tessen & jutte
Been teaching for the past few weeks every Wednesday, as a couple of beginners are consistently showing up for tessen and jutte practice. I don't really know the curriculum very well, but Niina-gosoke is always on hand to clarify and demonstrate, and then leaves me to it. Fun stuff, especially the distance and timing. Now if I could just remember all the kata...
freaky dream
Analyze this one, Hammer:
Hiroko and I are at the student union of UC Berkeley. We are being attacked by Alec Baldwin, who is a magic-wiedling wizard. Hiroko gets captured by black-suited warlocks. I grab a couple of flashlights and attack, knocking various bad guys down the outside staircase.
Hiroko and I are at the student union of UC Berkeley. We are being attacked by Alec Baldwin, who is a magic-wiedling wizard. Hiroko gets captured by black-suited warlocks. I grab a couple of flashlights and attack, knocking various bad guys down the outside staircase.
ben miller @ pink cow
Went to the Pink Cow for a Mobile Monday thingie. It was alright, as far as these things go. Met one interesting dude, and spent most of the time on the couch with Ben talking smack. Nina from HP Bazaar was cute, especially with that Nordic accent.
conan
Conan brought his dad Ivan and mom Mutsumi over for a BBQ. Went to UC Berkeley with Ivan, and he was in Kyushu with Stevie back in the day. So Amy brought Narumi and I and Don met Todd in Akihabara, checked out some toys, and then cruised home.
The men attempted and failed to light the BBQ. We went out for bbq fire starter and came back with Zippo lighter fuild and a case of beer. By then of course Hiroko already had a bunch of coals on the kitchen stove ready to go, so we threw them into the grill and that was that.
Ribs went first, then chicken, pork, steaks, salmon, shrimp...not to mention salad and potatoes and a huge apple pie with icecream for dessert.
Stevie and Eriko showed up just in time to eat, and we sat around bloated and in pain as Amy and Conan bounced around the floor.
stop the cycle of madness
So now Daboo is blogging and my blogging about his blogging of flickring about my blogging about flickring about blogging flickring blogging flickring blogging flickring when flickring blogging does flickring blogging it flickring blogging end flickring blogging flickring.
use debate to go fishin'
The upcoming presidential debates are anything but.
I remember debating in school. It was a structured exchange of ideas between participants in an attempt to woo one's opponent and the audience to accept your point of view. It was give-and-take, pointed, at times heated, and fun.
These presidential debates will be totally pointless for two reasons:
1) Absolutely nothing new will be spoken.
2) The candidates will not actually debate each other. They'll just respond in series to some softball questions.
Ah, American politics gets worse by the minute. SO glad I live in Japan, where politics is also lame but, thankfully, largely impotent and therefore irrelevant (in that it is rarely responsible for the deaths of thousands, for example.)
I remember debating in school. It was a structured exchange of ideas between participants in an attempt to woo one's opponent and the audience to accept your point of view. It was give-and-take, pointed, at times heated, and fun.
These presidential debates will be totally pointless for two reasons:
1) Absolutely nothing new will be spoken.
2) The candidates will not actually debate each other. They'll just respond in series to some softball questions.
Ah, American politics gets worse by the minute. SO glad I live in Japan, where politics is also lame but, thankfully, largely impotent and therefore irrelevant (in that it is rarely responsible for the deaths of thousands, for example.)
tessen & jutte
Some of the new guys have been coming to late Wednesday practice for a couple weeks, so I've been running them through the basics of tessen (metal fan) and jutte (sword catcher). Fun stuff, but really hard to get out of the way when someone's trying to kill you with a sword and all you have is a short piece of steel or two.
daboo flickr
freaky mobile sculptures
They're alive! Do NOT miss the videos. These are some wild, wind-powered art.
flickr? i don't even know her!
Been playing with flickr for a couple of days. Very neat, only because I can now effortlessly take photos with my camera and have them show up on GYM. Enjoy.
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