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To think he started racing virtual cars in a computer game... reality is definitely more impressive than fiction.
Ordonez @ Petit Le Mans 2011
Wonderful images. I've heard good things about Adam's cooking/cook book. How often did you break out the speedlite, just curious.
On Assignment for Oglivy Australia
I recently had a 5 day assignment for the promotions arm of Oglivy Australia. The brief was to tag along with Australia Masterchef Winner Adam Liaw as he leads a group 6 Australian / New Zealand food journalists and bloggers as they eat their way across Kuala Lumpur and Malacca. Not completely ...
Do they have the Porsche SuperCup series where you are? They just ran at the 'Ring. Awesome.
How to drive a 911, part CXVI
His story is real but what isn't said is that he did go to a performing arts school before he hit this particular stage, so it's not as if he walked off the street and did this performance.
Korea's Got Talent: Choi Sung-Bong
Warning! Tearjerker alert! Check out Korean orphan Choi Sung-Bong's performance on Korea's Got Talent. There is no way a person can watch this video and not shed a few tears for this boy. And that's before he even starts singing. His story is heart wrenching. I hope he's the real deal. Everyone...
still here
Roundup
Sorry for the lack of posting of late. Looking back, the last three months feel like a hole in our personal histories. All of the time that got sucked into dealing with the triple crises up north... What would we be doing right now, had this never happened? (In my case, probably sitting in fro...
Very glad that all came out healthy in the end. Please rest well and we look forward to meeting the new family member in the future.
Safely here
Wow. They say each birth is different but I think we got quite the example of that. It took me several days to piece together what happened, as I emerged from somewhat of a twilight zone, recovering from surgery, but holding a healthy beautiful girl. It's been taking time to emotionally proces...
I hate hate hate hate this too. A company in Japan (nice folks but...) has the license for Giz and Lifehacker in Japan. They got Nick to redirect Japanese IPs to the Japanese site even when we dont want to go to the Japanese site.
Complain to Gawker Media I guess. I basically dont go to those sites anymore.
What am I doing wrong?
Whenever I try to access any posts in the Lifehacker/Gizmodo realm, I'm immediately sent to their Japanese language counterpart. The problem is that the Japanese sites don't pick up all of the stories... plus the inconvenience of having to read in a language that is not my first. I can get aroun...
Hato's bar is about 1.5 years old, btw.
Hatos Bar
Found out from my friend Andrew about a (new?) place in Naka-Meguro. Craft beer and pit barbecue. A closer alternative to the Yokohama Taproom. booze, brewing, food
Just had the pulled pork sandwich at Hato's Bar today. Highly recommended. No one but me for lunch but dinner is busy and you need a reservation if going with a group.
Hatos Bar
Found out from my friend Andrew about a (new?) place in Naka-Meguro. Craft beer and pit barbecue. A closer alternative to the Yokohama Taproom. booze, brewing, food
Sarah, big fan of the book. Bought it on Kindle and am making my way through it. Great idea, and great stories = great book.
My Books in Chinese and (a Little) Portuguese
Wow. Tuesday just keeps on giving. First, a great review. Second, we are FINALLY installing heat in our drafty old Victorian in the Mission after three years of huddling around space heaters. (Might be the most exciting development.) Third, is an update on that thing I mentioned months ago that ...
Haven't listened to much Winwood since Traffic but loved what they did then. 80's Winwood was pretty painful iirc.
Like a fine wine...
...Steve Winwood has gotten better with age. via Lefsetz music
Dave, would love your take on the Lumix LX-3 or the newest LX-5 if you've had a chance to use either. A bit more flexible (optical zoom) still fast glass and 720p HD.
Don't call it a Point and Shoot
For some time I have wanted a small camera that I could easily put in my pocket and have with me anytime anywhere. The problem is that a number of the cameras that I have looked at are either too big and don't fit the 'pocket' category or don't have the quality I need if I were to submit th...
Mari-san, please double-check the links on this post. Many of them do not work.
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami's novel "Norwegian Wood" was made into a film and it was a submission to the 67th Venice International Film Festival and got a standing ovation. In the story, the main character "Toru Watanabe" has just arrived in Hamburg, Germany. When he heard the Beatles'song "Norwegian W...
One more vote for the B&W.
Ghost Fish
I've recently been going through some ingredient images, putting together a gallery that people might want to, oh, I don't know - PURCHASE - for home, office, a friend, or just wrapping fish. In the process I came across an image from a while back of the dried fish you see above. The image ...
