Recent content by Iain Aschendale

I was just thinking about that film yesterday. Doc said he could separate the fingers in a trifle, but Johnny refused, no?

Why buy the dead horse when you can milk the stone for free?

Even my Japanese pop culture references are out of date at this point. Music my students introduced me to early in my career at the uni is now "mom and dad music." I haven't been here quite long enough to have a second generation student, but the time isn't far off.

Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor. and his ego

Some book or other I read ages ago had the snarky narrator encountering "a giggle of schoolgirls."

It's still the 10th of November. If you know who you are (are there any others of us here?), Happy Birthday!

Animal, vegetable, mineral. “Some kind of slow mineral existence. Call it what you will. An areophany of rock. Besides, who is to say that these rocks don’t have their own kind of slow consciousness?” -Michel, from Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Top of the sink, top of the toilet tank? I think mine had a small shelf. Maybe. The one thing about it was if you were sitting on the commode, you could lean your head on the wall in front of you (the pictured one is the right size but a slightly different layout than mine was). Also, cleaning...

That's how I felt about Blood Meridian. I enjoyed The Road, but the former just left me cold. I didn't dislike the characters, I could muster no feeling either way for any of them (and don't remember a single fact about the book other than that at this point), so I just stopped reading it about...

From a political Reddit thread. Do not miss the DR.

Nah, I had a "unit bath." This isn't mine, but the setup and size are about right

Martial arts, think I saw Steven Seagull do that move once. Very slowly.

Yup, that's exactly what I mean. You buy or bring an AC unit (or four. I have a 3DK apartment, which means three "bedrooms" and a dining/kitchen room. Each one would require a separate AC unit, or we could get a more powerful one to cover both the dining/kitchen and the "bedroom" that we use as...

Man, this is 49 day old news but I just learned that Maru the cat died on Sept 6th. You may know of him as the Sliding Box cat. It's nuts that an animal who I never met affects me this much, but I grew up with lots of cats in the house but Japanese apartments (generally) don't allow pets, so...

Whoosh, in Japan all heating is up to the tenant. No central air/heating in anything but office buildings and malls. You need to buy an individual aircon unit for each room in your house/apartment ($500-1000+ each) if you want heating or cooling. I've got one for my bedroom so I can sleep in the...