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Annotated office
Come tour my office.
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Movie fest
In an attempt to avoid computing, we watched five films.
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Ouch!
Tod’s classic glass experience sends us on a nighttime trip.
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Household forensics
Playing detective with clues in the house
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Toss, toss, toss
210 litres of kipple removed. Where does it all come from?
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Tidying bookshelves
It’s a cool and rainy day; typhoon 16 is to our south, battering Okinawa, and typhoon 17 is heading our way from the east. The perfect day to stay at home and clear out some of our books and other junk. I’ve read everything we have, excepting Tod’s programming reference books which just don’t hold…
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Surreality x 3
Surreality 1: MJ & I met with a would-be actress who was representing a production company. She took us to a temple to meet with the producer. We sat in the middle of a gorgeous tatami room surrounded by worshippers chanting. The producer didn’t appear. We booked out of there before we could be initiated…
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Hosting a FOAF
There’s a stranger sleeping on my living room floor. Mike Lee went the same school as one of our friends. He was passing through Tokyo and needed a place to stay. Our living room seemed the logical choice. It’s good to meet and host people you don’t know but who have some sort of connection…
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Delayed daytrip
For several months, I’ve been hoping to get out of town to take a walk in the woods. On Friday night, Tod asked me to pick a good trip from our Day Walks Near Tokyo book. I was delighted. We’d go on Sunday. But yesterday morning the edge of a typhoon tormented us with rain,…
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London hours
Tod has been “working London hours” for the past week. Because he needs to communicate with his colleagues in London, he stays up late working at home til 2 or 3 am, then gets up at 10, works a little more from home and heads into the office at about noon or 1 pm. He…
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