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Forum: Just the Facts 13th June 2019, 11:29 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 4,371
Posted By Sleel
I use both a Kindle Paperwhite and an iPad for...

I use both a Kindle Paperwhite and an iPad for reading Kindle ebooks. The iOS Kindle app is far superior to the native Kindle environment in most of the functionality, even setting aside the huge...
Forum: Just the Facts 9th July 2018, 06:59 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 2,692
Posted By Sleel
The problem with really old stuff is that nobody...

The problem with really old stuff is that nobody really knows. All they have are some guesses. I didn’t really care about the origins of the runes at the time, so never learned about it in detail,...
Forum: Just the Facts 9th July 2018, 01:11 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 2,692
Posted By Sleel
Two books I read years back were The Barbarians...

Two books I read years back were The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Speak-Conquered-Peoples-Europe/dp/0691089787). More about...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 8th March 2018, 06:52 PM
Replies: 1,923
Views: 219,334
Posted By Sleel
I live in Japan. I do read some Japanese, but...

I live in Japan. I do read some Japanese, but mainly not for pleasure. Not that much in my preferred genres (SF&F) that is any good, and since I started learning Japanese late in life, I’ll probably...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 8th February 2018, 11:07 PM
Replies: 1,923
Views: 219,334
Posted By Sleel
Yep, they did a great fucking job, on both the...

Yep, they did a great fucking job, on both the book and series ends.

I actually have only read the first book in the Expanse series. There are something like 7(!) that they've written, along with...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 7th February 2018, 03:10 PM
Replies: 1,923
Views: 219,334
Posted By Sleel
I’ve been watching season 2 of The Expanse and...

I’ve been watching season 2 of The Expanse and Altered Carbon interspersed with The Good Place as a mood cleanser. Unfortunately, I’m caught up to real time on the latter.

The Expanse is damn...
Forum: General Blah Blah 22nd September 2016, 10:54 PM
Replies: 75
Views: 3,888
Posted By Sleel
Yep, I do. Not that it’ll really make much...

Yep, I do. Not that it’ll really make much difference. Just will give me more warning about how bad it’ll be and how long it’ll take me to die from it.
Forum: General Blah Blah 22nd September 2016, 05:24 AM
Replies: 75
Views: 3,888
Posted By Sleel
Yeah, I’ll admit that over 40 doesn’t feel all...

Yeah, I’ll admit that over 40 doesn’t feel all that great compared to your teens and early 20s. Late 20s to 30s is where sedentary jobs and lifestyle starts to suck unless you make specific changes...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 26th June 2016, 08:05 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,504
Posted By Sleel
Shifter design is fucked, but something I noticed...

Shifter design is fucked, but something I noticed many years ago is that apparently no one besides old fucks like me uses the parking brake. Even if it were in neutral instead of park, if the parking...
Forum: General Blah Blah 11th May 2016, 05:21 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 4,230
Posted By Sleel
BTW, manko-chan translates to roughly “Little...

BTW, manko-chan translates to roughly “Little Miss Cunt”, or maybe “Cuntling”.

She’s been in a Japanese jail for about 5 months, which is beyond fucked. While things have gotten better over time,...
Forum: The Pit 29th April 2016, 03:45 PM
Replies: 2,270
Views: 331,466
Posted By Sleel
<takes small bow> Thank you!

<takes small bow> Thank you!
Forum: General Blah Blah 25th April 2016, 06:29 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 524
Posted By Sleel
寄付しなさい! kifu shinasai Donate! (imperative) ...

寄付しなさい! kifu shinasai Donate! (imperative)
寄付してくれ! kifu shite kure Please donate (impolite importunance)

The 寄付 kifu part is “donate”, how you change the ending determines mode. Anyway, the...
Forum: The Pit 24th April 2016, 06:53 PM
Replies: 2,270
Views: 331,466
Posted By Sleel
Time was, you had hordes of Chinese kids working...

