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Preparation Over Pride

If you threw away your pride, you might actually learn something. And if you learned something, you’d actually have something to be proud of. If you were really thirsty, you’d be drinking right now. Pride is inversely proportional to success. If you’re so proud, start preparing now. Pride is inversely proportional to output success. If…

[Xd] Excite Dictionary Bookmarklet

Goo is good. Goo is great. But Goo isn’t everything. Arguably, you can never have too much variety in your J-J dictionaries (国語辞典). They each have their own strengths and weaknesses, both in terms of content and formatting. So here’s some exciting Excite Dictionary love: Xd Source code, just in case: javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s=””;;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if(d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open(“http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/japanese/?match=beginswith&search=”+encodeURIComponent(s)+”&_submit=検索”,”_blank”);window.open(“https://www.google.co.jp/search?tbm=isch&hl=ja&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=643&q=”+encodeURIComponent(s),”_blank”);})() EOF

Anime Wit

That’s right. Even Japanese people have a hard time understanding what anime characters say because it’s such a foreign language to them. They have to take a special course in school called “anime language” which helps them understand it, just a bit. Even then, most Japanese people can only understand about 70% of the words…

Three Minutes Of…

This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyFile this one under “autobiographical advice”…. But I guess that file would include all advice ever given in the history of mankind. All philosophy is (auto)biography…I think Steve Chandler or someone said that once. So let me paint a little picture for you. The…