9. Brik-haus on GL

   For some reason, this struck me as humorous:

   Remind me never to kiss Yoko. It seems like whenever someone does, they soon wind up as dead meat.

   Where did I see that before?

   

   Don Curtiss was playing with fire.

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10. Naruto owns the world

    As seen at Calguns, an AR-15 with a laser engraving of Konoha leaf:

    

    At the thread, some of expected confusion and typical Naruto bashing is present, but not as much as I feared. Also, some of the posters appear to know what /k/ is. Perhaps I should be disturbed.

    My …

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11. Ronery registers

    I see observations like this quite often:

    Japan is a very cash-based society, and there are no such things as using personal checks to pay for goods.

    Everyone says that. Nonetheless, I keep seeing things like these:

    

    The example above is from Rocket Girls, but I saw them in Bamboo …

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12. Hourglass halfway

    The length of this thing keeps confusing me. Every time I think that I must've reached the halfway point, it just keeps going deeper and deeper. For example, Mana's arrival threw me into a loop. It just made no sense whatsoever.

    

    Since then I looked into the booklet, which says …

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13. JLPT result

    This is how far watching anime can take you:

      Level: 4, Section 1: 89, Section 2: 71, Section 3: 164, Total: 324, Result: Pass

    In practical terms, this is not enough to watch raws indiscriminately, but in most cases the second pass with subtitles off is doable.

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14. Jonathan Tappan on ef

    Jonathan bade his time long enough, marshalling his arguments in secret like Marshal Zhukov did for Operation Uranus. Now that he dropped the hammer on Chihiro, the effect is equally devastating [link].

    There's nothing left for me to debate, except to pick up the pieces and observe that in my …

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15. Nigorimasen on "AOD"

    Apparently there was a small con in my backyard this weekend, Nigorimasen reports. Its name folds into an acronym "AOD", which clashes with "Anime on DVD". Also, seems like either the screening was lacking or CalAggie didn't care for seeing anything, which is my primary occupation at conventions. So I …

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16. Kinokuniya in SF expands

    Old news, but still: Kinokuniya in San Francisco expanded into the 1st floor. There is a stairway between levels inside the store. They moved all manga down. Manga sales may be declining in Japan, but we are behind the curve.

    

    When I went there, they had figurines of Mucchi and …

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17. Lawson's inkblot test

    Jeffs pulls a cruel experiment on blog readers. 28 comments and counting.

    

    Ourselves, we just went to a restaurant, lounged in a bookstore, and watched RahXephon (in dub -- my better half's choice). I snapped a picture of Elvy's watch.

    UPDATE: Did anyone notice that we get to know Elvy when …

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18. Technical difficulties

    My bragging about Linux jinxed my desktop. For the eating the own dogfood purposes, it runs the bleeding edge of Fedora Linux, and thus its components are constantly shifting, packages can be incompatible at times, etc.

    This time I broke my VLC by forcing an update to libavformat. I saved …

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