Author: alaya

Watching this anime series and the main character, Rakka, receives pea soup from the man at a restaurant in a container made from a segment of bamboo. I wonder if such containers actually exist or if it is merely a creation of the artists for this scene?  It seems like there would need to be…

Saudi Arabia receives substantial military and economic support from the United States and it used its army to crush the popular revolution in Bahrain in what amounts to a great atrocity. How can the United States claim to support freedom when it abandoned the people of Bahrain in their hour of need and left them…

Courts in Japan have ruled a national election invalid because of vote-value disparity. Vote-value disparity is when the vote of one citizen in one place has a different weight than a vote of a citizen in another place. It is difficult to have absolutely no disparity at all, but beyond a certain level it is…

Bathroom mold is a serious problem particularly in places like San Francisco which can frequently be cool and damp. I learned this tip from my parents actually: Use a bathroom squeegee. After every shower use the squeegee to remove water droplets adhering to the tiles and along the rim of the tub (or along the…

Windows 8 now uses the yucky “Photos” app to handle importing photos from digital cameras which to me is a significant regression from the photo import utility of previous versions. Because I like many users have bypassed the new Windows interface by using Classic Shell, its also an annoyance when that interface comes up and…

How I really long for Linux to become a mainstream desktop OS! Linux offers so, so much more to users in terms of basically everything. It can be extremely simple and reliable for more novice users to extremely advanced and customizable for more hard core users. Linux has never been plagued with the security nightmares…

America is being taken in the wrong direction, in the direction of the strip-mall, by its present leaders. America should not go in the direction of the strip-mall. It is the wrong direction. When it allows 20 million highly uneducated people to pour into the country for the sake of cheap labor and greasing the…

Tried some noise-cancelling headphones today at the Bose store in the mall and Wow! they really are quite amazing. Too bad there aren’t noise-cancelling ear implants. It is something that I would seriously consider where I live. Am looking into saving up for a good pair of these headphones. A pair of wireless ones that…

Right now the government is intending to grant mass amnesty to what it claims are 10 million illegals living in the United States but which more realistically is about 20 million. 2/3 of these illegals are illiterate and do not even have a basic high school diploma. Because of the nature of the current system…

I just saw this post on a forum: Re: Which new notebook models have trackpoint? [ Edited ] Options ‎01-26-2012 09:57 PM – edited ‎01-26-2012 10:39 PM Machines, which I`m aware of, that currently offer trackpoints are: All EliteBooks; ProBook 6450b, 6455b & 6550b. All known ThinkPads (not IdeaPads). NEC EasyNote MX45, MX65, S5. Fujitsu…