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Monthly Archives: December 2008
More Tips on Japanese Google Searches
In response to this post: Quick Google Japanese Tip, a friend sent me this: maybe these could help to use the Jp language setting for a search and then switch back to English https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 you could script a … Continue reading
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2008 紅白 Update: The Boom!
With live feeds in Brazil, 宮沢和史 Miyazawa Kazufumi (the lead singer in The Boom) played 島歌. It was very good, but I am sure because of time restraints, the song just seemed to fall a little short. And now 世界のナベアツ … Continue reading
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2008 紅白 Update: Stop Henna English!
OK, it is something of a pet peeve, but if you are going to sing in a language you can’t speak, can you at least have the decency to have a native speaker write it? キマグレン is the group on … Continue reading
2008 紅白 Update: 秋元順子
The singer singing now is 秋元順子 Akimoto Junko. This is her first appearance at 紅白. At 61, she has an amazing voice. I will have to check her out later (note to self).
2008紅白 Update: ひげ男爵
One of the joys of living in Japan is Japanese TV. And one of the joys of Japanese TV is the bakabakashii TV. And while we were there having our daughter Megumi, I discovered a really funny act called ひげ男爵 … Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s 紅白 Report
Every year NHK (the national TV network) broadcasts one of the (if not the) most popular programs all year–the 紅白 kouhaku. This annual New Year’s Eve event pits female musicians against those of the male variety. One team is red … Continue reading
Cheap Animated Backgrounds
Digital Juice is a company that specializes in producing high-quality, but affordable royalty-free media for video editors. With everything seemingly pushing toward HD, Digital Juice is retiring their SD Jump Backs. The Digital Juice Jump Backs are super useful for … Continue reading
Quick Google Japanese Tip
Sometimes I find a kanji or jukugo and I want to do a quick check of popularity or I want to see examples of usage. Google is excellent for doing this–at least for ‘Internet Japanese.’ The problem is my default … Continue reading
Marx Brothers at Hulu.com
Hulu.com is quickly becoming the place to go on the internet for streaming TV shows, movies, and other video. They just added Horse Feathers. If you find the following exchange funny, you should watch the movie: Groucho is trying to … Continue reading
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An Even More Expensive OED!
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Amazon having a good price on the Oxford English Dictionary–the world’s largest (and I think safe to say best) dictionary. Well, today I was checking around and found they have a special Blue … Continue reading