One thing that nearly all people have in common is that they like to know when another person send them something. Using a variety of sources, I think I have a pretty good handle on finding other people who send me stuff. In fact, I think I find about 90% of all packages sent to me — but I may be wrong.

This is an experiment to see how “findable” my house is. Put me to the the test, fellow retarded monkeys bloggers science-inclined readers.

All you have to do is send a $100 bill to this particular postal address (i.e., the one I’ll email you privately). Just call it Dr Dave Postal Tracking Experiment or something like that. After a few days, I’ll post a list of every people I found have sent me a $100 bill. If you’re not on the list, I’ll invite you to send me your tracking number. I’ll report these unfound bills to the Post Office, and we’ll try to figure out why I didn’t get them.

By the way, this is not just a cheap way to get some money (although it won’t hurt). I really think it will be a useful experiment. I’ll reveal all of my sources and, hopefully, learn about some new ones. I think other people and the postal tracking companies may benefit from the results.

Inspired by Mr. J-Walk and his brilliant scheme idiot-trap Blogger Experiment.

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こんばんわ。ハンガリーは午前4時
途中経過の写真になりますが毎晩こんな感じです。
富士ロックを軽く10倍越す程のクレイジーな奴らが
1週間掛けて踊り狂うとてつもないパーティーで、
ヨーロッパ中の人がこのイベントに参加し
写真の様になってる次第でございます。
島を貸し切ってのイベントなので(お台場1/4く
らいかな。)端から端まで歩くと1時間程かかり
その中に40程の音楽ステージがあり、どこへ行っ
ても人だらけ。。。。
勤務時間も朝9時〜午前3時まで働かせられ、
ちょっとしんどいけど明日で終わりなので
何とかがんばってきます。
夏休み旅行には程遠かった。。。

First off, let me officially declare Geek Week closed for good: no more stuff about databases, microformats and other cool pet projects, for a while.

Instead, I’m gonna bring a crowd pleaser to the important part of my readership who is currently saving on their weekly imported Poki consumption, to fulfill their teenage wet-dream of a pilgrimage to the fantasy land they have come to associate with Japan in their head. I know they’ve been reading ever since their google search for “japanese upskirt pictures” or “pokemon furry porn” got them here.

Today’s topic is: Manga.

Mangas can be summed up approximately thus: they suck. They suck big hairy giant mutant robots balls.

Now I know I’m causing a lot of grief among the otaku crowd here. At least those who haven’t already gone back to humping their pillows dolls or building that lifesize gundam robot…

Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

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Atsushi took us to one incredibly old izakaia… Stepping in felt like landing in the middle of 19th century Japan. Prices didn’t seem to have changed much either: always nice to spend an evening of drinks and food for less than 2000 yens…