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I'm hot and tired and all I did today was take pictures. I feel bad for the kids that were actually doing all the activities today. Today wa....
15 Sep 9:23 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Touching the Sky
I hiked up my second mountain today and the above picture is the view from the top. It was a hard hike but it only took my about an hour and....
8 Sep 8:58 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Great Expectations
Today I hiked to the top of Mount Midorii Gongen. It is about 400 meters high. It wasn't very scenic: at least on the lower reaches which wa....
2 Sep 9:19 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Dangers of High School
Today I realized why the kids look at me strangely and laugh when they say “hello” and I reply with “hey”. “Hey” in Japanese is ....
30 Aug 9:34 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Castle in the Clouds
My school sits almost on top of one of the mountains that surround Hiroshima. The road to it is long and arduous, winding its way through th....
29 Aug 12:34 am  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Rock Star
I have just finished my second day at work. I am a rock star. I walk down the hall and all the little Japanese school girls squeal with deli....
28 Aug 2:35 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Learning to Walk
Today was momentous day for the Meadows family; we opened a Japanese bank account by ourselves. Through the teller’s limited English and o....
24 Aug 2:34 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Freshman Orientation
The second day of “Get Japanese Language Use” (my title not theirs) is over. Now that I have figured out how to block out “Super Canad....
23 Aug 2:33 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
"Joe, Please Don’t Forget Me!"
Today was the last day of the Akifuchu Senior High School English Summer Seminar. I’m very happy to be home sleeping on my own pile of fut....
19 Aug 2:29 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Trash Day
We have finished up with the prefectural orientation and now Gail is sufficiently freaked about the bugs, mold, and trash sorting. You must ....
15 Aug 2:27 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Saying Goodbye
Today is my last day in the US. The last 24 hours have been a torrent of emotions as Gail and I both realize the enormity of it all. I thoug....
4 Aug 9:57 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Last Day
Last Friday was my last day at my day job. I had been an engineer working for a Japanese transplant OEM. I had been there for two years.When....
24 Jul 11:52 pm  from  Giant Tiny Land   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Appalachian shamisen
I DISCOVERED Kunimoto Takeharu and his Appalachian shamisen while listening to Night Essay on NHK AM as I worked late on a translation. Any ....
6 Jan 9:46 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Martial arts or mysticism? The difference is paper thin
Skeptics suggest the ninja and the techniques they practice are more myth and mutant turtle than martial arts, dismissing it as Oriental dir....
5 Jan 11:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Human Woman: better than the other kind, eh?
A clothing store in Tachikawa, BTW… Permalink | Leave a comment  » {extended} ....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Cool HTML x Gachapin t-shirts, sweats, hoodies and more at Parco, Shibuya
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30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Hey, Mr Claus: sure you know the way home tonight?
Keio Bus, thanks for having an unusually seasonal sense of humor… Permalink | Leave a comment  » {extended} ....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Does Avatar have the highest names-per-inch density in post-roll credits history?
I know it was expensive, but this is ridiculous… Permalink | Leave a comment  » {extended} ....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Doctor Who: Series 5 trailer looking good
<object height=“417” width=“500”> <embed src=“http://www.youtube.com/v/7tPte4rQMpI&hl=en&fs=1” wmode=“wind....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
New Year’s pachinko
Looks like somebody got lucky today… Permalink | Leave a comment  » {extended} ....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese adult magazines get the 3D treatment
DVD Dream, 980 yen, including silly glasses and two DVDs with all the 3D smut a lonely old man who’s yet to discover the internet could ev....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Solar-powered vegetable factory in a 40ft box
via sanyo.com   Permalink | Leave a comment  » {extended} ....
30 Nov 5:00 pm  from  Digital World Tokyo   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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