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Mark's Japan Journal: Day 2

Mark's Japan Journal: Day 2 05/20/2004 05:43 PM
6am in Tokyo (2pm LA time). I'm even sleepier today than I was yesterday. I can't sleep here, even though I've been downing Benadryl, which usually knocks me out. I got about 4 hours sleep last night. I was awakened after an hour by someone in the hall outside my door. He was drunk and angry. I'm not sure if he was talking to himself or to someone on his mobile phone, but I didn't want to open my door to take a peek. (The last time I opened a hotel door to investigate a noisy person in a hallway, years ago in Copenhagen, I was greeted by a young guy out of his mind on drugs who made a beeline to my door and tried to force his way in, spitting and screaming. His eyes were rolled back in his head. After I finally got the door shut and locked, he pounded on the door and howled.) Anyway, this Japanese guy just kept going on and on about something. He'd start mumbling, then build up to loud ferocious staccatto bursts. Then he'd start over. I heard some other guy, maybe another hotel guest, speak to him in a low reproachful voice. It took a while, but he shut the jerk up. Thank you, whoever you are.

I was awakened a second time by the sound of power machinery. It took me a minute or two that it was actually someone in the next room snoring. So now I'm in the cafe, drinking a $6 not-very-good espresso in an attempt to reset my circadian clock. I don't know if it'll help or hurt, but I need to try something.

It's been raining steadily since I got here. From what I've been told, a typhoon is headed this way. I'm upset, because today is my day to go exploring around the city. I'll try to keep a good attitude about it. Tokyo is such a wonderful place, I can't let lack of sleep and lousy weather ruin it.

Mark's Japan Journal

Mark's Japan Journal 05/19/2004 05:47 PM

(I went to Tokyo for a couple of days. I'l be posting excerpts from my journal here.) It's 4am in Tokyo (noon LA time). I just went downstairs to call my wife. First, I had to get change for my 5000 Yen bill. I like the way the desk clerk spread the 1000 notes in a pretty fan shape and offered them to me on a tray. What other country gives you that kind of service?

The flight from LAX to Tokyo was 11.5 hours and uncomfortable. I can never sleep on planes. I tried to nap, but I just fidgeted.

The good news about being stuck in an aluminum tube for hours on end is that I managed to write four pieces for my upcoming book. I used a Moleskine notebook (thanks, David!) and a Pilot Gel pen, which works well with the Moleskine. I'd be interested in hearing about other pens that are good on Moleskine's paper.

I had a window seat on the plane. The 20-year-old guy next to me was really tall for a Japanese and gangly. He was a nice guy, but his elbows and knees frequently crossed the line into my side and bumped me, especially when he was playing Grand Theft Auto on his IBM ThinkPad. He slept a lot, the lucky son of a bitch. The Japanese girl sitting next to him in the aisle seat cried silently and drank cans of Miller beer. She kept her eyes closed and I saw tears falling down her cheeks.

Once we landed in Tokyo, it was smooth sailing. I hadn't checked any luggage, so I breezed through customs. Fortunately, the day before, I went on the Web to find the best way to get to the Shinagawa station from Narita airport. I used the Narita Express. You have to buy a reserved seat from a stall on the main floor before taking the escalator down to the train station under Narita. The girl working at the Narita Express counter was wearing a neat little uniform with a matching cap. She, like all the counter workers I've seen so far, was impeccably groomed, polite, and professional. It's fun to make transactions here!

At the train station, I asked a guy in a uniform to look at my ticket and tell me where to go. He said "Car two." I walked to car two sat down in my assigned seat. The train left the station. At the next stop, a guy walked on and said I was in his seat. I showed him my ticket, and he said "you are supposed to be on car seven." I looked at my ticket, and he was right. I blame it on sleep deprivation.

