Runker Room Guestbook
January to December 2004
Here is what some people thought about their visit to the Runker Room.Have your say: sign my guestbook and send me your comments,
or e-mail me if you have a question you'd like me to answer.
Thank you / Arigato gozaimasu!
--The Runker (thiruki (at) telus.net)
| Date : 26/dec./04 |
| Name : Luis Portal |
| Where I live : El Salvador |
| My e-mail : lporta2004@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : The Sincretism of the site |
| What should be added : sound |
| Comments : Would be possible construct torii outside Japan?</td> |
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| Date : 12/22/2004 |
| Name : rich kahmer |
| Where I live : ridley pa |
| My e-mail : safetyfreak@yahoo.com |
| My URL : http://www.richkahmer.com |
| What I liked best : the guestbook |
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| Date : Nov. 30, 2004 |
| Name : Ken Muldrew |
| Where I live : Calgary, AB |
| My e-mail : kmuldrew@ucalgary.ca |
| My URL : www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/home.html |
| What I liked best : It's been a long time, Tad. I suppose I liked seeing a recent picture of you the best. |
| What should be added : Define exactly what you mean by medical informatics. |
| Comments : What is this lifestyle nonsense? You used to be such a hard worker! |
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| Date : 11/8/2004 |
| Name : Lynne Nuibe |
| Where I live : California |
| My e-mail : lynne@nuibe.com |
| My URL : www.nuibe.com/~lynne |
| What I liked best : Keizu: Japanese Genealogy |
| Comments : This is the site that encouraged me to try to contact someone in Japan to get my husband's family registry. It worked! |
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| Date : 11/3/04 |
| Name : KC Comstock |
| Where I live : Portland, OR |
| My e-mail : kc7cav@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : Escape From Toronto II and mention of KC Comstock's Old Portland Tonsorial Parlor. |
| Comments : KC Comstock now has a great shop at 426 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon, USA, which is by Hotel Vintage Plaza and the new Hotel Lucia (formerly the Imperial Hotel). While not at large as the barber shop on Washington Street, it is still quite a site to see. He provides the best men's haircuts in Portland. |
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| Date : 7/10/2004 |
| Name : Stephen Bell |
| Where I live : Brampton, ON |
| My e-mail : stebell88@hotmail.com |
| What I liked best : All sorts |
| What should be added : More good stuff |
| Comments : Thanks |
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| Date : 02 Oct 2004 |
| Name : Sue |
| Where I live : Montana |
| Comments : Do you know the meaning (if there is one) of your wife's name? |
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| Date : 22/09/04 |
| Name : ajao |
| Where I live : dover,delaware, us |
| My e-mail : ajao@maga |
| My URL : |
| What I liked best : About Obon |
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| Date : 19.09.04 |
| Name : Ziechmann |
| Where I live : Kashiwa, Japan |
| My e-mail : ziechmann@yahoo.de |
| What I liked best : Coin collector |
| What should be added : Old coins from Japan and China |
| Comments : Search new coin collector |
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| Date : 8/30/2004 |
| Name : Dino |
| My URL : www.immunospot.com |
| What I liked best : Runker Room. Heh. Thats clever. |
| Date : 8/26/2004 |
| Name : Bill |
| Where I live : Sonoma County, Calif. |
| My e-mail : verbose@comcast.net |
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What I liked best : INTJ: The clarity and
comprehensiveness of this page. I am going to refer others who want to understand me better.
The statement that, while one's true MBTI type is innate, one can see a different result as a consequence of overlays in ones p |
| What should be added : A corresponding page for each of the other 15 MBTI personalities! :-) |
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Comments : This web link no longer works:
http://vision.cs.qc.edu/~daniel/meyers.html
It's the Prayers page you list in your related URLs list.