"these days I'm lucky if I sleep past 5:30"
Once you have your baby, you'll be lucky if you sleep past 5:30 ...
Weekend in Uchibo
We took advantage of a recent semi-long weekend (Hideaki works in weekly shifts, so when a day shift ends on a Friday and a night shift starts on a Monday it's an almost-long weekend) and had ourselves a mini vacation. We expect this will be the last trip with just the two of us for a very, very...
Thanks for this nice trip report. We're looking for some beaches to visit before the end of summer and we may go out this way (although the sand fleas don't sound fun.)
Weekend in Uchibo
We took advantage of a recent semi-long weekend (Hideaki works in weekly shifts, so when a day shift ends on a Friday and a night shift starts on a Monday it's an almost-long weekend) and had ourselves a mini vacation. We expect this will be the last trip with just the two of us for a very, very...
"a terrible, terrible commercial steward of what remains an extremely innovative culture."
Absolutely powerful and accurate. Look at all of the fawning over the iPhone 4's new FacePhone (video phone) technology. Japan AND Korea have had video phone technology since the dawn of 3G networks here in East Asia. They haven't been successful as features. It'll be interesting to see if it is a software thing (of which Apple is the best implementation) or a network thing (Apple's only works on WiFi which makes for a much faster connection than 3G.)
Japan: no iPad, but plenty of iPedigree
Swoon! Smarm! Slobber! Fine. If you love Apple and its swelling i-menagerie of gadgets so much, do all of these things. These are dark times, exuberance is in painfully short supply and the world should be encouraged to use any over-excited verb. Apart from "extrapolate". Twice in the last few w...
It's something of a cliche but I really do think that time away from your own country really does allow one to _see_ things that you otherwise would have taken for granted. The US is no different than anywhere else in that there's a lot of strange stuff going on. But that the credit card companies have so much control over the behavior of people such that no one uses cash anymore is crazy when there's no 'e-money' in the US (like Edy or Suica/Pasmo.)
Lots of other stuff, like health care, food portion size, etc. etc. the list goes on and on, but the "cashless" society of the US is one of those things that really should be legislated properly. If the credit card companies didn't have so much power, there's no way they could replace cash, which is the most efficient payment mechanism.
Debit Cards
When I was home, I noticed that none of my friends seemed to carry much cash. People were whipping out debit cards for even the littlest purchases. I understand that it's easier, but it just didn't seem to make sense to me. Todd told me (when I asked) that there was no fee to use a debit card. I...
Replace "game" development with "software" development and you have the same issues writ much larger.
Game Face
"Why is Japan so behind the curve when it comes to game development?" asks this thread on 2ch. "Is it because we have less financial resources than foreign game companies? Because we don't rely on engines like they do? Because our planners (directors) aren't skilled programmers? Why?" Some ans...
So damn awesome!
Happy Rally Friday
Gotcha! Thank you for sharing that. I'm just starting to experiment with off-camera flash (Nikon CLS in my case) and while the learning curve is steep, I'm looking forward to the results.
Just another day in the office
Our article on Kuala Lumpur Old Kitchens is in the February, 2010 Travel and Leisure SEA. If nothing else it as a great excuse for me to spend a bit more time in my favorite kitchens in KL . These guys rock! More photos and text here .
David, love your images. It doesnt look like you use much in the way of external lighting or strobes. Are you mainly available light? Can I ask what your main setup (camera, most often used lenses) looks like?
Just another day in the office
Our article on Kuala Lumpur Old Kitchens is in the February, 2010 Travel and Leisure SEA. If nothing else it as a great excuse for me to spend a bit more time in my favorite kitchens in KL . These guys rock! More photos and text here .
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Its cool that they let you film the blessing. Normally that sort of thing is not allowed.
Yokai & Yurei & You
Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of posting the Yokai/Yurei episode of Tokyo Eye on YouTube! The end of summer is spook season in Japan, and what better way to celebrate than by following first-timer Hami and I as we tour some of Tokyo's scariest spots unraveling the differences betwee...
Cool episode.
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Yokai & Yurei & You
Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of posting the Yokai/Yurei episode of Tokyo Eye on YouTube! The end of summer is spook season in Japan, and what better way to celebrate than by following first-timer Hami and I as we tour some of Tokyo's scariest spots unraveling the differences betwee...
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