It’s raining. It’s been raining. It’s always rained. There’s never been a time it didn’t rain. This is Tokyo in April 2008. It’s even raining indoors, which managed to alarm our host, Satoshi, who called in a number of men to observe the problem and conclude that nothing can be done until Monday. It’s OK, [...]
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It’s raining geeks (and rain)
14Apr08We shan’t talk about last night. I’m sure my compatriots will have already spilled the beans, but the behaviour of men deprived of sleep for 36 hours and put through the sausage machine of international air flight should be looked upon in a favourable context. Like the naughty boy in class whose Mum just died. [...]
Braille in Japanese
17May07During our beer tasting sessions on the first couple of nights in Japan we noticed that some of the cans sold in the local shop had braille embossed into their tops. This led to some speculation on how braille in Japanese works, speculation which is of course entirely sated by Wikipedias article on Japanese Braille. [...]
Nekobukuro
16May07On one of our days in Tokyo, we travelled to Ikebukuro and took the chance to visit a mini cat petting-zoo place called Nekobukuro. It’s on the eighth floor of the Tokyu Hands department store, the rest of the floor taken up with a pet shop. You pay 600 yen to enter and you are [...]
Naked old men
15May07[Date: Tues 8th May] I’m writing this on a shinkansen as it takes us past Mount Fuji. That’s quite an iconic Japanese thing, isn’t it? Yesterday was our rest day. After two days really hammering Tokyo and Tokyo hammering us back we thought we’d take the day and relax. With a Shinkansen to take the [...]
The Beer Post (Two)
11May07[Date: Thu 3rd May] Hello and welcome to day two of our super fantastic beer tasting session. Collating reports from last night, it appears that we all woke up at 5am due to jet-lag but were utterly hangover free. This time we review some beers but with added very very cheap sake, courtesy of Barry. [...]
