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Reviving the Japanese Daily Coffee Posts
Georgia Essence Drop Fire Freshly made Boss Switch Shot Ryusendo Original Fire Special Wonda Gold Nescafe Nescafe Golgo 13 Nescafe Golgo 13 So a while back I quit doing updates here, mostly because I quit drinking coffee. Usually when I go overseas though I start up again. I went to Morocco recently for a conference […]
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Conference Honeymoon
After L. and I got married, we took a trip to Morocco for our honeymonn. Actually, I had made a committment a long time before to attend the 2008 LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, so we went together as a kind of honeymoon. It was the best honeymoon conference ever. Read more for notes from […]
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Second Apartment Viewing
Today I went with L. for the second apartment viewing. On the first viewing we filled out a form with 10 issues we found in the apartment. The majority of them were small bumps in the wall, or a few were areas where there were imperfections in how the finishing on the doors, or how […]
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The NHK Man pays a visit
Friday evening I came home from work to a hot apartment: it was raining all day so I had left the windows closed. When I do that my apartment warms up pretty quickly, mostly due to the refrigerator and computer I suppose. I put some rice on for dinner and opened up the windows but […]
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Saturday morning alarm
I was looking forward to getting a bit of extra sleep on Saturday night, but at about 8:45am this morning, there was a pretty big earthquake north of Tokyo (centered on Iwate, a low level 6 on the Japanese scale) which caused shaking down near Tokyo. It was very minor, not strong enough to move […]
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Notes from Marriage Week
As always I am a bit behind posting news to my blog. Sorry about that. If you couldn’t tell from my previous entries, I married my girlfriend L. three weeks ago. We didn’t have a wedding ceremony, but plan to have one next year in May. My family came to Japan to meet with L.’s […]
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Busy busy busy
I’m back in Japan – got back in just about a week ago. I’ve been really busy catching up on stuff, and very soon I plan to post an entry about my “wedding week”. Next up is a post on the trip to Morocco for a conference / combined Honeymoon. In short: Wedding Week was […]
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One picture – Traditional Japanese Kimono and Hakama
Jana, L., David, Alana I don’t really have much time, because I have to pack still, and then get on a plane to go to Morocco for a conference, but I wanted to make a quick note of things. Yesterday I married L., and for the past week my family has been in Japan. We […]
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The Future of News
I do research on automatic opinion identification, and one thing that is really interesting to the community right now is analyzing blog data. Most of the available tagged resources are over newspaper data or movie reviews or other kinds of collectable TEXT – user star rating type things (restaurant reviews, product reviews, etc.) The community […]
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Licensed to drive: Making Japanese streets more dangerous
Delicious DMV Curry I can’t believe Japan gave me a Driver’s License About two months ago I started the process to convert my Texas Driver’s License into a Japanese Driver’s License. I expected it to take a long time, but actually things went more quickly than I expected. Preparing the documents took a while. You […]
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Updates around Jiyugaoka
Jiyugaoka New York Doughnut Plant Cherry Blossoms in Jiyugaoka Oimachi Line Express Trains I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. Work has been busy, I’m getting married, family is coming to visit, etc. etc.. These things happen all the time, and it is no reason to ignore your beloved blog. I spent a bit of time […]
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Mabo Tofu: Cheap and easy food
Mabo Tofu Mix: all you need for delicious spicy tofu Cut up your tofu Finished Mabo Tofu I’m always interested in adding new options to my menu of things that I can (poorly) cook. I often cook some kind of curry rice (it is one of my favorite dishes, it is easy to make, it […]
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