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The Stomach Contents of a Giant Isopod

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Food and Drink, Humor, Open thread at October 18th, 2017 - 10:16 pm

Giant Isopod Girl

Giant Isopod Stomach Contents

The other day, I was examined the contents of the digestive tract of Giant isopod who died.

in individuals captured after the date has not passed, it does not eat food in the aquarium.

Stomach contents, you believed that you were eating in the food or the seabed in the trap at the time of capture.

Previously, there was a thing that was introduce another individual of the contents, inside also this individual digestive tract had been filled with undigested material.

Color is black, different impression until now.

Weight of stomach contents is 128.5g, because body weight was about 1000g, you pretty now that it was at once ate a large amount of food for the body weight.

In texture you whether referred to as a “massive”, “soggy” This time, such as the internal organs of something if from the color feel of the … squid?

Smell is stronger, but because it was unexpectedly pond likely feel it when I smell, I tried to make sure the taste is a little lick.

Not surprisingly unpleasant, here also certainly (such as, for example, Ayu visceral salted “Uruka”) taste like salted fish visceral.

Even I feel taste.

When you leave for a while and left at room temperature (22 ℃), so went more and more soluble in muddy, I felt that you are self-digestion. Do Will contains a large amount of enzyme.

After that, I was a survey of solid was strained with a net, but this time in as long as it was confirmed by eye scales of fish are not included at all, there was still many just squid beak.

Most but is small enough width 7mm, even things like pieces of a large squid beak is in.

This individual seems to have apparently eat squid.

Giant Isopod 2

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[Found here via here. Description via Google Translate – Japanese to English. Related posts here. More on Giant Isopods here and here.]

Caturday 9/22/2012: DIY Edition

by 1389AD ( 55 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Food and Drink, Open thread at September 22nd, 2012 - 9:39 pm

Adventures in Bentomaking: Sanrio

Hello Kitty bento boxBento boxes are the Japanese version of lunch boxes. The difference is the greater emphasis on esthetics and creativity in the box itself and especially in its contents. On our side of the pond, we are content to throw a sandwich, a small bag of chips, and maybe a piece of fruit into a plastic bag and call it lunch. Not so in Japan!

Japanese housewives and other bento makers use large and small cookie cutters and punches to make various edible garnishes to be assembled with the food. Some items are prepared in decorative shaped molds. And yes, in Japan and elsewhere, you can get your own Sanrio-licensed Hello Kitty bento boxes, as well as Hello Kitty cookie cutters, punches, molds, and other kitchen utensils.

Hello Kitty Bento

Hello Kitty cute bento

It’s cherry blossom viewing season in Japan and so my wife wants to make a picnic and go view the cherry blossoms. Then Hello Kitty Hell struck with a link left in the last post that showed photos of various Hello Kitty bento creations…

More here.

Crafting with Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat [Paperback]

Book: Crafting with Cat Hair

Got fur balls?

Are your favorite sweaters covered with cat hair? Do you love to make quirky and one-of-a-kind crafting projects? If so, then it’s time to throw away your lint roller and curl up with your kitty! Crafting with Cat Hair shows readers how to transform stray clumps of fur into soft and adorable handicrafts. From kitty tote bags and finger puppets to fluffy cat toys, picture frames, and more, these projects are cat-friendly, eco-friendly, and require no special equipment or training. You can make most of these projects in under an hour—with a little help, of course, from your feline friends!

Hello Kitty Wedding Dress

Pink Hello Kitty wedding dress

Even worse than people asking me to be a Hello Kitty wedding planner is the thought that one day I will have to hear about the concrete plans for my own Hello Kitty wedding. I make every attempt not to write anything about Hello Kitty wedding related stuff because it inevitable leads to trouble. When my wife and I got married, her Hello Kitty fanaticism had yet to kick in, and not having a Hello Kitty wedding is something that she feels is missing from her life. Our Hello Kitty wedding would, of course, include a minimum of at least one Hello Kitty wedding dress (it’s common for the bride in Japan to change into three or four different dresses during the wedding ceremony)…
More here.

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the history f art

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 137 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Art, Asia, History, Humor, Japan, Nuclear Weapons, OOT, Open thread, Weapons, World at March 24th, 2012 - 9:00 pm

Approximately 200-400 years ago during Japan’s Edo period, an unknown artist created what is easily the most profound demonstration of human aesthetics ever committed to parchment. I am referring to He-Gassen a.k.a. 屁合戦 a.k.a. “the fart war.” In this centuries-old scroll, women and men blow each other off the page with typhoon-like flatulence. Toss this in the face of any philistine who claims that art history is boring.

Ancient Japanese art is a gas – but my hoax-alert antennae are twitching with the reference to “He-Gassen” even though I found another source here. [Found here, h/t Princess Natasha.]

