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Announcing Project: Micro Cooper
Project: Micro Cooper Maekawa Unagi Unagi-jyuu Tokyo Sky Tree Suitengu Dave and R. at Suitengu Pregnancy Protection Wrap Safe Childbirth Charm R. and I have recently started on a new project, which we will call Codename: Micro Cooper. The story starts about four months back, when R. complained of feeling sick in the morning and […]
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Premium Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Eggs Yummadict. From 37 Steakhouse Lunch Steak Premium Seats It says Premium Hung out with these guys too Last weekend R. and I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stanger Tides. This is an unusual occurrence because since I moved to Japan and got married, I generally see only about four movies a […]
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A Vacation in Singapore and Indonesia
Welcome to Nirwana Gardens Nirwana Gardens Beach Mangrove tour Mangrove tour charcoal mound A bar in the ocean We took a vacation and went to Singapore and the Bintan Island in Indonesia. We flew into Singapore from Japan on Tuesday evening, arriving a little before midnight, and went to a cheap hotel in Singapore. We […]
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Dinner and a Movie in Tokyo after the Earthquake
Tokyo Midtown is a large tower in Roppongi, we went there for a nice dinner The tower still stands For the past week, R. and I have been at home. I have been working from home (it is great that I work at a company where this is possible) while R. has been off of […]
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Why I am not worried about Earthquakes or Radiation in Tokyo
Anti-earthquake hat Anti-radiation hat In the past few days there has been a lot of confusion about what has been going on. I wrote a bit about my experience in the big earthquake and then later a bit about food shortages, and strange things I am eating. I touched a bit there on the supply […]
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You know it is bad when you are eating Nude Crunky Balls
Crunky Nude Balls Crunky Nude Balls With a city of over 15 million people, food can run out fast. I just wen to the local supermarket and they still don’t have any staple foods (but they have had deliveries of other non-staple foods.) It could be that there was just a buying run, but since […]
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I hope you like broccoli, because that is what is for dinner
A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket So this evening my wife and I stopped by the local (very large) supermarket to pick up some toilet paper and something for dinner tomorrow night. Turns out, we could get neither because almost everything was sold out. We did […]
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The Great Miyagi Earthquake of 2011
Outside Cross Tower Modeling Amazon.co.jp hard hats On Friday, as usual, a group of us from work went out to Beacon, a favorite lunch place. Lunch was great, a nice filling burger, as usual. Then back to work for the afternoon. At about three o’clock sometime (amazingly, I feel like I should know exactly when […]
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A bunch of fantasy books on the kindle
For the past few months (about four) I’ve had a Kindle. Of course, I get some free content, from places like Project Gutenberg, or Amazon’s own list of free book sources. I also have some old ebooks that I bought over the years that are not DRM’d, so I can convert them using Calibre or […]
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Molecular Tapas Bar, Tokyo
Molecular Tapas Bar Floating dishes in the bar The delightful Chef Jeff Ramsey Last week for Valentine’s Day I took R. to the Molecular Bar on the 38th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Tokyo. I have been wanting to go to this place for a few years now, ever since I first ran […]
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Monjya-yaki and the Lion King’s Simba
Getting monjya-yaki with some friends Monjya-yaki Simba! Last night my wife and I went to the house warming party of some friends of ours. They had just moved back from New York, where the husband was studying law at Columbia University. They rented out the lounge on the 37th floor of their building near Tsukishima. […]
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Fukuroda Falls
Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls shrine Tokyo Night Driving All picture in the set. Last weekend R. and I took a day trip out to see Fukuroda Falls. It is about three hours by car to the North of Tokyo. We took the car out (for the first time in months) and […]
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