I had my oil changed today, which gave me the misfortune of being exposed to ambient daytime TV noise. Lessons learned?

From Divorce Court: don’t procreate just because you can. Also, neither age nor having sex makes you an adult. ::duh kanji::

From Judge Christine: In this show, Judge Christine takes the law… into her own heart. ::gag kanji::

[I refuse to see if these shows have associated web sites.]

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[Re: ::blah kanji::: The online chat feature of Ridge Racer 7 allows you to use various small pictures in your messages—not just emoticons, but also things like a party popper, a thumbs-up sign, and a toilet (?). Failing to come up with a better descriptor of these pictures, Brian and I—following Andy’s lead—broadened our use of the term “kanji” to mean (roughly) any picture used for the purpose of communication. In Ridge Racer we might use the ::thumbs up kanji:: or the ::toilet kanji::; in practice we’ll pretty much slap “kanji” after anything we’d prefer understood as a pictograph.]

[[If you want to be pedantic, you might argue that “pictograph” is that better term for this concept. I would then argue that pictograph fails to be as entertaining in use as kanji—and that, personally, is a crucial test of betterness.]]