05.16.03
Uhhhhhhhhhhh-huh. Friday morning Friday the 16th. Ya know, the day after the 15th. Me and the world are still here. Who else isn't surprised?
I'm going to work now.
Mini-Update
My goddamn rock solid ghetto shiznit name is Doctor Shizzlemah.
What's yours?
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And I'll thank you not to forget it!
Yeah, it's a slow day at work. Doctor Shizzlemah, ending transmission.
05.15.03
Happy End of the World Day!!
Of course, I'm referring to the dubious prediction by Pana Wave Labratories that a Big-Ass Earthquake™ is gonna come along (due to the passing of a previously unknown 10th planet, no less) and bitch-slap Japan's geographical state of affairs upside the head. It's almost quitting time at work and nothing yet. For some reason, I'm not all that unhinged about the whole thing. Fletcher on the other hand is really getting into the spirit... freak.
You've gotta hand it to Japan though, they can do doomsday cults in style. We get a huddle of broke, flannel-wearing hippies chillin in a "compound"(read: a couple of rickety shacks in close proximity) at Waco, while in here in Japan they get a cavalcade of stylin' white limo-buses that cruise the hills looking for a cool place to camp out and make some s'mores.
Want to do the checklist? Oh, I know you do. C'mon, let's do the checklist:
Crazy Guru
Giant Mecha-Robots Piloted by an Elite Few
Yep, we got just about every major element of... well, just about any anime show you've ever seen come to think of it.
Just don't get me started on the whole white cloth thing with this group though, it's so dumb it makes me want to take a nap. I understand that some humans are just going to be stupid no matter what, but they're not helping anyone's credibility by claiming that dressing in white is protecting them from harmful electromagnetic radiation. I'm not saying that electromagnetic radiation isn't harmful, that would be ignoring the evidence. But last time I checked, visible-spectrum light wasn't near the top of the list of "Stuff That's Gonna Git You Perished."
Idiots. All of them. God, I can't wait to watch the news tomorrow morning.
05.12.03
I was recently looking over the logs and was noticing that my overall traffic has been consistently up for quite a while now. Wondering where everyone was coming from, I pulled up the referring site logs and have come across a few pages that have actually linked to Hair Flap for one reason or another (I swear it has nothing to do with blackmail). I was surprised that no one mentioned anything to me when linking, but I figured out of pure web-courtesy it would be nice for me to link them back, especially since some of these sites seem pretty damn good.
I've only just started reading some of these so I can't give too in-depth of a review on anything yet. Just giving a heads up to you and a shout out to them.
Word?
Word.
Easterwood.org/hmmn The Japan blog of Kurt Easterwood. I bow down to this site. The layout is so clean and simple and there's so many little touches of neat code, some of which I'm dying to learn for the upcoming version of Hair Flap. He's got some very insightful entries and his photography... kicks...ass!!
Achikochi Weblog of an apparently Dutch gentleman, Vincent who lives in Yokohama. I say apparently because his info page is a little sparse, though it does contain this beautiful gem: "In one word, my whole life is one futile, useless hobby." Haha, brilliant. What's cool is, he has it set up so he can update from his cel phone, which means there's lots of little trivial, slice-of-life entries straight from Japan. (Strantely, he doesn't seem to have me linked anymore, even though he did a week or so again, when I last checked. Hmmm.)
Japan-Japan.com In it's own words, "A site for Japanophiles and lovers of Japanese Philately." Riiiiiiiiight. There's an extensive links page, with a metric shit-ton of Japan blogs for you to check out and where I am referred to as Scott Fukuma. Not a bad ring to it.
Spaceport Nagaoka You should all know Nicole by now. Her site got a bit a facelift and some new entries recently. Nicole's writing continues to kick arse, but whatever happened to the serial murder mystery, hmmmmmm, Nicole? ;)
Tempest Desgins Buffy not only designed and maintains Nicole's site, but also updates her own site's layout every time she changes her socks. My god, she changes her site a lot and it always looks like a million bucks!! Anyway, she's nice enough to link my unworthy html so I'd like to do the same for her and her collection of daily musings.
