Fun

"I Am A Girl"


Fun with dust jackets:

Left to right, that’s:

  • Orihime And Juliet
  • Naked Old Man
  • I Am A Girl
  • Run, Dog!
  • Matasaburō Searches For Mama

(that last one is a bit incoherent, because the mashup is 3000 Leagues In Search Of Mother (featuring a Sheena Easton theme song!) and Matasaburō Of The Wind)

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Celebrate Diversity


Roy G. Biv hardest hit.

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Oh, this brings back memories...


…except that at our house, it was the dishwasher, and it took us half an hour to figure out where the muffled, plaintive meows were coming from.

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Why we can't have nice things...


Someone found this in one of our conference rooms this morning:

The entire wall is a whiteboard.

The projector screen is not.

(side note: Photoshop’s content-aware erase does a surprisingly-good job of redacting the text in the boxes…)

Word of the day: paisura


The tagging experience on Pixiv is… interesting. Images can only have a limited number of tags, so you’d think people would tend to consolidate, but no, there are thousands of tags, many of them slight variations that impair search results, and a lot that are just graffiti.

One useful descriptive term that turned up today was パイスラ (“paisura”), which at first glance looks like it might be related to paizuri (tit job), but in fact is an abbreviation for パイスラッシュ (“pai-slash”), and refers to the volume-enhancing effect of cross-body straps on clothed breasts. This also appears on Pixiv as π/.

Example images are left as an exercise for the reader.

(yes, someone in Tokyo owns paislash.com, and someone in Yokohama owns paisura.com)

Catfishing...


She may have some problems fitting in…

Art by rokurobuna

Wonder what brought that song to mind...


“Alexa, play songs by Ai Shinozaki.”

"Shuffling songs by Usher."

“Alexa, stop. Play ILBTs by Joe Walsh.”

"Playing ILBTs by Joe Walsh."

Dear Wordscapes,


I don’t understand why you’re not accepting this 7-letter word…

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”