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    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

Nuriko is a hero, thank you!
ninetimes Learning resources 200 212,050 2011-10-20, 8:47 am
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

And another one down: - 「男女の心理 学知りたい!相手の気持ち」 - ”I want to know the opposite sex’s mentality! Partner’s feelings” Well, archives are down now, anyway. I knew I should have grabbed everything. Their f...
ninetimes Learning resources 200 212,050 2011-10-18, 10:08 am
    Thread: Bob Martin Pet Products...
Post: Bob Martin Pet Products...

In the US, your safest bet for flea control are the topical treatments, Frontline and Advantage. There are third party ones but they're far sketchier and less tested. My cat had no success with Frontl...
ninetimes Off topic 39 12,146 2011-09-16, 9:32 am
    Thread: japanese videogames with scripts/furigana etc.
Post: japanese videogames with scripts/furigana etc.

Probably an encoding issue -- toggle your browser's encoding to shift-jis, since that seems to be what it is. I'm guessing for some reason it's trying to load it as utf-8 and that is causing problems....
ninetimes Learning resources 39 38,476 2011-08-24, 8:38 am
    Thread: Hannah Minx 花°ミンクス - JWOW
Post: Hannah Minx 花°ミンクス - JWOW

Related and unrelated, but very amusing... [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgNNAJMvbs] (brought about because of [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rB6sxrQc0])
ninetimes Off topic 73 29,324 2011-07-10, 5:37 pm
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

TheVinster Wrote:When I did have a Japanese girl over, I let her listen to one of the podcasts I had on my MP3 (Tokyo Local, at the time). She asked me why I was listening to people discussing bras. I...
ninetimes Learning resources 200 212,050 2011-06-29, 8:05 pm
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

Both A Piece of Laughing and Replica Blue seem to be missing, now. :( Anybody have any recent recommendations? I've just been digging through iTunes to see what pops up but haven't really found anyth...
ninetimes Learning resources 200 212,050 2011-06-29, 9:20 am
    Thread: Do people want to buy affordable japanese manga & books?
Post: Do people want to buy affordable japanese manga & ...

If bookoff would start selling online in the US it would be the greatest thing. Used manga is difficult to find with much reliability, or requires a lot more hoops to jump, like having to use both an...
ninetimes Learning resources 21 9,986 2011-02-01, 1:07 am
    Thread: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
Post: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain stru...

40% of a given group is more than zero. I'm not seeing where the not-working is happening. I think maybe you misunderstood my point and now you're arguing something that seems kind of off base? Yes...
ninetimes Off topic 22 4,516 2011-02-01, 12:51 am
    Thread: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
Post: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain stru...

Tzadeck Wrote:We have a phrase for medicine that works as well as the placebo effect--"Medicine that doesn't work." Except it often does? I mean, roundabout, due to the placebo effect the body compen...
ninetimes Off topic 22 4,516 2011-01-31, 12:11 pm
    Thread: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
Post: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain stru...

While not directly related, in a very real sense just about any placebo study could be seen as a positive case for the effectiveness of meditation. Simple armchair idiot-on-the-internet logic would s...
ninetimes Off topic 22 4,516 2011-01-31, 1:12 am
    Thread: Is it 'Not' or is it 'Knot'?
Post: Is it 'Not' or is it 'Knot'?

He uses it for both, but in that frame it means 'not' in the negative/forbidding sense. As a primitive he sort-of breaks his own rules and uses a homonym for memory purposes -- knot. I... don't reca...
ninetimes Remembering the Kanji 3 977 2011-01-30, 3:00 pm
    Thread: How to do reps fast
Post: How to do reps fast

jettyke Wrote:What do you think of this? http://www.speedbagforum.com/timer.html I've long thought a plugin for anki that did something similar would be really useful. I also tend to get distracted a...
ninetimes The Japanese language 101 28,850 2011-01-27, 3:40 pm
    Thread: Pokemon Black x White now with KANJI!
Post: Pokemon Black x White now with KANJI!

