using a green magic marker if it's all right

[shizuku_san]

I finally got around to watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and have since had this song continuously stuck in my head. Cool Nerd points if you know why without a hint. It was pretty cool, though I have trouble with Nathan Fillion being the idiot, for some reason

Comments

[ndareba]

JLPT 1!!!!!!!
*applause* Wooow!!!!

I would love to meet you, but could you come to Japan? :>

[shizuku_san]

Save the applause until I actually pass. Which I WILL this year.

[pangloss]

Kanji Box is nuts. I used it for maybe fifteen minutes and then got frustrated because some of the kanji they were throwing at me had the weirdest readings I had ever seen. And then I realized I actually do suck at Japanese.

[shizuku_san]

Don't be silly, you suck the least at Japanese of most people I know. :P

[mrflibble]

Yey, more knowledge.

And as we know, knowing is half the battle.

[shizuku_san]

We do?

[mrflibble]

I thought you knew that half of knowing, and I had the other half... aww, man.

[6_bleen_7]

Howdy! You may remember me from long ago; we used to have a couple of common LJ friends, and I forgot all about your LJ until I recently looked at users interested in "耳をすませば". Sorry to see your LJ is friends-only now; your experiences in Japan sound fascinating.

As a card-carrying science nerd, I am compelled to point out two things. First, hyperuricemia is the immediate cause of gout, which as you say is often ultimately caused by a high-protein diet. Second, I don't know if you've heard about this, but an increasingly common source of E. coli O157:H7 is vegetables that have been fertilized with contaminated manure (usually human). For a couple months we couldn't buy fresh spinach at all unless we went to a farmer's market, because our grocery stores get it from Mexico, the source of a huge spinach-related E. coli O157:H7 outbreak.

[shizuku_san]

Howdy! I do remember you. ^_^

My journal is friends-only yes, but I'm happy to add you if you're interested in reading it. I don't post that often these days, but I like to think there's something interesting now and then.

Vegetables fertilized with contaminated human feces: EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[6_bleen_7]

Thanks! My brother, who did a custom major in Eastern religions in college, told me about the "hit you with a stick" school of Buddhist monasteries, and it looks as though you might have some experience there.

Yes, epidemiology is pretty disgusting if you look too closely at how various creepy crawlies get transmitted.