明けましておめでとうございます!(Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu == Happy New Year)

from Samurai Appliance Repair Man and Mrs. Samurai.
Need a New Year’s resolution? Here’s one: Vote for Ron Paul, President, 2008! He’s the TRUE peace candidate: he has consistently and stridently opposed the war in Iraq, the war on drugs, and all the other loony “wars” [...]

Samurai Appliance Repair Man, Mrs. Samurai, and our spawn.
Picture courtesy of Matushka Galina Tregubov. Thanks, Matushka!

Mark wrote:

As Tommy Lee Jones would say, “Excellant work young man”
The site is great, the info is right on target. Been there, done that. Reminds me of a friend of mine that we never let use power tools or touch anything electrical. I am constantly telling him the same things so profoundly posted on your [...]

Working Fall Originally uploaded by Zenzoidman.
Driving to an appliance service call, I had to pull over for some, eh hem, essential kidney maintenance. It’s tough trying to repair an oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, or whatever, while your teeth are chattering from excessive abdominal pressure. In [...]

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Unveiling a New Mac iBook: A voyeuristic peek into a disturbing moment in the life of a certifiable geek.

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BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Emergency workers helped a New Hampshire man out of a difficult situation over the weekend after a friend apparently locked a padlock around his testicles.
According to the Portsmouth Herald, police reported that the 39-year-old man was intoxicated when they arrived at the scene on July 30 at about 3:40 a.m. The man, [...]

Gasoline: tres yummies!
From left to right: the Trail Hog, the Fixite Do Service Van, and the Mamma Van. (click for larger view)

Fixit Hound looks on lovingly as Samurai Appliance Repair Man and his young apprentice prepare to launch into the sky and fly to yet another broken appliance in Gotham City (click for larger view).

Today is Easter (Pascha) for Orthodox Christians. Millions of Orthodox Christians all over the world are greeting each other with the traditional greeting, “Christ is risen!” And the traditional response, “Indeed He is risen!” In their own language, of course.
For example, in Japanese, the Samurai’s pseudo-native tongue, the greeting is, “Harisutosu hukkatsu!” [...]

Although the Samurai does virtual service calls all over the world through his award-winning website, Fixitnow.com, and through the world-famous Samurai School of Appliantology, he also does service calls in real life!
Many grasshoppers have emailed wondering what a day in the life of the Samurai is like. Presented below is a never-before-seen series of [...]

I love amphibians of all flavors, like frogs and salamanders, because they eat evil blood suckers like mosquitoes and black flies. Katie Feldman, of Vermont, started a website, www.SaveTheSalamanders.org that explains their plight and what we can do to help our amphibious friends.
And in this related story…
Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned to [...]

Keisuke wrote:

I love your site. It is, how you say, hott.
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