Weekly Japan Links 2
Still in Japan, still logged all the way on
皆さん今晩は！私はSlackのブルックと申します。I’ve said some variance of that phrase quite a bit this week. It’s been a fun trip, and I’m really enjoying the weird feeling of pseudo living here. I also deeply miss Snorri. It’s really a shame he can’t just always travel with me.
Let’s get to the links!
なめ猫! Thanks to Kaz and Tomomi for telling me about this frankly amazing Japanese meme from the Showa era. Bless these kitties.
Oddly, I never made my way to Shinsekai on this trip, but it’s a strange area of Osaka that never really caught up with the times—trapped forever in a glorious dream of an unrecognized future.
Since I’m traveling, I wanted to share a post that shares my own ethos on traveling. Don’t @ me.
Old, but delightful parody of NPR from the Merlin Mann.
I really and truly hope that one day we’ll join the world in using Celsius and the metric system. Truly.
Finally, I leave you with an interview with my favorite hot sauce-related interviewer.
