necoandjeff wrote:
> mtfester wrote:
> > tm wrote:

> >> If it's like Market Street in San Francisco, just sad and urine
> >> smelling, i can recreate that here without leaving the house.
> >
> > No, no, there's a Nordstrom's, too.
> 
> The urine smell refers to a 4 block section of Market Street, just West of
> Nordstrums.

Do they still have that coin-operated self-washing porta-pot down by 
Nordstroms? I was interested in trying the thing out, but junkies were 
using it.

Speaking of fantasticly futuristic machinery, has anyone else tried 
the recycling machines at the SE exit of Shinjuku Station? Feed a beer 
can into one and, get this, it flattens the can! Feed a pet bottle 
(labels and caps properly removed) into the other and it grinds the 
bottle into mulch! What a wonderful use of technology to conserve 
resources and save the planet. Can't wait until they are installed in 
my neighborhood, there is a wide variety of things i'm anxious to feed 
into them.