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End of an era
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nearly passed out at Porchlight
I have a wild and vivid imagination, probably inherited from my mother. As a creative type, most of the time that comes in handy. On occasion, however, it can prove to be my undoing. The last time that happened was several years ago while watching Requiem For A Dream. Tonight it struck again as I was listening to a story at Porchlight.
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Help, my congresswoman is spamming me!
A few months ago I wrote Nancy Pelosi, the SF congresswoman, about an
issue. Since then , she's been spamming me on a weekly basis with
updates on what's she's been doing on a host of unrelated matters.
Replying to the sender address just bounces and there's no unsubscribe
link in the emails. I've resorted to marking them as spam in Gmail :-(
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Durian
While biking though the Sunset yesterday evening, I spotted a shopping-cart full of durians and purchased one. Despite their reputation for being stinky, I did not find it stinky at all. It was, however, delicious.
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Japan Airlines rocks!
I was supposed to show up at Narita airport an hour before my flight's scheduled departure on the 18th but didn't make it there until about 55 minutes prior. When I tried to check-in, I discovered that I could no longer do so. A JAL staffperson informed me that I had arrived too late and would have to catch the next flight. She then discovered that ( Read more... ) -
Kabuki
Last night I went to see a Kabuki adaptation of an opera called Aida with Chris and two other Waterloo co-ops. For ¥1300 we got standing-only rush tickets and an additional ¥400 got us a headset with a running English explanation. Interestingly, even some of the Japanese get such headsets with explanations in modern Japanese because the style of ( Read more... ) -
adventures on a synthetic island
The Onsen and capsule hotel are on a synthetic island made of landfill
in the Tokyo harbour. Upon emerging from the capsule hotel in the
morning, we wandered around the island for a bit until the museum of
science and technology opened at 10am. I was struck by the number of
Japanese teens who wander around without the parental supervision that
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Hato Bus tour: bonsai, courtesans & a boat cruise
On Saturday, after picking up an SD card for my camera, Chris and I met up with his neighbour and coworker Dennis to go on a bus tour of Tokyo along with a couple of other tourists who were visiting from Perth. Our first stop was a bonsai museum run by a man who has been collecting the little trees for the past three decades and now teaches ( Read more... ) -
Hot-springs and capsule hotel
After the bus tour, we rode the amazing Tokyo subway to a a place that
offered onsen (hot-springs) and a capsule hotel. I'd long wondered
what it would be like to sleep in a capsule hotel and the Tokyo subway
stops running at midnight so we needed a place to crash anyway. The
hot-springs were almost entirely filled with Koreans! I had to stick ( Read more... )