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Made it to Tokyo
After flying into Narita airport, renting a cellphone and taking a shuttle to Tokyo, I bumbled my way to my friend Chris' studio apartment. After grabbing a quick bite at a nearby eatery, Chris showed me a multi-storey building that was filled with fancy restaurants. There was even a grocery store at which I satisfied my craving for some red-bean ( Read more... ) -
Getting to Know Ya...
1. What time did you get up this morning?
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6:15 but it was because I got a call from my friend in Japan who thought it was 8:15 here. Normally I get up between 7 and 7:30, depending on how late I went to bed.
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For what purpose? Diamonds are good for making drill bits. Pearls are...???
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Choosing a new digital camera
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Apple customer service at the Genius Bar
I have a general policy of not buying insurance on things I buy. I've also rather carelessly dropped my iPhone onto concrete sidewalks a few times over a past year, decorating it with rather nasty dents. Consequently, when part of its screen stopped responding to touch scarcely a month before the warranty expires, I was a trifle nervous about ( Read more... ) -
The dollar value of a human life
This BizWeek article about preemies brings up the issue of how much money it is worth spending to save a human life. A popular knee-jerk reaction is to claim that you cannot put a price on the life of a person. It's easy to demonstrate that this is not true. All I need do is point out the large number of people who die every day from causes are ( Read more... ) -
Paintball
Played paintball today for the first time in my life. Indoors. After the first time I got hit in the face, paint splattered through the airholes of my protective mask, under my glasses and into my eye. Not fun. Even after wiping the paint off my eyelid, I couldn't see very well because my goggles had greasy paint smeared all over them. That made ( Read more... )