Excellent job. THANK YOU for this. |
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| Date : August 20, 2004 |
| Name : Rie |
| Where I live : Tennessee |
| My e-mail : uchuujin@aol.com |
| My URL : members.aol.com/uchuujin/oga1.html |
| What I liked best : Keizu (Japanese Genealogy) |
| Comments : I found your site through Stewart Terashita's website when I was checking for broken links and was surprised to find a link back to my website from yours!! By the way, I loved your Umbilical Observations page, as I was also born in Japan and moved to the States. |
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| Date : 15 August 04 |
| Name : Marco |
| Where I live : Italy |
| My e-mail : interloping@hotmail.com |
| What I liked best : Japanese Coins |
| Comments : Is August 15th an important date in Japan? One of my Japanese penpals mentioned it like it was something I should know about. Maybe because of Obon ... I like your site. Jya matane. |
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| Date : Aug 9, 2004 |
| Name : Jim C |
| Where I live : San Jose, Ca |
| My e-mail : cunningjim@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : A Day in the Life |
| What should be added : When you have time, please add more to the section on pathology. |
| Comments : I found your site when I entered the phrase "intraoperative frozen section" into Google. I recently had prostate surgery and received a copy of my pathology report. During the surgery, my surgeon requested frozen sections so I wanted to know more about this. Thanks for taking the time to build your site. |
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| Date : 01 August 2004 |
| Name : Midge Arroll |
| Where I live : London |
| My e-mail : maat12500ys@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : The Obon photos |
| What should be added : More about the Obon dance. |
| Comments : Good and informative. |
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| Date : 7.31.04 |
| Name : Satchan |
| Where I live : California |
| My e-mail : hanging_in4now@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : Keizu (Japanese genealogy). Nice information for the hunt. This is a very difficult process. |
| What should be added : Perhaps information about the Japanese American history. |
| Comments : Glad you now understand more about the J. American history. Shin-issei, shin-nisei, and Japanese in Japan really don't seem to know about the discrimination the issei, nisei, and sansei tore down. Shin-issei and shin-nisei live in peace now but need to learn about the past. |
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| Date : 19 07 2004 |
| Name : aNork |
| Where I live : Norway |
| What I liked best : Everything. But not the name Runker. |
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Comments : Runker means "to wank" in Norwegian... sorry
Runker's Note: To the extent that making this website serves to stroke my ego, I guess the name is appropriate! ;-) |
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| Date : 17-07-04 |
| Name : Sue |
| Where I live : Australia |
| My e-mail : artyoneoz@hotmail.com |
| What I liked best : About Obon. The desciption of the festival was interesting and the photos really brought it to life. |
| What should be added : More photos! |
| Comments : A pleasure to read. |
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| Date : June, 2004 |
| Name : Howard Ahner |
| Where I live : Nobeoka, Japan |
| My e-mail : ahner1@hotmail.com |
| My URL : ahner-eikaiwa.tripod.com/nobeoka/id15.html |
| What I liked best : I was impressed with the comprehensiveness. |
| What should be added : I always like lots of pictures. |
| Comments : I visited an onsen a few days ago. I didn't enter the bath. I have had enough of onsen after 15 years of living in Japan. I resort to showers these days, like I did when I lived in the dry climate of Southern California. But, I do enjoy eating at old Japanese restaurants. |
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| Date : 05-30-2004 |
| Name : JOHN |
| Where I live : SEAMSTER |
| My e-mail : SEAMSJ@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : Dr. Dave's Museum - PICTURES OF OLD LAB EQUIPMENT |
| What should be added : CHEMISTRY ANALYZERS |
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| Date : 5/15/04 |
| Name : Estelle |
| Where I live : Atlanta [but Canadian!] |
| My e-mail : esselbird@hotmail.com |
| What I liked best : Your photos, your humor and your information. I am a displaced Canadian with peculiar ties to Japan, and trying to learn more. |
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| Date : May 4, 2004 |
| Name : Howard Ahner |
| Where I live : Nobeoka |
| My e-mail : ahner1@hotmail.com |
| My URL : nobeoka-english.tripod.com |
| What I liked best : I was just happy to find someone in Miyazaki that has a homepage. |
| What should be added : Do as you like. |
| Comments : Why do Japanese take off their shoes before they jump off a bridge? |
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| Date : 1st May 2004 |
| Name : Webbie |
| Where I live : UK |
| My URL : www.epoi.com |
| What I liked best : Japanese info on site |
| What should be added : More Japanese info ..... :-) |
| Comments : Great site! |
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| Date : April 29, 2004 |
| Name : Howard Ahner |
| Where I live : Nobeoka, Japan |
| My e-mail : ahner1@hotmail.com |
| My URL : howardahner1.tripod.com/weeklynews2/id8.html |
| What I liked best : Building a Taiko. I wanted to touch bases with other people interested in Japanese drumming. |
| What should be added : Gulp. |
| Comments : My daughter plays taiko and has had some success over the years. |
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| Date : 2004/04.25 |
| Name : Archie |
| Where I live : Manila, Philippines |
| My e-mail : acba1010@yahoo.com |
| What I liked best : Japanese coins |
| Comments : Thanks for posting the info on the J coins. It proved to be a saver when trying figure out a whole bag full of coins I got from different countries while travelling around the region. |
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| Date : 19Apr04 |
