Memories

Store my ducks(!)

…todays surreal imperative is brought to you as a fine example of Engrish shop naming and a displacement activity while I avoid doing my washing up. Today I have been mostly context switching. Tomorrow I shall be leaving work at a sensible time and will put my life in order. Now, I kill things…the dishes […]

Back in Mystery City

Its now been a few days since I got back to Tokyo, and the jetlag is abating enough for me to be able to think about what it was like being back home, and my feelings about coming back here again….

Somehow Christmas seems to have leaked over into the Japanese celebrations – this has got to be blatant commercialism. They seem to have taken a whole collection of bad bits and wrapped it up into their own festival. Theres the screaming kids, the rush of people through the shops, the cheap tat, the irritating songs, […]

“Triggered by proximity to possible sexual match”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/33974.html “The nTAG is something you hang round your neck like a conference badge. The devices talk to each other by infrared and are connected to a central server via radio.” Another wearable computing device destined for the dustbin when the only people wearing them realise that the only other people wearing them are just […]

You’re anti, you’re antisocial

Yeah, I know, enough of the memes already, but I couldn’t resist this one: You are VERY antisocial! You do have friends–probably one to five close friends– whom youspend a lot of time with, but other than thatyou do not spend much time with people yourage! However, this is not necessarily a badthing! Since you […]

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The signs you’ve been reading in the letters I can’t write

Back in Tokyo and its looking like its gonna be a while before I visit the UK again, so I figured now would be a good time to start writing real letters again. However, I managed to leave the file containing everyones addresses on my desktop on my PC in the UK, so mail me […]

Bah! I hate jetlag. I’ve gotten myself into a cycle of two small sets of sleep per night rather than one big chunk like I’m used to – three hours when I get in from work waking up at around 11pm, just after all the useful restaurants and cafes have closed, and three hours from […]

Sex aid causes bomb scare

Back to work yesterday (or was it today? I’m still too jetlagged to work that out) to find that practically speaking nothing has happened since I left. Oh well.