Tokyo for Under $1,000 a Week, Including Airfare

This guy did a cheap week in Tokyo. Pretty sweet.

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CSS Galleries

This site lists a bunch of CSS styles for different webpages. It should be useful in setting up a design.

CSS Galleries: aggregating web design inspiration

Honeymoon

We debated a lot of things to do for the honeymoon and eventually decided on a cruise. We're heading to the Western Carribean on a Princess boat. We've got a balcony cabin and I'm looking forward to this more than anything. Breakfast on the balcony... yummm. We're not sailing until December, over 3 months after the wedding. We're masters of delayed gratification so I think we can handle it.

Kappa Tengoku

Hakone Ryokan

Hakone is a mountainous region near Mt. Fuji and not so far from Tokyo. There are plenty of onsen and other tourist attractions there. I'm collecting here a list of potential places to stay when we go.

Kappa Tengoku

Two things Japanese related

Rikaichan
This is a plugin for the Firefox browser. It adds little info boxes that display when you mouse over Japanese text. It's pretty awesome.

Reviewing the Kanji
This is a website that you can log into and review kanji using a flashcard system based on Heisig's Remembering the Kanji I. It's pretty sweet. So far, I'm up to over 500 kanji and I've been using it for about 3 weeks. My goal is to learn to recognize (and write) the most common ~2000 within the next 6 weeks. I've been studying Japanese off and on for several years now and prior to finding this website, I only managed to learn about 150 kanji.

Closing in less than two weeks

We're signing the papers next Friday for the new house. Right now we live in an apartment. It's a decent enough place, but considering that most people suck, it's a strain having to live in such close proximity to them. Plus, we're on the 3rd floor and carrying groceries up the stairs is getting old.

We've got a lot of prep work to do before we can move in - painting the garage floor, installing window blinds, putting up chair railing, painting the walls... enough to keep us busy for a while. I lived in a house before and it was a lot of responsibility. But, this time it's different and I plan to enjoy it a lot more.

Pool People, how I hate you

...let me count the ways.

Let me preface this by saying, that in general, I hate inconsiderate people. "Hate" is a pretty strong word, and I try to avoid using it, but in this case it's appropriate. I hate people that destroy the calm, disturb the peace, or just behave to annoy. This is probably my biggest hangup.

In this episode, we'll talk about Pool People. Pool People suck in so many ways. Since they don't know how to behave, I'm providing a few pointers here.

• I don't want to hear your boombox. Noone but you wants to hear your boombox. Have you ever heard of headphones? Use them.


• Oh great, you found an ashtray. Please, share your noxious exhalations with the rest of us. At least if you were drinking, you wouldn't be spitting it in everyone's faces.


• Leave your cellphone at home. Noone wants to hear your conversation, especially at 10X the normal conversation levels.


• Speaking of conversation levels, is there any reason two people can't carry on a conversation in tones that can't be overheard from the other side of the pool? Why are assholes so loud?


• Your ass is too fat to be wearing that. Seriously. So is your stomach. You're lucky there's no direct access to the Atlantic ocean from this pool. Otherwise some whalers would be harpooning your ass.


• I like to use the word "ass" a lot.



Generally, what do people have against quiet? Why are so many so compelled to be LOUD and obnoxious? We hates them, precious...