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I’m sorry for the neglect dear blog. The truth is I’ve been SO busy… especially, well …
I’m cheating a little on you with my work blog. But I swear, it’s nothing personal, it’s just professional. Also, I’m in the midst of booking about 3.5 trips. (I say .5 because one trip is up to SF, […]

8 years ago right now, I had traveled to France for the wedding of a close friend. I was worried , sure , and shocked at the recent election outcome. Who is this George Bush guy? Is he just like his daddy? I mean, can he be THAT bad?
Well, I remember being in a manor […]

There was a time when I tried to make this blog non-personal necessarily. I wanted this to be about life and culture, and when the two tend to collide and how it affects people. But the more I continue, the more I realize that that happens almost on a daily basis.
Last weekend I went to […]

Remember back when I was in Japan and I kept harping on about expensive fruit?
Well, apparently $120 is cheap for a melon. Check out the one that just auctioned off for nearly $6,100!

Here’s the real kicker, though. The watermelon is a bargain compared to the $23,500 recently paid in Japan for a pair […]

Well I’m back from Palm Springs with an actually tan. I can’t believe it, but I guess UV rays really do get you browner than direct sun rays.
I headed out on Friday morning with Marie to Caliente Tropics Hotel in Palm Springs. We thought it would be cool to stay at something very kitsch […]

Ahhh, jetlag … can anything be any more useless in life? On my second day back from German, I crashed out at 8pm and woke up at 5am. I am officially on my grandmother’s schedule.
Stuttgart was an amazing city, highlights including the land of Porsche and Mercedes … and naturally, all things German like beer. […]

I’m not bothering apologizing for a lack of blogs lately. Mainly, because I think you should have gotten used to this by now. But secondly, because I’ve just never figured out how to make my FlipCam work with the latest version of QuickTime on this Mac. So whatever… moving on!
I’m going to Stuttgart, Germany in […]

Well, we’re winding down our last few days here in Tokyo. Today, we actually get a free day and are spending it with David’s good friend Hiroko, a Tokyo native and her Finnish fiance, Juha.
The past couple of days have been busy at the Big Sight convention center at Tokyo Bay. We were presenting at […]

I know, I know. I skipped a day. But come on, I gotta leave a little mystery. Otherwise you’d never call.
So I’m way too exhausted to do any real writing or thinking. But here’s a video of me playing Rock Paper Scissors , or Jan Ken Po as they call it here, with our […]

It’s pretty late right now, and frankly, it’s a little too tiring to write a full blog. Instead, I will just post this video from visiting Tokyo Hands store today. Let’s just say everything you ever wanted is in this store, you just don’t know it yet. How I spent almost $30 just in pens […]