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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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The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester
It is about time that I’ve gotten around to reading some Alfred Bester. I’ve known about him for a long time, probably when I first saw the character “Bester” on Babylon 5 and looked up that history. I’ve never gotten around to reading anything by Bester though. Last week I dug up some Bester stuff, […]
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What I had for dinner
Pasta with white sauce Chicken Fried Rice I made it home an hour earlier than R. today, so I figured I would cook. I do that sometimes. I don’t really know what I’m doing; I just look up whatever it is that I want to eat. Or some close approximation. A few weeks back I […]
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A week of biking to and from work
A good friend of mine, we’ll call him DS for now, has been biking to work in Tokyo for the past few years. He has a very nice bike. His bike costs more than most cars that my family has bought (this though, is a terrible bar to measure cost by – most of the […]
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Summer Comic Market 78 in Tokyo
Comic Market Catalog Waiting in the parking lot for the Comic Market to open A crowded Tokyo Big Site Comic Cure Sports Drink Captain Jack Sparrow Saint Oniisan: Jesus and Buddha Some Giant Robot Ginrei from Giant Robo Usavitch Rabbits Xbox Man On Saturday, I decided to take a trip out to Tokyo Big Sight […]
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Royce Chocolate Potato Chips
Royce Chocolate Potato Chips For the past few months, we’ve had a mysterious box in our refrigerator. It was labeled “Royce Potato Chip Chocolate”, which mystified me. It looked like it was chocolate. But it said something in there about potato chips. I had a hard time consolidating those two concepts. I was almost convinced […]
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More books: Paolo Bacigalupi
While at Fuji Rock, I read two ebooks, both by a new author (to me), Paolo Bacigalupi. I thought they were great. First up: Pump Six and Other Stories (link is to the Baen Webscriptions.net ebook version, which is an amazing $6.) This is a collection of short stories and a great place to start. […]
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