Well, there's a Chinese exercise for this:

Nintendo is included, having started as a playing card company. Interestingly, the name (and town) "Tendo" is associated with hand-painted Shogi playing pieces (a kind of Japanese chess). When the Samurai were disbanded, they needed to find some kind of employment that was still honorable. One such business was in making Shogi tiles, since the game is one of warfare and strategy, and thus a suitable subject for the occupation of Samurai. (I read this in a book on Japanese crafts, but cannot find the book to make a proper citation)

Similarly, another displaced Samurai reluctantly made his home estate into an inn on the road between Edo and Kyoto. This inn is wonderfully described in Oliver Statler's book "Japanese Inn" (http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Inn-Oliver-Statler/dp/0824808185).

Gaah! The *squeak* noise from Lucky Charms marshmallows makes my skin crawl!

In "The Terminator", we learned that dogs can tell the difference between real humans and flesh-covered Terminators. Like this:

Oh, OK. That makes sense. I really hate it when people smash the burgers when they've been cooking for a while.
When I make burgers, I try to account for the shrinkage that occurs during cooking, and make the patties extra wide and thin.

You could drive halfway down New Mexico on autopilot. No traffic. Just dirt and sky for hundreds of miles.

He should have had a remote monitor, so he could be sitting with his back to the cats, but still see what they are doing. Then he wouldn't have had to keep checking his '6'.
Also, he was pretty fortunate that none of them tried to spray him. That would have been really unpleasant.

NOT Florida. Go figure.

I think RFID tags should be implanted into babies at birth. They can be embedded into the left iliac arch of the pelvis. Unlike many other locations, this one cannot be easily removed, and is not otherwise articulated, so the capsule will not interfere with movement over time. The embedded capsule will be surrounded by bone after a short time.

If the ID number is then associated with a credit card number or other money transfer account, a user can authorize a transaction by 'hip checking' a sensor. For instance, when approaching a turnstile, one can bump a sensor switch (there must be a mechanical switch, so the sensor does not just pick up stray signals all the time) to transact payment or authorization for admission. At a retail point of sale, one may bump a similar sensor switch at the checkout counter, followed by a PIN or other second-level authorization.
During a traffic stop, the officer would 'wand' your left hip to get identification data.
Those who are concerned about privacy would be obliged to wear steel underwear.

I was struck by the contrast between the orderly uniformity of East Asian residential blocks (Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo) and the chaos of Rio de Janeiro, Athens and Delhi.
Berlin, of course, is strictly orderly and uniform. Moscow is predictably run down.