My building had a water maintenance work yesterday, and so I had to be home around 13:00 to 14:00 to let the workers in. When the doorbell rang around 12:30, I went to answer the door and, thinking that the maintenance staff had come early, didn’t bother to check the peephole. Instead of the workers, [...]
Quote from Neal: “This song makes you feel that life’s not so bad” For more information about this video, check HERE.
Shortly before Josh left Tokyo to head back to Philly, he and I headed over to Odaiba to check out the new Gundam statue they’d recently erected in order to promote both ecology and raise awareness of Tokyo’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. It was a ridiculously sunny day and I got nicely sunburned, [...]
A colleague of mine in the US recently wrote to me asking for tips that he can use when he visits Japan with his family next month. This is probably the 3rd or 4th time that I’ve done this for friends/colleagues and I suddenly realised that it would make things a whole lot simpler to [...]
“He died while testing a concrete canoe” – that is one heck of a depressing eulogy. I mean… when I first read the story, I wondered what on earth the kids could have been thinking. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20090817p2a00m0na013000c.html?inb=rs However, a quick Google search brings up THIS, which implies that concrete canoes do actually serve as engineering/structural challenges [...]
I know it’s been almost a week since my last post, but honestly, it’s not for lack of material. I think the biggest thing that makes me lazy about posting is the fact that I want to include pictures. I have the pictures, but first I need to copy them over from camera to computer. [...]
There was yet another quake this morning around 07:51. It didn’t feel quite as powerful as the last two recent ones, partially because it was also offshore, but I think the fact that I was in my office building (a new structure, and probably much more quake-proof than my apartment) also lessened the shakin’, the [...]
I bought a TV very recently and though I mostly use it to watch US TV shows that I’ve…”obtained” *cough-ahem*, I do occasionally switch it on to see what’s showing on Japanese TV (the 7 or so channels that are broadcast for free). Most times, the programs consists of sports, news, and extremely bizarre-if-not-downright-ridiculous TV [...]
I rarely look through and see what Akismet catches, but I noticed today that 16 comments had been flagged as spam and decided out of curiosity to skim through them and see what had gotten caught – the results were definitely good for a chuckle and I thought I’d post them here for posterity. For [...]
