Until further notice this blog remains here for archival purposes and is not actively posted on. It is unclear as to when this will change, but this is to let you know.

Honda U3-X or The Ultimate in Unicycle Technology

September 24, 2009

Not much of a unicyclist, but this is really cool. Would be very interesting to see this mass produced, though I don’t actually think it would be to very viable as even in the video demonstration it is a bit odd to use and not very predictable without a good amount of practice. What seems [...]

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74 Year Old Japanese Man Wins Bodybuilding Competition

September 23, 2009

And you thought all old people sat in wheelchairs all day. This is interesting and proves something I have thought and consider true. No matter the age if you take care of yourself you can do anything you want. Japanese weightlifter Tsutomu Tosuka won first place in the seniours above 70 category in the 21st [...]

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Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu

September 20, 2009

A while back my tablet died. However, I was getting by with my work laptop, but the thing is huge and long ago realized I liked how small my 12″ tablet was. One of the limiting factors to what I could get was cost. So i started looking and found that netbooks would probably fit [...]

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Boy Scouts in Japan

September 17, 2009

The title is a bit misleading, but serves our purposes as a starting point. First I want to bring up that I am an Eagle Scout in the “Boy Scouts of America” and strongly believe in the values, skills and life lessons I have learned in Boy Scouts having been in it for almost 20 [...]

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Shion no Ou

September 14, 2009

Plot Shion no Ō centers around a young junior-high school girl named Shion Yasuoka who witnesses the murder of her parents as a child. At the time of the murder, the killer takes the king piece from her father’s shogi board. This leads her to believe that the murderer may be a shogi player. The [...]

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A Primer on RSS

September 10, 2009

There are still a lot of people that have no idea what RSS is or why this little orange box image keeps showing up on most blogs. This image: (or some variation of it) What is RSS? Essentially what most people really need to know is it is a “page” for people add to some [...]

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Adjective Conjugation Te-Form

September 10, 2009

Te-Form verb conjugation is kind of difficult and freaks quite a few people out. Unfortunately, there is te-form conjugation with adjectives. Fortunately it is MUCH easier to do te-forms with adjectives over verbs. い-adjectives drop the final い and add くて な-adjectives add で to the base word You can also treat noun+です the same [...]

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Combining Activities with te-form verbs

September 9, 2009

We already discussed te-form verb conjugation so lets go to the next step and talk about combining activities, because lets face it we rarely just talk about one thing at a time. To do this we combine verbs to do anything from combining two actions, or two things we are doing, to describing why or [...]

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Language Bloopers – Edufire Superpass Contest Giveaway

September 8, 2009

I am pleased to say I have a free 1 month SuperPass I can give away to someone. So what are the benefits of the Superpass? SuperPass is $29 a month (or less than $1 a day) $1 one week trial With a membership, you get access to unlimited live online teachers. In class, you [...]

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Daphne in the Brilliant Blue

September 7, 2009

Plot In the future, water has covered much of the Earth due to the effects of global warming, leaving the human race to live on floating cities. The orphaned Maia Mizuki, 15, just graduated from middle school and has already applied for employment in the elite Ocean Agency, part of the futuristic world government. Only [...]

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