The standard windshield for my portable recorder wasn't cutting the mustard, so I went and bought a deadkitten for it.  I'm not kidding, that's what it's really called.  A Rode Dead Kitten.  (The bigger ones are, ostensibly, called Dead Cats.)


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So - My Japanese Coach.  I've been meaning to talk about it on here for a while, since so many of you classy folks on the f-list are studying the language.  It's a nifty little Ubisoft-published game for the Nintendo DS which, as you might have guessed, attempts to teach you Japanese.  I probably wouldn't suggest it to anybody as their sole study ( Read more... )