LJK Setright...master of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Well, yes and no...consider the writing system. "Kanji" is literally Chinese letters, from which sprang more graceful hiragana and subsequently the fragmented katakana. Japan, politically closed or not, has been malleable to foreign influence throughout most of its history. Heian courts conducted important business…

And ST Armada II with the Dominion pack!

And Birth of the Federation...the greatest of them all...is where?

I understand these won't work in 2014 though :(

Indeed the mindset is different, as you have described: keyboard vs D-pad, stick vs auto, etc...the hardware is an expression of the world view behind it.

I use two stacked medium or large drink lids...less pour precision required and the additional width and space provided more than makes up for the depth.