And like a fart in the wind, we’re cranking out an early Saturday edition of
The Overnight Open Thread.

The Historical revionism of Justin Raimondo

by Phantom Ace ( 170 Comments › )
Filed under History, Media, Republican Party, World War II at August 30th, 2011 - 8:30 am


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Ron Paul’s isolationist views didn’t come out of a vacuum. He’s just espousing a foreign policy view echoed by radical Libertarians. Justin Raimondo is an radical Libertarian Isolationist. He is against any military action overseas, even if they’re in our clear interest. His website Anti-War.com has vile writers and revisionist articles.

The most vile article ever written by Justin Raimondo was written on August 8th 2001.  It was 56th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. It was  one month before 9/11, which he has blamed on the Mossad and the CIA. Justin Raimondo claims that the US was the villain in the Pacific theater during WWII. He envisions that a Japanese victory would have been a great thing.

The idea that America is, in any sense, a civilized country is easily dispelled by the orgy of self-congratulation and rationalization that accompanies the dual anniversaries of Harry Truman’s decision to atom bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Want your gorge to rise? Check out the New York Post editorial “The Bomb That Saved Millions,” (August 6) which justifies the bombings as a “military necessity.” The editorial opines that “few at the time questioned President Harry S. Truman’s wisdom in using the devastating new weapon, but revisionist historians and political activists maintain now – more than a half-century later – that the atomic bombing of Japan was militarily unnecessary and morally unacceptable.” The Post is New York City’s most popular newspaper – a place where the official standard of morality is closer to the Code of Lek than the Ten Commandants. So why are we not surprised that the Post finds all this appalling?

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One of the job qualifications for being a New York Post editorial writer is a complete ignorance of history, as well as an amorality that might be called Murdochian, as this little screed makes all too clear. For the myth of “military necessity” as a justification for the incineration of two cities has been convincingly debunked by the so-called revisionists, who have shown that the decision to drop the bomb was opposed by an impressive list of Truman’s top commanders, General Douglas MacArthur among them. In The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, historian Gar Alperovitz reveals that Truman’s chief of staff, Admiral William Leahy, chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernest J. King, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, General Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers, Army Strategic Air Forces Commander Carl Spatz, and Army Air Force General Curtis “Bombs Away” Lemay, all challenged the military necessity argument. Among Truman’s top advisors, Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, former Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew, Navy Under Secretary Ralph Bard, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all took issue with the decision in one way or another. In 1963, Dwight Eisenhower told Newsweek that “it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

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The great horror is that this heinous deed was committed against Japan, a civilization as far removed from our own as the streets of New York are from the African savannas. It’s at times like these that I tend to believe the wrong side won the war in the Pacific. Just think: if we all woke up one day living in some alternate history, as in Phillip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, our cultural malaise would disappear overnight. Instead of listening to the latest loutish lyrics of Eminem, American teenagers would be contemplating the subtle beauty of the Japanese tea ceremony. If contemporary Japan is any clue, the crime rate would be cut by 95 percent, and the literacy rate would skyrocket. Certainly everyone’s manners would improve. All in all, life would be far more civilized, imbued with a gentility that would make the New York Post an impossibility

Read the rest: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR Why Americans are barbarians

It’s been 10 years since Justin Raimondo wrote this lunacy. His views haven’t changed. Just this week over at Anti-War.com, there’s an article claiming the US dropping the bombs on Japan, was kicking a them when they were down.

As I recall, the three main speakers on the earlier panel were historians, and each offered a different reason why the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

Gar Alperovitz argued that the U.S. wanted to assert its military superiority in the upcoming Cold War, that is, to intimidate the Soviet Union.

Barton Bernstein posited that the U.S. dropped the bombs for domestic reasons. President Harry Truman feared that the American taxpayers would revolt if, with the war ended, they discovered he had not used the products of the horribly expensive government R&D venture, the Manhattan Project. It had cost $2 billion, today’s $20 billion.

Ronald Takaki said the U.S. motive was largely racist.

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Most likely, before the U.S. planned the invasion of Japan on Nov. 1, the USSBS concluded, “Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped.” Many U.S. military commanders had expected the same.

Yet Gen. Henry Arnold assembled the largest air armada ever of 1,014 aircraft to bomb Tokyo after Japan accepted the surrender terms. The motive was purely “vindictive” and “gratuitous,” Dower notes.

Justin Raimondo is not an isolationist, he’s anti-American. He claims to be a Tea Party supporter, but in the Paulian context. Mr. Raimondo has written at vile websites like VDARE and the nasty Greek businessman Taki’s, American Conservative.

Justin Raimondo is a nasty person who deserves no credibility and is to be rightfully vilified.

Here is Justin Raimondo posing as some cool hip tough guy.

Just Raimondo poses some scary Mob figure.

Justin Raimondo is a deranged self delusional man.



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