Hello
My name is Gaijin, yes Gaijin. a little odd but i think you will find that my postings are a little farther out there, like beyond left field. That said, i wanted to take this time to tell you a bit about myself. I am a friend of the other posters of this site, in real life i mean. so my interests are similar to theres. Ether way I wanted to say Hello to all of you … HELLO!!! … to all of you … I think my brain just farted. … cause I had an idea and now, NOTHIN’. … yup theres the error message “404 file not found”. Oh well, talk to y’all soon.
- Gaijin -
Credit: catzoid (catzoid6@hotmail.com)
AnimeWallpapers.com: Ah! My Goddess #35
Thank you, animewallpapers.com (Note: we are not affiliated with them, but we can dream) 
From the article:
His intricate paper insect creations were a departure from the standard boats and cranes that have long been the tradition of origami. Over time his works grew more complex, featuring hundreds of folds and multiple pieces of paper, such as a full-scale cuckoo clock.
The practicality of his scientific research began to influence his origami designs, until the line between the two began to blur. He participated in a project at EASi Engineering to develop complicated crease patterns for airbag folding designs. Lang also worked to design a mesh wire heart support to be folded and implanted in congestive heart failure patients; once inside, it would expand, protecting the heart. His most ambitious project to date, however, is shared with a team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with whom he has developed a space telescope – one that is forty times larger than the Hubble and collapsible for space travel through a series of precise origami folds.
Damn Interesting: The Origami Resolution
Some Japanophiles are interested in the biggest, brightest aspects of a culture. I find myself being attracted to the polar edges of things — such as culture. When someone in the “west” thinks of Japan, we think of anime, j-pop, j-drama and, well, the same thing many Japanese people probably think of American culture — the highly visible part. So surely when you see something like one of the biggest econimies in the world having a problem feeding its people, you can’t help but want to call bs. Well, here it is. Iron Chef and the episode where $1000 in lobsters were used for the broth of asparagus seems so much more wasteful now!
My apologies if I’m making you feel guilty for eating or anything. This is the second time I’ve noted waste in food. Not intentional.
Anyway, the BBC has published a picture gallery depciting and bring up some very interesting points related to the troubles a country the size of Japan has in feeding its population.
BBC News (UK): In pictures: Japan’s food crisis
From the story:
The Japanese consume about 25% of the world’s stocks of tuna.
The tuna themselves are such voracious eaters it takes around 4kg [appx. 8lbs] of small fish to produce 1kg [appx. 2.2lbs] of tuna, so some argue that consumers who want to make sustainable choices should avoid buying tuna.
A giant tuna can sell for the price of a small car, so the incentives for those involved in the trade to source fish caught illegally elsewhere are huge.
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