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Tweets
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 7 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 7 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 14 hrs ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 4 days ago
- More updates...
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Tag Archives: Japan
Odawara City Survival Guide
I am trying to sift through tons of paper and electronic documents, cleaning an simplifying. Lots of nostalgia stirred up by that, especially when finding things like this guide I wrote for foreign teachers in Odawara in 1994. The writing is terrible, and the remarks are far more snide than I remember being, but it’s [...]
Google Autolinker
Joho links to the Google Auto Linker, a tool that searches through a piece of text and finds the longest matching result from chained words. It’s not clear whether it stops for stop-punctuation (period, questions mark), but it appears to in the example. I had been interested in doing something like this after watching a [...]
Muji
Kevin Kelly’s always-interesting Cool Tools has a blurb on Muji, the “no mark” shop. I fell in love with Muji’s Yokohama shop a decade ago, and was surprised to notice a large number of Muji bags being carried around central London a few months back. I like Muji’s stuff for a couple reasons. I like [...]
Late and later
Sitting on the morning bus from Kozu. Missed the :22 and had to take the :36 train. Problem is that this bus doesn’t leave until after 9, but, it saves having to pay for a taxi (1050 yen). Besides, Tachibana doesn’t seem to care too much if I’m late. The English teachers usually have home [...]
Dialogue
It’s been a busy week. I’ll go in anti-chronological order. Today, Jamie and I played hooky. We called in sick early this morning and yes, I do feel a little guilty about it — but not too guilty. We watched a few movies and stuff and just kind of hung around the house. We went [...]
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