serendipity
How not to impress potential customers
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Great story – the bank robbery
Mouse-tip to Lenz Blog.
Autumn Glory in Japan – photo roundup
I have the honour of knowing personally some great Japanese amateur photographers and bloggers. These ladies blog in English which is not their native language (I blush to think of the results if I tried blogging in Japanese), and they do a great job, don’t you think? Let me introduce some of them to you [...]
American’s Fukushima legacy lives on | The Japan Times Online
GE manager who helped build reactor had his remains interred in prefecture via American’s Fukushima legacy lives on | The Japan Times Online. Say, what? Yes, it’s true! A former GE manager lies buried in Fukushima, just a few kilometres from the plant now known throughout the world. He was brought in as Japan had [...]
Nature time lapse – scenes of Japan
“Hours of idleness”
Pop quiz: how old would you say the writer of the following lines was? In submitting to the public eye the following collection, I have not only to combat the difficulties that writers of verse generally encounter, but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world, when, without doubt, I might [...]
YouTube – Shooter Jennings – 4th of July
Catchy tune. Sweet video. Watched it 5 times already. Ain’t tired yet. h/t Trooper Thompson YouTube – Shooter Jennings – 4th of July.
My Independence Day
“My Independence Day” is a song by Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, which is used in the soundtrack of a great movie, Bend It Like Beckham (UK, 2002), the story of a young Indian girl living with her family in London. She’s academically promising but also plays soccer really well, which her parents disapprove of. Then she [...]
The sexiest woman on TV
Image via Wikipedia Christina Hendricks in Mad Men. Season 1 is out in Tsutaya video rental stores in Japan. The series has some memorable characters; Don Draper is merely conventionally mysterious (tho his suggestion for advertising Kodak‘s slide-projector wheel is unforgettable), but son-of-the-founder Roger Sterling is witty and charming, throwing zinging one-liners like they are [...]
Robin Hood of Las Vegas
Image via Wikipedia So reads the Telegraph headline, but it’s a little misleading (woah! says you – a newspaper that writes attention-grabbing headlines, even if they’re not quite accurate! That’s a new one!). The gambler is not actually stealing from the rich. Still, it’s an interesting story about a remarkable man who gambles for good [...]
