Aloha friends, I'm taking off for some R&R in Ireland.
I leave you with this video straight from Japan that may amuse no one but myself.
As a piece of tangential trivia: the face on the side is a japanese smiley!
Take care y'all, see you in a week or so.
R & R in Ireland! I am so jealous! What's the Japanese face for that???? Have a great time!
ReplyDeleteI've been checking for a post. Glad to see a new one is up. Unfortunately, I'm at school so I can't watch the video. As a very famous shamed governor of California once said, "I'll be back."
ReplyDeleteHA HA HA HA HA! A machine whose sole function is to switch itself off whenever someone switches it on... Not sure why, but I love that!
ReplyDeleteSort of a materialized sophism.
As for the horizontal smileys, I wonder why they're not catching on in the West... My Chinese/Japanese/Korean friends use them all the time (some of the most popular Chinese typing softwares even have shortcuts to them), and I'd say they allow more variety and fine-tuning than the now-classic 90° rotated type.
Oh well... (≙‿≙)
That is a useless machine. It's not clear what it actually does. But I do like its rebel attitude.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a nice time in Ireland. This is the same time I was there last year. Hope you had better than we've been having in New England.
Wild - very Japanese
ReplyDeleteenjoy Ireland xx
OOoh ireland! Lucky duck!
ReplyDeleteBrilliantly bananas. Hope Ireland is marvellous.
ReplyDeleteOh wow there are comments... Have been asleep at the helm or what! : p Hello everyone! What are you all doing in this dusty place! I'm back, we had a great time driving around and eating breakfasts... And visiting old stones too!
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Heya Annie! The asian smiley for going abroad would clearly be \(^o^)/ "Yay, traveling!"
But now I'm back.
So it's ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ "Hiya, I'm back!"
And （￣ー￣） "I had an awesome time!"
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G'day Theresa! It's purpose is to shut itself off! Imagine if it were installed on light switches as an "energy saving device"... Oh the epic battle people would have. : D The weather was mixed... At times it was dramatically tempestuous, at times ominously dappled in shadow and light. And we even got some brilliant sunlight... We enjoyed the variety!
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Aloha Shi Ronglang, I'm glad it tickled you as much as it did me! And yeah, Asian smileys are a lot more expressive and personalisable... They're more closely related to ascii art than their western counterparts. : j
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Osu, Lulu! Japanese.. Yeah! I did it was fun!
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Kuari Katie! That's me! Quack quack!
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Namaskar Eryl! Bananas, aye... That box sure went ape! : p It was it was! I hope your writing and many many projects are coming along nicely!