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Monday, April 28, 2008

Random Stuff From The Web:

More fascinating crap than you ever wanted to know about Japanese bathrooms.

Just in case you want to try this at home, kids: The Intimist.

9 comments:

breda said...: um, no thanks...; 6:55 PM, April 28, 2008
Zendo Deb said...: I think you are spending too much time surfing the web and not enough time on the great American novel - or whatever it is you are (or aren't) writing.; 7:35 PM, April 28, 2008
Tam said...: I'm pacing in impatience, waiting to hear back from an editor...; 7:51 PM, April 28, 2008
Less said...: I always thought it was funny that "keshoshitsu" was polite Japanese for powder room...

HAI!; 1:05 AM, April 29, 2008
Anonymous said...: The Intimist is a Chinese knockoff of the Toto Washlet. Toto's site is www.washlet.com, but the their "happycheeks" intro probably isn't work safe.; 6:20 AM, April 29, 2008
Anonymous said...: I spent several months in 1999 working in a Japanese semiconductor research plant, doing demonstration testing of a new machine they were buying from my US company. The engineering office had bathroom stalls whose seats had adjustable temperature control. Ahhh, I fondly recall many the cold morning I sat in luxury atop those thrones!

And I will only mention in passing the Ultraviolet-sanitized turbojet hand drier, which warmly dried my hands after washing, in about 3 seconds flat.

There is a quiet grandeur in making very pleasant those most necessary of life's functions. Sign me up for a luxury bathroom asap!; 11:44 AM, April 29, 2008
Matt G said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2:50 PM, April 29, 2008
Matt G said...: "She Who Must Be Obeyed has suggested that the flag of Japan - a red circle on a field of white - might very well be symbolic not of the Rising Sun, but of a Brown-Eye scrubbed raw in an attempt to achieve perfect cleanliness.

Indeed. Nippon: Land of the Rising Sun...and the Spotless Bung."

Second bunghole color change that we've been referred to in the last week by your blog, Tam.

This is a disturbing trend. ;); 2:52 PM, April 29, 2008
Anonymous said...: An amusing trend. A blog meme?

Would more beer help?; 5:03 PM, April 29, 2008