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Ian
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Student, Computers, Consumer Product Development
Finished business trip in asia, am now studying at Waseda University in Tokyo.
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.
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| Revenge of the Onigiri | |||||
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 Don't watch my Do-Moblog too closely. The onigiri lifestyle has taken it's toll. I thought I could push paying my cellphone bill until Sunday, when I would have the money to pay, but as of today my cellphone is dead in the water. If you need to contact me, your only recourse is ian at domodomo dot com. I'll try to scrounge up the cash to pay today, and see if they'll let me have my service back or not. Stay tuned.Update:I found ni-mon en (around 180US) in my bank account. Paid cellphone bills, that makes life a lot easier. Also it looks like I will be starting a new job soon as a teaching assistant for grade-school kids in (southern) Saitama-ken soon! Discuss |
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| Posted by Ian at 4/18/2003 12:55:59 PM Permalink
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| April Tokyo Blogger Meetup | |||||
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 Had the Tokyo-area blogger meetup last night. Moblogged as much I could, I really need to get a flash attachment for my cellphone. Would that my camera take as awesome shots as FuckedGaijian's phone pics. For the old-school "non-phone-integrated" camera perspective, catch up with MJ's or Jim's take on the action. After hanging at the first meeting bar, Zest, for a while we headed to a smaller bar where Joi Ito was dj'ing. I didn't know the Pope was down with Skinny Puppy, live and learn. Thanks for everyone for showing up, look forward to next month.Discuss |
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| Posted by Ian at 4/17/2003 04:39:21 PM Permalink
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| Trendwatch: Nandedarou | |||||
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 I give them another two months before their popularity burns out, and they fade from public memory. But for now Tetsu and Tomo, the singing "nandedarou" guys, are unavoidable if you turn on the TV (your first mistake, by the way). They're shtick is pretty straightforward. It's two guys in red and blue jumpsuits, one plays guitar and other has wacky hair, goofy eyes, and gitchy hand waving action. The format of their song is blah-blah-blah (verse), nandedarou?! (chorus). Where blah-blah-blah is some vaguely funny observation and where 'nandedarou' is approximately equivalent to 'why is that', I think. They started out on just one TV show, but now they're everywhere. Yesterday I heard two kids singing the nandedarou song on my train. A heavy burden it is that I carry indeed, that I should feel responsible to be the disseminator of Japanese pop-culture happenings unto the wider world. But as I have taken it upon myself: go their website and download the Nandedarou MP3. Additionally Nandedarou chord charts for guitar players. I'll transcribe them to ukulele soon.  I also think Tetsu (red jumpsuit guy, picture at beginning of post) and the lead singer of Static-X are some kind of geography-defying half brothers. Can't you see it?Discuss |
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| Posted by Ian at 4/16/2003 01:53:29 PM Permalink
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| Please Walk Unstupidly | |||||
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 Walking habits in Tokyo drive me insane. I'm late for class, trying to cut my way through the thicket of school girls, flyer-handing yoroshiku folk, and salary-men. Three groups, one commonality: to get in my way. First there's the S-pattern walkers. This is where an offender zig-zags, weaving to and fro along the side-walk. The s-pattern types are tricky devils, they feign deftness of crowd navigation, but if they are truly in a hurry than why are they moving slower than cold mochi? I'm wise to their tricks. But truly the worst is when a group of friends form to create a horizontal line of resistance perpendicular to the sidewalk. It's like playing red rover with only one side, "red rover, red rover, let no-one come over." That's a real crappy game.Discuss PS, Please enjoys these legs, as my gift to you. |
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| Posted by Ian at 4/14/2003 04:24:42 PM Permalink
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