It's in Japanese, but anyone can understand...
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The last night of the Worldcon in Yokohama, I wound up in a conversation with a couple of Japanese fans and another American. At the suggestion of the other American (whose name I forget-- sorry), we spent a while trading questions: we'd answer a question about the US, then they would answer a…
It's that time of year again-- the Swedes will be handing out money to famous scientists, with the announcements of who's getting what starting one week from today. Thus, the traditional Uncertain Principles Nobel Prize Picking Contest:
Leave a comment on this post predicting the winner(s) of one…
Recently discovered the works of Raqib Shaw. Raqib Shaw was born in Culcutta, spent his youth in Kashmir and now lives and works in London.
There are conflicts at so many levels in Raqib Shaw's paintings that, as we look at it, we are drawn deeper and deeper into a strange, fantastical and…
My rudimentary Japanese will run out much too fast for me to keep up the conceit of titling all travel updates in Japanese, but we'll run with it while we can... I don't know if there's a Japanese equivalent of "It'sãnot the heat, it's the humidity," so we'll just go with this.
When I told people…
I'm up. I'm up already, dammit! I'm up!
I really hate waking up on a water slide. The other stuff would be fine.
Gosh! Sometimes I feel a bit groggy in the morning, but certainly would hate to get up this way!
Only in Japan could someone get away with waking someone up like what was done in the video. I really like the waterslide one the best. If someone was gonna wake me up, that is how I would like them to do it.