gamera 0 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I think it's a bit dangerous for you to have any alcohol while you are in an onsen bath tub. Could cause a heart-attacking to be a Dozaemon (a drowned corpse) there As many before me have said, I think it's nice to have some after the onsen though? Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 What about an inflatable crocodile in the onsen - would anyone object? Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 I think they might. About the small towel people seem to put on their head - what's the tradition there? Just to put it somewhere rather than on the side, or any other meaning? The monkeys at Shiga Kogen don't seem to do that (they don't drink beer in the onsen either). Link to post Share on other sites
TJ OZ 0 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 The monkeys don't seem to follow the onsen rules at all. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Well I think they should - set an example. Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I've asked a few of my colleagues and they pretty all much said there they wouldn't take beer in with them and have never seen - "beer after an onsen". Do the monkeys have a beer after I wonder? Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Sitting around naked with a group of hairy arsed Gaijin Aussie Snowboarders in a primative mountain stream drinking beer. Something about that Neanderthal type behavior that I find strangely comforting. If the Snow monkeys had cans of Asahi in their hands, would anyone really notice the difference????? Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 How about some cheese in the onsen? Though as with the beer I suspect it is best to enjoy the onsen and then have the beer and cheese once you are out. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 I often take a beer or two into the onsen, some of my Japanese friends take sake and float it in a wooden ice bucket. Nothing like a beer while your wrecked body is recovering for the nighta onslaught. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 mmmm...........cheese does go well with beer. It might be a trick to get the right cheese for this situation. What would you suggest for this hot, humid damp environment Cheeseman? Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Some classier private onsens serve you beer and sake tub-side (in the onsen!). Cool little munchies too. But those are $$ private $$ too. The proper etiquette for a public onsen is alas, NOT to bring food or drink into the pool area. Tobacco too. But, it's such a minor social rudeness that no one will say anything. Or if they do say something it will be the poker-faced approval blurb. You know - when they tell you it's fine but really mean that it's slightly off. We are talking about onsens and not sento/ofuro right? Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 ' poker face' is sooo spot on. It's hard to know when you've upset the Japanese. (except for the lifty at Rusutsu who yelled in my face, no doubt he was upset). Tesselator, I reckon you should change your name to Hellmans Beard or something like that. Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Hehehe Satan's bearded spawn... The "Tesselator" comes from teaching Computer Graphics at Universities here and around. And my general work in that industry. -- Here, I designed this system and made all of this video (as an example of what I mean): ftp://ftp.newtek.com/pub/LightWave/LW9/ShaderIntro_Divx.avi or in dot movie format: ftp://ftp.newtek.com/pub/LightWave/LW9/ShaderIntro_Quicktime.mov you might need a codec http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp for the .mov one though. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Aren't those guys the 'video toaster' dudes? I thought they went out of business. Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Yep, Those are the VT guys... No no.. not out of business. The platform they were on in the early 90's died tho. The Amiga from Commodore. But they quickly recovered with a PeeCee equivalent. And now the newest product in that line are the TriCaster, TriCaster Pro, and the best of all is SpeedEdit which is the video editor section of the PeeCee Toaster broken out and doing HD video or really any size you want. It's software only but it screeeeems as an editor. I don't think there's anything else out there that approaches it's speed. Seriously nice software and pretty cheep too! And then of course they have always had LightWave3D which has maintained the #3 or #4 position in the CG industry for like, ever. It's competition is Maya (now owned by the evil AutoDesk), XSI, and 3DStudio Max (also from the evil one), with newcomer MAXON jostling for a position with it's Cinema4D. Not discounting of course the l33t app Houdini from SideFX weighing in at $17K NewTek had a staff change about 3.5 years back now - Maybe that's what you're thinking of - But as long as Tim is running things down there NewTek will stay afloat. But now we're so far off topic... Ummm, how to get back to Beer in the onsen? I'm lost. Sorry for the hijack... Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Kewl, I didn't realize they were still around. Do you go to NAB? I don't think they have onsen in Vegas (I could be wrong - maybe at the Imperial Palace hotel?) but if they did - there would probably be beer, blackjack and Baccarrat in the onsen! Link to post Share on other sites
TJ OZ 0 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I have booked an onsen for 6pm this evening and there will definately be beer involved. I guarantee it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Quote: Originally posted by SirJibAlot: Kewl, I didn't realize they were still around. Do you go to NAB? I don't think they have onsen in Vegas (I could be wrong - maybe at the Imperial Palace hotel?) but if they did - there would probably be beer, blackjack and Baccarrat in the onsen! Nope, never been to a NAB nor a CES. I'd like to some day though. Been to too many shows in Japan.. ug! NewTek has only flown me to the states once and it was just for a week of Business. For sure no onsens... But there was beer. Link to post Share on other sites
NisekoPancakes 0 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I really look forward to a beer after an onsen. An onsen full of pissed up people drinking does not sound like somewhere I would like to be. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I go to NAB every year (including this one)...do you go to InterBee? Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Quote: Originally posted by SirJibAlot: I go to NAB every year (including this one)...do you go to InterBee? Yup! Almost always. A few factory expos too but as I understand it they're invite only. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Kewl...If I don't see you on the slopes, i'll see you at InterBee! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 What actually is NAB by the way? Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It's a tradeshow for broadcasters, television and film production, independent production, and 3d animation. It's the 2nd largest tradeshow that Las Vegas hosts (CES is the biggest). http://www.nabshow.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
Tesselator 0 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 NAB... National Association of Broadcasters. An expo (show) with buttloads and buttloads of TV broadcasting and film making equipment. Items and products range from $50 still digitizers/mice and keyboards etc. to $70,000 video editing decks, $100,000 camera heads and million dollar editing suits, etc. etc. The show is truly huge! The guys from NewTek that do the show tell me there's just no way you could see everything in a week. CES... Consumer Electronics Show It's also huge bu I think the average cost of the items there is a lot lower on average than NAB. Everything from phones, to PDAs to you-name-it electronics. No theme specialization like NAB - just anything "electronic". NewTek attends both shows. The hardware is spotlighted at NAB and the software is spotlighted at CES. Link to post Share on other sites
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