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Clear Lenses
Clear or yellow-colored lenses (aka “ambers”) are one of my pet peeves, because it all seems so high school. I think Options magazine is at fault for popularizing this trend…
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GooDiet
I think I understand what the creaters were going for. GooDiet is meant to be one of those concepts that takes two (or more) words and splices them together to…
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Day After Songda
Although me and mine (thx Kev) were unscathed, I saw a lot more damage around town as I drove to work today than I thought there would be. Some roads…
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Storm has passed
Everything is OK.
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‘zat you, Dorothy?
It’s very close now. Nothing much to report, except that the neighborhood strays are fighting for porch space.
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Evacuation Tip
If you are in Japan during a major disaster and need a place to evacuate, do not blindly follow the people in front of you – they are just as…
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Typhoons # 18 and 19
The company is making us go home at an unprecedented 2:00 in the afternoon so you just know we are in for a real beating. I haven’t been this happy…
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Fugu Fishing
Adam displaying our first catch of the season – a trophy fugu!
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Sure Won’t Happen Here
Even more news from our future host country this week: Follow the Leader: Israel and Thailand set an example by arming teachers. Thailand has followed Israel’s lead by allowing school…
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Eating Fido
As a wannabe chef, I might have thought about making a submission to the Carnival of the Recipes #3, a showcase for recipes from all around the blogosphere, but got…
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Gettin’ windy again already
The earthquakes passed and the gigantic wall of water ala Lucifer’s Hammer never came… But someone’s must be doing an effective rain dance because there’s another goddamn typhoon due to…
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Big Aftershocks
There was a magnitude 5 shaker in Wakayama earlier this evening when we were in a liquor store – all the stacks of bottles started moving back and forth, which…
