I posted a short update regarding my apartment and my preparations for the long Iwate winter.
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Thank you, Best Buy, for increasing alienation by driving people to digital distribution and online retailers.
However, no stores here have the new Pavement re-release, so really that's on them for not selling the stuff I actually want to buy.
So the advent of digital distribution fosters alienation and the dissolution of community, according to experts.
Re-read all the Scott Pilgrim books in anticipation of getting the sixth one in the next couple of days. I always forget how good they are.
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Just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender (the TV series, not the movie). It was incredible. That's how you do storytelling right.
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I guess The New Pornographers released a new CD and I didn't know about it. But I know now. I just hope it's good.
Favorited a video: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)" Official Video FINAL CUT
"In 1867 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party created concentration camps to exterminate some millions of Jewish people."
Hey, nice blog!
I have watched all your videos on youtube, and it is really cool. I am jealous of you, as right now I am trapped in an American high school for three more years -sigh-.
Anyways, you have made quite a few references to how Japan is kind of sucking for you, because you can’t communicate with anybody. So, I thought I would link you to this site.
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency
It is this guy’s blog, were he discusses how he learned Japanese fluently by just immersing himself in it, which I thought my be helpful/motivational to you.
Also, I already asked this on youtube (but I am to lazy to see if you answered), is there any chance you will live in Japan for more than seven months?
Well, I really enjoy your blog and youtube videos! Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much for commenting! It’s great to hear from you. I registered my YouTube account with my old Hotmail e-mail address that I rarely check anymore but which I am too lazy to change, so I didn’t see your comment until just now. I guess I’ll post the response to both accounts just to be on the safe side.
Anyways, to answer your question, it’s still too early to say whether I’ll be staying in Japan beyond my initial seven-month contract. My feelings regarding my time in Japan change every day according to some strange astrological equation. But overall I do not really enjoy the job enough to feel justified in staying on with my company despite the good experiences I’ve had outside the classroom. It’d be cool to be able to stay longer, but I’m already sort of on my last legs as far as the job itself goes. I’ll keep you updated.
And I took a look at that website you linked to. It is an interesting idea, although I personally place too much value on my abilities with the written and spoken word to declare a moratorium on all English for months and months. I was an English major in college and have always done a lot of writing, so I’m not sure I’d be willing to let all that rust while I went and learned a new language through immersion of that sort. That program probably works well, but it’s farther than I’m willing to go at this point. I definitely will try to incorporate aspects of that guy’s ideas in my own studies though.
Did you copy and paste your reply on youtube to here? If so, that might explain why the background is so bright that it hurts my eyes to look at it. Really, I should bookmark this page on my iphone so that if I ever lose my keys on a dark night I can use the above comment as a flashlight.
I actually have no idea why that comment is like that. As I recall, I replied to this comment before I replied to the YouTube one, but I did type the text of both replies into MacJournal before copying and pasting it into the comments field, so maybe that was it. Then again, I could also have just typed a 0 instead of a 1 while I was tweaking the CSS of the site. Anything’s possible when it comes to weird web design minutiae.
Holy shit, why is it doing that?
So apparently there is some CSS setting specifically for comments by an admin who is logged in which I did not change to the white-text-on-black color scheme from the default white-on-black, because it didn’t mess up when I logged out of admin and type the above reply. I definitely am not willing to go poring through lines of CSS to fix this, so I’ll just have to remember to log out if I ever want to reply to someone’s comment. I hope that guy had my comment e-mailed to him or something, otherwise he’ll think I’m an asshole.
If you’re not using a wordpress plugin for comments, then the code should be in comments.php. Just look for the li tag where it says class=”something” id=”comment…”.
It’s the class type that changes your own comments to a different color. There should be some conditional code there that checks to see if user_id=1, and if so, it gives a class that looks like “authcomment” or something.
Once you know what the class is called, go into style.css and search for it. It probably says something like background-color: UGLY; — just change it to instead say background-color: NOTUGLY;, and you’ll be good to go.
Of course, if you’re using a comment plugin of some kind, the highlight may be coming from it instead. Quick fix would be to turn off the plugin; otherwise, you ave to go into the code of the plugin and change the css to NOTUGLY.
AHA! Fixed it.