This blog is going through yet another redesign as the old “electric cactus” theme is incompatible with the latest version of WordPress and because older versions are vulnerable to a security threat. The redesign is probably not the only thing that’s going to change around here. I’m working on making this site a bit more professional by registering www.shoikeda.net, which is a more resume-friendly URL, and publishing a library/information science blog in this space.
I’m still going to keep the old cuponoodles.net URL, but it won’t redirect you to this personal blog since I’d have to buy two hosting accounts with my website hosting service in order to do that. I’ll probably move this blog to a subfolder, which will be linked to from the front page of shoikeda.net.
Anyway, I’m sure this very interesting for all of you, but I’m looking forward to making some changes here and hopefully it will pay off in some way job-wise!
At first I thought this video of a walk across a rickety suspension bridge in Japan was pretty bad.
It reminded me of this perilous path in China.
But then I clicked on a link to this video in the comments and was utterly stunned by this hiking trail in Spain.
I’d love do more traveling in the future, but these are locales that I will probably skip.
Credit: BoingBoing
There She Is is a very cute Korean-made series of short animated films, which I believe is an allegory about the taboos surrounding Japanese-Korean romantic relationships, but can be taken as a story about any kind of forbidden love. Full of energy, action and catchy Korean pop music, these five short cartoons are worth checking out.
Credit: Journal of Emmy C
I’ve only just recently gotten into drinking and enjoying scotch, so it was entertaining and educational to catch a series of Twitter posts by British writer Warren Ellis while he was drinking the stuff.
Just gone midnight. Time for whisky and the absurdity of making shit up for a living. 5:16 PM Dec 5th from twhirl
@sherimonk Why would I spend good money on Canadian whisky when I can just go and get a dog to piss in my mouth for free? 6:06 PM Dec 5th from twhirl in reply to SheriMonk
I love many things about Canada, but I’m afraid the whisky is not one of them. Might be okay for descaling a drain, maybe. 6:13 PM Dec 5th from twhirl
People will kill me if I go into a long tirade about whisky on this thing. 6:44 PM Dec 5th from twhirl
Continue reading Warren Ellis, Twitter, and Whisky
Auditorium
An abstractly beautiful music game.
Credit: Penny Arcade
