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Post by ch3mist on May 28, 2013 13:04:09 GMT
I'm missing a complete off-topic thread Idk how to call it, @ MODs change it to w/e you like/find innovative hehe. Well I just got home from my first exam of the semester (technical oxides and silicates/nanoporous materials + their future application blablah). I guess I should have learned more for that =.= I 'wasted' a lot of time to watch the Champions League final on saturday and the following celebreation of Bayern Munich's win. best moment ;p manworker have you watched it? ^^
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Post by manworker on May 28, 2013 14:09:32 GMT
Nope. I lost all interest in what is going on in Europe after the last Manchester Derby. The only Champions league that I have watched after City got knocked out was the end of the Man U vs. Real Madrid game at Old Trafford.
I have really turned my focus to Korea since the season started over there. I am getting ready for the last couple of AFC World Cup Qualifying games.
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Post by ch3mist on Jun 24, 2013 23:05:09 GMT
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Post by cakama on Jun 24, 2013 23:34:44 GMT
371 is old news... I think one of the nights we passed 400psi mark into the very hazardous zone... Now the wind direction have changed, so its been slightly better this 1-2 days, psi is around 100 +/-. I know theawesomesummer is complaining on her side This is how bad it can be Not to mention the stupid haze is blocking the UV rays from escaping properly, causing a mini-global warning situation on our side (including M'sia). If you hate warm, you will here...
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Post by cakama on Jul 6, 2013 2:03:18 GMT
[Japan] Apples, burgers, stockings and eye glasses--vending machines have it all
Mari Takahashi doesn’t go to the convenience store when she craves something sweet. Instead of lining up behind other office workers in central Tokyo, she slips downstairs into Ginza Station to get some fresh-sliced apple--out of a vending machine. “I get annoyed waiting for the person at the counter to ring up someone else's items,” said the office worker. “Walking to this vending machine may not save me time, but at least I don’t get as bothered.”
The apples (which go for 190 yen a pop) along with bananas, bread and canned ramen are some of the unexpected items that can be had from Japan's ubiquitous vending machines.
Along with the five apple machines are four banana-vending ones in downtown Tokyo (each selling out 50 bananas daily) pushing the envelope for machine-consumer transaction.
Japan is notorious for its vending machine fixation. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake drew calls to unplug at least some of the machines to save energy as the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced reactors elsewhere to shut down.
But operators have come bounding back to earn just over 53 billion yen in sales last year. There are more than 5 million automatic dispensers in the country, according to the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturer’s Association, so theoretically there’s one machine to serve every 25 people in the country.
It’s possible to survive a day--or maybe even weeks--living off the city's vending machine grid. You can reach for the day’s first coffee from a machine along with some bread (canned as well) or a warm burger.
At the Ebisu and Ikebukuro stations on the Yamanote Line, among other places, you can also pick up the latest novel or nonfiction book to skim.
Then there are toiletries, replacement stockings and even reading glasses to allow you to prep up for that afternoon meeting. After work treat yourself and associates to beer and canned appetizers, such as sardines and "oden" boiled food.
On the way home grab a bouquet of flowers (from a refrigerated machine last spotted in Shinjuku Station) or a toy for the little one. During a sudden rainstorm, rush to a machine to buy a plastic umbrella.
After the lessons of the 2011 quake, vending machines are prepared for the worst-case scenario: Some bear signs announcing that the machine comes with its own temporary power source.
An increasing number of vending machines are equipped with digital displays that show a picture of the can you're going to get instead of an actual can itself, and age-recognition cameras to target products to the buyer. It sounds like a mechanical Eden, or the future imagined by early 20th century sci-fi writers.
Makoto Nomura, a 39-year-old system engineer living in Saitama Prefecture, has been gathering information on the wares and whereabouts of Japan’s most unusual vending machines for the past 15 years.
His website, Yamadaya, lists machines discovered by contributors throughout the country that vend such delicacies as thawed sushi (found on a ferry), tuna and onion toast, and items such as temple lucky charms and miniature Japanese swords.
But these offbeat machines survive today only deep in the hinterlands, such as unmanned rest stops, Nomura said. Once spare parts are gone, the machines get carted away, along with what unusual items they offered.
According to Nomura, during the heyday of vending machines in the late 1980s and early 90s, Japan’s engineers conceived and created contraptions in all shapes and sizes, for sellers who did the same with their stock.
