Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Seawolf

    My guess: rice planter! Or lawn mower?

    Posted in: Foldable robot scooter wows visitors at Tokyo Motor Show

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    Seawolf

    Judging from the pics one might think that the Motor Show is trying to save electricity by not heating the halls, because most of the girls are fully clothed! What is their purpose then?

    Posted in: Fine bodywork

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    Seawolf

    The software is programmed to automatically change to a different floor in a building when the user does.

    Wow, not even the spaceship in the original "Alien" movie had this - and got eaten...so will there be a follow-up software for Japanese not to encounter any Aliens around them?

    Posted in: Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature

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    Seawolf

    Why not call the bit "Tsukuba Olympics" as it is in between and than host some events there, some in Tokyo, some in Tohoku..!(Insert sarcastic laugh here)

    Posted in: Noda to support Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid

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    Seawolf

    As for the big one hitting Tokyo, I think most of the bigger buildings will have no major damage. The bigger problem might be all the people, as seen on a smaller scale on 3/11!.

    Posted in: M6.1 quake strikes off south coast of Hokkaido

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    Seawolf

    The newest cheapskate style to get out of town is to hit the road at night to beat the traffic and than sleep in the car, there are even books about it! Guess when you are used to sleep on a mattress 2 cm thick on the floor, reclined car seats feel actually comfortable to these persons.

    Posted in: Outdoors on the cheap

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    Seawolf

    I already started to think I could buy cheap Chinese-made solar panels for our soon-to-be-build house, but the time frame...another 4 years until something will happen, and that is without any obstacles coming up!

    Posted in: Asia-Pacific leaders to cut taxes on green goods

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    Seawolf

    So, on the First Anniversary of the Big Quake, the lights go out?! A bit macabre me thinks.

    Posted in: Spectacular

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    Seawolf

    No mention of the famous Imperial Hotel? Built by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was one of the few buildings that survived the Earthquake, only to be teared down later to make space for a bigger hotel. Part of it was rebuilt in "Meiji Mura" a very interesting museum village near Nagoya.

    Posted in: Past and present: Ginza

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    Seawolf

    Have to second Alex, most of the runners had shirts with their respective company's name on it, so for JT to just post a pic with a fictional "description", looks very unprofessional.

    Posted in: Bowling them over

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    Seawolf

    The only song of "Sound of Music" I like is the one by Falco!

    Posted in: New 'Sound of Music' exhibit in Salzburg

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    Seawolf

    LOL, annother piece by cnngo...if you want to see the real Kinugawa, the concrete ruins and emptiness, head over to spikejapan.wordpressdotcom, but be warned, you met get depressed..

    Posted in: The Devil's hot spring: A different onsen experience awaits in Kinugawa

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    Seawolf

    Yes, BN is overpriced, but it's not that the winegrowers would get rich with it: To arrive in Japan in time, all the wine is actually flown in by airplane, hence the aformentioned plastic bottles, to save on weight and thus bring down the sales price, I think Jusco did it last year. As for the "hype", I think most of the negative remarks should go to those bottles selling for more than 10.000 yen! Just because it got a famous owner or excellent reviews many years ago, doesn't mean anything plus with today's understanding of what's happening during fermentation and the help of modern technology to influence this, it is possible to make wine much cheaper and still tastes great.

    Posted in: Season's 1st shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan

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    Seawolf

    At least he's doing it with the royal family. If he did it with any politician, he would earn a lot of frequent flyer miles with those twice-yearly trips...

    Posted in: Good gardening

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    Seawolf

    Any guide book that puts the old Tokyo Tower on the cover and not Sky Tree looks VERY outdated from the start

    Posted in: Is this the world's weirdest travel guide?

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    Seawolf

    Another reason not to get up too early...but seriously, I would love to go hiking in the mountain forests this time of the year to view the autumn foliage, but those bears do make me afraid, esp since I would have our 11 kg baby girl on the back.

    Posted in: Bear attacks 4 men in Nagano

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    Seawolf

    I still think Genbukan is much more true to the roots, Bujinkan is too westernized.

    Posted in: Lethal weapon: Hanging with the world's last living ninja

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    Seawolf

    Maybe somebody kept them to be able to calibrate his Geiger counter!

    Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house

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    Seawolf

    Maybe the Chef had taken his knifes to a friend to sharpen them properly...lol. But actually, most of chefs have a proper case, but that can be quite bulky for to carry only one or two knifes.

    Posted in: Subway passenger injured by kitchen knife following emergency stop

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    Seawolf

    K-cars were not produced to be fuel-efficient, only cheap to built and thus affordable to buy. Those first wave really were "coffins on wheels" because they sacrificed safety to save material and production-cost. Today's k-cars sell because of the cheap taxes and the shaken, which is the major point esp when the car gets older. They have airbags and 4-wheel drive and turbo to get more from the under-sized engine. All this makes them heavier and thus they will use as much gasoline as a normal car. But because the shaken doesn't change to yearly one after 10(?)years as with other cars, they will be driven much longer. And that will reduce the carbon foot print. I drive a Daihatsu Terios Kid; it got the same wheel-size as a normal compact car and is perfect for the small back roads on the country side. But, it is small, the engine totally sucks in low range (starting from 0, backing up) because the car weights about 900 kg, and when we hit the highway and drive more than 90 km/h, the mileage goes down to about 9 km per liter, because of the 4-gear automatic transmission. Having said that, for day-to-day live it is totally enough, good to drive in winter as well and more room than the Jimmy or Pajero-Mini; and when visiting the in-laws, just take your time on the highway.

    Posted in: Toyota adds first minicar to Japan lineup

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