ivarwind said...

ivarwind at 11:52 AM JST - 20th November

"keeping Beaujolais Nouveau wines in plastic bottles for a long period of time would undermine their quality."

Apparently Bulliat is rather clueless regarding wine - Beaujolais Nouveau shouldn't be kept for long in any kind of bottle, it is supposed to be consumed quickly after bottling.

Posted in Head of Beaujolais Nouveau winemakers raps sales in plastic bottles at 11:52 AM JST - 20th November
ivarwind at 02:33 PM JST - 21st October

Good for the Kyoto restaurants, I say, would have been better if Michelin had just stayed away. But then I'll take two empty taxis outside the ramen place over two Michelin stars any day.

A Michelin listing is very much a mixed blessing. A restaurant can make a lot of…

Posted in Prominent Kyoto restaurants say no to Michelin at 02:33 PM JST - 21st October
ivarwind at 12:56 PM JST - 11th September

"Pfft, if your lucid enough to commit the crime than you should expect swift retribution."

That's the whole point! But you missed it. If the death penalty is to be carried out, it should not involve first subjecting the convict to twenty years of daily mental torture, driving them to…

Posted in Amnesty International says Japan executes mentally ill prisoners at 12:56 PM JST - 11th September
ivarwind at 11:53 PM JST - 3rd August

"I can only imagine what this girl and her family must have felt, being told to go back to elementary school as though she suffered from a learning impairment rather than just speaking a foreign language."

Well, not understanding anything of the language at all, that is a learning impairment,…

Posted in Foreign schoolgirl's admittance delayed due to teachers' opposition at 11:53 PM JST - 3rd August
ivarwind at 01:50 PM JST - 6th July

This seems to be pretty much like everyone else does it. At least in Denmark, reputedly the first place where a resistant strain of the new H1N1 was found, the case was reported to the news at some point after the patient had gotten well again. How long they "delayed"…

Posted in Osaka sent paper on Tamiflu-resistant virus to journal before announcement at 01:50 PM JST - 6th July
ivarwind at 10:26 PM JST - 25th June

Could be interesting, for several purposes. For example to research what it is that makes people able to recognize emotions in others. But for that purpose - and indeed for most other purposes I can think of, short of standing in for an extrovert anime character in a school play…

Posted in Robot expresses human emotions at 10:26 PM JST - 25th June
ivarwind at 09:55 PM JST - 14th June

Skinny? Maybe a little, and I'm sure she could gain a pound or two without harm, but she's contracting her muscles and stretching her tendons throwing a pitch and the photograph is a momentary glimpse of that process. That can make anybody look weird.

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ivarwind at 01:17 PM JST - 12th June

A sad story, but... Doesn't anybody ever read the articles before commenting?

As the new charges are for something that happened five years ago, there is nothing in the story to suggest that she was allowed to keep the children in her care after the first indictment, two weeks ago…

Posted in Woman served new warrant for killing daughter in hospital at 01:17 PM JST - 12th June
ivarwind at 08:00 PM JST - 10th June

It may not resemble the real thing as much as it does old illustrations of the Milky Way (from the days when everybody knew what it really looks like from Earth), but it does look beautiful, and I'm sure it looks great when you're in the room.

As for stars…

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ivarwind at 11:18 PM JST - 22nd May

Polarization may go through 360 degrees (180 actually), but for practical purposes I very much doubt using more than two directions (which stores one bit) is feasible. It would require more reading heads each of them with a more powerful laser. It all boils down to the nature of polarization,…

Posted in All your movies on a single DVD at 11:18 PM JST - 22nd May