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I guess it could be argued that a site like Find A Grave probably has some utility as a reference source ("Millions of Cemetery Record...

This is a picture of a dork with a camera, taken in the parking area outside the condo said dork lives in. Like the Delphic Oracle, Socrates...

I haven't really felt like writing much the past couple of weeks, so I thought I'd post a photo. I don't post many of my own pho...

To the few friends who regularly drop by my humble blog: I've been really busy lately and just returned from a conference in beautiful F...

... living in Miyazaki, Japan. I like that I don't have to worry about some idiot stealing anything I don't nail to the wall or keep...

I guess that people around the world all have different ideas about what makes a 'good cop'. Probably for most of us a good cop is o...

Well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later. There's been a spike in the number of spam messages in the comments section, so I've...

Whether you're religious or not, whether you have kids or not, you will probably be amused (and you may even laugh out loud) when you re...

Maybe it's exhaustion from grading end of term tests and papers (terms here run April-July, October-January). Maybe it's the heat. M...

I'm all for the exploration of space and stuff, but it seems a bit odd to me that a rapidly de-populating country like Japan is seriousl...

Wow . And I mean, wow.

Yes, I'm a smoker. I've tried many times to give up cigarettes, but I can't do it. I'm weak. I'm a slave to an evil, fil...

I think the video below is meant as a parody, but it's so close to the reality of teaching English at many conversation schools here in ...

I can't upload any images...

The 'myth': Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending . . . among ...

My good friend Pierre over at Loser's Guide posted this interesting comment today about a movie review he read at Salon (the name of t...

I've been too busy reading (pretty much exclusively about this ) the past few days to post anything new here. I feel a kind of mental ...

The Yasukuni ('peaceful country') Shrine is located in Tokyo and is dedicated to the spirits of soldiers who died fighting for the ...

You know, as soon as I can figure out how to use the 'record' function on my DVD machine (it's in Japanese), I'll have an un...

Wow. It's not often that I get the chance to talk about three of Japan's idiosyncrasies in one short post, but here goes... To my mi...