It is amazing how many Japanese females suddenly realize that they have a fake cell call when they see me walking towards them. Even in the middle of the day.
Just now, a girl was running, then stopped dead to take out her phone. Hell, even a businessman did it.
Why don’t they ever talk though? It would make it much more believable.
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Categories: Internet · Randomness
I was Stumbling on the net today, and I came across a program called “MuchoBene”, which is a great idea, but awful in practice. The basic idea is that it is a public IM service, like AIM or MSN, but without a login. You simply ask a question and other people with the program help you out if they can. Great idea right? Instant help.
Unfortunately, this is assuming that people on the internet are helpful. This is the worst possible assumption to make about the world.
No one on the internet, who has the knowledge, and actually has the time to answer someone’s question will ever be helpful. The general conversation will go something like this:
You – “I’m having trouble with this…. This is what’s happening… This is what I’ve tried…. Any suggestions?”
Faceless Internet Jerk – “Wow, you’re just retarded. Why do you even own [that product]? You are obviously too stupid to do anything.”
Of course, you could try to defend yourself, but the Faceless Internet Jerk (FIJ) has an answer for everything.
“I tried….” you may say, in an attempt to prove that you are not stupid. “If you know so much that you can call me an idiot, why not just help me?”
FIJ – “You wouldn’t understand anything I say. You’re obviously too stupid. Just give up on life. You’re so stupid, I bet you have AIDS.”
And the conversation would go on from there. I know what some of you are saying. I’m giving the FIJ too much credit, there is no way his grammar and spelling would be that good. It would look more like, “U wuldnt understand. your to such tard. I bet you have aids, cuz yer that stoopid.”
That would probably be a more accurate representation of the FIJ’s statements, which should only further illustrate that arguing will get you nowhere. A FIJ will never understand logic. Logic is what we “stoopid people” use to show the world just how stoopid we are.
In conclusion, it is not completely pointless to ask questions of people on the internet, but you have to do your research to find the forums where intelligent people are. You need to search out people who realize that the answer “Google it.” doesn’t work any more because the top hits on Google are the forums with FIJs telling everyone to “Google it.” It’s a vicious cycle. You can still ask questions, but there is only about a 5-10% chance that someone will be kind enough to help you in any way.
Tsutenkaku tower is famous because lots of famous people from Osaka grew up in the area. However, no Japanese person knows this fact, they all think it’s famous because people say it is.
This is a common trait of the Japanese society. Things are famous for perfectly valid reasons, but no one knows those reasons. If you ask a Japanese person, “Why is this place famous?” the only answer you will get is, “Because it is.”
Anyway, come along and see more photos from what is possibly the worst tower in all of Japan. I mean there is really nothing good to see, but friends are good. So there’s that.
Categories: Japan · Photos
Tagged: Japan, Sightseeing
Welcome welcome, one and all. It’s time for chapter 6 in the life of Michael Thomas Heller (of course this will only make the 3rd regularly blogged chapter, but we’ll ignore that for now.) For those of you keeping track:
Chapter 1: Childhood (writing skills not developed)
Chapter 2: High School (chronicled sporadically in personal journals)
Chapter 3: Life at Syracuse
Chapter 4: Life in Montreal (also partially chronicled in photos)
Chapter 5: Life in Osaka (chronicled mostly in photos, but slightly in the previous journal and at Facebook)
Chapter 6: Life in Boston
To be accurate, life in Boston won’t really start until mid-August, but there has been overlap in older chapters, so why not keep up the trend. Anyway, have a good time to anyone who has found their way here. I’ll try to get the pace back up from where it was before. Mostly, I’ll be starting with e-mail posts of random thoughts from around Japan. I do have the option here to import my old journals, but I like the idea of a clean page.
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