It lives on in you

Ewwww…

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Something smells fishy about this sushi

Click frame for complete comic at Ménage á 3 (NB: comics can be NSFW).

One of the activities that has seen me diverted from blogging duties has been a Japanese language group I joined last year.

Despite Brisbane and Queensland in general being a popular destination for Japanese in Australia, the Japanese students and visitors I’ve met complain it is hard to find authentic Japanese cuisine. With sushi bars approximately every 200 meters, it may seem difficult to believe. But even I notice that many of the city’s sushi bars are actually owned an/or staffed by Koreans (complete with Korean signs, Korean pop star posters, and Korean community papers and zines on display etc.).

Korean restauranteurs posing as Japanese is not anything entirely new or restricted to just Brisbane or Australia (Ménage is set in Montreal, and here is an article with the Japanese government wagging a finger at L.A.). Why does it happen?

I can’t find anything exactly investigating the phenomenon. I don’t think it is because old war issues, because they are as likely to be with Japanese as Koreans. And I don’t think it is because people don’t like Korean food, because, at least in Brisbane there are still plenty of of Korean restaurants around. Anyone know of another suggestion? Perhaps it is just that there are some Koreans who open Japanese restaurants.

Kid’s consciences say the darndest things

I love this comic from SnowFlakes (click through for entire panel and final gag)

Yes, I’m sure I want to work with children for the rest of my life, maybe, sort of, oh no…

[Tidbit: One of the creators of this webcomic is Zach Weiner from SMBC)

I don’t believe in prom dates

Krazy Krow and Krakow Studies have unveiled a new webcomic project for 2009: CharlieHorse It has me all confused because the first chapter is entitled “September”. Start from the start. The latest panel is here.

Return of sexy succubi! (Though I will agree with Preston, what’s up with hooves…)

Preston and Charlotte do not look like they are going to get along like Case and Kia in the original Krakow. Maybe that will change, but Krakow is not always that predictable.

Can Charlie succeed as a demonic Henry Higgins to help Preston level up his charisma stats to land a prom date in time?

Check out the other stories from KrakowStudios:

The very original Krakow; skip forward to colour and panels; skip forward to the Demon Sisters

Krakow 2.0 is the tale of a sexy blonde (I mean blonde) bombshell of an assassin employed by a doublecrossing Jesus who kidnaps/rescues the daughter of Japanese magnate …

… and it didn’t end with that: Marilith is ongoing in an edgier new series (start at the start of Marilith).

Oh, if I had the internet monies…

Rejected MegaMan Villains

コートハンガー　アタック

There is a complete poster of 33 rejects.

This is the creation of Steve Napierski in his gaming webcomic Dueling Analogs.

Where do lesbians come from?

It’s the one question every firey, luscious, sapphic buccaneer commander fears her Stockholm-syndrome Earth-prize beauty secretary will ask one day.

I cannot wait to hear this one finally explained.

It sounds like something from Yahoo Answers.

Alternative solution to the economic crisis

Build the dream

Enslave the toasters!!

Dracula has a moon base!

via NatureNews

MOON BASE!!

AWESOME.

AWESOME.

MOON BASE!!

image from very awesome webcomic Dr McNinja by Chris Hastings

Herman the Manatee

Join Herman on his “heartwarming adventures”, updated weekly.

You’ll have to click through to see how this episode ends.

Yes, I know… I’m a sick twisted young man.

Don’t hold it against me

I like this comic from xkcd.

I know potential employers have checked up my previous website, and boy has that had some weird stuff. I know at least one of my trainers at Amity also occasionally check up on it too. Given that I actually had a post which started “Would it be wrong for me not to recommend Amity Hitachi as an ideal workplace”, I do not know if that was a good thing. Honestly, Amity was a great place to work at, teaching is never meant to be easy, but there were some fantastic students and co-workers there. I hope its still going strong there. From the looks of their site, they now have two managers, and three NET (foreign teaching staff) as well as their cheery compliment of JTs.

Part of this new page of weblogging is going to be pushing the positive side of things. At the moment I am intensely looking for job opportunities. So I’m pretty aware that anything I push here is going to be under scrutiny. If you are a new life science graduate, or possibly a final year student, let me know if anything I put up is helpful.

I’m covering a large base with my job search – I have skills for laboratory research, but I’ve also got other skills and personality traits that can see me succeed in other roles. Recently I’ve been piqued by a few roles in scientific publishing, particularly Nature’s graduate program – now closed, fairly sure I missed out on that one. So if you know anything good going in Australia on that area, let me know.

Resources I’m finding particularly useful in my job search have been Research Jobs, CSIRO and SEEK – which seem to cover the major bases of industry, government and education sectors. Other science based resources are fairly UK or USA focused, and what few Australian opportunities are advertised are usually covered already by CSIRO or major university websites.