Kit Kat has a strong presence here in Japan. They have this 大人の甘さシリーズ (roughly translated: mature sweetness series) that introduces flavors more appealing to adults or those with a "more mature" palate.
chasing the moonlight by the river deep...
listening to the song of the wind in a whispered dream...
Friday, June 17, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
George Carlin
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
I laughed when I first heard this quote. It sounded so ridiculous! The idea that the fact that there are people stupider than you are should affect you somehow was incredulous. It also assumes that you live in a perfect world where perfect bell curves exist and that outliers or skewed graphs do not exist.
Assuming this fact is in some way true, how would this affect you?
Or is it human nature to look for people with similar minds? Who gets what you say or what you want to say or why you said what you said? Someone who can figure you out?
I laughed when I first heard this quote. It sounded so ridiculous! The idea that the fact that there are people stupider than you are should affect you somehow was incredulous. It also assumes that you live in a perfect world where perfect bell curves exist and that outliers or skewed graphs do not exist.
Assuming this fact is in some way true, how would this affect you?
Or is it human nature to look for people with similar minds? Who gets what you say or what you want to say or why you said what you said? Someone who can figure you out?
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Feature Request: Copy Text to Clipboard
Looking through my past feature request post I found a solution to one of them. I found a keyboard shortcut that works with rikai-kun (for chrome) that lets me copy the words that pop up. Here's a list of all the keyboard shortcuts for rikai-kun. The copied entries are tab-separated so you can paste it directly into Excel or a text-based file to export to flash card software or applications.
Keyboard shortcuts when popup is visible
Japanese Dictionary
jisho.org
I was using Weblio for translations but it has a lot of advertisements so loading the page takes too long. Jisho.org is a simpler site that loads faster. Kanji characters have furigana so you can read the example sentences or words you are looking up. The site also uses hash tags to help narrow down searches. You can even use them to call up specific word lists for studying.
Japanese to English Translations
Linguee
Linguee comes up with common translations for words and this site also gives example paragraphs of how the words are used. You get the context in which the words are used.
New link for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC EDict
wwwjdic word search
Keyboard shortcuts when popup is visible
A | Alternate popup location |
Y | Move popup location down |
C | Copy to clipboard |
D | Hide/show definitions |
Shift/Enter | Switch dictionaries |
B | Previous character |
M | Next character |
N | Next word |
Japanese Dictionary
jisho.org
I was using Weblio for translations but it has a lot of advertisements so loading the page takes too long. Jisho.org is a simpler site that loads faster. Kanji characters have furigana so you can read the example sentences or words you are looking up. The site also uses hash tags to help narrow down searches. You can even use them to call up specific word lists for studying.
Japanese to English Translations
Linguee
Linguee comes up with common translations for words and this site also gives example paragraphs of how the words are used. You get the context in which the words are used.
New link for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC EDict
wwwjdic word search
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