Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.
Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, Brendan “Beej” Dery, with Special Guest Isaac Alexander!
Topics Covered this Week:
- The Problem with the Rising Japanese Economy - link
- Book: Dogs and Demons - link
- Japan’s Crazy Beauty Products - link
- Manga Pulled From Library - link
- Dai-Cast’s Asshat of the Week - Bill Postmus
- How to Stir in Japanese - link
- The Gosperats: Blackface in Japan - link
- Actual Gosperats Video - link
- Let’s Sexy English - link
- It Eats Japanese Onions - link
- ACML-Con - link
- Beej’s Webcomic of The Week - XKCD
- Beej’s Webcomic of Last Week - Red String
- Beej’s Shoutout - Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
- Jason’s Shoutout - Mother Nature, and her Rockin’ Earthquakes
Running Time: 01:23:28
There is a double edge to the artilce on “The problem with the rising Japanese economy”, namely the Yen-carry trade that was aiding the US dollar and a number of other economies around the world. So when they made their announcement a few weeks ago about taking interest rates above 0 it meant that nations could no longer borrow wholesale at 0% and put their money into another currency. So at the moment Iceland’s economy is in the process of tanking and the US loses a great way to finance a lot of debt on the cheap.
[I am making these comments as I listen]
With respect to the Tacoma narrows. There was virtually no concrete on it, save for the road bed. The problem was the steel framing for the road deck was so light in construction - for appearance - that it could happily torque about when the wind hit it. That and being a open frame means that the road deck can act of a sail of sorts when it does start rotating.
Moral of the story is use more steel.
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The library bit reminds me of one of the people I met working at the gas station one summer (he was the milk/junk food delivery person). He worked at a video place up on Jasper ave (west end). His great problem was that there was no video feed into the adult video section. As a result many consumers left depositits of various biologic types in the back room. He did not like doing cleanup.
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You can stir fluid out of a glass just as easily as going back and forth. Just a question of how much you put into it.
As for ice tea my solution is to just use very hot water for the first little bit which helps put it all into solution. And then you add the rest of the water and stir or swish as is your preferance.
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Kool-aid party? Why do I think of cults… did you have your GP groupies and precipitate a mass suicide?
Ahh… the stirring of vaginal wetness.
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Krozmoctograph… *chuckles* or would it be krozmactrograph…
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Oddly enough the Saxaphone, that great jazz instrument was a pivotal feature of Emperor Napoleon III domestic policy. Upon taking over France his first act was to restore the saxaphone to military bands as the prior Republic had banned it.
Better than that was the amusing tale of the guy who created it. Imagine creating an instrument… imagine a few years go by. Now imagine the music instrument guild has basically declared war on you and goes to every length to destroy you. Not only are you a klutz of anime proportions (he poisoned himself on numerous occasions, accidentally) but you have instrument makers out to destroy you - it is almost worth of a series.
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That was likely the Aberdeen Mall, Isacc, that is not surprising. Welcome to Hong-couver. What is even stranger is that the named the mall after a city in Scotland. The older asian mall just to the north actually had an asian-sort-of name.
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Well, a Brazillian finally made it into an anime (Tenjo-Tenge). Not exactly black, but it certainly is a distinct Japanese minority making it into the scene as it were.
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Russians are the cheapest to import. Just ship them over from Vladisvostok in containers. A lot shorter than China-BC.
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Hard-gay-man-faye, it flows rather easily from the tongue.
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At any rate it is now 3am, at 1:00 on the ep so I am off to bed.