Herro Flom Japan

Personally, I know I can be trusted not to take photos up women's skirts, but I do like to take candid photos without everyone turning their head, so I prefer my iPhone not to make a really loud sound every time I take a photo. Here's how to turn it off.

The easy way:

• Jailbreak your iPhone at http://www.jailbreakme.com
• From Cydia, install "Silent Camera Theme." It'll also install Winterboard.

The more involved way, but you don't need to jailbreak (or you can if you want):

• Download i-FunBox. It's a "File Manager, Browser, Explorer, Transfer Tool for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch via USB"
• Plug your iPhone into your PC and launch i-FunBox
• In the raw file system, navigate to /System/Library/Audio/UISounds and find the file photoShutter.caf
• Rename photoShutter.caf to photoShutterOFF.caf

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I'm posting this from my iPhone, so I have no idea how it'll turn out.

I crashed my bicycle on Monday and twisted my ankle pretty badly. Couldn't walk on Tuesday so I took off work. Went to the doctor on Wednesday and he said it was broken. He put a cast on my leg up to my knee. He also gave me a pair of crutches made for a 5'10" person and said they'd be OK, even though I'm 6'4". He was wrong. I used them to go to work on Thursday (2 hour commute) and it was hell. In a race between me on those piece of shit crutches and a bent-over 80 year old lady pushing a pram, I would have lost by a mile.

First thing I did after arriving at the office was look up "crutches" in Japanese on the Internet, found a Rakuten vender that sold crutches in my size and ordered them for $50. I told my boss that I was worried about breaking my neck using the pygmy crutches and he let me work from home on Friday.

The new crutches arrived Friday morning and they're a perfect fit. They come up to my wife's nose. They're BIG.

The bad news is we already made plans to go to the US this month from the 20th to the 26th. I guess I'll spend our vacation in front of the TV.

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We're going to the US (Pennsylvania) in August to visit my family. I asked the boys what they want to do there.

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I found this interesting fact in my Twitter stream yesterday morning. My first reaction was, “I call bullshit.” I’ve lived here for over 19 years and not once have I ever heard of condoms being sold door-to-door. In fact, I can’t see why they would be sold that way seeing as how every convenience store I’ve ever bothered to check stocks multiple brands.

But this rumor had to have come from somewhere. At some level it has to be true.

First thing I did was ask one of my coworkers.

“This is probably a stupid question, but there’s really no such thing as  コンドームの訪問販売 in Japan, is there?”

“Actually,” she said, “I think I’ve heard of it.”

Shocked. Utterly shocked. How could I have lived here for so long and not known about it?

So I did some Googling. Turns out that 25-30 years ago, roughly half of condoms sales in Japan came from pharmacies, the other half from door-to-door sales. “Skin ladies,” as the saleswomen were called, named after the leading brand “Skinless,” sold them to young married couples by the gross. At that time condom makers weren’t allowed to advertise in print or on TV, and convenience stores weren’t as prevalent, so it starts making sense. This article has the lowdown on the history of the condom in Japan.

On a bit of a tangent note, if sex in Japan is relevant to your interests, check out Jake Adelstein’s Japan Subculture Research Center. I came across it the first time yesterday:

Japan Subculture Research Center was founded in 2007 to expose the hidden side of Japan – its underground economy, its sex trade, and all the other intriguing and seedy aspects that keep the country running.

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