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Backstory

You can skip this if you want but this is my first post of this kind so I'd like to explain how I got into this.

After moving to Japan, I've gotten big into photography and digital cinematography; an early passion of mine even predating my home digital audio recording venture that I started in Los Angeles.  It's all very expensive and I ( Read more... )

今日はこの言葉を紹介したいと思います。

グリフとをしているの事はgriftingで、グリフトをする人の事はgrifterと言う事です。でも、グリフトって何？

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/grift/ によると、「グリフト」は英語でgriftの意味は（ちょっとした）詐欺とか、ぺてんとか、いかさまで手に入れた金ということです。
ただ、実意味はもうちょっと深いと思います。
なければ、この比較的新しい英語の表現の目的は何でしょう。
やはり、人の恐怖を利用して利益を得ることは新しいことではありませんが、 ( Read more... )

At some point, I will find some time to write more about this, but just some quick hits while I'm thinking of it.

The over-arching theme here is: a) doing things in Japan as a non-Japanese is superfluously complicated and b) as a result, there is a market for offering expensive, awful products to people moving here.  There are two examples of this ( Read more... )

Now that I live in Kanagawa prefecture, it has become important to know how to access the two nearby major international airports, Haneda in Tokyo and Narita in Chiba.  One of the major cities in Kanagawa prefecture is Sagamihara.  Sagamiono is a major transit gateway, primarily served by the Odakyu Electric Railway Company best known for operating ( Read more... )

At some point, I am going to write a more comprehensive blog post about what I did and how I did this as far as moving to Japan is concerned.  Basically everything is going according to plan except for one area, which is acquiring an apartment.  This cannot be described as anything other than an unmitigated nightmare.

It all started when rather ( Read more... )

Throughout my life, I've met people who were twice my age and somehow half as clued in, and what I realized is that the reason that happens is that they learn incorrect lessons from their experiences.  The inevitable consequence of that is making mistakes repeatedly.  I find that's where we are with the discussion on Covid-19.  Three years later, ( Read more... )

政治的に保守的なアメリカ人にとって、企業アメリカは生計を立てる能力に対する危険となっています。

記事著者：デーレン・ロンバード

米国では上場企業（株式市場にシンボルを持つ企業または複合企業）は、株主によって所有されており、通常、大多数の利害関係者（株主）は取締役会のメンバーです。
通常、取締役会には取締役会長がおり、会長が会社の社長を兼ねることもあります。
このような企業では通常、CEOは取締役会によって雇用されます。一般に、取締役会には実際にベンチャーキャピタリスト企業（または「VC」）とか資産管理会社の幹部であるメンバーが一名以上含まれています。
特に、まだ利益を上げていない物の数百万ドルの資金を使用している新しい会社（「スタートアップ」）の場合はそうです。VC企業によって投資されました。 ( Read more... )

Today is the third "drop" of what Elon Musk has dubbed "The Twitter Files" since acquiring the company, seeing what he's described to be misleading and oppressive behavior by the giant social media company, and then turning over untold volumes of internal communications to a couple of journalists to slow walk on the platform itself.  Musk's motives ( Read more... )

Sing along!

"Here's a little song I wrote for L.A. County Health Director Barbara Ferrer and it goes a little somethin' like this...  Dig."

🎵 Well, I tried to tell you so (yes I did)
But I guess you didn't know
As the saddest story goes
Barbara's really got to go
'Cause I knew it from the start
Propaganda stinks like a fart
Now the masks have come again
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