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DE-J meeting
I’m not sure what we were thinking, but it is not a good plan to have a meeting in a British restaurant on the opening night of the World Cup. The DigitalEve Japan steering commitee got together last night at Pizza Express, a British pizza chain, in Harajuku. We arrived at seven and had the…
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Slogging blogging
What’s happened to my schedule? It’s a quarter to 4 in the afternoon and I’m just now realising I didn’t blog this morning. Maybe all the computer troubles around me are throwing me off kilter. Yesterday’s chicken-waving session with MJ didn’t yield any useful results and today I’m in my office fighting with Premiere 6.…
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My head hurts
Today I’m going to complain about the symptoms of migraine, since that’s pretty much all I can focus on this morning. I am nauseated, everything sounds too loud, and light is much brighter than it ought to be. On top of that, I feel stupid and slow. Don’t ask me to remember anything important, to…
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Stepped Down
Today I breathe a sigh of relief. Last night, I stepped down co-leader of DigitalEve Japan. I’m so proud of what the group has apccomplished during the last fifteen months. We’ve grown hugely from 90 members to almost 450. We hold events at least twice a month, publish a newsletter, manage a library of technical…
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Yoshi meets Shinzou
This is Yoshi. He’s a 22 year old musician who recently married my wild friend, MJ. He also spent yesterday afternoon building me a bookcase while she and I chatted and made dinner. What a great guy. Yoshi is balancing his wedding gift on his head. Aren’t they cute?
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Good god, time flies.
Good god, time flies. Is it really the first of May already? Seems like yesterday was oshogatsu. Lately start of every month has been creating a bit of a panic in me. What have I done with my time? Did I accomplish anything last month? What am I going to do this month? What are…
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All around the Yamanote
All around the Yamanote line, alert riders will notice old-fashioned metal signs advertising Nozaki’s Corned Beef. The ads look like they’ve been there a long, long time. Despite the ads, I’d never seen the product anywhere. I expected to find it near the packaged sliced hams and sausages in the grocery cooler, but it wasn’t…
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Karaoke
I have a shameful admission. I’ve just lost my karaoke cherry. I’ve lived in Japan for nearly four years and escaped the painful embarrassment of singing in a karaoke room until tonight. MJ & Yoshi, who are completely undeniable, suggested it at the end of dinner and we said yes. It turned out to be…
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Feather duster
While standing on the street in Minami Azabu, waiting for my DigitalEve mentoring group to arrive for a meeting last night, I fulfilled a small desire. I popped into a nearby household goods shop and scanned the aisles for cleaning supplies to find, in a box next to a bunch of mop heads and cotton…
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Bono, I
I was tipped off yesterday by my friend that her husband’s nickname for me (to differentiate me from her other foreign friends) is Bono. My likeness to the rock star has been discussed before and I’m not entirely convinced. What do you think? I like Bono’s style so I’m not complaining. It could be much…
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