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Author: kuri
  • Movable weblog

    Bring the weblog experience under my own control.

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  • Am I a scientific American?

    What a surprise; drawings I did 5 years ago appeared on Scientific American in Feb 2000.

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  • Toss, toss, toss

    210 litres of kipple removed. Where does it all come from?

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  • Cha-chan, a cat

    Cat-mediated interactions with a lonely old woman.

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  • The film progresses

    More film in the can. On this sunny day, we hit Ginza again and got another 20 minutes of footage this morning. We’re heading out in a few minutes to get some of the grocery shopping sequences. When I’m home at my desk, thinking about this project, I hate it. Filming is tiring. Nothing ever…

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  • DE-J Workshops on CD

    They’re done! The DigitalEve Japan workshop CDs that I’ve been working on since May are finally complete. I finished the cover art last night and we’ll be taking advance orders for them on Saturday at my Digital Photography workshop. But only if the Steering Committee decides on a price…probably somewhere around 2000 yen. I like…

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  • Six month reprieve

    No needle aspiration for me today. Whew.

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  • Abductions

    Prime Minister Koizumi is in North Korea today, attending a summit with tetchy neighbors. The hot topic at the summit–abductions. Japan claims that North Korea abducted a dozen or so Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s. NK has sometimes completely denied this; at other times they have launched “missing person” searches in cooperation with…

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  • It’s a long holiday

    It’s a long holiday weekend here. Yesterday, I stayed away from the computer for most of the day. Tod & I went to Ikebukuro to check out the Gyoza Stadium, a pot-sticker theme park operated by game giant Namco. For 3,500 yen you get all-day, all-you-can eat gyoza in a dozen different styles from around…

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  • Holy 1950s

    Don’t I look like Mrs. Cleaver in my jewelry and apron? I’m showing off cleaning products for the video. These all have pictures on them, which are helpful for the functional illiterate who wants a tidy room.

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