I got my bag from the storage area and carried it through all the cars. The smoking car was pretty rowdy, and smoke was hanging thick in the air. A middle-aged salaryman, drunk, was standing in the aisle, laughing with a seated friend. His eyeglasses were enormous, and his comb-over was a work of art. Another guy had his shoes and socks off and his feet were dangling in the aisle. I manuevered around them and got to the first class car, number six. It didn't seem much different from the other cars. Less crowded. Slightly nicer seats. You pay to keep other people away from you.

When I got to the end of the car, I couldn't open the door to car seven. I looked through the window and discovered that there wasn't any way to get to the car. I stood there for a moment, wondering what to do. I finally went back through the first class car and the smoking car and sat in an unoccupied 2nd class non-smoking seat. When the conductor came through the car and checked my ticket, he didn't say anything about me being in the wrong seat.

My hotel was right across the street from the station, a nice surprise. The room is tiny. Six feet wide and about 15 feet long. The bathroom is molded from one piece of plastic. There's a tiny desk, a chair, a bed, and a TV. I like it, but it smells like stale cigarettes.

I went to sleep close to 4am Pacific time (8 pm in Tokyo), and woke up at around 10:30 am Pacific (2:30 am in Tokyo). I think I'll try to sleep a little more.

Mark's Japan Journal: Day 3

Mark's Japan Journal: Day 3 05/21/2004 10:02 PM
8am in Tokyo (4pm LA time). I got about six hours of sleep last night, and I'm feeling pretty good right now. (Of course, I just downed an excellent double espresso, so the caffeine is talking right now.)

Despite the typhoon warnings, Yesterday's weather couldn't have been better. The sky was blue, the temperature was mild. I guess the typhoon ran out of juice really fast.

I woke up spaced-out and stupid. I looked in the mirror and was surprised at how glassy my eyes looked. But I wanted to travel around the city, to do some research on the article I'm writing. First, though, I wanted to go to Harajuku and Yoyogi park to take pictures of those crazy kids in the their Elegant Gothic Lolita and Trappist Monk - Rocket Scientist Hybrid getups. I didn't see too many, but I took some pictures of a few kids, who studiously ignored me, the big dopey gawking gaijin with a camera.

But my heart wasn't in it. I was much more interested in checking out the official uniforms almost everyone in Japan wears. Of course the schoolkids all wear uniforms. The girls have the traditional sailor uniforms, and a lot of the boys have these dark blue Chinese-looking jackets with the cylindrical collars and big round buttons. (Why are so many schoolkids always walking around in the middle of the day here? Don't they have classes to attend? Do they get breaks from school at odd hours that allow them to roam the streets?)

I saw a large crowd of "Beauty College" students pouring out of a building. They looked about 17 years old. About half were boys. They had nifty two-tone smock-like uniforms. They raced each other into a 7-Eleven and filled the place up. I took some great pictures of them packed in there.

I went the the big park near Harajuku (Meji something) and saw a worker in a smart gray uniform and pith helmet raking up leaves from the wide, tiny-pebbled, path leading to the Shinto temple. His rake was hand-made bamboo, and the business end of it fanned out about three feet. He had a large woven basket filled with other wooden park-cleaning implements, that looked like the came from the 17th century. I love the way Japan mixes ancient stuff with the brand new.

Back in the shopping area of Harajuku, another uniformed guy was on his knees, wiping one of the ubiquitous outdoor vending machines. He was making the surface *squeak*. After that, I noticed all the vending machines were spotless. The Japanese love to keep things clean. (The day before, two people in yellow raincoat uniforms were walking down a narrow shopping street, picking up wet cigarette butts with poles that have pincers on the end, and depositing the butts in a plastic bag. They were obsessive about it. They didn't even have Walkmans on. -- they were focusing solely on getting every last cigarette butt picked up.)

I spent the rest of the day taking pictures of people in different uniforms. It seems like they have at least four varieties of cops here, judging by the color and style of their caps and jackets.

I was looking forward to getting back to my hotel room so I could upload a "Uniforms of Japan" photo gallery. I am using some new software to deal with digital images, and when I extracted the images from the camera, the application zapped all 45 photos from the camera's memory stick. A full day of photo taking, gone in an electrostatic femtosecond. (I'm not going to say which application it is until I get an explanation from the guy who wrote it.)

