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I have two boys, 8 and 11 years old. Tony, the 11 year old, loves video games. He has a Sony PSP which he plays a lot. Far too often in my wife's opinion. He's constantly blowing his...
Sorry for being so political all the time, but I'm genuinely obsessed with this election. Like, I need to check myself into a twelve-step program.
If Obama wins, you'll read about me...
Democrat Brad Sherman of California last week said on the floor of the House of Representatives that "someone" (he won't say exactly who) threatened that if the House didn't pass the...
I'm supposed to blog when something interesting happens to me, right?
This morning as I was passing through Shinjuku Station, I saw a woman take a dive down a short flight of slippery...
I'm going to go out on a limb and declare this clip will become part of US Presidential election history, like that humiliating photo of Michael Dukakis driving a tank. Huffington Post...
Seriously, I get heart palpitations when I imagine Sarah Palin as second in line to a 73 year old president whose father and grandfather both died before age 72. She's in waaaay over...
It's Friday, I'm starting on my way home and I was hungry for a snack so I bought a bag of tempura fried squid. They look like potato chips or some other salted carbohydrate snack.
Don't know how it got there, but it sure livened things up yesterday.
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Tags: News, shibuya
As is already possible for other major cities around the world, you can now use Google Maps to virtually drive around Tokyo and enjoy 360 degree views of the cityscape. Here's Shibuya...
Here's how I keep them straight in my head.
I start with Iran by remembering the phrase, "She is from Iran." Iran is Shi'ite.
I recall the mistake McCain made saying that Iran was
First, let me appease those who come here for news about my family and me. Last Sunday while Tony had a soccer game, I took Andy to a local 子ども会 and brought my new camera along. (Seeing...
As of yesterday evening, the omnipresent police have completely disappeared, put back into cryogenic storage, ground up into tasty hamburger meat or maybe they were never police to
This is pretty old news by now, but I just found out about it. I don't spend much time surfing websites about Japan. When I still lived in the US, I hardly ever followed local news
Twitter friends were right, the extra security is due to the G8 Summit in Hokkaido. It says so on these out-of-order garbage cans. Mystery solved.
Tags: mobile
I noticed a policeman posted at the exit of the Ginza line in the Aoyama-ichome station this morning who's normally not there. He was watching people carefully and had his baton in
A few months ago when I was posting random tidbits of stuff from the Japanese news media to this blog, I came across an article about a group suicide that happened in a hotel less than...
Andy last week decided that he really wants a dog, and he wants to buy it with 50,000 to 100,000 yen of his own money, made 100-150 yen at a time by helping around the house. He has...
I came upon this article by accident. (I hope you don't mean that literally. -ed.)
Don't you realize that although you did your civic duty, you also stopped the practiced skills of
In the morning, Tony and Andy played together. In the afternoon, Tony had soccer practice and Andy played with his loudmouth friends. While watching him and his friends play together,...
On Saturday morning (day 1) I drove my wife to work so we could have the car to go to Navel Park. That was the plan, but when I got home I crawled back into bed and didn't wake up until...
It turns out we have a four day weekend, not a three day one. Saturday was Constitution Memorial Day (kenpou kinen-bi), today is Childrens' Day (kodomo no hi), tomorrow is Greenery
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I just realized my RSS feeds have been broken for probably a long, long time. I think they're fixed now.
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This week is Golden Week, when a slew of national holidays fall within days of each other and the entire country takes off work en masse. Unfortunately, this year next Saturday and
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On Saturday while the boys were taking swimming lessons I spent around 45 minutes walking around the neighborhood in search of stuff to shoot with my new camera and lens. It's been
His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too.
An excerpt from his blog:
Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made
When QTVR came out in the mid 90's I was really into it. I took many cylindrical panoramas in my free time and also for clients of the web development company I worked for at the time....
With the money I just received from my parents for last Christmas (we're a pretty laid back bunch), I bought a Canon EOS Kiss Digital X camera, also known in other countries as the
Every store in Shinjuku Akihabara is sold out of Bimoji Training.
Tags: geek stuff, mobile, Nintendo DS
Finally a new "game" has come out for the Nintendo DS that will make me start using it again. Last night I was surfing the Nintendo channel of our Wii while putting off going to bed...
A link to this video showed up on BoingBoing today. In the 18 years I've lived here, the only establishment I've seen that refused foreigners and wasn't a shady pub or run-down love...
Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone...
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Tags: mobile, photo, shibuya
The only good thing that comes to mind about living a spartan life limited to home, commuting and work is that it doesn't take much at all to make me happy.
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Last weekend, like most weekends, Tony sat in my lap while playing Counter Strike on my PC. This is our bonding time. I use it to teach him new words and phrases in English, and when...
