
I tried out my new camera’s photo stitch feature. I think it worked pretty good.
I bought this manga to help me learn Japanese. It’s Super Mario-Kun. It’s kind of a funny and strange joke filled version of Super Mario.The reason I thought it would be good to learn with is it’s for early grade school kids. The level of Japanese is fairly basic, and it’s written mostly in hiragana and katakana (which I already know).
I’ve been very slowly trying to read it, and have been able to understand a good amount of it.
I’m ashamed to admit I’ve actually laughed at some of the jokes that are obviously aimed at Little kids. I guess I have the mind of a child!
There are two new types of Pringles lately. They’re a bit boring though, just “black pepper” and “cheddar cheese” flavor. What is interesting is they are part of the “Night Club” selection.
I didn’t know that Pringles had a night club, and that people eat chips at night clubs.
I found this on a Japanese toy website. It’s an action figure of the new president of the United States, Barack Obama.
It actually looks like him. You can have him in all kinds of patriotic poses.
Being an action figure though, it can be put into some non-presidential poses too. Like this one.
Or kicking ass with a shotgun.
Fighting against the dark side of the force.
Or just chilling under a kotatsu table, playing some famicom.
Supposedly the figure is actually made by a company in Hong Kong. More info is here. Hilarious!
We were watching a Japanese TV show the other day. The show features segment showing the origins of all kinds of Japanese pop culture items. This episode the had a retrospective on “Ninja Hattori-Kun.
He’s a cute ninja character for kids, star of many cartoons and manga. Very cute looking. Well it turns out that they had a live action version on TV during the sixties. In it Hattori-kun is played by a man in a mask.
The result is almost frightening! I wonder who thought this live action show would be better than a cartoon.
How many kids had nightmares after watching this?
This weekend I picked up a case for my new Canon G10 camera. I had to order it at Yamada Denki, since not a single store that I went to had it in stock. It’s actually a very nice retro styled leather case.
The top and bottom parts separate easily and quickly so you can take pictures in a snap. All of the controls are open and easy to reach while the case is attached. Sorry I couldn’t take a picture of the camera in the case (I was using it to take these photos).
The bottom half screws into the bottom of the camera. So you can unsnap a couple buttons and let the top half dangle when you’re taking the photos.
Also a tripod can be attached while the case in on. Also there is openings on the side for the neck strap so you can hang it around your neck while it’s in the case. All in all a fantastic case. I recommend it to any G10 owner.
P.S. I’m now officially past 10,000 hits! Nice!
Yesterday Yurie dragged out her almost ancient 15 year old bread maker. Set it up and threw all of the ingredients in and let it do it’s magic for 4 hours. Maybe newer bread makers are faster nowadays. I don’t know, I had never seen one in action until yesterday.
The loaf came out really nice. I was surprised that the old bread maker could do such a good job. I guess bread makers are built to last.
It was so fluffy and delicious. We just ate it plain while it was still warm.
P.S. Recently there was a problem on my blog where you couldn’t click on the pictures to see the full size image. This was thanks to something WordPress did recently. I’ve found the problem and fixed it so now you can see all of my pictures in their full size glory.
One thing you’ll notice when you’re driving around Japan is that there are these huge convex mirrors all over. Usually they are at blind corners, so that you can see if anything is coming. The streets are very thin sometimes and often there is only enough space for one car to turn at a time.
You can also see in the picture the very strange street lights of Kakuda. At night time they give off an eerie green glow. Some people I’ve shown this too, have said the look like UFOs. If that’s the case it would fit in with Kakuda relation with all things space and rockets,.
Here’s the new McDonald item for this month it’s a relatively simple, but ultimately delicious, Italian Chicken Filet-O. I remember Burger King in Canada had a similar sandwich a few years ago. Mostly it’s just chicken parmesan in a bun. How could it go wrong.
I’ve had it a couple times now, and I like it very much. It’s kind of funny that the “filet-o” was taken from “Filet-O Fish”, but used in a completely wrong way. Strange, but interesting!
I always see this curious old fashioned soap at all of the supermarkets. I know next to nothing about it, I just like the funny picture of the boy on the package. I wonder if the soap is actually good or not. I might have to buy it one day and give it a try.
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