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The center of all life in the quiet Nagoya suburb of Nagoya, Japan is the Apita department store. For no apparent reason, the third floor hosts an alien (from the Aliens saga) guarded by defunct Coke and candy machines. If you've got a story as to why this is here, please leave it in the comments section. By the way, I once found a giant paper mache ET in the upstairs of a … 
The kabutomushi, also known as the Japanese rhinocerus beetle, is a popular pet in Japan. When wandering around downtown Nagoya a few months ago, I found a little shop that sold only beetl … 
Takayama, Japan, located in Gifu prefecture, is famous for the beauty of the Miyagawa River, its quaint narrow streets, and its exciting festivals. A niche industry that thrives in this four hundred year old community is Japan's plastic food market. Nearly all Japanese restaurants display plastic food outside of their stores in order to entice those that pass by. I can tell … 
Was Jackson black or white? If you're dressing up in a Michael Jackson Halloween costume in Japan, you get a choice.
Dates should be formated as MM/DD/YY except for the years 1990 through 1992, which should be denoted in 'Hammer Time.' From Fake AP Stylebook
I haven't been updating my posts in the past week because I've been hard at work on my new online project (not to mention grades are due on Tuesday).Click the big button to see what it is all about!
When you walk down the street in suburban Missouri, you hear cars passing by and gets stares from overweight drivers wondering why you'd actually walk somewhere. When you walk down the street in a cosmopolitan metropolis like Singapore, you're very likely to hear a real person playing music who is glad you're walking by and hopes that you'll stop and listen for a bit. In …
(Caution - this post may seem kinda gross.)My first food service job out of college was working at the coffee kiosk in Mizzou's Memorial Union. At that time, before the big Starbucks boom, it was the only place that served Starbucks coffee in mid-Missouri. In my boredom, during the mornings and evenings when I worked there I'd spend free moments during the shift reading the …
I noticed this museum display sitting on one of the back shelves of the Asheville Nature Center when I was there last December. Can you guess what it is? Leave your response in the comments section!Learn more about the Western North Carolina Nature Center.Link
USING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THOSE UNDER YOUR AUTHORITY
Today from 2:00 tp 2:30 I'll be making a presentation about teachers using Facebook titled Using Social Media with those under your Authority an Educator's Perspective. Read about the venue here. I'll post the powerpoint soon.
The most recent internet meme going around is to post twenty-five oddball facts about yourself. Go on, read more than you ever wanted to know:1. When I was in the fifth grade I checked out the book The Way Things Work by David Macaulay in order to help me build a go cart that would navigate the drainage ditches and pipes in my neighborhood. I had the dream of cruising around …
I recently posted a review of the Nikon D60 as a guest blogger on Claudia.sg. If you're in the market for a Nikon DSLR, check it out.Link
My boss had an idea to make a funny video that would welcome future staff to Singapore. Since I taught the film class last semester and because I tend to put a lot of things online anyway, I got nominated as the director, camera man, and editor of the film. Before filming started, I really didn't know that I was going to be directing; I thought that Dr. B would give most of …
Another teacher and I performed the Blues Brothers rendition of "Soul Man" at a lipsync competition. I didn't bother to pull it from the camera until today. I'm not really much of a dancer, but I go to great lengths to entertain my middle school students.Now, compare us to the real thing!I guess there are good reasons why I was never asked to be on SNL.
I had an incredible Chinese New Year in Malacca, Malaysia with Nadnut, Precious Living, and the Highway Blogger. I managed to eat all of the traditional Chinese New Year goodies, roam streets lined with traditional colonial shop houses, talk to their eccentric dwellers, try my hand at a few carnival games, and sleep in a quaint budget hostile in the heart of the historic …
Live from Twitter:Mad magazine's Dick Debartolo just twittered that his magazine will be going quarterly after its 500th issue. I obsessed over Mad magazine between sixth and tenth grade so this is a little personal for me. However, it doesn't surprise me. For a decade Mad magazine has been deviating from the vision of its founder William M. Gaines. Some time back and …
Less than a week in office, and Obama is authorizing American taxpayer funding to destroy overseas fetuses. He's not keeping his promise to compromise or looking for a way to "decrease the abortion rate." No one should be surprised at this; Bill Clinton implemented the same measure. The AP reports:President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on …
I'm throwing this out to see if anyone can help.An aquaintance of mine invited me to a Chinese New Year party in Melaka, Malaysia. I went down to the bus terminal across from the Victoria street wholesale market and purchased a ticket. The man wouldn't sell me a round trip ticket. "You get the return ticket on the other side," he said.The problem is my friend in Melaka can't …
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