I'm headed back to the US today, so unless something bizarre happens on the train to Narita, this will be my last Japan Journal dispatch.

Your faithful scribe -- Mark

Edu-SLUG

Edu-SLUG 11/17/2003 05:32 PM
Edu-SLUG project Launch

Internet phone slug

Internet phone slug 11/01/2003 01:59 PM
Herald Sun Nov 1 2003 11:43AM ET

Cyber-Olympians slug it out

Cyber-Olympians slug it out 05/11/2004 08:49 PM
Computer Times Asia May 12 2004 0:37AM GMT

Mark's latest bl0g entry

Mark's latest bl0g entry 12/26/2003 05:23 AM
Gift

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Sunbeams: Writhing Like a Vast, Salted
Slug Edition

Sunbeams: Writhing Like a Vast, Salted
Slug Edition 06/26/2004 05:44 PM
[Editorial note: I’ve gotten a bit of pushback on Sunbeams, from a prominent journalist and my Mom among others. Fair enough, I think the Sunbloggin’ ecosystem has had the necessary leg up. However, I am (for the nonce) still reading them all, and there is some good stuff there, so for the next little while I’ll do a Sunbeams once each weekend. Jeepers, I just looked, there are now 355 accounts on blogs.sun.com.] On the musical front, the Welblogger has a piece on The Arlenes which includes a pointer to a beautiful MP3, and Warren Strange saw The Hip in a small club in Calgary (I’m green with envy). The greimblog useful ly contrasts two categories of religiosos, JXnuts and XCnuts (he compares the Web to the slug in the title). Will Snow, who runs sun.com, gives us a slice of life leading up to Java One. Edward Tufte is one of my intellectual heroes, and this week both Ric hard Kenyon and Martin Hardee have Tuftean outings, the latter with a priceless direct quote that I’d never heard before. Finally, Norm Walsh gives us the lighter side of standards-committee meetings: “What we need are anti-namespace nodes.”

Journal of Webology: An International
Electronic Journal

Journal of Webology: An International
Electronic Journal 08/31/2004 06:26 AM
Journal of Webology: An International Electronic Journal
http://www.webology.itgo.com/

Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also welcome.

INDC Journal: INDC Journal Interviews
Michael Berg

INDC Journal: INDC Journal Interviews
Michael Berg 06/08/2004 05:47 AM
Bill at INDC Journal is at it again, this time, interviewing Mike Berg .. interview a squirming Michael Berg .. interveiw with Nick Berg's father .. Checkout this interview:

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RT-Journal-0.03

RT-Journal-0.03 06/13/2004 05:51 AM

The PHP Journal

The PHP Journal 07/25/2002 08:37 AM

RT-Journal-0.02

RT-Journal-0.02 06/13/2004 05:51 AM

Gtk+ Journal 0.3.2a

Gtk+ Journal 0.3.2a 01/24/2004 08:19 PM
A journal/diary program for personal use.

M/C Journal

M/C Journal 09/27/2004 07:19 AM
M/C Journal
http://www.media-culture.org.a u/

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - a journal of media and culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. As such, it is fully blind peer-reviewed, but also open to submissions and responses from anyone on the Internet. They take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised around a one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles. A major problem with Internet publications is that of usage and citation of online sources. Without pagination, long articles are awkward to read and individual quotes and references difficult to locate. In terms of length, M/C articles are deliberately shorter than articles in printed academic journals, functioning as interventions into media and culture. In terms of reference, individual paragraphs are numbered as "bits", so that instead of guesses like "about three screens from the end" or a mere "no pagination given", when you cite M/C articles you can refer directly to the bit you're interested in. Additionally, at the end of each piece they provide a reference citation of the article line in MLA and APA styles, which you can copy and paste into your own list of references. There are still no universally accepted ways of citing Internet sources, but they hope this will help. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Food on the way

Food on the way 12/26/2004 04:47 AM
Usatoday.com - Fri Dec 24, 08:21 am GMT

Dog Food

Dog Food 06/28/2004 11:55 AM
What drives us more and more is the goal of creating a version of Chandler which is actually useable on a day-to-day basis. We'll be our own first early adopter, bleeding edge customer at OSAF and it will be the calendar which is the first targeted area of functionality. Call...

