Off to Japan for 2 years in less than 24 hours.

If you can handle Hebrew, or want to see lots of pretty pictures and don't mind gibberish in a foreign language along with them, follow me at www.matsunoki.net/japan!

This blog has been neglected for quite a while now, and I'd be lying if I said I'm planning to come back regularly, but here are a few tidbits for those I don't keep regular contact with ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I got an unexpected bonus from my boss. Part of each group's budget is dedicated for awarding employees for specific tasks they did well, and since I spent the last couple of months working my ass off on ashiny new proof-of-concept project with excellent results, I was given an envelope ( Read more... )

So I just renewed my paid LJ account, even though I wrote only about a single post in the last 6 months. That doesn't seem like a good return for the money, so my new year's resolution is to actually use this thing once in a while ( Read more... )

For those interested, my Hebrew blog is up again (sort of) at http://www.matsunoki.net/blog. I'm writing a new WordPress design to go with it, but since I have things to write about I'm settling for the default for now.

If you can read Hebrew -- you are welcome.

Neil Gaiman is the guest of honor at ICon this year, so I went to see him speak tonight, and will do so tomorrow night again. I am skipping the reading he's giving on Thursday, though, and the vote is still up on whether I want to spend a couple of hours in line Friday morning to get a book signed ( Read more... )

( My Hebrew journal will be up again soon. Until then I LJ-CUT. )

Turns out that watching this (warning: this video may make your head explode) and then going to the company's annual new year's party extravaganza and consuming some alcohol leads to weird dreams about an army of creepy red dolls invading the party during the CEO's speech to the tune of French kitsch music.

Ha, a month of vacation == the best paycheck I got in almost a year.

Yuki, a Japanese guy with bleached hair who speaks next to no Hebrew but perfect English, talks about how much he likes the Pik Sisters1 and then tries to convice us that we're all fans of Sarit Hadad's2 singing but afraid to admit it.

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1 for non-Israelis: think any American pop-starlet then slash talent by half and clone a sister.
2 a popular ( Read more... )