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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 07, 2024 at 03:23 UTC

English teaching book that uses Jojo dialog, supervised by Megadeth’s Marty Friedman.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 15, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

Spotted at the mall yesterday. Only later did it occur to me that I should’ve bought the Tetris ones and see if I can play real life Tetris with them.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 05:19 UTC

זכרונות של תואר ראשון בבלשנות - באנגלית יש פחות או יותר 14 תנועות (זה קצת שונה פר דיאלקט) שנכתבות עם 5 אותיות, וזה לפני דיפטונגים ותנועות ארוכות/קצרות. בעברית יש 5. המוח שלנו, ללא אימון מיוחד, בהחלט מחווט לשפת האם וקשה לו יותר לתפוס שוני שלא קיים שם.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

Moving to Japan has been one of the best decisions I've ever made precisely because the country is for the most part free from the kind of stress that plagues a lot of other places. The country comes with its own set of difficulties, of course, but these seem to be ones I'm more capable of handling.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 10:14 UTC

I have a feeling the reason there are multiple Sora demo movies set in a Japanese city but none (as far as I can tell) in American cities is that the street signs are nonsense. This is immediately obvious because there's so much of it in city videos, but it looks just fine for western eyes.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 04, 2024 at 09:40 UTC

This ad outside my train station recruiting people to become taxi drivers is a lot to take in.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 24, 2023 at 02:43 UTC

My Xmas-eve-in-Japan chicken quota fulfilled.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 20, 2023 at 01:37 UTC

My company, usually stringent with frivolous expenses, apparently approved a $2000 budget for the Japan team "holiday party". I'm not sure they realized we're only 7 people and the "party" is usually a special course dinner at a restaurant. This is probably going to be the best food I've ever had.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 19, 2023 at 01:01 UTC

They’ve recorded an English announcement about this weekend’s Yamanote line planned disruptions and the woman they got pronounces it with “note” as in “notebook”. How does that even happen? It must’ve been recorded in Japan and had Japanese people involved!

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 18, 2023 at 12:58 UTC

I guess I have to tell them my personal life philosophy before getting a discount?

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 18, 2023 at 04:37 UTC

I have absolutely no desire to post on Twitter ever again, but I'm not sure anyone is reading potential posts on this stream. Is this going into a void?

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 27, 2023 at 09:32 UTC

This says a lot both about Japan’s devotion to print and the general tech literacy of the population.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 09, 2023 at 18:28 UTC

Also this business class experience also means I get to sample airport business lounges and as expected the one here in my home country is very half assed.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 09, 2023 at 18:27 UTC

Going back halfway across the world to Japan but hey business class so maybe I can sleep and not feel like I’m dead by the time it’s done?

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 04, 2023 at 04:20 UTC

Rice pudding is one of my favorite light desserts and Japan doesn't do them at all. It's very sad.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2023 at 01:12 UTC

Like a Dragon Gaiden (2023)

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2023 at 09:40 UTC

I splurged and got business class for a long >10 hours international flight that's coming up in two weeks, and I'm actually kind of excited for it instead of the usual feeling of dread.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2023 at 05:27 UTC

Should I buy the yellow watermelon? The label calls it a “cream watermelon”, so I dunno.

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orenronen @orenronen.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2023 at 04:01 UTC

I guess I'm finally in.

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