It smells like a bonfire made from burning tires on a New Jersey beach at low tide on a hot summer day.
Guess which family resturant. Easy question for anyone who's lived in Japan.
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There's a chain mail message making the rounds in Japan claiming that a three year old girl with leukemia at the Showa University Hospital in Tokyo can't receive a life-saving operation...
Somebody better get fired over this. In happened in of all places, Dallas.
Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came...
This is getting ridiculous. The first incident was intolerable, what are we up to now, four in the past month?
Details are sketchy, but a Philippine woman living in Okinawa claims that...
There are a number of official lists of kanji. I'm not an expert by any means, I'm just going by information gleamed off the net.
教育漢字(kyouiku kanji): The 1oo6 characters students
Garrett from Trans Pacific Radio wants me to post this. (You owe me a beer.)
Black Stripe Theater, a team of independent artists, performers and technicians based in Tokyo, will be
As if relations weren't bad enough already between the US military and the citizens of Okinawa, a 54 year old resident of Nagoshi City found Corporal John Cody Jake passed out drunk...
I don't know how many people are familiar with popular websites in Japan, but 2ch is the most widely used online forum. The interface is absolute crap, but that's par for the course...
Early this morning a 31 year old unemployed man sneaked up behind a 41 year old taxi driver taking a wizz in a public toilet at a shrine in Shinjuku and whacked him in the head a few...
A 40-something year old guy riding in a taxi last night told the driver he was going to be sick and had to get out of the car while they were driving over Yokohama Bay bridge. He fell...
The reason I haven't been updating this here blog so often lately is because I'm spending all my free time reading and trying to learn as much Japanese as anyone who's lived here as...
If you're a Facebook user and are learning Japanese, give the Kanji Box app a whirl. And no cheating by using Perapera-kun or Rikai-chan at the same time.
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I can still remember when Tony was a baby who only knew how to drool, eat, sleep and poop his diaper. Now he surfs the web all by himself. He even knows how to switch the keyboard to...
This week's news about a 38 year old US marine stationed in Okinawa abducting and raping a junior high school girl has overtaken the headlines from last week's frenzy about gyoza ("Dumplings."...
I can't understand why McCain and Hillary are leading in national polls. McCain thinks invading Iraq was the right thing to do, it's going well and we should stay there for the next...
And no, I won't tell you where it is. It's super-secret.
Every time I see a woman doing her makeup on the train, I wish I could pull a battery-operated shaver out of my pocket and do...
"The money simply hasn't come in at the rate that we expected," says the aide. "Florida is a $7 million commitment that we can't meet, and if we did, that leaves us exposed for Super...
I think this might be the funniest video I've seen on YouTube. Someone lovingly remixed a few scenes from the first Star Wars movie with audio snippets from other James Earl Jones movies....
By far, the best thing about having kids is the hugs. It more than makes up for the all the lights left on, the water pitchers and ice cube trays left empty, and the pee left on toilet...
This has to be seen to be believed. I wish the clip were an hour or two longer.
Dolphin Play Bubble Rings
Tags: cute, video
This week, instead of continuing to be the silent, antisocial worker drone I've been of late, I'm going to (force myself to) post random crap that makes me happy. Most of it will have...
Every time I pass this sign, I can't help wondering what exactly a "fetish bar" is and what people do there. Can you order a Tom Collins with a stiletto-heeled kick in the nuts chaser?...
Still no news to report from me. I work, I go home, lather, rinse, repeat. Next month, I turn 40 years old. It's not fair. Not so long ago I was a teenager trying to grow a mustache...
Thanks to a bout of nolo virus or salmonella or food poisoning I got from a plate of fried chicken about a week ago, I spent most of my winter vacation sleeping (and pooping), which...
Sofa King We Todd Did -
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I'm turning into a workaholic hermit, it's been 47 days since I last did anything social, and I finally got paid today. Anyone in Tokyo up for drinks tomorrow night (Friday)?
I wish...
I guess I feel an affinity for the people who put out the Alive in Baghdad vlog because they go through the same steps I dofilming, editing, subtitling, uploadingonly they're a lot...
The Buddhist definition of true love, which to me sounds a lot like true friendship.
Maitri: Loving kindness; the ability to make someone happy. That "someone" can be:
Yourself
Someone...
It sounds like there's at least one policeman in Tokyo who wants to attribute as many crimes as possible to foreigners, according to a comment that was left on my blog a few days ago:
several...
I deleted the last podcast because the HFJ editorial staff (my mother) thought I gave out far too much personal information. And I gotta do what my mother says. It's an involuntary
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Tags: funny, mobile, photo