Waihas

M: "You like Waihas!"
K: "Waihurs?"
M: "Waihas!"
Jn: "Warehouse?"
M: "WAIHAS!"

ウエハース
Waihas? Ohhhh WAFERS!

Quote of the day: "Do you like warehouse?"

The hate

Jn: "I hate him more than I hate David Caruso" (referring to Marcel Wanders, while reading an article on moooi in Fast Company

Manzai (漫才)

Japanify lesson of the day: Manzai (漫才).

Similar to the two-man comedy routine of Abbott and Costello, Manzai is the concept of comedy based on one person being boke, or the funny man, and the other being tsukkomi, or the straight man, usually one who tries to reason with the funny man's intellect.

Japanese Flag Head

According to Miyuki, this is Japanese Flag Head, a.k.a. Toad from Mario.

How cool?

Talking about 2d matrix bar codes, not 3d matrix bar codes because those don't exist yet.

K: "What the hell is that? We don't want "transaction code cool", we want "check-in code cool".