Wednesday: Computers.

They weight like a gazillion pounds, and have like two hundred butts of storage space.

It was easier to just go and take pictures myself than to wait for other people to get the information.

I watched a crazy Japanese murder drama that I spent like twenty minutes trying to find the title of.  "Murder Mystery of the Hot Spring Young Landlady: Murder at the Sweets Fair!! Suspicion of Double Murder by Popular Patissier!?" seems to be the best I can do with the wikipedia page for the series.  I'm also pretty sure that this sentence "Mika Nakagawa is a young woman in the hotel in Hokkaido Sapporo's Okuzashiki / Jozankei Onsen. Shintaro's husband is a criminal of a local police officer, and both worked fine while receiving the squirrels of a large woman, Masako Okada every day" isn't translated correctly by google.  Mika's husband is Shintaro, who is a police officer (not a criminal), and I saw exactly zero squirrels change hands during the show.  Copying the quick summary from a chat with Julie:

It's a Japanese murder drama, and usually those are like "here's the murder happening in the first five minutes, so you know who did it the whole time."  I don't know why, that's just the regular format.  But this one starts off with a business guy talking about how he hired a famous patissier to design a fancy new cake for his sweet shop.  Then we see that guy bribing a government official to let him buy public land so he can build a new factory.  Because he's diversified, I guess.  But someone takes photos, and tells him he needs to pay $500,000 to keep it quiet.  He has to send his son to do the payoff, but he never returns, and they find him all stabbed and crammed in the trunk.

The cops start investigating, and he tells them that he was being extorted or else his sweet shop would get burned down. That just happens to be what happened to the chef's assistant's family, and her dad killed himself when customers became scared of the fires. They're pretty sure the chef killed the son, but after he fights with the business guy (and cancels the cake contract), he gets stabbed and thrown off a bridge. They go through like the entire business guy's family as suspects, and finally decide that it's probably the assistant who killed him.

Old cop illegally searches her car, and finds a knife, and everybody's like "you're totally going to jail," and she's "I didn't do it, but I did make all the cakes, because that chef was crap." But the wife of one of the officer's (who I guess is actually the main character of this show, but that's based off google translation stuff), figures out that it was actually the Old Cop who killed him, because his daughter has leukemia, and the son of the business guy was a donor match, but when he was killed, they couldn't do the transplant, so he killed the chef because his daughter is going to die.  I thought the quick "sick daughter" bit was just some backstory to make the Old Cop a more detailed character, but that was the secret key.

Julie: "That is so convoluted."

They had to fill two hours, I guess.

• I had the original story in my list of "to link", but this Deadspin article covers all the important points I was going to say.  A $400 "juicer".  JFC.
• Racism.  Society isn't a zero sum game, unlike what these people think.
• Dog.
• I remember a slide that was plastic, but had exposed metal bolt heads (the flat kind), and that just gave the electricity a place to concentrate.
• The fact that it took more than one settlement to get rid of this piece of shit, and I don't even need a second part of this sentence.
• Clefairy.
• Aku.