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在庫一掃 zaiko issou Inventory Clearance

The reason for looking at the front page (and finding the trojan attack) was to announce our Inventory Clearance Sale: 在庫一掃 zaiko issou Inventory Clearance Inventory reduction super sale! Instead of offering one item on sale for one day, we … Continue reading

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McAlister’s, a Japanese Restaurant

Today we enjoyed a meal at McAlister’s Deli restaurant.  The food was excellent but I noticed two things: 1) The serving size was small* 2) The price was high Because of this, I concluded McAlister’s served 和食 washoku (Japanese style … Continue reading

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Harvey’s New iPhone App: Giongo – Gitaigo

Harvey from JapanNewbie.com fame just released (that is, Apple approved it!) a new iPhone / iPod Touch app: So you’ve learned the basics and you can carry a conversation with the best of them, but can you say “Pow” or … Continue reading

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Beat my What?! Google does a Number on Washington

“When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I’ll try again.” Yesterday, while reading up on Washington I came across the story of George Washington out-throwing all others in a throwing contest.  Well, wanting a little more context than the book … Continue reading

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New Nintendo DSi

The Nintendo DS (lite) has been a welcomed toy, I mean tool for Japanese language learners. I didn’t realize it until just now, but Nintendo has just released a new version of the hardware called the DSi (Hmmm… a mirror … Continue reading

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Reason #621 Why Online Japanese Translators make for Excellent Blog-Post Fodder

I  just received an email from someone asking a question on Youtube. Not unusual but he went to the trouble of translating his English thoughts into Japanese using… an online translator. I won’t copy all what he wrote–since it was … Continue reading

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The Perfect Home TV PC Media Center Thingy

I’m not sure if the correct terminology is a Media Center TV or a PC Driven Media Player (on your TV) or…, but I would like to basically have all my DVDs and CDs on a harddrive and access them … Continue reading

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Megumi Jo Boutwell 無事に産まれました

Megumi Jo Boutwell Megumi was born July 15th, 2008. Makoto is officially a big brother now. The morning started at 6AM with Makoto asking, “Mama doko?” “At the hospital,” I replied sleepily. Makoto said, “Hosptl iku.” “After we eat and … Continue reading

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Yumi in the Hospital

Yumi checked into the hospital earlier today for the c-section tomorrow. Leaving the hospital room was pretty easy. All we had to do was to tell Makoto, “Drive! Car!” However, in the parking lot, Makoto realized mommy wasn’t with us. … Continue reading

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