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Podcasts and videocasts from an American expat living the life of the typical Japanese salaryman.
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Owner of this Channel? Claim it! or grab your chicklet Website: http://www.herroflomjapan.com
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I bought a 30GB iPod yesterday to replace the one I lost. I also bought a new pair of Sennheiser CX 300 earbuds ($40 and theyre the best Ive ever owned). With the store points I collected...
Yesterday on the train ride home I was smooshed up against a middle-aged man with a head full of dandruff the size of corn flakes.
But thats not the gross part.
The rotating ceiling...
Nothing too interesting here, but I managed to fix my home PC this morning. I guess the C drive is starting to crap out intermittently. It probably got stuck or overheated, and when...
Booting my home PC by using an Ubuntu live CD shows that all my drives are OK. The problem is that Windows XP isnt booting, as if either the C drives boot sector is toast or the system...
Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing fame wrote about ways to prevent trolls from destroying an otherwise tranquil online community in an article for InformationWeek. One of the strategies he...
Inscribe your e-mail address on the back of your iPod so that if you, say, accidentally drop it when you get out of the car, the person who finds it might be kind enough to return it...
but I need to get it out because I have no one to to talk to about it. Last week a young, beautiful, intelligent, and very capable coworker of ours took her own life. Someone Ive worked...
Ive reverted to my natural state, a self-absorbed hermit geek trying to force myself to grow a bigger brain. See, Ive got this anxiety problem ever since childhood. Its rooted in the...
Congressional Action Needed before May 15 to Halt Widespread Webcaster Bankruptcies
April 16, 2007 – The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) today denied requests made by DiMA and other parties...
By now youve likely heard the news about the Copyright Boards ruling regarding net radio. Simply put, it approximately triples the amount paid to record labels via SoundExchange for...
I have to disappear for another week or two until I get some other things done. I wish I didnt have to, but its only fair to the people who depend on me. I have a todo list long enough...
OK folks, what do you think of this? Should I start encoding/re-encoding my videos at 640480/360? Im thinking no.
Advantages: Maybe Apple will pay attention to me. Yeah, right.
Disadvantages:...
Ive been spending so much time in front of the computer lately that I messed up my back and had to stay home from work. It feels like someone used my kidneys for punching bags. When...
Now that I have reached my goal of gaining some confidence in video editing, its time for me to slow down here and concentrate on my real job. If youve gotten something out of the past...
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Actually, the proper term is Revolving Sushi.
I am so hungry after making this video.
Formats
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Just a little slice of unedited (but subtitled) reality.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4
Take a minutereally, thats all it takesto download and run this little app. Youll be given a list of links to the lastest versions of a whole slew of stuff you probably forgot you ever...
SUPER © is a video conversion swiss army knife coded by an extremely long-winded and perhaps slightly insane Frenchman. Pick any two video codecs and SUPER © will convert between them....
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Another video created from source material that has sufficiently aged like a fine cheese.
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I made $6.44 last month.
In a few thousand years Ill be able to retire.
Heres what the road looks like in the spring. I notice a lot more people walking down the road at night when the flowers are in bloom. Its nice to think that people take the time to...
Hi, Im posting this just so the previous video will show up in the RSS feed. I punched up the colors of all the photos I took over the weekend. Yeah, like you care, I know.
Im in a
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Seemed a shame to let all that raw video go to waste, especially considering that it sat on my hard...
If the most recent post has an enclosed media file, the enclosure wont show up in the RSS feed. So what I have to do is create another post (this one).
It took me an hour and a half...
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We ate at a new Chinese restaurant where all the main dishes on the menu was too spicy for my boys....
Check out all the perty pictures I took this weekend at the park near our house. Now I want to buy a digital SLR that does auto exposure bracketing, probably the Canon Rebel XTi or
Music by:
Is CUBE (Like them? Yes? No?)
Some guy playing outside of Akabane station
Wanna see the chumbucket?
Fill out this survey
Link to me from yer blog
I forget what the third...
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Arthur is a weekly book and educational toy series. Every week we buy a new piece of him. (This week...
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Self-explanitory.
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OK, heres how this goes. Im making it up as I type. Andy watches Bettys vlog and suggest a new and fresh topic. Betty shoots it and gives the raw video to Carl. Carl edits it and puts...
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We went yesterday, but we also went in January of 2006, which is when I filmed this.
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Its a good day to spend indoors fishing from a big tank of knee high brackish water.
Tomorrow Im taking the kids to the pet shop to shoot doves.
What advertisments do you remember hearing on podcasts or seeing in videocasts? Other than GoDaddy. The reason I ask is because Kana and I are making plans for sumthin potentially big...
I took this portrait of myself when I was a freshman at Penn State. My grandmother showed me how to tint it. She used to do it for a living when my grandfather, who I never met, was...
All that crap is mine. Its my habitat. Yes, Im a manpig.
Want to hear something funny? The guy who sits next to me is a neat freak. Hes the Felix Unger to my Oscar Madison.
Hint: It doesnt belong to any of my coworkers.
Another hint: My bosss desk is even worse. (I like him.)
Here at work Im occasionally asked to make unreasonably difficult changes to PDF documents for which we dont have access to the original editiable versions. For example, Richard-san,...
I grew up listening to WMMR in Philadelphia. I just rediscovered it through a Yahoo Widget thats streaming it into my brain, and Im happy. It still deserves its long-standing reputation...
Taken with Tonys VcamNow2.0. Edited by Daddy, who gave up on the subtitles after two hours of sparring with Sony Vegas.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
OK all you Mixi invaders, try to find the Herro Flom Japan community and join it.
Someone who joined wrote their self-intro in Japanese using machine translation. Its a bit like haiku...
Maybe there are better places to put your photos online, but Flickr has always worked for me so Ive stuck with it.
Yahoo bought Flickr a year or two ago and has been weaving its tentacles...
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We duct taped a Hasbro VcamNow 2.0 to a remote control jeep to test the theory that you people will watch damn near anything.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp
anyone want a Mixi account? Ill send you an invite.
I dont plan on using Mixi any more than I use MySpace. I just didnt feel complete without an account.
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Ive been meaning to mention how there always seems to be a line for buying donuts at the Krispy Kreme store outside of Shinjuku station. I wonder...
I met with Kana (Is CUBEs manager) yesterday at a Starbucks in Hiroo. I brought my laptop intending to show her music.podshow.com and hopefully convince her to upload some tracks to...
Someone mentioned in the comments of my recent post about Is CUBE that there were some videos of them on YouTube. Well, I just checked the other videos uploaded by the same user and...
A while ago I learned about the site Crazy Egg through a writeup on TechCrunch. Crazy Egg is similar to Google Analytics but more visual. You add a line of Javascript to your blogs
Its not too obvious that Im sucking in my gut, is it?
Get the t-shirt directly from the artist, shes a real cutie-pie.
