In an earlier post, I mentioned I’d let you know if the videos on Revver actually earned any money.  This morning, it says I have earned .67 cents.

The above table shows which videos worked the hardest.  This is pretty nice considering I wasn’t planning on getting even a cent for any of the videos and [...]

Satchmo’s A Kiss to Build a Dream on is probably my favorite of his songs and certainly in my top 10 all time. (I take that back - Sugar with Bing Crosby has to be my favorite!) In his most heard recording, instead of “Gimme your lips for just a moment” the last verse [...]

As you may know, every Wednesday at TheJapanShop.com we do a Super Suiyoubi Special.
Last week I mentioned last week’s special here and a reader (quite probably my only reader) mentioned that because of that he found our store and bought the book. Well, hoping lightning will strike twice, here is today’s Special.
We’ve actually had [...]

It’s hard to believe, but it was twenty years ago today (apologies to Sgt. Pepper, et al), Reagan gave his famous “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” speech. (Doesn’t exactly fit to the tune)
I will not make this blog political, but I do like history. Thankfully, Communism is history for most [...]

Like many Ebayers I found early on the only way to win a bid is to wait until the last minute and bid the maximum I am willing to pay and hope no one bids after me. It may seem somehow unfair to do that, but that’s the reality of Ebay. It is [...]

There was a huge sign that read ‘Pentax’ in Fukui near the Bookoff on Route 8. I’m sure you know exactly where I’m talking about. You know, the one near my favorite Indian restaurant, Ganga.* Anyway, I had no idea what Pentax was, but here is a very amazing site that reads [...]

Digital Juice is an industry leader in high quality royalty free animations, music, artwork etc for video editing and print.  If you are interested in video editing and you’re needing some fancy watahoos to make your work sparkle, Digital Juice has their biggest sale yet.  For $249 (no, I am not getting affiliate commission) they [...]

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Obviously, I didn’t do this one, but it is just funny:

It seems Princess Leah’s mom ate Doraemon’s last Dorayaki and this is the catalyst for him turning to the dark side. This is a scoop not even George Lucas knew about!
I thought this guy had a video of the ファイト一発！ (the energy drink) mountain [...]

This site doesn’t traffic in any traffic to speak of (yet), so I am always interested in how people find the place. As you would expect most people come here from TheJapanesePage.com, but occasionally I get hits from Google and other search engines.
This morning while looking at the stats, I noticed someone found us [...]