My foreign policy teacher is one of the best history teachers I've ever had. She lets me and encourages me to say shit like "of course, that strategy backfired on Nixon, because it lost him the key demographic if deceased-Americans."
My fingers move a lot smoother in a downwards direction than up, and most of my scrolling is down the page, which now means I'm moving my fingers up to scroll, which means my pages are scrolling far jerkier than before.
Klipsh X1s + Xonar DX. Wasn't expecting earbuds into a computer soundcard to work well but it's so good. Decent volume range and the audio quality is brilliant.
Japanese is a funny language. So it makes sense that "telephone" is spelled with the characters for electricity and talking (電話, denwa) and "train" is spelled with the characters for electricity and car (電車, densha), but why is "electric rice cooker" spelled with the characters for electricty, spirit (or mood, disposition) and pot (電気釜, denkigama). Why isn't there some rice (米) in there instead of spirit?
Because it isn't the rice that is electric. A kama(釜) is a rice pot, and so if it becomes electric, it is a "denkigama." Denki is just electricity (which contains the character for spirit.) To complicate things, I always heard 炊飯器 (suihanki - cooking rice machine) for rice cooker.
My friend just called the show QI "an advanced version of Friday Night Party Line". To be compared to Stephen Fry? I don't think I've ever been paid a higher compliment.
Japanese is a funny language. So it makes sense that "telephone" is spelled with the characters for electricity and talking (電話, denwa) and "train" is spelled with the characters for electricity and car (電車, densha), but why is "electric rice cooker" spelled with the characters for electricty, spirit (or mood, disposition) and pot (電気釜, denkigama). Why isn't there some rice (米) in there instead of spirit?
Because it isn't the rice that is electric. A kama(釜) is a rice pot, and so if it becomes electric, it is a "denkigama." Denki is just electricity (which contains the character for spirit.) To complicate things, I always heard 炊飯器 (suihanki - cooking rice machine) for rice cooker.
Why why isn't it Denkiwa (電気話) or Denkisha (電気車)? I just find it odd, that's all. As for the Denkigama for rice cooker, I just found it randomly when I looked up the stroke order for the "electric" character.
My friend just called the show QI "an advanced version of Friday Night Party Line". To be compared to Stephen Fry? I don't think I've ever been paid a higher compliment.
Of course, that means Churba is Alan Davis.
I just realized, that's the second time we've had that compliment.
My friend just called the show QI "an advanced version of Friday Night Party Line". To be compared to Stephen Fry? I don't think I've ever been paid a higher compliment.
Of course, that means Churba is Alan Davis.
I just realized, that's the second time we've had that compliment.
That's pretty awesome.
I actually thought a really cool idea for a Panel/Con, would be to do an something like QI and have 4 really experienced friends/comedians/anime-o-philes talking and joking about what they've know about a specific topic.
People of this forum forget that many of us have good memories of what others have said in the past, even now that the search function and saved searches are no longer available.
Also, don't take my vitriolic rant too hard. I've worked very hard for over a decade to understand Japanese language, culture, and society, and when I see uninformed people expressing their weeaboo-esque "Everything is better in Japan" views, I tend to get annoyed. If you do go over, just please don't be one of those people who is an embarrassment to America and other gaijin. Don't cause more than your undue amount of meiwaku. I want my country to be well represented overseas.
If you truly are willing to work toward a goal, be it academic, professional, or artistic, that gives me respect for you. Ambition like that is how you succeed.
Yeeeeaaaaahh buddy. Managerial experience + Japanese fluency + a 4-year business degree = You will NEVER be jobless.
I'm really proud of you, dude. I love talking to you because I've watched you grow significantly since you first got here on your Vespa with a backpack full of Glenn Beck books and a dream.
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To complicate things, I always heard 炊飯器 (suihanki - cooking rice machine) for rice cooker.
Of course, that means Churba is Alan Davis.
I actually thought a really cool idea for a Panel/Con, would be to do an something like QI and have 4 really experienced friends/comedians/anime-o-philes talking and joking about what they've know about a specific topic.
Also, don't take my vitriolic rant too hard. I've worked very hard for over a decade to understand Japanese language, culture, and society, and when I see uninformed people expressing their weeaboo-esque "Everything is better in Japan" views, I tend to get annoyed. If you do go over, just please don't be one of those people who is an embarrassment to America and other gaijin. Don't cause more than your undue amount of meiwaku. I want my country to be well represented overseas.
I'm really proud of you, dude. I love talking to you because I've watched you grow significantly since you first got here on your Vespa with a backpack full of Glenn Beck books and a dream.
Conservative Bronies, man.