November 24, 2005
2005 Dallas Turkey Trot
On Monday the 21st I arrived in Dallas from Tokyo. The flight went well, in particular since I requested a seat with a power plug, I was able to use my computer for about four hours, and the flight seemed to go quickly.
On Tuesday, I drove down to Austin to pick up Alana, and Wednesday we loaded up her can and drove back to Dallas. On the way we picked up our registration packets for the 2005 Dallas Turkey Trot fun run. Alana, Dad, and I were going to run the 5k fun run on Thursday morning.
We got up at about 7am on Thursday so we could catch the 7:15am DART train from Parker road. We figured that would be easier than driving downtown since there was supposed to be a lot of people showing up for this race. We missed our train by about two minutes and had to wait about half an hour for the next train. Lots of runners were showing up in the mean time. We were able to get a seat on the train, and boy were we lucky. But the time we had gone three stops, the train was packed with runners, and by the time we hit Mockingbird station there was no room for people to get on. (Or so they thought, a normal Toyoko line late night train would be at least twice as packed.)
We made it to the run, and there were 24,000 people there. It was packed. When we started our race it took about 6 minutes to get up to the starting line from where we were lined up. We all stuck together and took the run slowly, it was lots of fun. It ran right through downtown Dallas, and went by lots of historical points in Dallas. I made a Personal Best slow time at 51:50.
Afterwards, we had thanksgiving dinner which was nice. Our stove broke, so mom had to run out and buy a broiler for $30, and we cooked the turkey in that. It turned out fairly well, and probably we'll use the broiler for a while since it is very expensive to get a new stove.
November 13, 2005
Birthday Blood Typing
So I turned 31 today, in Japan. This is the second birthday I've had in Japan actually. Last time I was here for a conference in 2002 I believe, and it was not memorable. I believe that I bought myself a cup-cake at a convenience store or something. This time, I had a memorable birthday. I met F. at Shinjuku for lunch, at "La Boheme Cafe", which was quite nice. After that we walked to the governmental building, which is constantly being destroyed by monsters in movies. We did some window shopping, and then came across a blood drive. I've been meaning to give blood for a while, since I don't know my blood type and would like to have it typed. Also, I like the idea of helping out people in need. One reason I'm interested in knowing my blood type is because in Japan, people believe that one's personality is indicated by blood their blood type. I've been asked what my blood type is many times, and I never know. People are shocked. Anyway, I donated blood, and it turns out I'm type A. Sounds good to me. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. It's a birthday I won't soon forget!October 17, 2005
Ikebana show
Fumie and I went to a large Ikebana show at the Takashimaya in Nihonbashi on Sunday.
October 12, 2005
Trip to Hiroshima, do I have to change this website to FuguTabeta.com??
On Tuesday evening I took a train from Tsu to Nagoya, and from Nagoya to Hiroshima on a Hikari Shinkansen. The picture is actually of a Kodama Rail Star train from Hiroshima because the shot I got of my Nozomi 700 Series Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Tokyo didn't turn out well.
On arriving at Hiroshima, I met with Professor Hidetsugu Nanba (難波 英嗣 先生) for a very, very nice dinner. We ate at a place called きっ川, proprieter 吉川 修平 (Kikkawa Shyuuhei). It was a fresh seafood restaurant, small, and with a very nice personable atmosphere. Every dish is described and explained by Mr. Kikkawa before you eat it. I really enjoyed the dinner, it was just excellent. We also had a nice local Sake with the dinner, 雨後の月 (Ugono Tsuki).
The first course was a nice Sashimi, and then there was a baked fish and a stewed fish? There was a great tempura course, and as Mr. Kikkawa explained, the anago (conger eel) was caught earlier that morning by Mr. Tiger, a famous Anago fisherman in Hiroshima that has been catching them for 40 years. It is said that he catches the most delicious Anago. It certainly was delicious.
The next course was a soup with many interesting things, mostly mushrooms and oysters, but there was also Fugu. Yes, Fugu. The namesake of this site, which I've been running since about 2000, but of course I've wanted to try Fugu for much longer than that. Maybe I first heard of it in 1996, in my first long trip to Japan. So, I had the Fugu, and it was delicious. Now, do I have to buy the domain FuguTabeta.com?? (FuguTabetai means "I want to eat Fugu", FuguTabeta would mean "I ate Fugu".)
So if you are ever in Hiroshima, I highly recommend Kikkawa. The phone number there is (082) 241-0002, but you had better know Japanese if you call there. It is a small place, so reservations are recommended.
September 3, 2005
Job hunting in Japan, blog software
I arrived in Japan August 24th, 2005 to start my job hunting activities. I also installed bBlog on FuguTabetai.com, and I think it is quite nice software. I should be able to post a bunch more because this automates a lot of what I was doing by hand.May 20, 2005
Successful Thesis Defense
On Friday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at Columbia University. Oh yeah.November 25, 2004
Evans Siblings Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at my place. I even cooked a Turkey, since both of my sisters came here!
October 31, 2004
Internet Halloween Party
Carl Sable had an Internet-themed Halloween Party. Click on the thumbnail to check out my pictures.
October 24, 2004
DeVilla VanNoy Wedding
My best friends Ron and Michelle got married at Princeton University October 23rd, 2004. I have the pictures here to prove it.
July 16, 2004
Treo 600 as a modem in linux (Fedora Core 2)
I haven't had much interesting to talk about lately, but I did today get my Treo 600 phone working as a modem on my linux Fedora Core 2 install. If you are interested, check out the amazingly simple things I had to do to get my Treo 600 working as a modem on my Fedora Core 2 linux install.April 9, 2004
Macy's Flower Show
Six years in the city, and this is the first time I've ever been to the annual Macy's Flower Show. Pretty amazing actually.
November 13, 2003
Happy Birthday
11/13/2003 Hunkabutta.com has some really cool pics from Japan. I like it. Oh, and happy birthday to me. 29 years young.November 1, 2003
2003 Halloween
11/1/2003 Pictures from Halloween 2003, "A Very Strongbad Halloween".
February 1, 2003
Karaoke Party!
2/1/2003. We had a Karaoke Party! Man, that new Japas over at 38th is pretty cool!January 12, 2003
Nerd Night 1.0
1/23/2003. Nerd Night v1.0, over at Steve's place.December 14, 2002
Jana's graduation ceramics show
My younger sister graduates from SMU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pottery. She had her first solo show, and then was in the graduation ceremony.
December 6, 2002
Thesis proposal defense
12/06/2002. No pictures. I defended my thesis proposal: "Identifying Similarity in Multilingual Text: Analysis for Summarization." I can finally get back to living life a little. :)October 31, 2002
2002 Halloween Party
10/31/2002. Halloween came and went. The Sable's put on a fun party, as usual.
September 21, 2002
Chinatown
Went down to Chinatown with Y.I. and her family for a nice dim sum brunch, and ice cream afterwards. Otherwise, just busy. working. busy. 
September 10, 2002
Back to work
Back in New York. Back at Work.Go to Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25