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Japan – The Strange Country
The author got too much flak for drawing little squinty eyes (with his own little squinty eyes), so he pulled the English version. Those people were missing the point, really.…
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Mina’s passport photo
The vice consul who handled our case thought this was a great passport photo.
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Props to Mika
My sister, Mika, who works with our darling brother Adam darling penguins and otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was interviewed for an NPR program concerning climate change and its…
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What Mina Thinks of Bangkok (Daddy Concurs)
Quite predictably, the long car ride to and from Bangkok was not appreciated by either baby, which they were quite vocal about. This was a kind of test run; do…
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We Against the World
I have a master’s class to teach this morning, then our whole family + nanny are off to Bangkok. We have an appointment tomorrow morning at the embassy’s ACS building…
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Michaelsoft Binbows (?????????????)
Secondhand PC and parts shop somewhere in Japan photo credit: Unknown awesome person
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ippon demo ninjin
Max is a little less enthused by this than I am, but I found the greatest song for learning counting (and introducing the concept of counters) in Japanese this week:…
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Cornershop Kway Chap
Last week I visited at a noodle shop that I thought was new, but my coworker said it’s been around for a few years. This is mainly what they sell,…
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Shift + Esc
This is the best Google Chrome shortcut / utility I’ve come across recently (try it; it’s an internal Task Manager). ///////////// I’ll even give you another killer one just for…
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Floating
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If that’s not a Gatson, I don’t know what is..
Go check it out. ///// Previous friend’s doppelgangers I’ve found on the web: Enter the Daver ///// UPDATE: I’ve decided to archive the photo here.
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missiles
I was browsing teh intarwebs and stumbled upon this pic: …and all I could think of was a photo we took a few years ago on the beach in Sumoto:…