Time was, you had hordes of Chinese kids working in slave-like conditions for pennies a day, but those halcyon days are gone.

Even socially-conscious liberal-artsy companies like Apple get raked...
Forum: Photo Safari 6th September 2015, 04:08 AM
Replies: 5,297
Views: 783,568
Posted By Sleel
Shit, I thought my old man kicked it earlier this...

Shit, I thought my old man kicked it earlier this year. Looks like he folded time and got reincarnated into this asshole.
Forum: General Blah Blah 13th August 2015, 06:12 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 2,269
Posted By Sleel
I’ll take “Places no one on the face of the Earth...

I’ll take “Places no one on the face of the Earth should ever live” (http://www.weather.com/news/news/iraq-iran-heat-middle-east-125-degrees) for $1000 Alex.

Thankfully, it’s down to only 33ºC and...
Forum: General Blah Blah 22nd July 2015, 05:20 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,540
Posted By Sleel
The Savage Love relationship advice column is not...

The Savage Love relationship advice column is not shy about giving advice on open relationships (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stranger+savage+love+open+relationship), but Savage would probably not agree...
Forum: Politics, Philosophy and Religion 15th April 2015, 05:24 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 9,525
Posted By Sleel
I've known since I was a little kid that I was...

I've known since I was a little kid that I was going to die. Children get the idea vaguely early on, or at least I did, and that intellectual concept quickly becomes visceral through experience.
...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 15th April 2015, 01:04 AM
Replies: 1,541
Views: 246,156
Posted By Sleel
Apparently, it’s her dad’s fault...

Apparently, it’s her dad’s fault (http://www.cracked.com/article_20500_6-insane-reasons-formerly-famous-people-dropped-off-map.html).
Forum: Just the Facts 15th April 2015, 12:56 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 12,636
Posted By Sleel
As someone who grew up with the American fucked...

As someone who grew up with the American fucked up bullshit hybrid nightmare amalgamation of a system but who lives in a place that uses (mostly) metric, I have to say that the best way to learn...
Forum: Just the Facts 8th March 2015, 05:33 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 692
Posted By Sleel
Chartreuse against black is very high contrast....

Chartreuse against black is very high contrast. Old-school monochrome monitors often used it, and I still use green-on-black for terminal windows.
Forum: Discourse About You! 8th March 2015, 05:29 PM
Replies: 293
Views: 28,696
Posted By Sleel
Don’t really care much about whether it’s a lie...

Don’t really care much about whether it’s a lie or not, but pretty easy to burn your ass on an open Weber grill (https://www.google.com/search?q=open+weber+grill). Lid can be plenty hot still, and...
Forum: Just the Facts 18th September 2014, 05:25 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,254
Posted By Sleel
Man, “tiny” is extremely relative. Apartments in...

Man, “tiny” is extremely relative. Apartments in Japan range from 50 m2 to about 80 m2 (538–861 sq. ft.) for a normal apartment. There are living spaces that go as small as 6畳 (just under 10 m2, or...
Forum: Arts and Entertainment 12th September 2014, 01:30 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 3,489
Posted By Sleel
Flawed premise ...

Flawed premise

http://flavorwire.com/182592/an-alphabetical-list-of-105-90s-alternative-bands-that-still-exist

NIN just toured here in Tokyo this summer, and I fucking missed it. Last time I...
Forum: Just the Facts 10th September 2014, 04:26 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 3,624
Posted By Sleel
I think some parts of the alternative energy...

I think some parts of the alternative energy movement have been going about things the wrong way. Instead of talking about centralized schemes, they should have been emphasizing decentralization...
Forum: Better Living Through Posting 2nd September 2014, 04:35 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 3,096
Posted By Sleel
Gladwell years ago wrote about how mustard...

Gladwell years ago wrote about how mustard reinvented itself (http://gladwell.com/the-ketchup-conundrum/). Ketchup, apparently, is already “optimized” for taste. Plum ketchup might be really good as...
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