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A-Diamond Railing
I’m convinced that railing on a ferry exists mainly because the water is so damn inviting on a hot summer day.
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Pink skies over Awaji
It was more impressive to the naked eye.
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Sunset over KIX
My patented diagonal horizon.
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Ship Rat
Kuro digging into shrimp/meat clumps hand picked from our cup ramens.
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Precarious
You never know what you may find strapped haphazardly to overloaded big rigs on the Kobe expressway. This was fairly scary, but even scarier was the truck in front of it carrying a reinforced stainless steel tank labeled TOXIC that was weaving between lanes like an Indy driver. Idiots.
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Set-tripping and the Art of Parts Procurement
Mondays. I fucking hate Mondays. I am muttering this weekly mantra as I walk into a meeting with a problematic vendor yesterday morning. After greetings, bowing, and the compulsory 30 seconds of silence, I open with a blunt: “Your parts suck, Suzuki-san. One in every twenty are failing incoming testing. This is unacceptable.” “But Yoshida-san, you asked for them to be made as cheaply as possible…” he offers, weakly. It is time to unload with both barrels: “Never at the expense of quality. Never. Did we ask you to make shitty parts, or inexpensive parts? Because if the last ten years of recession has taught us anything, it is that…
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Korea Blocks Blog Access
Hot from the inbox: Fellow blogger, I am sending this message to the bloggers on my blogroll (and a few other folks) in the hopes that some of you will print this, or at least find it interesting enough for comment. I’m not usually the type to distribute such messages, but I felt this was important enough to risk disturbing you. As some of you may already know, a wing of the South Korean government, the Ministry of Information and Culture (MIC), is currently clamping down on a variety of blogging service providers and other websites. The government is attempting to control access to video of the recent Kim Sun-il…
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Nail Factory Kana
My cousin Kana opened a nail salon behind Tenri station.
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Crane-assisted hedge trimming
Made me late for work. Grrrrr.
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Flotilla
The Awaji Armada.
