C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Month: March 2010

  • 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. The artwork (infographics) tells most of the story even if you don’t understand Japanese.

  • Mina’s passport photo

    The vice consul who handled our case thought this was a great passport photo.

  • 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 impact on the ocean. The interview can be found here: MBA Advocates Action on Climate Change

  • 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 we really want to unleash these two on a plane full of innocents for the cumulative nineteen or so hours it takes to get back…

  • 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 to report Mina’s birth abroad and apply for a passport. The problem? There are 100,000 demonstrators trying to get noticed at high profile venues such…

  • Michaelsoft Binbows (?????????????)

    Secondhand PC and parts shop somewhere in Japan photo credit: Unknown awesome person

  • 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: It’s just a great song, really. I hereby declare this a Cosmic Buddha reunion number. There was apparently some fluff about this song being switched…

  • 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, standard kway chap noodles served Vietnamese style in clear chicken stock with rice noodles of medium thickness (you can also get instant ramen served in…

  • 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 reading this: You can delete entries from an auto-complete drop down list by highlighting them and hitting Shift + Delete (this is actually a carry-over…

  • Floating