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You Know You're Japanese-American If...

If you're Japanese-American, like me, you'll find things on this list that you do. I admit it... I can't start eating until I have a bowl of rice. A few of my other behaviors favorites:

You cut all your carrots and hot dogs at an angle.

When you're sick, you eat okayu.

Milk makes you queasy and alcohol turns your face red.

As much as you want it, never ever take the last anything. Enryo, enryo, enryo.

Your parents watch "Kohaku Utagassen" on TV on New Year's eve.

Your mom saves all those wooden kamaboko things "just in case."

You compliment a person from Japan on how well they speak English, and they compliment you on how well you speak Japanese, and you both know you're kind of stretching things.

You say "itadakimasu" before you eat.

Turn That Frown Upside Down!

This never fails...

The Quotation Page

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."   -- Chuck Reid

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."   -- Dave Barry

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."   -- William Feather

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."   -- Alexandre Dumas

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."  -- Herbert Hoover

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."   -- Rita Mae Brown

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Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

I posted a couple days ago about how people do the most amazing things with Photoshop. What an understatement... This is not a photograph but a painting! Artist Dru Blair walks through how it was done.

Yellow Sticky Notes

YouTube is great because it gives people easy access to neat independent films like Yellow Sticky Notes from artists like Jeff Chiba Stearns. I wonder if he really used yellow sticky notes -- those must've been a headache to work with...

100 Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials

It always amazes me what can be done with Photoshop. Using one of the tutorials on 100 Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials, I gave my profile pic a retro comic look.

Simon's Cat

Cute cartoon that reminds my of my cats. If you like this short, check out the official Simon's Cat YouTube channel for more.

Ambigram

Ever since I saw the cover of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, I thought it would be neat to try to create my own ambigram. Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, most commonly right-side-up and upside-down. I created this very basic one ("thepinkbelly") with the help of ambrigram.matic.com (online ambigram generator) and tips from ambigram.net.

Man Redraws Entire Yearbook

An artist has redrawn his mother’s entire high school yearbook from 1968. That's over 1,000 different heads. He's selling the book on his website for $7 but he's also published the drawings on Flickr. [via]