Quote: Originally Posted by sleepkyng so by a wacky twist of fate, i need to meet with some japanese business poeple in Tokyo... on my summer vacation... I really need some basic business etiquette, and more specifically Japanese business etiquette. How do i present gifts, what should...

Japan's power system uses 100V, but in the most cases you can use 110V(115V, 117V or whatever) devices without serious problems. Also S2IS costs approx. 50,000yen ($450 at current rate) at the net shops, you will be very lucky if you find lower price tag even in Akihabara. I doubt if you can.

Here's a link to download virtual theremin. Hit START to play. It'll be fun at least for 3 minutes trying to play "ouyiiioooo-oohooh" from Good Vibration, and maybe cover original Star Trek Theme. After that it depends on your creativity.

Oh, OK, another favorite-movie-quote thread. Here's one. (Tommy(danny Aiello) and Hawk(Bruce Willis) are paralyzed and shown USA Today with big letters that says "Louvre Robbed") Tommy: "Dammit, the Yanks lose again!" Hawk: "How'd the Mets do?" Tommy: (to the villains) "Can you turn to the...

Congrats, superb motorcycle, Busa is. I also admire your healthy attitude. Quote: Originally Posted by gsferrari I think being scared is good...I can be scared without losing confidence...a little bit of "fear" in the back of the mind is always good Safe and fun riding...

I'm a World Perks Platinum Elite member and as far as I can remember all of the Northwest planes allows you to plug in 1/8" stereo mini plug. (Audio is not necessarily in stereo.) It's heavenly to use Ety's on the plane, but I gotta warn you that you have to bare with loud, crappy...

Quote: Originally Posted by iq160plus The Bumper Dumper <<What I wanna know is if THIS works? For whom? Not me.

My wife bought this (maybe not exactly this but the same shape and the same purpose) several years ago but never used it because it didn't fit our toilet seat. BTW I've seen a homepage of a person who successfully trained her cats to use human toilet, but her method was kinda vice versa - she...

Man, you guys have strange eating habits.... and made me hungry. Maybe I'll spin some sushi tonight.

Let me get it straight. Your college ride is a teal Ford truck? Oh wait you said "car" so it's the white one on the right. Next time you take a picture, get rid of the garbage and try to put your car in the front and the center of the frame. Geez you're bad photographer....

Thanks guys for the replies. Jasper's theory is very interesting and convincing. But Jahn's "Beatles did it and looked cool" could be so true considering they set so many standards. Probably the Beatles started it because Paul was lefty, and promoters adopted it with different perspective...

Here's the question from the drummer of my band. "On live stage, why do guitarists alway stand on the right side of the stage and bassists on the left (looked from audience)?" Yes, Jimmy Page is on the right, John Paul Jones is on the left in various Zep live video. Joe perry is on the right...

Never liked Foie Gras, don't live in California either. I love Peking Duck, though.

"These go to eleven." -Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap

Quote: Originally Posted by bangraman This was the actual reason, don't you think? is? Those which start by the secure translation of ベーベルフィッシュ, that being the amused. I use in always To return to this post I put this sentence to Babelfish. "俺は実際に元の文章と翻訳後の文章を比較したから知ってるのよ。" (MY...

I wouldn't bother to look for the original thread, but it started out with someone posted a link to japanese site where a japanese audiophile's review of SA5000 (or AD2000) was on. When it was put through Babelfish, a word "感じる"(kanji-ru :verb, to feel) was some how translated as "feel the る"...

Not so many choice, actually. Etymotic ER-6i, Shure E2 or E3 are in your price range, you'll find lots of comments if you search in the forum. All three are a bit cheaper if you buy in U.S.

For a second I thought the notebook pc designed for 1900+ wouldn't manage to cool 2500+ cpu enough to let it run at top speed, but what do I know? About Gentoo Linux, I found this link. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Fujitsu_Lifebook_S2020

Good, I like Dave Barry.

I never owned Camry but am pretty sure it uses "drum in disk" parking brake, so your case wouldn't have any effect on main brake (service brake). This type of rear brake has both disk brake (as main brake) and drum brake (as parking brake) built into the same disk rotor. That way, main brake...

Quote: Originally Posted by zChan I read in various posts in 2Ch that AD700 is very weak on bass. Geez you are quoting from 2channel. (I should have know from your sig.) Remember, "嘘を嘘と見抜けない者は、、、" orz. AD700 is not "very" weak on bass, in fact it has tight decent bass. But...

OK, my previous post was ingnorant. I forgot how you guys love to bash Sony as well as Bose and MS. Then that's where Samsung is heading. Heh.

Quote: Originally Posted by gloco Let's hope they make some drastic changes (ie. dump sonicstage and atrac in favor of mp3, ogg, flac, wma support). Sony has a lot to learn and i'm glad their on the ropes right now, because their actions alone got them there. Quote...

Quote: Originally Posted by BigD Mr.Gosn. I think that's how you spell his name??? It's Mr.Ghosn.

My life's theme song: (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon Well I remember that day more than my birthday.