Archive for the 'America' Category

Foreigners leaving unhappy

« 29 March 2004 | 11:55 | America, Japan, salaryman, tokyo life | No Comments »

Today’s quote from the Nihon Keizai Shinbun:
If foreign students tell everyone how they hate this country once they go home, we should ask to what purpose we are hosting them to begin with.
courtesy of Japan Today. Could anyone be any more irrational? This kind of “thinking” needs to stop. I know the [...]

Ye ol’ mater

« 23 March 2004 | 9:47 | America, alma mater, education, politics | No Comments »

Brown in the news, investigating its connections to slavery.

Cheney is Zell?

« 18 March 2004 | 11:09 | America, humour, politics | 1 Comment »

Cheney as Zell. Hilarious.

TED and the pursuit of happiness

« 8 March 2004 | 23:43 | America, conferences, diary, humour, worklife | No Comments »

Tony Delamothe posted a great entry on his attendance of the TED conference, this year’s theme being on the pursuit of happiness. Something I’ve definitely been trying to work on, and an impetus for my current trip to Boston. Choice quotes from the detailed entry:
Nancy Etcoff, Harvard evolutionary psychologist, was next [the first [...]

San Francisco Streets

« 27 February 2004 | 11:55 | America, diary, travel | No Comments »

Oh how I miss the streets of SF.

Word Spy

« 10 February 2004 | 17:21 | America, diary, worklife | No Comments »

Metrosexual, still the top Word Spy word. Here’s the Fast Company article on the whole deal. “lipstick lesbian?” Scha-wing!

80/20 read multiple ways

« 10 February 2004 | 12:20 | America, Japan, diary, law, politics, the sexes, tokyo life | No Comments »

Some numbers on interacial marriages. Anyone have a copy of the OECD report?

Bullshit Bingo!

« 10 February 2004 | 11:22 | America, humour, media, sonystyle, worklife | No Comments »

Bullshit Bingo cards! Must translate into Japanese!
UPDATE: Complete with sample video!

Speech Writers

« 3 February 2004 | 11:22 | America, humour, politics | No Comments »

A good laugh.

Political Music

« 27 January 2004 | 10:27 | America, music, politics | No Comments »

For those who missed the news on Howard Dean’s “unbashful nature”, a choice site has outtakes in various forms. The site favorite. A foreshadowing of what may come if Garage Band is what it’s hyped up to be.