au KDDI: Bureaucracy FAIL
a.k.a. “We really have no idea how we still are in business, but it shouldn’t last much longer…” When it comes to services and subscriptions (cellphone, ISP, banks, heroin dealer…), I am a company’s...
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Neverending Winter
Today is the 29th of March, sakuras are in full bloom and i am walking home under snow falling. FML. See the full article or leave a comment »
View ArticleFacebook and Me
Facebook had three things going for it, a couple years back, around the time I finally caved in and signed up: 1) A fairly decent interface. A newsfeed that was actually designed to intelligently...
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Learn English and Save Your Soul
These “volunteers” will teach you English (and the Word of Jesus Christ Savior) for free, at three convenient locations around Kyoto. Obviously, Japan is not doing enough to discourage missionaries...
View ArticleElection Fatigue…
Dear local Kyoto-fu LDP candidate for the upcoming upper-house election: True: I cannot cast a vote in this election and sway your chances either direction. But let me assure you that, if you keep...
View ArticleThis Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Music legend, proto-rapper1 and black poet Gil Scott-Heron has passed yesterday at the age of 62. His slam on 70s society was so powerful as to give us one of today’s most ubiquitous journalistic...
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RIP Steve Jobs
Around age 6, I made my first steps with a computer: drawing houses in MacPaint and typing elaborately formatted 30-line novellas in MacWrite. A couple years later, building my first programs using...
View ArticleEurophobia
Ukip in Britain, Front National in France, and a similar array of smiling europhobic racists and neo-fascists in Denmark, Austria and Hungary… In most cases (except perhaps the UK, who really just...
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Rant: United Airlines, or the Art of Losing Customers
Airlines tend to be like banks: name any one of them in large-enough company and there is bound to be at least a few people with personal horror stories and imprecations never to use their service....
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12 Awe-Inspiring Tips to Make Shitty Clickbait Listicles. Number 5 will make...
Start your title with a number. Include random grandiloquent synonym for “great”. Attach irrelevant but eye-catching stock photo loosely-credited picture nicked from Google Image. Throw a dice, pick a...
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