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Ian Fitzpatrick
ianmfitzpatrick@hotmail.com

Profession
Student, Computers, Consumer Product Development

Currently
Finished business trip in asia, am now studying at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Background
Grew up in Battle Ground, WA. Recently moved to Portland, OR. Two years of college behind me. Was working for an outdoors sporting goods manufacturing company doing product development and computer work. Am now going to school in Tokyo.

Blogs & The Like

Stuart Woodward Blog
www.scw.nu

Something from Japan Blog
www.somethingfromjapan.com

Joi Ito's Web(Log)
joi.ito.com

Wirefarm
www.wirefarm.com

Kevin's Bastish.net
www.bastish.net

Geisha Asobi Blog
www.wtbw.net/geisha/

Antipixel Blog
www.antipixel.com

Kristen's Japan (Blog)
www.mediatinker.com/blog/index.html

Tokyo Tidbits
www.tokyotidbits.com

Hunkabutta Photo Blog
www.hunkabutta.com

Yuki's Japanish
Livejournal Hosted

Ore no Buloggu
Radioland Hosted

Dynamic Duo
dd.t4ac.com

Cerebral Soup
souzouzone.jp/blog/

Mint Dandy
dandysim.blogspot.com

IN-Duce
www.in-duce.net

Consumptive
www.consumptive.org

Japan Bloggers Mailing List
groups.yahoo.com/group/JapanBloggers

Tokyo Blog Meetup
blog.meetup.com?localeID=850

Boing Boing
www.boingboing.net

Anticelebrity's Journal
deadjournal.com/~maxticket

If I had a moblog...

<-- this is how it would look. I want to moblog, but my hosting provider is Windows NT so I can't run any of the popular perl/python scripts out there. If anyone has an extra unix server space laying around and can help me out, my 'mad props' would be unto you. If you have any questions about China's transition from plan to market economy and the resulting dualistic growth sectors of state and privately owned enterprises NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK. Before I forget it all. That is all. Discuss
Posted by Ian at 3/15/2003 02:33:13 PM Permalink

Earthquake Hoedown

My ramen bowl just moved two inches of it's own volition. Oh. Drawing on years and years of school earthquake training I knew only one proper course of action; I ran downstairs and hopped into the shower. I'm leaving this world like I entered it, stark raving nude. While lathering up I began to collect a mental list of adjectival phrases of what it would be like to experience an earth quake dampened and bald as a coot. To my utter disappointment, no second tremor hit while I was bathing. But if it had, this is how I would have described it: Dancing the naked death dance Slip, slide, silence. Sudden seesawing of suds and bubbles And then I knew, I was going to have one cool obituary And that's when I noticed the "stop earthquake" button on the toilet It's that time again: Domo Domo's First Annual Bloggers Freak Out About Japanese Natural Disasters and Stuff. A common experience shared from many perspectives that illustrates the power of a new emerging media? Not quite, but it is earthquake hoedown time! Jim: Just had a quake here. No damage, from what I can tell. Apparently, it was a 5.1, centered around Ibaraki prefecture. Stuart: I swear I can feel earthquakes wobbling my flab a good 5 seconds before other people notice... Mie: just had a horrible thought. If I get stuck somewhere under a building, but systems are still up (since this is on Dav's server in SF), technically, I could keep posting and communicating to you from under the building. Eeeeew. I'm NOT gonna think about that possibility. Jeremy: Seemed a long way away because the rocking was more horizontal than vertical. Horizontal good, vertical bad. Jessie: Wow, talk about news as it happens...! Just as I was about to post the above, the ground started shaking, for what felt like ages. Still waiting for the NHK report... Discuss
Posted by Ian at 3/13/2003 03:31:28 PM Permalink

Four Strings to Serenade You

It's time to rock the house. I have memorized twenty-one ukulele chords. That's all major, minor, and 7th chords sistah! And at long last, I have made a ukulele friend. Though from a musical background she is as yet unpossessed of ukulele skills, but I shall train her in the black arts and then we will unleash a lesson in uke-rocking not fathomed in the deepest tiki-torch dreams of the oblivious Tokyoites. I also finally came up with a name for my twenty-dollar ukulele: old yuker. In celebration, here are some cellphone recordings of old yuker I took in December: Three Chords to Trash You Basic Chord Progression of Doom Heard on internet somewhere, figured out on old yuker Special bonus, my friend Connor playing Nirvana on Shamisen Discuss
Posted by Ian at 3/12/2003 05:22:19 PM Permalink