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Category Archives: Entertainment
More Shimajiro videos
I’ve put up some more excerpts from the Shimajiro videos our daughter Karisa gets from Japan. You may remember the one I put up a few months ago featuring the toilet training song, complete with dancing poo. I hadn’t checked … Continue reading
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Instant Tom Cruise movie review
My cousin Peter made this comment on my earlier post on the Conan movies. My comment on Tom Cruise’s acting recalled this quote from a review of Minority Report: While there are action elements, this is not an action film, … Continue reading
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answer to the ESP test
Is I mentioned in the earlier post, I would post the answer later. Most people that were kind enough to comment on it also gave the correct answer. I thought the trick was pretty sneaky, so I wrote an email … Continue reading
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The secret of ESP
I saw a link to this ESP test and on a whim checked it out. Try the test a few times to see how accurate it is. Then, see if you can figure it out. It had me stumped at … Continue reading
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Japanese swordwork in… Conan?
The other day I was browsing through various videos on YouTube, and I ran across some clips from Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first star role in a big action movie. There were quite a few clips, but the ones … Continue reading
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The cursed commercial… or not
I heard my wife talking the other day about this Japanese Kleenex commercial back from the 80’s that supposedly is cursed. The whole thing sounds totally ripped off from the movie Ring or Poltergeist. So the story is this commercial … Continue reading
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Watership Down Subtitles, a la Japonais
A few months ago, I was feeling nostalgic and decided to download a copy of the old 1978 animated movie, Watership Down, based on the epic novel by the same name by Richard Adams. I had some mixed feelings about … Continue reading
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Robotech: The good, the bad, and the painfully cheezy dialogue
A few months ago I was able to get hold of the e-books for the novelization of the entire Robotech series. I have very fond memories of watching the series as a young child, and as a teenager I had … Continue reading
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D&D: By Email?
This is something that I’ve been doing for several months but just haven’t gotten around to talking about, much like everything else on this little-updated blog. My brother Porter introduced me to this group that is playing a D&D campaign, … Continue reading
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Back in Austin
After a nearly month-long break, we just arrived back in Austin. It wasn’t all fun and relaxing, it was conditional that I get a paper written to submit to Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. I finished the method … Continue reading
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