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Saku and Haru: Playing at Kuriyama Park

Sep 21st

Park time: Hanging out while Mom does some shopping...

Sep 19th

At the doctor’s office.

Sep 18th

Heading home now. No more office work until October 5. (Other work still involved.)

Sep 18th

Tomato picking: Got up early in the morning to look at...

Sep 17th

Clouds (1): Strange stuff in the sky.

Sep 17th

Clouds (2): In Japanese these are sometimes called 地震雲...

Sep 17th

Shorpy: best place on the net for 145-year-old photos. http://bit.ly/hdMgR

Sep 17th

Great weather today. Why do I have to work until 21:30?

Sep 17th

Do you think this guy would really forward his references to you if you requested them?...

Sep 17th

Twitter avatar issues explained: http://bit.ly/4tvxMp

Sep 17th

Hatoyama cabinet comes out swinging, halts anime museum project plans: http://bit.ly/1h8cBS (via...

Sep 16th

Glad this thing will be out of the way before my Tuesday flight: http://yfrog.com/0gk1mp

Sep 16th

Tanaka Mieko: “I was young, I needed the money” http://bit.ly/4zfnGu (via @kogure)

Sep 16th

Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Haraguchi: nat’l gov’s regional bureaux...

Sep 16th

“The first thing I want to do is have a car that I can fit in, but more than that I want to...

Sep 16th

Only 3% of Oklahoma high schoolers can pass US naturalization test? http://snipurl.com/rxbph (via...

Sep 16th

Reading two overviews of the Hatoyama cabinet: http://bit.ly/c0ZHO and http://bit.ly/2c8361

Sep 16th

日比谷公園のオクトーバーフェスト行って来た。たいして美味いビールないのになんであんな人集まるんだろうか

Sep 16th

Rare Coins - Family Treasure or Ill-Gotten...

Sep 15th

Nagatsuma tapped as health minister; thought he might be. I’m sure everyone in the SIA is...

Sep 15th

Having a meeting about my next project- “Kanyeruption: The Musical, Starring Carl...

Sep 15th

Economy-boosting jobs program idea: Japan could invade Manchuria again

Sep 15th

”Translation market [in Japan] has seen a 4.2 percent fall in sales.” http://bit.ly/kRpmu /...

Sep 15th

It’s item 15 in chap. 2 of this report, but I don’t feel like shelling out ¥115,500 to...

Sep 15th

Kanye on Kanye http://bit.ly/LJ4Ry (via @dkgallello)

Sep 15th

why is this so awesome? http://www.animalswithlightsabers.com/ (via @hannibalrex)

Sep 15th

“Here’s a program that improves child health AND reduces crime.” GOP: “KILL...

Sep 15th

Aso (358 days as PM) falls short of Fukuda (365), Abe (366) “one hapless year at the...

Sep 15th

On education

“The preservation of the means of knowledge amongst the lowest ranks is of more importance to...

Sep 15th

O_o “China covers suicide bridge in butter” http://tinyurl.com/l2zopt (via @China_Daily,...

Sep 15th

Fukushima Mizuho = minister for consumer affairs, babymaking, gender equality; Kamei Shizuka =...

Sep 15th

English class, LOL

Sep 14th

NEC dominates Japanese mobile handset merger

Sep 14th

Photo With Kim Jong Il and Bill Clinton Tied...

Sep 14th

Guernica / Last Temptation

Sep 14th

Webster’s Third Dictionary

Sep 14th

http://twitpic.com/hs6a7 - traditional foods of the UK (via @hawkenking) ←it was a WTF moment when I...

Sep 14th

Reading: “Webster’s Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language”...

Sep 14th

Been a while since I browsed http://www.aldaily.com/ … I need to do it more often.

Sep 14th

Reading: an interesting piece on the art of the cocktail: http://bit.ly/286paY

Sep 14th

Reading: WSJ piece on totalitarian art: http://bit.ly/zhrki

Sep 14th

Save to Delicious

Sep 14th

My lunch today was German. And delicious.

Sep 13th

I can has new iPhone?!

Sep 13th

Nice to see Abe getting honored, but is the penny really worth keeping around? http://bit.ly/sLD5G

Sep 13th

In a post-9/11 world America needs more citizens who can speak and read Arabic. That’s why we...

Sep 13th

Former rulers of nation descend into whining about what rooms they get to sit in when not doing...

Sep 10th

No clear leader in runup to 2016 Olympic voting: http://bit.ly/xwkeh

Sep 10th

I never cheered for the Bulls, but Jordan was just unearthly....

Sep 10th

Eight years ago today I was getting on a plane for SFO. My brother was flying to Sydney. Bad day to...

Sep 10th

Quixotically clueless? http://www.freechoice.jp/

Sep 10th

Dude, you just don’t mess with Bus Uncle. http://bit.ly/3M5N3

Sep 9th

Korea, um, raises the bar on suggestiveness by, um, erecting this public sculpture....

Sep 9th

This 1952 Tottori fire destroyed more than 5,000 homes and only killed two: http://bit.ly/LzfOP

Sep 9th

This is a little more like the way I ski: http://bit.ly/2oBAaR

Sep 8th

Sage Cattabriga-Alosa skiing on the edge of the World. http://tinyurl.com/kml3jz (via @TetonGravity)...

Sep 8th

April Fools’ joke: http://bit.ly/2FUGi Not an April Fools’ joke: http://bit.ly/HRknW...