Aijin Wrote:Is a 70$ used DS from Gamestop going to be my best bet? And how long does the game last? I gotta justify all this money somehow :P If I were to pick up anything right this second to pl...
ninetimes Learning resources 81 29,436 2011-01-26, 12:28 pm
    Thread: Starcraft II
Post: Starcraft II

Jarvik7 Wrote:Team Fortress . . . Extremely well spent youth :O I agree completely.
ninetimes Off topic 60 13,177 2011-01-24, 5:25 pm
    Thread: What kind of headphones do you use?
Post: What kind of headphones do you use?

wahnfrieden Wrote:Audio-Technica ATH-A700 headphones. I use the open versions, the ATH-AD700. Sound leak isn't a real issue, it's pretty quiet in here and I like being able to pick up ambient noise s...
ninetimes General discussion 51 15,741 2011-01-24, 5:10 pm
    Thread: Japanese electronica and it's soundwaves of beauty
Post: Japanese electronica and it's soundwaves of beauty

More trance/progressive trance-ish stuff, as opposed to glitch/ambient, but there's Hiroyuki ODA's "Thirty" [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgC8iL3w1PM] (a crossfade) -- full tracks are around ...
ninetimes Off topic 55 19,285 2010-12-03, 8:09 pm
    Thread: buy on bk1.jp
Post: buy on bk1.jp

Surface can take months -- literally. You're still well within tolerance.
ninetimes General discussion 7 5,513 2010-11-15, 2:20 pm
    Thread: Staying awake in class and cheating on SRS
Post: Staying awake in class and cheating on SRS

"Expert opinions", heh. Woo! I'm an expert! Anyway, no, it's not. Otherwise every person here who actually reads/interact with native media in addition to SRSing is cheating. Well. Maybe it is c...
ninetimes Learning resources 5 1,544 2010-10-01, 11:16 am
    Thread: kore: core2k+core6k complete, enhanced and sorted by kanji
Post: kore: core2k+core6k complete, enhanced and sorted ...

kodorakun Wrote:cangy Wrote:vocab: 1510 rtk1, 96 rtk3, 2 other sentences: 1545 rtk1, 103 rtk3, 2 other is there a community consensus about the best way (most efficient, least amount of overhead time ...
ninetimes Learning resources 185 77,908 2010-09-23, 2:39 pm
    Thread: Only Women Teach Japanese
Post: Only Women Teach Japanese

I have no answers, but I can confirm the trend. At my old university, the program was headed by one male professor, who did a lecture section. Every 'lab' session (you know, regular language class p...
ninetimes General discussion 61 14,150 2010-09-19, 12:17 pm
    Thread: All gone, what should I do now?
Post: All gone, what should I do now?

See also
ninetimes Remembering the Kanji 9 3,714 2010-09-16, 1:34 am
    Thread: Should I just restart?
Post: Should I just restart?

Having done this several times, what worked best for me was to sort-of restart. Do one pass on all of the failed cards -- you'll probably remember more than you suspect. Anything still failed after ...
ninetimes Remembering the Kanji 9 3,076 2010-09-15, 9:53 am
    Thread: は×が game
Post: は×が game

You're a good person. I like you! This'll be fun to pass around to friends.
ninetimes Learning resources 10 1,802 2010-09-11, 4:21 pm
    Thread: Hannah Minx 花°ミンクス - JWOW
Post: Hannah Minx 花°ミンクス - JWOW

Nukemarine Wrote:Find a niche and fill it. If she's making some cash from people willing to give it to her, then gods bless capitalism. I'll make this pledge though: If I create videos demonstrating ...
ninetimes Off topic 73 29,324 2010-09-07, 11:05 am
    Thread: Soo... Ipod Touch Question..
Post: Soo... Ipod Touch Question..

App-wise most things really aren't that big, unless they come with some huge database (most don't). I have an 8GB and it serves me fine, but I'm not trying to cart around all the music I own at the s...
ninetimes Learning resources 24 4,010 2010-07-13, 6:44 pm
    Thread: Writing ellipsis in Google IME
Post: Writing ellipsis in Google IME

Yeah but not all of those work with the Google IME. Theoretically I would presume it's possible to convert the expanded symbol dictionary file from the Windows IME (IMJPSB.DIC I believe) in to someth...
ninetimes The Japanese language 16 5,241 2010-07-10, 4:30 pm
    Thread: Writing ellipsis in Google IME
Post: Writing ellipsis in Google IME

はーと works just fine for the little heart in google's IME. Similar for すぺーど, くらぶ. Not sure if I'm missing a better way, but しかく will get you a diamond... but not the card suit one. Some of the symbo...
ninetimes The Japanese language 16 5,241 2010-07-10, 4:05 pm
    Thread: Japanese IRC chat rooms?
Post: Japanese IRC chat rooms?

Search for 'IRC' in the forums. Examples: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5727 http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3649
ninetimes Learning resources 1 2,306 2010-07-03, 10:38 pm
    Thread: Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature
Post: Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature

Need more old classics. Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth and Fred Saberhagen's Book(s) of Swords.
ninetimes Off topic 60 13,939 2010-06-30, 10:04 pm