Old Food

Old Food 07/03/2004 06:23 PM
I've been cleaning a lot recently, mainly to get rid of stuff that I no longer need (like a ton of books). Today I ran across some old canned food in my kitchen. Two cans of pineapple chunks. I searched the can for an expiration date and then noticed the top: Best Used By: Feb 2002 Needless to say, they're gone now. I think that is a personal record. I doubt there's any older food left in my kitched. At...

Food

Food 12/30/2003 01:24 AM
I have to say that I like the British way of eating more than the traditional Finnish one. Here it's "Breakfast, light lunch, then proper dinner", whereas in Finland it's "Maybe breakfast, big lunch, possibly dinner". The light lunch seems to keep me more properly awake throughout the day.

(Todays results: one win, one loss. I did a horrendous mistake during the final stages of the endgame, and lost 40 points when I was winning by 20. Stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid...)

Six Apart and Live Journal?

Six Apart and Live Journal? 01/05/2005 11:53 AM

Six Apart to buy Live Journal: This is all over the Net this morning, so I'll jump on the "Holy Cow!" bandwagon.

I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount.

The Pine Journal

The Pine Journal 12/30/2003 07:37 PM
Searching on Google, there are 22,400,000 Web sites containing the word �peace�; 282,000 web sites containing the words �peace on earth�; 136,000 Web ...

The Architect Journal

The Architect Journal 12/08/2003 12:01 AM

Are you a software architect? Check out the Architect Journal. Neat article about Das Blog from Clemens Vasters is in the current issue. Unfortunately it's a PDF document.

Joe Conason's Journal

Joe Conason's Journal 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
There's nothing Middle American about the wealthy ideologues who financed the attack ad against Howard Dean and his "latte-drinking, sushi-eating, left-wing freak show."

JeSurgisLac's Journal

JeSurgisLac's Journal 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
Ma'am, we're not going to go down there and enforce your Western bacon cheeseburger .. woman

livejournal.com/users/jesurgislac/2005/03/26
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City Journal

City Journal 11/01/2003 06:24 AM
City Journal (NY From The Right) [>] .. on line .. @

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"INDC Journal"

"INDC Journal" 09/12/2004 03:05 AM

Journal Macro v1.50

Journal Macro v1.50 01/24/2004 12:33 PM
Journal Macro is an easy-to-use mouse and keyboard macro recorder, player and editor designed to help you eliminate repetitive operations. It is the easiest way to make working in Windows faster, easier, and more productive. You can set up "macros" that simplify complex or repetitive tasks and operations into a single step. Simply record anything once and then play it back at any time, at any speed, with a single keystroke! [Shareware $29.95 30 Days 810 KB]

Ramblings' Journal

Ramblings' Journal 05/07/2004 11:31 PM
Ramblings' Journal .. Michael King

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ConsumerHealth Journal

ConsumerHealth Journal 05/11/2004 06:18 AM
ConsumerHealth Journal (CHJ)
http://www.consumerhealth journal.com/

For consumers, CHJ is a free, monthly journal dedicated to providing in-depth health information that isn't swayed by market or advertiser demands. With articles from study result analysis (pregnancy and alcohol, milk and cancer) to lighter fare (health insurance for dogs, the geography of fat), CHJ tries to publish information that is otherwise hard to come by. Mainstream health reporting is currently dysfunctional. The media that have the technical information are impossible to read, and the media that are possible to read omit the technical information. Important health news is lost in the trivial, the incomprehensible, and the sensational. Consumer Health Journal is a hybrid: we read the studies for you, and translate them into readable English. But we tell you where to find them, too, in case you want to read them for yourself. We also provide background biology and end-of-article reporter's notes, as well as mid-article links to our sources. You can take our word on the issues, but we won't force you to. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