Sep 8th

Sites I use for my job in no particular order (1): http://www.pin1yin1.com/

Sep 8th

I wonder if I’m the only person who has never gone near Rikai-chan

Sep 8th

This just in: Korea mounts global campaign to get Japan marked as “Ilbon” on all maps

Sep 8th

Sites I use for my job in no particular order (2): http://honyaku-archive.org/

Sep 8th

Sites I use for my job in no particular order (3): http://trans.glova.jp/

Sep 8th

Sites I use for my job in no particular order (5): http://bit.ly/2Njlk8

Sep 8th

Sites I use for my job in no particular order (4): http://kotobank.jp/

Sep 8th

The president’s a nBONG What did he say? He said the president’s near No, gone blame...

Sep 7th

Now thats not fair http://bit.ly/XbkGd (via @shinpuren) ← funnay

Sep 7th

another day in Roppongi: http://homepage.mac.com/durf/pix/unwelcomegaijin.jpg

Sep 7th

Now that’s what a finance minister is supposed to look like! http://bit.ly/dTjK2

Sep 7th

Japanese view of US cops? http://bit.ly/4qz4fZ (via @shinpuren) ← I chuckled, but this is bizarre

Sep 7th

Samoa switches roads to left-hand driving, to go with the tiny island nation flow:...

Sep 7th

So My Samoa tweet got a reply from @Doc__Brown (all his replies are the same, so you’ll know...

Sep 7th

First lay-judge trial with interpreters starts today. http://bit.ly/tAwG1 (Japanese) (via...

Sep 7th

I now see @redjoe in a whole new light. http://bit.ly/DjStj

Sep 7th

Now dealing with INTERWEB DRAMA in the form of death threats, server logs, IP addresses. Maybe the...

Sep 7th

Editing Toyota Foundation stuff like a madman

Sep 7th

Tiny terror! http://yfrog.com/0xx85jj

Sep 7th

Yukata (cotton kimonos) feature prominently in our photo gallery of Tokyo summer street fashions:...

Sep 6th

Full text of the GQ article Condé Nast is trying to smother to protect its business interests in...

Sep 6th

NYT travel piece on Kawagoe: http://bit.ly/LhJ7d

Sep 6th

炎上がってる http://yfrog.com/3zvh6j (via @osamumoro) ← another shot of the fire. Lots of sirens,...

Sep 6th

近所で火事です！ http://yfrog.com/033d3bj (via @osamumoro) ←fire in my neighborhood last night.

Sep 6th

Too soon? (Animated .gif) http://i30.tinypic.com/a337e1.gif

Sep 6th

*bleep doot deet deet* (via @r2d2)

Sep 4th

Exploring the chance that Kōmeitō will jump into a coalition with the DPJ: http://bit.ly/15SaYs

Sep 3rd

“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.” http://bit.ly/trKyC ← No hope for...

Sep 3rd

WTF? “having a sitting president addressing schoolchildren … makes me angry as an...

Sep 3rd

When you think about it, though, responsibility, goal-setting, and pursuing success in education ARE...

Sep 3rd

That’s it, I’m suing the Internet http://bit.ly/10GNfp

Sep 3rd

Some numbers worth learning for future Japanese budgets: http://bit.ly/11pNmv

Sep 3rd

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the...

Sep 2nd

“I upgraded all my computers to 10.6 and it broke things and I have a book deadline to meet...

Sep 2nd

Today’s google.co.jp logo: Happy birthday Doraemon! http://yfrog.com/5ig9yg

Sep 2nd

Because, y’know, he couldn’t keep one or two of those machines on 10.5 until he finished...

Sep 2nd

Here’s a fun read. Or a really depressing one, maybe. http://bit.ly/1usLX

Sep 2nd

Driver steals armored car w/¥78M on board; car found later in (of course) a pachinko parking lot,...

Sep 2nd

RUMOR: #stationfire in LA has a striking resemblance to Great Chicago Fire… IS Obama’s...

Sep 2nd

http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/japan-media.pdf...

Sep 1st

チョコラボキットカット

Sep 1st

UPDATE on Ken Ham’s visit to Japan. Here’s his blog entry http://bit.ly/1bwrAQ and...

Sep 1st

Masuzoe not interested in running for LDP presidency: http://bit.ly/67XcN

Sep 1st

The Economist takes a close look at Star Wars. Maybe a little too close. http://bit.ly/1a04FE

Sep 1st

“This is what happens when you don’t let in any gays or liberals. You end up with shitty...

Sep 1st

Am I the only person who sees a bunch of spam keywords in the @tprjp RSS feed? http://bit.ly/WWvMH

Sep 1st

The English translation of Hatoyama’s _Voice_ piece available on his website is terribly done....

Sep 1st

God damn this man is insane. http://bit.ly/ofFea

Sep 1st

The newly elected Diet members all collected their first monthly paychecks yesterday, by the way....

Sep 1st

Only in America: Evolution T-Shirts on Trial in Missouri Town http://bit.ly/zlBqC School had to...

Aug 31st

Meanwhile Debito continues to ignore the space aliens who get meaningful jobs in law enforcement,...

Aug 31st

Time-lapse shots of Station fire. The smoke looks like a volcano. http://bit.ly/uX3Sm

Aug 31st

Am I the only person who has no idea of how many followers he has/how many people he’s...

Aug 31st

What threat does Japan face that only the F-22 can defend against? Obtaining this fighter does...

Aug 31st

My take on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/osx10-6 (via @siracusa) ← Ars Technica review....

Aug 31st