Do you know Japaneese otaku word, ‘Moe(萌え)’?

It’s hard to explain, but it means, cute thing, nearly.

So that girl is totally moe, yeah.

But don’t ask Kenny about ‘moe’. He will blame you.

1) Yeah, Flickr’s interface is way better than Picasa. I just really don’t want to be limited on how many pictures or albums I can have.

2) Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed it. One problem with automation is that if it fucks up somehow, you don’t always catch it.

3) I originally was exploring the idea that after one such successful incident of communication and the accompanying feeling of elation, that I was no longer as willing to go back to just being the weird gaijin who can’t speak Japanese and being understood and being able to understand is like something that I no longer can go without; I went cold turkey for a while, and then now this opened the floodgates, or something. I started exploring this notion with the following set of sentences, which I do still have:

“The feeling I got from this exchange was like when I ate at Chipotle for the first time and suddenly realized that, even though I had only been aware of its existence for twenty minutes, I was forever after no longer interested in living a life without those head-sized burritos with the rice and beans and cheese and all that.”

But I realized that this didn’t really illustrate the sentiment I was going for and, further, could be interpreted as me saying that this incident made me want to have a kid of my own, which is definitely not what I was trying to convey. Plus, I just can’t seem to stop thinking about all the awesome American food I miss, and I’m sure that gets old for people to read about after a while. So I got rid of it and didn’t replace it with anything. So the title refers to something that I decided not to explore, but I couldn’t think of another title that worked better.

4) I hadn’t thought of it like that, but yes. That makes it even better, then.

#2: Did you see what your friendfeed widget did when you uploaded those pics?

#3: I don’t get the title of this entry.

#4: That really was an epic win. It’s awesome not only that you answered the question, but that you answered at a very appropriate time: her first question of a foreigner. Well done.