This week, they not only pull out all the stops, but the organs as well. Frieren’s role in the battle was… educational, for all concerned, while Methode was definitely the star.

(Frieren might be popular in Japan…)

A Wild Last Boss Reappeared!

The light novels have returned to Amazon, as completely new listings. Same publisher, same contents, but different ASIN and no series metadata linking them, and backdated as if they’ve been there all along.

Bad tiger!

There are two Tiger Gyoza locations in Kyoto. The one near Karasuma & Shijo is the one we found first several years ago, but on our most recent trip, we were near the other one East of Teramachi when hunger struck, so we went in, only to discover that their menu did not include the pukkuri (plump) variety. The one in Osaka does, so we’d just assumed it was their signature style. Still good food, but we’d never deliberately go there again when the other location isn’t that far away.

Incense countermeasures

After a few whiffs at an incense or diffuser display, it gets really difficult to tell them apart. To me the solution seemed obvious, something I’d first seen in an outlet-mall cologne shop in Gilroy: a dish of coffee beans. The strong odor of the roasted beans is quite effective at resetting your sense of smell.

A grocery store supplied a small bag of dark-roasted espresso beans (which will get cycled through my espresso maker soon), and a dollar store supplied a pair of small screw-top plastic containers. Not only did this make it easier to pick out the fainter incense varieties, it came in very handy when mixing ingredients in our chinese-medicine-style incense-making class.

Today I Learned…

…that I apparently lost power yesterday long enough for the UPS to run dry and shut off my NAS. I didn’t notice due to my body and brain still being spread across three time zones.

Speaking of which,

I made the NAS basically unusable by trying to download the torrent version of Flashpoint Ultimate. Something about how it was trying to preallocate 2.2 TB of space across multiple files before starting the download. Apple’s Samba stack did not approve.

So I copy-pasted the list of URLs and downloaded them directly with wget in a loop.

Unrelated,

Not only does Alton Brown have a new Youtube series (plus a few shorts), he’s following up his final tour with… another tour.

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