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Today, while we were walking, I was thinking of a comment Apolline had left on my Missing Strangers post about social movements and urbanization. We turned a corner and here was exactly what I had been imagining loneliness all together to look like:
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I want to give this game a proper review later, since these posts are usually reserved for something else. I've got more games lined up that I want to share with you guys, so look forward to them! I'll have to think of a related title later, but for now it's definitely going to be about those old arcade fighters from the last decade.
Pretty good week for news! Lots of good stuff to pick and choose from. My philosophy to posting these links is to "make people smile." If it's funny and interesting to you, read it! That's why I created this blog after all :)
And as always, you can check out the full list of links on my delicious page.
Backpacker’s Guide to Narita Airport | Japan Probe
Incredibly useful for anyone considering going to Japan in the near future. I sure wish I had seen this two years ago when I had went for the first time...
Video: Coca-Cola Freestyle demo & how it works - Fast Food Maven : The Orange County Register
Currently only available in California and Georgia. Wait, Georgia, wtf!?
The Pantienon – iPhone App To Imagine A Girl w/o Underware
Title says it all. (link SFW)
（original）自主制作アニメ - フミコの告白 Independent production anime
Cute and short animation that's really amazing. It's a bit over-the-top, but it's quite wonderful to watch!
BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot The Fake Smile
Quentin Tarantino stars in Softbank commercials
This guy...he talks alot. Like, a lot.
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Do you ever wonder what might have happened to people who are essentially strangers to us?
Next door to my office building is a retirement & assisted
living place - it used to have the word "Alzheimer's" in the name and
we joked about just trading one place for the other as our minds went; usually with the assumption that too much work was going to cause such a decline.
Anyway - over the last couple of months every morning, as I've walked past, an elderly man has been outside hiding behind a pillar enjoying a cigarette. Every morning I would say "good morning how are you?" and he'd respond with a loud and cheery: "Good morning to you and I'm great"
The last few mornings he was not there and I wondered if he had died or been caught. It crossed my mind that I might never know - I don't think I would've gone inside to enquire about the health of a man having a forbidden cigarette.
I was so relived to see him back this morning that I almost said "oh thank God you are ok".... I really had been quite concerned about someone whose name I don't even know.
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The bike below used to appear near the office during the day and
then be gone by evening. Then it arrived and stayed. And stayed and
stayed. If this had been anywhere near I live, it would've
been stripped within a few hours. After more than a month the rear
tyre is flat but no-one has stolen the helmet or attempted to steal spare parts from the bike.
So, where is the owner? Did they die at
their desk? Did they walk to the shops at lunch time and get run-over
crossing the road? Or perhaps they developed Alzheimer's and forgot they owned a bike.
I hate not knowing..... and unlike the missing elderly man, where I
could've enquired if I'd wanted to, there is no-one to ask about the bike's owner.
November 6th
- 15:51 Come watch our show, SF Views, at 4 today-@sfist's @brochtrup and l are talking news with @jacksonwest: bit.ly/zu4W5 #
- 15:00 Wanna shut off the SFGate's annoying copy/paste thing? Here's how: bit.ly/q5cfm #
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With us all diligently slapping hand sanitizer on our hands to kill 99.99% of everything that might make us sick..... where do all the killed germs go?
These have nothing to do with dead things on hands - I just thought they were pretty. Taken on walk around the neighbourhood next to ours on the weekend:
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I've also seen some crazy customizations such as Hatsune Miku from the Vocaloid franchise swapped in as the main character! Too cool! There's also a whole bunch more, like Cloud from Final Fantasy, Gundam, even an Evangelion lol. An anime fans dream, so to speak!
