For the past few days I’ve been working as a translator at a Clean Tech conference. There were 5 of us translators, and each of us had one Japanese businessman or city employee to tend to.
The person who I translated for was from a southern city called Kita-Kyushu, which had recently been designated by the Japanese […]
I incidentally sat down for lunch with a student from Switzerland. He’s apparently been in America for 4 weeks.
I asked him if he intended to stay in this country, he laughed; he said only people in America ask that question. True! I thought. “How long are you staying?” would be the normal question elsewhere.
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I went to a job interview on Saturday at a private Japanese school in the woods. While waiting, I noticed a poster on the wall. It read:
Rules for Teachers - 1915 - Sacramento Schoolhouse
1. You will not marry during the term of your contract.
2. You are not to keep company with men.
3. You […]
When my brother was in second grade, his class was asked what they wanted to be in the future. One boy replied that he wanted to sell money. Everybody laughed.
“Where are you going to get the money from?”
“Cool! I’ll pay you 1 yen and you can give me a 100! That makes no sense!”
Twenty years later […]
Idea and experiment by Knut
Yet to find if Knut is able to make them work, but thought it a nice idea. Read his site to find how to make them.
Took a taxi today to the train station, on my way home from a day spent with a good friend.
In contrast to the pouring rain and cold darkness where we stood waiting outside, the inside of the car was blasting with hot dry air and resonating with mushy love voice of Billie Holiday on the […]
Talk about time, pillow fight in San Francisco happened today. It’s a yearly event.
A whole year, already? (Previous post here)
Photo from Laughing Squid
Next year I’m there!” I said. Little did I know I’d be attending a free seminar at PG&E about solar energy this day.
PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) hosts seminars about energy conservation in a high-tech […]
Paul told me about a man who he’d read about somewhere: Every morning, he stares at a ticking second hand of a clock for one full cycle before beginning his day, just to physically remind himself how ‘long’ a minute is.
So I tried it too.
Turns out none of my housemates have a clock nor a […]
As I use the corner of my bosses’ business card
to clean out the dust in the seam of my desk
suddenly I remember
an incindent in Japan that stirred the whole nation
of a politician who received a business card
and, before putting it in his pocket,
folded it in half
My brother Geoffrey uploaded photos of an unexpected event.
A snow storm has captured much of UK.
London
News of the heavy snow in Britain gave me goose pimples. I’ve never seen that much snow in England, it really is strange. Beautiful and fun, but strange.
I went skiing this weekend to Lake Tahoe, in north eastern California. The weather […]
