June 02, 2010

Enquiring minds want to know...

What kind of neighborhood does Pete live in where the local grocery store carries imported Japanese otaku candy?

And what kind of computer has both a touchpad and a joystick?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 10:49 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 I'll have to take a look in my five local asian supermarkets and see if any of them have these.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 02, 2010 11:38 PM (PiXy!)

2 Lenovo Thinkpads often have a trackpad and a trackstick, and looking at the picture, that sure looks like Thinkpad styling.

Posted by: Kayle at June 03, 2010 05:05 AM (dmU/A)

3 IBM does as well I think.

Posted by: Jordi Vermeulen at June 03, 2010 07:09 AM (5EMw1)

4 Yeah, that looks a lot like a thinkpad--the placement of the red/blue/red buttons is pretty iconic. I had a T41 for a couple years at a place I worked at once. Regarding the candy, there's a bunch of asian supermarkets around here, too. The last time I went into an indian one, they even had a wall of what were probably bootleg movie dvds (all of indian movies.)

Posted by: RickC at June 03, 2010 07:09 AM (1fPia)

5 "IBM does as well I think." Don't forget that Lenovo laptops ARE IBM. Well, to be accurate, Lenovo used to make IBM's laptops, and IBM sold the business off, so they're really the same thing.

Posted by: RickC at June 03, 2010 07:22 AM (1fPia)

6 Geez, I was in Albuquerque for less than a week and found two places there that could have carried this stuff.  Instead, I stocked up on Pocky. 

Posted by: Wonderduck at June 03, 2010 03:51 PM (iJfPN)

7 It's from Talin Market, a few blocks south of the freeway on Louisiana, 2 blocks west from Wyoming where you've been. Probably too far for you to walk though.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 03, 2010 04:27 PM (/ppBw)

8 That's the very place I suspected, Pete.  Not just Japanese foods, either, but from lots of places.

Posted by: Wonderduck at June 03, 2010 05:04 PM (iJfPN)

9 If the other one you mentioned was Fremont's, you've found all of the 2 edible food stores in the whole Albuquerque. The rest is just chilie, chilie, chilie and tortillas. And more chilie.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 03, 2010 05:30 PM (/ppBw)

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