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The image was photoshopped. The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator. Photoshop's features are impressive, aren't they? That's why I'd like you to take a look at the new features in PS.
Sunday, January 18, 2004

without copyright there wouldn't even BE music anymore!
Sunday, January 18, 2004

the way itunes keeps track of what you've listened to is awesome. I want to get a device that records everything i say and shows me lists of every word i've said that day, with out of norm words highlighted.
Friday, January 16, 2004

ok apparently in china area codes have 4 digits and phone numbers have 8. should have guessed.
Thursday, January 15, 2004

China is so fucking huge. A province with no cities I'd ever heard of - 2 sizes of dots marking the cities. The bigger size = 6m people. THE SMALLEST DOT=2M PEOPLE. There are like 30 dots on the map. holy fucking shit.

It's like Japan only more so. Osaka? What's that? only 9 million ppl metropolitan area. Theoretically that means it has as much personality as NYC.
Thursday, January 15, 2004


UH OH! what does that mean?

It's getting warmer.

Really bad traffic in China.

A fucking crazy picture I found when doing google images for "concrete".

I can't remember where I found this. Fucking amazing.

The #1 convenience store in japan, they're everywhere. So convenient. In the US it can take a long time to find a conbini. In cities or on highways, there is no such difficulty in Japan, there's always one within 2 minutes walking. That's a cigarette vending machine outside.

On the near side, there will be a huge rack of magazines, maybe 15 feet long. There will be 10 guys standing there reading them. At the far end will be schoolgirl porn, then there'll be bikini porn, then bikini/news magazines, then tons of manga porn, sports manga, then womens fashion mags, and a few hobby magazines. Japanese ppl love to stand and read magazines in convenience stores. If you go to a huge bookstore, like Kinokuniya, the aisles are almost impassable because of so many people doing "tachiyomi".

"Alcohol & Tobacco" available there. Not all lawsons have it. I think there's some old law that you have to be in business for a certain amount of time before you can start selling it. Of course that doesn't prevent them from putting a cigarette vending machine right outside.

ahh, someone's caught the mormons in japan. They ride around in pairs, harassing innocent ppl to convert to their bullshit religion. Once I was trying to get away from one and he was like, "You know, jesus said that if someone rejects the message, then we should go on to someone who is more fertile ground". And I was like "Yes, I reject your fucking message, mark me down for hell please." Actually I didn't say that. What gall he had, threatening that he'd give up on me and move on to someone else.

So awesome. Both about the same size. Maybe Beijing=DC, Shanghai=New York, Guangzhou=Maimi?, or maybe Texas (different dialect too...), Taiwan=Hawaii? The problem for china is that they don't have a nice west coast. No silicon valley, gay mecca, hollywood, or hippie spirituality.

I bet those rocks on mars are so fucking surprised that they got chosen to be the ones landed next to, out of the billions of other rocks. What an honor.

network for good.

more pics from Japaga here's the description from that site:

What Is Japaga..... An image of "Japan girl" is the imaginary girl who isn't existed in reality.As for me, it is possessed an image associated with the word. Japaga is an abbreviated designation of Japan girl It is the twentyfast century the Japan girl image that an image of the post ko Girl which I regarded asa composition of Utamaro and loveliness of Junichi Nakahara was remix.


There is stuff everywhere in Japan that covers schoolgirls as sex objects, but not so much seeing them as like mysterious beauty. Keep in mind that every girl in japan is a schoolgirl until into her 18th year. So in japan there would be lots of pictures of britney and natalie portman and the olsen twins as sexy short skirted schoolgirls, in addition to the regular ones we get of them in bikinis etc just like Japan. pictures" if they'd been in Japan.

I watched LotR 3 the other day. I was thinking that elves should have been asian. Compare the archer guy from "The last samurai" who was japanese and awesome, with the archer elf from LotR who sucked. If they took the guy from the last samurai and moved him to LotR, it would be awesome. And have Arwen played by a nice Japanese girl, instead of Liv Tyler, who sucks and is not hot or mysterious or elfen at all.

Reasons elves are like Japanese



Ok, welcome to the tetrapod/japanese concrete section. This is a tunnel in japan. Not, it's not rare for them to do this. In the interest of erosion control, they've totally fucking destroyed this hill. You see this on hillsides everywhere.

A beach that probably used to be nice, but is now concrete. Also there are no waves, cause they're all blocked by tetrapods. I've been to places exactly like this, except if you go 100 yards to the right it's just cliffs, no tetrapods, actual tide pools, and the vegetation is natural (i.e. not all cut down and replanted with industrial cedar). Once I saw this guy putting on scuba gear in a place like that, and asked him what's up, he said he's going "collecting". Then I noticed all the old guys clambering around the works, picking animals off of them. Shocking. I'm used to California where there's laws against that sort of thing.

Some huge fucking tetrapods.

More tetrapods! Get used to it if you go to fucking japan!



Ok that's the last one.





I really like how all china's borders are naturalistic. No silly straight line borders for them. That's cause those borders are the product of thousands of years of fighting. Of course there's the classic thing how Shaanxi pref. is right next to Shanxi. I know they're very different without the tones, of course.







Nice pie charts.

Apparently the orientation of those beach balls means something.

Psychos on the internet

I've never seen a chart like this before. Nice.

This is a canadian dude who learned Mandarin really fucking well and is now a big star in China. I guess every country has one, in Japan it's Sean Camu. Although you get a lot of disrespect from other expats living there, I don't think it'd be such a bad life.

His name is Dashan. He's all into some traditional (=boring) Chinese comedy routine. That stuff might be interesting, but nothing beats US style standup comedy, Steven Wright, Mitch Hedburg, Eddie Murphy, Bill Hicks, all awesome. In Japan they're going towards that, but they still have this tradition called "manzai" where there's two guys on stage, playing off each other and hitting each other in the head a lot. It's like how US comedy used to be, always pairs, and one guy's a straight man.

So I'm thinking of moving to china to teach english. I'm hoping it'll be like Japan 20 years ago. It's a lot bigger, too, so it'll take longer to completely fuck up.
Tuesday, January 13, 2004