I functionally agree with the sentiment of your comment, but a spirited motorcycle ride requires quite a bit of body movement and muscle exertion.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but a Rolex does not take a year to build. It's a mass market, mass produced watch. They make more than a million watches per year. If you were talking about a Patek or some real haute horologie, then maybe.

This is a film, but not fiction - C'était un rendez vous, filmed in 1976, is an 8m39s early morning whirlwind tour of paris in a mercedes - no stunts, no plot just some of the fastest driving in an urban center ever on film, and it was 100% real, done in one take.

It's probably the fact that they cite their sources, like any other reputable journal.

I went to Big Sur - you may recognize the view. The best car camping spot I've ever been to.

if data points support this, then cool - especially in this country and region. otherwise kindly shut up without any information to back up your prejudice.

Retron 3 has a crappy sound chip, bad controllers, and won't play a lot of the famicom library.

If you check out the Yahoo! page, there's a great guide to Japanese pager slang, like how to use the numbers to send ad-hoc messages! Not to mention the tamagotchis and ice-blue baby G's. So totally 1998 Shibuya-Kei.

Very remeniscent of the rahmens "shazai" video from a while back.

If you want to take Nozomi trains, you can't smoke. Some Kodama/Hikari trains still allow smoking.. but it seems like accident, rather than design.

FDS was great and a little ahead of it's time - one of the problems is almost no disks had mechanical shutters to keep dust out and the reader could be pretty finicky. Loading times were generally pretty great though, especially for the 1980s! It's one of the reasons I stick to carts in my twin Famicom :

FDS are disks. Not cartridges (カセット)

I actually designed something for Music Hack Tokyo that uses an API called Rhythm from Gracenote that basically does exactly what echonest does/did - powers discovery of new music and maps it to certain criteria. Echonest going into spotify's pocket just means others will have to step up — anyway, if you want to check…

I'd say most of the 'racism' is benign or just ignorant, and not really malicious, especially with younger generations. (I'm 29.) Sure, you are sometimes treated like a novelty, but it's nothing close the being treated like dirt. I think you're thinking of the South during Jim Crow.

Not Gohan is also a pun. Gohan = Dinner in Japanese.

My friend Kat from SCAD works for you guys :)

The SAAB 9-3 headlights look at home with snow and ice..

He's just following her to Yodobashi Akiba around the corner.

Because nuanced, balanced coverage of a game and it's place within the gaming ecosystem is "hipster." OK.

Someone asked me about this at work today. I told them that I know plenty of japanese people having sex, just getting married later .. kind of like the rest of the world! Japan has a fairly commodified sex industry but so do most asian countries...