Today was the vernal equinox here, a holiday for most of the populace. I'm just glad the days are going to be getting longer than the nights from here on out. I got to walk around a bit in the afternoon and decided to more thoroughly explore Shinjuku Chuo Koen (Shinjuku Central Park). I poked around a bit earlier in the week but this time I ( Read more... )

Today was a very good day ( Read more... )

Today was a bit of exploration in downtown Tokyo ( Read more... )

So, the plane ride across the Pacific was pretty painless. My boss got pretty upset when the ticket counter argued we couldn't have seats next to each other, and then the business lounge he wanted to sit in was small and crowded, the plane was delayed, the people on the plane beside each of us would not switch, and then he spilled his diet Coke ( Read more... )

For the next few weeks my LJ will likely be fairly regularly updated, as I'm on a business trip which is none-the-less an adventure. At the moment I'm sitting in a hotel room in Santa Monica, about to hit a meeting in Los Angeles for a project I've been working on for a while to modernize the networks in a bunch of stuff (edited by the man) out ( Read more... )

OK, as I find this an interesting meme and haven't actually written anything in forever I figured I'd accept the tag iterationzero pointed at me. I don't think I know 5 other dorks on Livejournal, as iterationzero would be one and another he tagged jakeaidan would be high on that list, so I'm gonna skip on the chain effect this time. Anyone who wishes to respond with a few are ( Read more... )

Inspired by jakeaidan's top 50 games, I saw this while browsing through stuff at lunch and felt I should post it... great stuff! It even has the red Swingline stapler!

http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets.html

Which Animaniacs Character are You?


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Thanks to jakeaidan for this one... I don't usually do this stuff but this seemed a pretty cool idea. I DID change one question slightly because I'm not wearing anything clever today ( Read more... )

It's been forever since I've posted, but this seemed to be the most appropriate place to drop this interesting link. I'm not much of a political activist, but these guys did an absolutely brilliant thing to bring a little known (I know I had never heard of it before) tragedy to the public eye. I'd love to hear if anyone thinks they dangerously ( Read more... )