This should keep you warm today. 炎 means flame. It's an 演歌 (enka) Japanese song. It sorta like their country music, but not really.

Need to watch Robocop in 10 minutes?

This is truely awsome. I think it's the British accent that adds that certian something.

             So I know you are asking yourself, "Shane, after having such an action packed filled semester dealing with things like calling the police on students and trying to explain to a classroom of English language learners the difference between real and unreal conditionals....how do you find time to both work out those rock hard abs AND keep ( Read more... )

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w00t!

Hurray for one or the other!!

So today was a first in my teaching "career".  I had a student say she was going to kill herself because I wouldn't give her the answers to the pretest for the test we are having on Thursday. That's right...the pretest.

I basically went over the entire test and couldn't have made it any more obvious what was going to be on the real test. But, yet ( Read more... )

7 years.

That's how long I will have had this journal for. 7 years of rambling on about everything and nothing all in the same time. It's kinda scary (creepy?) to think that if I dropped dead right now, somebody could read about my entire life in Japan (all 5 years of it) right here.

Though I find that friends are posting less and less these days ( Read more... )

---"It took me all summer, but I finally finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. All 1070 pages of it. It's the longest book I have ever read..edging out Moby Dick by a good 320 pages. It is also the second best book I have ever read (The first still being Gullivers Travels)."

It does have its problems to be sure, but I have never read a book so full ( Read more... )

Just stumbled across this..

Shared space

...interesting to say the least.

I think in about 15 years I will call this period of time the "Yuppie Holocaust".
feel free to use it...

Ford scales back truck, SUV production

GM to slash truck, SUV production at 4 North American plants

Nissan Upgrades Altima Production, Cuts SUV, Trucks Output

..and a little article on the subject matter from Malcolm Gladwell (whose books ( Read more... )