Just back from a week in the Chicago suburbs.

Highlights include:

- giving several hundred 6000 volt electric shocks to a PCB i designed for work
- first trip ever to downtown Chicago for wine & dine with Hypersnazz, yuppie_pup, and panth at Wilde
- MFF

The first activity sucked, but the other two were great. MFF & the folks there were super awesome!

And I've returned with documentation of the latest Japanese trends:


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soy-sauce flavor KitKat will be arriving in San Francisco in 12 hours.

Went something like this. (Japanese in italics)

Me: Excuse me. In my room, air conditioning is broken.
Clerk 1: Haru, what is he asking me?
Clerk 2: I think he's talking about the air conditioning.
Clerk 1: Aircon?
Me: Yes. Aircon is bad. *makes X with fingers*
Clerk 1: Is he really asking about air conditioning? It's winter, and we disabled ( Read more... )

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Concept eco-printer uses human power to move print carriage and coffee grounds or tea leaves for ink.

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alameda pie truck

What do y'all need from Akihabara?

I'm makin' a list.

1) My appliances must hate me; they break to spite me. But I spend time and money to fix them anyway. I hope they appreciate it, and make cookies for me in return.

2) I conned 3catsjackson into enabling a scheme for me to eat tiramisu. It was a success.

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