Mark_McCracken comments

Erotic asphyxiation is very dangerous.

Selling point: Regardless of your height, you can cut your head open on one of the six 90 angles built into our steel staircase.

Wouldn't it be better to have a picture of the missing child, rather than one of the mother?

I didn't know for sure, and this questions prompted me to check.

Unsurprisingly, my evacuation center is the elementary school down the street.

Yep. Food, drinks, extra water to flush the toilet. I learned from my friends after the Kobe quake.

A very windy Saturday night predicted for Tokyo.

https://www.windfinder.com/#8/35.7034/139.3378/2019-10-12T15:00Z

Minister of the Environment Shinjiro Koizumi should work diligently on a solution that is "cool" and "sexy".

It literally was compensated dating.

"Pager"? I think the phrase is "Pocket Bell".

Both pitch and rhythm are objectively measurable.

Make more space. So much undesirable land thanks to TEPCO's incompetence. Buy it up and use it.

They dress like guys eating at Sukiya after a losing day of off-track betting.

Eighty people have died from the heat in the two weeks from July 29, with 31,100 taken to hospital.

Counter-intuitively, this relatively weak typhoon may actually be saving lives.

Don't you mean, "...nothing LESS than..."?

The profit margin on theme park food is so big I'd hope theme parks would just charge one price for food items and take the 2 percent from their profits, if the customer sits down.

The refined, traditional beauty of Gion is the antithesis of Hard Rock. Overall, I am a fan of the WDI group, but they seem to be overextending the brand with this location.

Higashiyama is speaking of the world of entertainment within Japan.

There are likely dozens of people more influential to the actual world of entertainment than was the late Johnny Kitagawa.

It's good - significantly better than I expected. Kind of Slumdog Millionaire meets typical romantic comedy with some social commentary thrown in. Laughed out loud several times.

200 tablets would be about 2200 grams, according to Popular Science. So closer to 17,600,000 yen, given mph-1212's valuation of 8000 yen per gram.

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/how-much-cocaine-can-you-fit-your-body

Well done, P&G.

Toyoto has a robot that often hits three pointers with the stated intent of making its engineers feel good about themselves.

Meanwhile, Boston Dynamics created two-wheeled robots that load multiple SKUs onto pallets, doing real work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns

This link is better:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

In the annual global rankings, The University of Tokyo ranks 42nd, and Kyoto University ranks 65th.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/world-university-rankings-2019-results-announced

Osaka, I think, would be a strong possibility. Especially since the area they seem to be talking about will be next to the 2025 International Expo. I'm surprised Tokyo isn't interested.

Congratulations.

I binge watched all 8 episodes. It's good. Too many prostate gags, but great acting and, overall, a good script. Laughed out loud several times per episode.

I believe this is the most recent national data on crime by foreigners. My Japanese isn't good enough to read it. Perhaps someone could determine the extent to which "the number of investigations into crimes by foreigners across Japan has increased".

https://www.npa.go.jp/sosikihanzai/kokusaisousa/kokusai/H27_rainichi.pdf

I watched the first two episodes of the new season. Surprisingly, I didn't miss Spacey, much. Diane Lane, still smoking hot, and Claire offer some frenemies exchanges that are LOL smartly written.

I recall hearing how English teachers would be replaced by interactive programs on a new thing called CD-ROMS.

Not MAS*H

MAS*H