Correlations to the Stuff White People Like blog

#99 Grammar
#93 Music Piracy
#90 Dinner Parties
#89 St. Patrick’s Day
#83 Bad Memories of High School
#81 Graduate School
#75 Threatening to Move to Canada
#61 Bicycles
#51 Living by the Water
#46 The Sunday New York Times
#40 Apple Products
#36 Breakfast Places
#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
#28 Not having a TV
#24 Wine
#23 Microbreweries
#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture
#19 Traveling
#11 Asian Girls

#8 Barack [...]

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Yo, son.

You Down With That New Death Cab?
It’s Tight!
Put It On Blast!
Where?
On Blast!

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Podcast spotlight

I love, repeat love podcasts. I listen to them entirely too much and they are without question leading me to premature hearing loss.
I just finished listening to the entire series of episodes from Skeptoid.com, a website that bills itself as “critical analysis of pop phenomena,” and I wanted to recommend it. Literally every episode has [...]

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What does it take to succeed in sales?

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Not dead

I thought I would use this passing moment of clarity to give ya’ll a quick update. I am, despite strong evidence to the contrary, alive. I am working on two deals that are an order of magnitude larger than anything I have done before, and naturally they require an order of magnitude more effort. My [...]

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4:20 on a Sunday

Photo dump time! Enjoy.

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Spring 2008: ….gyoza!

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Spring 2008: Priceless Garlic gyoza making grandma!

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Spring 2008: Octopus ball and kimchi cheese gyoza!

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Spring 2008: Garlic gyoza!

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Spring 2008: Mayonnaise and Habanero gyoza!

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Spring 2008: Ginormous gyoza

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Spring 2008: Gyoza Stadium!

Taken at Ikebukuro Sunshine City, land of merriment and Turkish icecream.
Not just even Gyoza Stadium, but…Gyoza Battle!!!!

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Spring 2008: NOA building…innocence lost.

Next in the long line of supremely unfortunate Tokyo office monstrosities. This building is mortifying. That tall arch in the center? Only entrance into the building. That hammer-like window? Asymmetrically located, oh and also THE ONLY WINDOW FOR FOUR STORIES. That stained red brick? Makes it look like a WWII gas chamber.
Listen, being a salaryman [...]

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Spring 2008: The unluckiest building in Tokyo

Would you pay money for that penthouse apartment?

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Spring 2008: One of my favorite views in Tokyo

This is taken from the second floor window of a French restaurant I like in Azabu Juuban. I forget the name, but I go there often if I have the time. The middle part of the square is called Patio Juuban, and during the day there’s a fantastic open air market. I took my dad [...]

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Spring 2008: My first night in the new apartment!

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Kooky picture of the Tower at night

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Spring 2008: Sakura at Roppongi Itchome Station

Whoops. 3 of 2.

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Spring 2008: Sakura at Roppongi Itchome Station

2 of 2.

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Spring 2008: Sakura at Roppongi Itchome Station

1 of 2.

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Spring 2008: “The Japanese Dionysus”

I really can’t stand the “informational” signs most Japanese monuments, shrines, holy items etc. have to explain their significance to the observer. Usually they give a name, lots of dates, and some quizzically-oversimplified description, with none of the context required to appreciate the object being described.
This is apparently “the Japanese Dionysus,” and since it was [...]

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Spring 2008: Plum blossoms in Hamamatsucho

This was taken when my parents and sister came to visit a few months ago. They missed the sakura blossoms but the plum ones came early, and they were spectacular. More flower pics to follow!

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Why have I not posted for a month?

Well, there’s been a lot of stuff going on lately
It’s clear and bright today in Tokyo, and I’m sitting in my office basking in the palpable warmth of wireless internet to which I actually have the WEP. That’s the problem with my new apartment: lots of wireless networks in range, all encrypted. I [...]

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Another view of the balcony: tomato and sunflower plants

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My balcony

The balcony is a sort of L-shape, rotated 90 degrees up and mirrored. The “bottom” of the L is pretty fat though, so there’s a lot of room to move around.

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A better view of my herbs

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View from inside

From here you can see five of the seven pots in my garden. From the left, sunflower, tomato, peppermint, fennel, and orange mint. If you keep going left, there are two more hanging pots with another fennel and common sage.

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The best view so far

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My closet and my books

I finally have enough closet space…Also, I keep the wine and the whiskey on the top shelf next to the books.
The blue plastic things have a lot of hooks from which I hang my wet laundry.

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