“Back then, vending machines really reflected something about Japan,” Nomura said. “People built them just to show what could be done. But they cost millions of yen, so that you have to wonder how many years it had to operate to earn a profit.”
The choices may be fewer today, Nomura said, but the need for what vending machines offer is here to stay.
“Japanese people are basically reclusive. Given a choice of speaking to a clerk or pushing the button on a machine, a lot of people would choose the machine,” Nomura added.
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Post by ch3mist on Jul 6, 2013 13:20:42 GMT
^ Cup noodles vending machine, awesome I want one for my kitchen There are quite some vending machines in Germany too but you will only get sweets or small bottles with cola/water etc.
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Post by cakama on Jul 6, 2013 14:03:54 GMT
^ Cup noodles vending machine, awesome I want one for my kitchen There are quite some vending machines in Germany too but you will only get sweets or small bottles with cola/water etc. We have drinks, snacks and in some places toys.... The rest wouldn't really take off here, there is just too many convenience stores around. At least 1 in 300m radius.
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Post by ch3mist on Jul 6, 2013 14:08:41 GMT
The rest wouldn't really take off here, there is just too many convenience stores around. At least 1 in 300m radius. ^ There should be 7/11 stores all over in Japan as well? But the vending machines seems to be a good idea in case of earthquakes/tsunami etc (in case they'll still work after a catastrophe)
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Post by cakama on Jul 6, 2013 14:29:36 GMT
^ There should be 7/11 stores all over in Japan as well? But the vending machines seems to be a good idea in case of earthquakes/tsunami etc (in case they'll still work after a catastrophe) Pretty sure only in the main city area, outside of it will be quite a journey to finding one. Especially in farming prefectures like Tochigi...etc. Also convenience stores can't stock up on so many different items. I can get dessert (hot/cold) from vending machines in Taiwan, its very useful at night where I don't want to walk so far to a convenience stores cos even in the heart of Taipei, its around 1-2km between one convenience stores.
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Post by ch3mist on Jul 10, 2013 16:37:58 GMT
Yay exams done for this week. (today it was about heterogeneous catalysis) Next on in 8 days (and another one in 9 days) But now I can look through my list of kks oshimen cakama
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Post by cakama on Jul 11, 2013 0:39:50 GMT
Yay exams done for this week. (today it was about heterogeneous catalysis) Next on in 8 days (and another one in 9 days) But now I can look through my list of kks oshimen cakama "Catch them all"
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Post by benstack on Jul 11, 2013 9:10:45 GMT
“Japanese people are basically reclusive. Given a choice of speaking to a clerk or pushing the button on a machine, a lot of people would choose the machine,” Nomura added
theawesomesummerSo me. Hope they serve pizza and ice cream in vending machines...
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Post by cakama on Jul 11, 2013 9:18:52 GMT
So me. Hope they serve pizza and ice cream in vending machines... Actually they have Ice Cream in vending machines, not too sure about Pizza. But its all plausible...
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Post by benstack on Jul 18, 2013 4:52:12 GMT
12 builders, 277,275 Dominoes, 272,297 Dominoes toppled Wilhelm-Lückert-Gym Büdingen (Germany) Official Sinners Domino Entertainment (SDE) Event 2013
Epic, I've always loved dominoes + the domino effect but this is amazing Interesting Tag: cakama ch3mist
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Post by cakama on Jul 18, 2013 5:25:38 GMT
12 builders, 277,275 Dominoes, 272,297 Dominoes toppled Wilhelm-Lückert-Gym Büdingen (Germany) Official Sinners Domino Entertainment (SDE) Event 2013
Epic, I've always loved dominoes + the domino effect but this is amazing ch3mistWow thats some painstaking effort.... Since its in Germany maybe ch3mist could be one of the builder?
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Post by ch3mist on Jul 19, 2013 17:30:08 GMT
Wow thats some painstaking effort.... Since its in Germany maybe ch3mist could be one of the builder? Hehe I'm not into domino, it's such a waste of time to destroy it again But such an event is every year I think, it's called 'Domino Day' I remember watching it on television some years ago. Huge halls full of domino art ^^
Since I'm in the off-topic area cakama have a random pic
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Post by cakama on Jul 19, 2013 17:32:23 GMT
Since I'm in the off-topic area cakama have a random pic Can I program the minion to kidnap Seobaby to my side?
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