Zuimei and I had lunch with a couple of his friends from Taiwan at a fancy restaurant called Ukai-tei. Our hosts took us for teppanyaki, which for those unfamiliar with the term is the Japanese style of cooking where the chef cooks on a hot grill at your table. I …
I captured this photo before I left for Japan. I think you would be hard-pressed to convince anyone with a lick of sense that Earth Hour is something other than a big advertising exercise. Hypocritical to say the least.
inducWhy do we have an Earth hour? The earth is going to be here for billions of years, long after we are all gone. I guarantee it. If we pollute the world, to the point of no return and all human life ceases to exist, the planet will continue until …
From CBC’s live blog: Disaster in Japan The man standing beside the photos is Yosuke Oda, who lost a friend in the disaster, as well as his house. He has decided to collect photographs from the rubble and put them together on a sidewalk so that people who recognize themselves …
One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the President’s Secret Service if he could please speak to the First …
I spoke to Zuimei last night about getting out of Tokyo. To close the bar for two weeks and take his parents to Beijing or Hawaii. He noted there are no flights to be had; most of the flights out of Tokyo are booked. I asked if he needed food …
I just came across some fascinating maps on Business Insider Detroit: Everyone is black in the city, and everyone is white in the suburbs Note: Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Image: Eric Fischer on flickr
The EU announced that starting May 25th explicit consent must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via cookie. Obviously the biggest impact is to online advertisers (who I care very little for) who use euphemist terms like “interest based advertising” to hide the fact they would happily crawl through …
Zuimei is okay, his bar survived the 8.9 Richter earthquake which has devastated parts of Japan. I am obviously relieved. It could have been much worse. If the earthquake had happened farther south Tokyo would have been rocked even harder. This video makes me a little nauseas even though that is exactly …