| Name : Tom Garcia |
| Where I live : Puyallup WA |
| My e-mail : tom@garcia.net |
| My URL : www.eastwindrain.com |
| What I liked best : Welcome to the Morgue - Got a page of the autopsy info for my son the screen writer. Will let him know how to get it all. Will see him in Calif next Sunday after my wife and I attend the 35th Annual Pilgrimage at Manzanar. |
| What should be added : Haven't time to look at much. |
| Comments : Nice site and will bookmark for future reference. |
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| Date : April 11, 2004 |
| Name : Beth |
| Where I live : Waco, TX |
| My e-mail : pinkhairdblonde7@aol.com |
| What I liked best : Welcome to the Morgue |
| What should be added : A link that works, getting me to the History of the Autopsy site. I thought I was going ot be able to access the site about the History of the Autopsy. It is no longer available. It says Page not found (this wasn't meant to to sound rude if it does) :) |
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| Date : March 31, 2004 |
| Name : Yohane Chin |
| Where I live : Singapore |
| My e-mail : sc_chin@pacific.net.sg. |
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| What I liked best : Ties Talk e-mail archive. In fact every article is wonderful. Congrats. |
| Comments : Omoroshidesu. I've just visited your site. I'll participate in your Ties Talk. |
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| Date : March 18, 2004 |
| Name : Nikkei Net |
| My URL : www.nikkeinet.org |
| Comments : We are the board members of the Nikkei Net website. Our groups objective is the integration of all Nikkei colonies of the world. When we found your website, we decided to communicate with you and, if possible, establish a friendly relationship. |
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| Date : March 18, 2004 |
| Name : Adam |
| Where I live : E-town |
| Comments : I thought about you today. I canna do it Cap'n! |
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| Date : March 17, 2004 |
| Name : Liam Mulroy |
| Where I live : Halifax, NS |
| My e-mail : clams@eastlink.ca |
| What I liked best : Everything-really! |
| Comments : Happy St. Patrick's Day |
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| Date : March 7, 2004 |
| Name : Akiko |
| Where I live : Fukue, Japan |
| My URL : www11.tok2.com/home2/camellia/ |
| What I liked best : Fukue information |
| Comments : I always enjoy your site! I am a member of the Goto Camellia Society. We made our web site in Japanese. Yoroshikuonegaishimasu. |
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| Date : 2004 may 3 |
| Name : emo otu francis |
| Where I live : emo togo |
| My e-mail : otu_emo@lagos.lome.togo |
| Comments : I am a visitor of your web page about Japan. I live in Hong Kong. Your web page is so interesting and very informative. I wish I could have found it years ago - I ever been to Japan a couple of times including Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka and Sapporo for business. |
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| Date : 2/16/04 |
| Name : Cindy Caudle |
| Where I live : Sacramento, CA |
| My e-mail : javajunky@rcsis.com |
| What I liked best : The descriptions of the coins in About Japanese Coins |
| What should be added : Descriptions of paper money. |
| Comments : THANKS A BUNCH! *Ü* I am scrapbooking my husband's recent trip to Japan & wanted exactly the info you provided about the money. AWESOME!!!!!! |
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| Date : 15th Feb 2004 |
| Name : Manohar Upreti |
| Where I live : Kathmandu.Nepal |
| My e-mail : manohar@hons.com.np |
| My URL : www.westernnepalpaper.com |
| What I liked best : Fukue Island photos |
| What should be added : More abour local culture |
| Comments : Change timely all types of activities . |
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| Date : 02/14/2004 |
| Name : Robyn |
| Where I live : Texas |
| My e-mail : rp-unlimited@excite.com |
| What I liked best : Who is the Runker? page - great info |
| What should be added : proper links to info. Some did not work. |
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| Date : 02-11-04 |
| Name : Rolanda |
| Where I live : Nebraska |
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| Date : February 5th, 2004 |
| Name : Kathryn |
| Where I live : Foley, MN USA |
| My e-mail : Lovbug174@aol.com |
| My URL : huh? |
| What I liked best : About Obon |
| Comments : I was just looking for some information on the Obon Festival for a school project. |
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| Date : 02/04/04 |
| Name : Morgan |
| Where I live : Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| My e-mail : mschultz99@msn.com |
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What I liked best : I enjoyed reading about your return trip to Japan. You should put in a biography page so others might better understand your background.
Runker's Note: The page Who is the Runker? provides some background about me. |
| Comments : What a wonderful heritage you have. Your travels sound very interesting. I saw that you stayed for a time in Madison WI. I am in Milwaukee, WI, with family in Madison. Small world. |
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| Date: January 8, 2004 |
| Name: Sally |
| What I liked best: About Japanese Coins |
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Comment: Thank you. Thank you! Thank You!!!
My 5-year old son was sent some Japanese coins by his uncle who teaches in Okinawa. His kindergarten class is studying Asia, and we are going to take the coins for the teacher to show the kids, but we had no idea what they represented. Your site is the best we found (i.e. yours is excellent!) in explanation. The coins are so much more interesting now. Thank you. |
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| Date : 1/5/2004 |
| Name : Saren |
| Where I live : Portland |
| My e-mail : hyperage@yahoo.com |
| My URL : www.halvsie.com |
| What I liked best : Pictures and links |
| What should be added : Halvsie.com is an interesting site, I think you should check it out. |
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