|
 |
 |
|
| |
Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
 |
Monday, July 8, 2002 |
 The novelty value hasn't worn off yet...
Examples of amusing- and just plain bad- language
In the supermarket the other day, I came across some pasta. But not just any ordinary pasta, oh no! Pasta which 'offers excellent taste found out with an ample time and expertise for catering to gourmets', no less!
|
|
I don't suppose anyone's noticed, but the recent outbreak of coloured headings in the Breakfast Show means something. They're the headings for the new segments, and they fall into three main categories. First of all, there's the 'Who would...?' category, for all sorts of odd and amusing (or, indeed, just plain embarassing) tidbits. Then there's the 'Fifteen minutes of fame' category, for attention-catching books, music, films and web-related stuff. Finally, there's the haiku category, for (oddly enough) haiku, both the random haiku of the day, and some of my own works (eventually!).
Anyway, in the 'Your shout!' section (hey! on the left!) you can submit items for any of these categories, so- submit away!
|
|
Web articles worthy of mention...
A fair and balanced article about life without Microsoft. Such articles are few and far between...
|
|
Web sites worthy of mention...
The Guardian Online Weblog. An interesting mix of technology news and comment. No obvious left-wingness, either.
|
|
When the computer's eaten your speech and you can't face rewriting it, there's only one thing to do: Mos Burger. Especially since the 'Taco Naan' conconction is still available...
|
|
Driving back from Ozu this afternoon, the rain was so hard that the windscreen wipers couldn't cope. It's still not the effects of the typhoon, but it was certainly hard enough to have been typhoon rain. Anyway, undoubted rainy-season rain.
|
|
Examples of fashion- and non-fashion
Black shoes with a fetching beige rim round the soles...
Well, me, actually- although not by choice, I hasten to add.
The car-park below the office is fine when it's dry, but you so much as spit on it and the whole place turns into a mud bath remarkably reminiscent of the trenches of the First World War. I keep expecting Wilfred Owen to pop up, or a mustard gas shell to be fired from the roof of the culture centre. Anyway, the beige rim to my shoes, far from being fashion, is in fact mud.
With all this rain wellingtons would be better than shoes when trying to get to the cars. Wellingtons would also look less stupid in beige, too...
|
|
I'm back up to 1800 words in the Matsue speech (which is rapidly turning
into 'Son of Navy article'). They're not the same 1800 words as
yesterday, though; I couldn't face rewriting the same section as I'd
done yesterday, so I did a different bit instead. The bit that the
computer ate will have to wait a little while longer, I'm afraid, until
I've recovered from the emotional turmoil that the disappearing contents
of Word documents can bring...
|
|
Great. That'll teach me to look with such scorn at the weather forecast
that pops up on my mobile phone every morning. The morning that looked
like it would turn into a scorching summer day has turned into
torrential rain. Just as my phone predicted...
|
|
Wow!
It's good to get letters like this on my desk! I've just got an
envelope from the Head of the JMSDF in Kure, inviting me to the 'Sea
Pageant' later this month. This is a sort of training day open to the
public, and I'd considered applying for tickets, but instead, I've
actually received a formal invitation!
|
|
Gifts for everyone from the head of the office this morning; he'd been
on a business trip (or something) to Taiwan. At least this time the
souvenirs bore some relation to the place visited; a few years back,
when the same person went to Australia, we all got honey... from New
Zealand.
|
|
Just as I mention HMS Nottingham in my Navy article, the ship suddenly
becomes a little more famous- or infamous. Not because of my article,
though: the ship ran aground off Australia...
|
|
Here it is...
Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
gratefully meager
offensive vain cask stinking
disturbing door builds
|
|
My goodness, it's going to be a hot one today. It's only 8 o'clock and
already the sun is blazing down. I reckon 35 degrees, for the first time
this summer...
|
|
Etajima Bay smells just like the seaside this morning (of course, the
fact that it is the seaside may have something to do with this...)
There's that fresh, salty tang; I half expected a cockle stand by the
side of the road.
|
|
© Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth.
Updated: 8/1/03; 8:17:30 pm.
|
|
|
|
The Breakfast Show
Weather...
FastCounter by bCentral
|
|
