Todays quick wandering around trialling the wifisniffer (wiffer?) suggests that urban Tokyo is roughly half covered with pockets of 2.4GHz rf which may or may not be active wireless networks. More exploration necessary, and perhaps more gadgetary too.
The Meiji shrine was pure crowd yesterday, there was a frantic feeling in the air, a need to get there and welcome the new year with a thrown coin and a prayer. Portashrines are obviously no substitute. There was a temporary two storey Koban keeping an eye on everything.
Around the corner, the park was a bit busier than I’d normally expect for this time of year but it was quite a pleasant day, the kind of day we’d all go to the park in case it was the best bit of summer we got. The grass there looked a bit shabby, like ours does after a long dry summer.
Best of all there was a skatedog. It had its own little board and everything, its owner had taken it down to were the skate kids hang out (which was all a bit crowded ‘cos the beautiful people were there too since the bridge they normally hang out on was being Koban’ed and shrined) to show off what it could do – it was quite profficient at getting onto the board and rolling along but I couldn’t help feeling it didn’t quite understand momentum – sometimes it just got on and looked kinda surprised it wasn’t moving. Cornering was something else beyond its understanding, but that didn’t matter too much.
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