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Ryusendo Coffee Black
Ryusendo Black Coffee Georgia Caffé Espresso Yesterday I tried the Ryusendo Black Coffee. It was awful. I should have known; it says right on it “no sugar”, and I like my canned coffees a bit on the sweet side. Still, I had tried another Ryusendo coffee, so I thought I should round out the set. […]
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Books reviews: The Audacity of Hope and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Note: the links to the left are referral based things that might, at some point in the future, make me money somehow. I don’t really care about that, but I couldn’t find any other way to get pictures of the covers to show up (since it looks like they block non-amazon referrers.) Also, in general […]
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Paying the Tax Man, and stuff around town
Busy day at the bank Making tatami Meiji salty praline chocolate When I get mail, I usually like to let it sit around and age for a bit, like a nice wine. In all honesty, I only get a few pieces of mail a week, and it is all blindingly obvious what it is just […]
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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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