Hostesses

My senpai sent me a note a while back asking about the Lucy Blackman trial. I had forgotten about it, it happened so long ago (2000). She was a British girl who came to Japan to make money as a hostess and ended up getting killed by some psychopath who had drugged and raped a bunch of hostesses. I haven't been able to find info on what happened with the trial of the psycho. Japan's legal system is very messed up. If I were that girl's dad and this was the U.S., I'd shoot the psycho in the head. Twice. With a history like that, trust me, the piece of shit isn't worth allowing to walk around.

Transcript of 60 Minutes bit on white-girl-stalking psychos....
If you still don't mind, here's a page about being a hostess.

Walther G22

My dad was telling me about the new Walther G22 rifle. It looks pretty sweet for a .22, even if it only has 10 rounds. I may have to include it in my list for the gun buying spree I go on when I move back to the U.S. Muahaha. Perhaps I'd better get that FFL after all.

Manko Power

Katy asked me to get her some stickers from this Japanese adult net store that say "manko power". How demented. Especially because it's in romaji. Perhaps they would've gotten in trouble if they'd written it in kana?

All About Pizza in Chicago

Worth studying? Mongo like pizza.

Katy's Gossip Links

Ok, so I was talking to Katy online about random stuff, and suddenly she sends me this incredibly twisted link to a Flash game about Lee Tamahori. The game is really twisted, but I had to go look up wtf Lee Tamahori was. I ended up on this site called The Superficial, which is some wacky celeb gossip site. Katy knew it, and then started sending me links to all these other gossip blogs: IDon'tLikeYouInThatWay.com, The Awful Truth (Blind Vice), and Dlisted. I didn't know she read this stuff. I thought she was a serious PhD student. And now my brain is reeling from nasty pictures of celebs I used to think were hot, like Teri Hatcher (think Tango & Cash, ok?). Good Lord, what has this society come to? But...but...here's Jessica Alba topless sunbathing? Yowza.

Bozzetti

While jogging, I went by Kugenuma station just for the heck of it -- ok, I thought I could cut around the Enoden tracks a different way and there wasn't one -- and passed by this leather goods store called Bozzetti. Handmade stuff is cool.

Check out Limbo

Apparently Dennis Ritchie worked on a successor to the C programming language, called Limbo. This sounds quite interesting...must learn more.

CNN News, 2006.02.02

Some news articles from CNN:
Women sue Wal-Mart over contraception - I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, but these feminist bitches need to get smacked down. Who the hell are they to tell a company they must stock a certain product? That's not capitalism, that's socialism! On the other hand, I'd be happy if morons like this didn't produce offspring, so maybe Wal-Mart should stock the morning-after meds. Incidentally, it's inaccurate to call it "contraception" if the medication is utilized post-fertilization.
How Pepsi outgunned Coke - An excellent article on why the cola wars wasn't everything. Also an eye-opener: if you buy stock in companies you like, sometimes it's not as profitable as buying companies you don't like. (I vastly prefer Coke to Pepsi, but made less than 10% on Coke stock.)
The "Oh, s#&%!" moment - A few good tips for handling the low points of office work. Check out "Managing the boss" and "Adventures in e-mail".
Young and in love with saving - Think about the future. Active investment is becoming a must in Corporate America. Don't trust your future to your employers: when it's time for you to "retire", they won't care about you anymore.

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