• Photos

    Gyudon Pics

    At the request of a certain hominid (and I suspect a fellow chowhound), I present borrowed gyudon pics. Here we have the gyudon (center), miso soup (right), pickled cabbage (left),…

  • Exploits

    Ode to Yoshi-Gyu

    I have been depressed since this weekend when Nam and I walked past a Yoshinoya (ex-purveyor of gyudon, or “beef bowls”) and saw: A. A notice on the door informing…

  • Web

    Random Yoshida Links

    The links that can be found by ego-Googling are sometimes surprising. I hunted down the site of another Justin Yoshida last month! I left a message in his guestbook, but…

  • Work

    Mac Adept

    The manager for the packaging design department came to me with a blank procurement form last year and said, “Fill these out. We need a new Mac; you have 1,000,000…

  • Uncategorized

    Ouch.

    If you’re gonna do it, do it right: Big delays as bullet trains hit same man The headline is misleading because it wasn’t just bullet trains (going in opposite directions…

  • Work

    Salaryman Wept

    Found an article from last month that hit close to home: Competition stiffens to work oneself to death Let Salaryman tell you something about dedication: Too much can kill, and…

  • Work

    Of Lohms and Mindslaves

    Lying on my desk is a document entitled: Lohms vs. Orifice Size I don’t know who put it there, but apparently I get to make a presentation on it later…

  • Site News

    ISO 14001 Compliant

    This is a warning that I will be archiving posts that I liked on my old blog on this one because I want that tingling feeling on my scalp from…

  • Site News

    Oh Yeah

    My site was down for a week due to a corrupted table in the MySQL database that holds the data for my MT installation. But if this entry posts, all…

  • Exploits

    Brimful of Asha

    I once drank a pinchful of vibhuti, sacred ash, dissolved in a cup of water at the insistence of a crazy white guy I met in Japan who was a…