The Journal vs. the widows

The Journal vs. the widows 05/13/2004 03:43 PM

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Journal of Neuroinflammation 04/24/2004 06:18 AM
Journal of Neuroinflammation
http://biomedcentral.com/17 42-2094/
http://www.jneuroinflam mation.com/home/

Journal of Neuroinflammation ISSN: 1742-2094 is the latest addition to BioMed Central's constantly expanding universe of Open Access journals. In the coming weeks, a mirror site for Journal of Neuroinflammation will be created at PubMed Central , ensuring long term access to the material, regardless of the vicissitudes of the economic models of publishing. Fulltext v1+ (2004+) This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

"Ramblings? Journal"

"Ramblings? Journal" 06/29/2004 09:15 AM

"Rover's journal"

"Rover's journal" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Journal of a Schizophrenic

Journal of a Schizophrenic 02/13/2004 10:38 AM
Schizophrenia is one of the most widely spread psychological disorders around, and its sufferers show a wide assortment of symptoms, sometimes easily coped with, sometimes not. Studies have shown that in any given hospital as many as 1 in 5 patients suffer from some form of schizophrenia. Nationwide, approximately 1% of the US population is schizophrenic.

Baghdad Journal

Baghdad Journal 08/06/2004 08:02 PM
Bagh dad Journal An eyewitness artist's report from the Iraqi capital. Amazing watercolors.

Linux Journal: PHP - More than Just the
Web

Linux Journal: PHP - More than Just the
Web 08/19/2004 10:10 AM
On LinuxJournal today, there's a new article from Marco Tabini about the power of PHP as a multi-purpose language (and not just for web pages anymore).

Best of The Perl Journal

Best of The Perl Journal 01/26/2004 11:06 PM
Slashdot Jan 27 2004 2:38AM GMT

Best of The Perl Journal

Best of The Perl Journal 01/26/2004 04:12 PM

Times 2, Journal 0

Times 2, Journal 0 03/14/2005 05:45 PM
Well, it's official: The New York Times, having replaced William Safire with John Tierney, now has two dedicated "conservative seats" on its op-ed page. Meanwhile, as I wrote a month ago, the Wall Street Journal, having lost its sole token sorta-liberal, has...not replaced him at all.

The Times constantly takes brickbats from the right for its supposed liberal bias, but it's clearly trying to find room on its opinion pages for a variety of perspectives. Meanwhile, the Journal, whose editorial pages list far further to the right than the Times' lean leftward, doesn't seem to think it need bother expose its readers to those who disagree with it.

These papers pretty much represent the U.S.'s two most important national dailies. When I beef about the Journal, I sometimes get e-mail from people I know (or don't know) who work there, protesting that I shouldn't hold the editorial pages' neanderthal bias against the rest of the paper. And it's true: I love the Journal's feature writing, and a lot of its news coverage is fair and reasonably non-ideological. I would say exactly the same thing about the Times' news pages.

Yet on the opinion/editorial side, the distinction couldn't be more vivid, and it needs to be said, over and over again: One paper has a hubbub of different points of view, the other has a starkly uniform party line that is significantly off to the margins of the American mainstream.

That difference hasn't seemed to filter very far into the blogosphere's media-criticism memepool. Anti-Times noise is endemic here, whereas the Journal doesn't seem to warrant more than an occasional snipe. Maybe that's a sign of the Journal's subscription-only self-marginalization; but Dow Jones has actually placed most Journal opinion-writing on the free Opinionjournal.com site, so I don't think that's it.

Rather, this is one more data point in t he right's campaign against the Times and other media institutions that it sees as impediments on the path to total reality control. The scorched-earth ground rules parallel the CNN/Fox argument. Conservatives jealously defend their right to own their own partisan media outlets, while loudly complaining that anyone still foolish enough to struggle for balance is hopelessly biased to the left.
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