Victory Manual

I just discovered this as I sailed the high [internet] seas:
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
This made him. …
A super-calloused [...]

It’s an undeniable fact that I’m the master of こいこい.
Our new-ish PC came with the computer version of こいこい, a Japanese card game. (Mini-fact: Nintendo made its claim to fame as the leading production company of the game cards, called hanafuda, used in this game)
The game is cake. Well, it used to [...]

If there’s anything significant about the 502nd one, it’s that it’s only 4 years after the 501st, which in turn was 4 years after the 500th. You may remember the 500th leap year as significant, because it’s the year we evaded doomsday brought on by computers that couldn’t perform the same function that my [...]

After writing up a post about translating humor, specifically focusing on Darjeeling Limited in Japanese, I searched for the official movie site in Japanese and was happy to find that there was a trailer with Japanese subtitles. I’d like to document the English script and Japanese subtitles below, with a brief comparison following.
[Francis] [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I watch Japanese dramas for both entertainment and for study, and I briefly wrote about a couple that I was watching at the time, but for those of you who are new to the Japanese drama world and don’t feel like wading through a lot of the just-plain-trash-dramas, allow me to [...]

So we’re (wife and I) watching some Japanese dramas at the moment, and I even came across a site that has the scripts in Japanese available! Can’t ask for more than that!
The dramas we’re watching are 薔薇のない花屋 (The flower shop with no roses) and エジソンの母 (Edison’s mom).
薔薇のない花屋, as the title implies, is a heavier [...]