Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 29th, 2009
hip haircuts, airports
nothing like waiting in an airport….hey, at least there’s free internet even flying economy.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
A brief review of the rest of my trip in photos:
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Eitaro
Eitaro, originally uploaded by jazzytrev.
Visited a traditional candy-making company in ???. They even let me try to make my own azuki candy thingamajigger. You can see the results here. Not bad, right? Nice to know I have a fallback plan now.
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Japanese Steel!
dscn0569.jpg, originally uploaded by jazzytrev.
Visited Tokyo Tekko and saw how they build rebar from scrap and such. It was pretty cool. Really high temperature.
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The Rich Rich Irony
I’ve been losing weight too fast, even when I’m using my 5 day average of my weight. I need to upwardly adjust my caloric intake again.
I initially was confused as to why this was happening, because I was keeping a pretty accurate food diary and doing a good job tracking the calories [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Ah, Purikura
puri37.jpg, originally uploaded by emmling.
Just finished my nice relaxing vacation in Osaka, now I`m in Tokyo. Lots of wacky adventures these past few days, and Im a bit sad to have to start classwork. Cest la vie. Mad props to Emm for letting me stay at her place.
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Dell Mini 9 – after two months of Use
So, even though they’ve basically killed the Dell Mini 9 off, I’m still loving it, especially with travel.
Primary Usage:
Paper writing and note-taking in my MBA class. Primary platform as a road warrior.
Let’s review the awesome things about it:
Ubuntu 9.04 – after a pretty crappy learning curve, EVERYTHING is working, including my music [...]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
I’m on a plane!
traveling alone. I’m an old hat at it, now. Packed in record time, super-efficiently. Sitting in the first class lounge in NWA. It’s nice (free soda! free fruit! free wifi!). Best of all, it’s quiet in here. Ah. the gift of silence.
update
now i’m in the honolulu first class lounge. [...]
