Why don't the author factor in the cost of sending your kids to a private school in Seattle versus sending them to a public school in Bellevue?

The bun's name, go-bu-li, can be interpreted as either "even dog would ignore it" or "only dog would ignore it". It caused quite a debate when I was young. :-)

Hey! Don't you dare say anything bad about my home city! :-)

No bold and italic? No good for programmers then. My all time favourite programming font is Anonymous. I've settled down on it for a couple of years. Never changed to any other fonts again.

Most of the vending machines in Japan are monitored by surveillance cameras. It's not like there is no bad guys in Japan. When I was there, there were people trying to use Korean coins, which are a lot cheaper than Japanese coins, in those machines.