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There's a 4th "do no evil" monkey to the see/hear/speak trio, who's traditionally depicted as covering his genitals http://bit.ly/9AvJ3C

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:30:56 +0000

My company's talking about blogs for every employee. To what degree should I mix business & personal life? Should I link from my main blog?

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:09:24 +0000

You know you've been playing too much ITG when...

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:04:58 +0000

As soon as Hardcore of the North starts playing on your mp3 player, your Pavlovian response is for your heart rate to jump up 200 BPMs, your center of gravity shifts backwards and your arm slides behind you to grab onto some support.

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@twiss right, t'was just an idea I hadn't seen before, so I tweeted it. I haven't come up with a falsifiable hypothesis to test it yet.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:40:39 +0000

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Not enough double checking? "95% of results of medical studies failed replication when tested in double blind trial." http://bit.ly/bNkTiy

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:37:59 +0000

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@twiss Being a good agriculturalist would involve having an internal instinctive calendar (e.g. "Now's a good time to plant strawberries.")

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:20 +0000

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How'd Advertising get invented? Someone just realized "People'd buy my stuff if only they knew about it… Maybe I can inform them somehow!"?

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:46:56 +0000

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@popalopa I set up my Sim to have the same personality type as I do in real life. Scary how accurate it turned out to be.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:42:44 +0000

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An evolutionary link between women caring about anniversaries and historically being the agricultural "gatherer" part of hunter-gatherers?

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:41:59 +0000

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Played Sims 3. Meta-depressing: Told Sim to practice music, study Japanese, sleep early for work, but instead he'd play on his computer.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:00 +0000

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Ordered a pizza online. The delivery guy came before the email confirmation. That's fast service! www.pizzapizza.com

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:09:56 +0000

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Excellent game teaches you the USA constitution. Now if only there were Canadian ver... http://bit.ly/deLPKi

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:34:23 +0000

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I just noticed m-flo's similee: "I get around like sushi on a 回転" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:35:51 +0000

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@msanford What does it mean when you spend more time on Google Analytics than Facebook? It means you maintain more servers than friendships.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:48:14 +0000

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How can you tell if a DDR player is a bar rapist? After a tough game, he says "boy, are my arms tired...!"

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:42:57 +0000

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Since people have been asking: yes, I am back in Canada and no longer in Japan.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:41:40 +0000

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"in another 10 years we will look back on this decade with 2020 hindsight." http://qdb.us/301369

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:10:11 +0000

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Adam

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:52:00 +0000

Alyssa Rosenberg manages to express — whereas I failed — why the portrayal of autism in Adam bugged me:

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I've discovered that unlike in North America, pizza does not taste good when cold in Japan. At least, not Salvatore Cuomo's pizza...

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:01:58 +0000

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@popalopa Check my blog and Facebook; I'm doing lots of miscellaneous stuff, but mainly playing videogames.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:10:41 +0000

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Yay, they're gonna make an anime adaptation of the manga Highschool of the Dead!

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:09:10 +0000

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Cleared 鬼姫 first try. V6 downgraded it's difficulty rating from 99 to 95, so it's actually considered easier than 子供の落書き帳 now.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:27:37 +0000

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It's snowing in Tokyo. Not enough to be worth taking a picture, but enough to tweet about.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:28:18 +0000

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Pretty clever: Some company's motto is "Quick!Quick!" and so their phone number ends in 919919 (ku i ku ku i ku)

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:27:27 +0000

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I'm surprised by how many men in Japan have purses. Louis Vuitton, no less.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:03:08 +0000

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Just saw this hilarious Pachinko Matrix commercial on TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0UpsM9KDXE

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:48:31 +0000

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Finally, Drummania with two pedals: http://www.konami.jp/products/am_dmxg/index.html Too bad I missed the location test. =(

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:54:25 +0000

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Shit Emma says: "Hey, you haven't friended my cat on Facebook. Shut up, it's not as dumb as it sounds. Do it!"

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:35:28 +0000

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@abcdefghijkimmi the squeaky wheel gets the oil?

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:46:19 +0000

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You know someone is from an oppressive country when they answer "What do you like to do for fun?" with "Work hard and pay taxes."

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:42:57 +0000

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To clarify, Emma doesn't actually sell porn, and I was just kidding myself that she did as an excuse to go into porn stores.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:42:11 +0000

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Scary moment in Kabukicho

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:35:59 +0000

Kabukicho is a red light district, and I’m told there are Yakuza there, but it’s considered “safe” in that the Yakuza are there just to do business, and if you don’t piss them off, they won’t bother you.

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Went to drum shop; had RegalTipJazz (what I use at home); they introduced me to the Jeff Hamilton series, which I bought and will try out.

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:04:57 +0000

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I went to a drum museum, where they let you hit on all the different types of drums. They had Taiko, some African stuff, but no western kits

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:59:04 +0000

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Having trouble uploading my pics on Facebook. They're their for about 5 seconds after I upload, but then they seem to get deleted one by one

nebu@gta.igs.net (Nebu Pookins) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:40:36 +0000

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