Year: 2011
Touhenboku
Zuimei launches his new career as the owner of a gay bar tonight! Touhenboku is located in Ueno, a part of Tokyo Japan. The name, Touhenboku, literally translates to “block head” in English which is odd, but if you look at other English/Japanese translations there is a certain amount of …
CRTC killing innovation
I had lunch yesterday with Chris Berry, and inevitably conversation drifted to the CRTC and usage based billing. Usage based billing sounds like a good idea on it’s face. Those who use it more should pay more, right? We do it with electricity and natural gas, so it’s not like …
We are all related
I am reading this book entitled One to Nine, the Inner Life of Numbers and I am currently on chapter 3, which is actually about the number 2. It uses genealogy to explain the importance of the number 2 and it’s implied meaning and I had a strange thought. In Dan Brown’s …
Top 5 restaurants revisited
It has been a year since I wrote the blog post on my top 5 restaurants in Toronto and my, how things have changed. With Zuimei away in Japan I tend to eat at restaurants a little closer to home. This has happily exposed me to some new and excellent …
Video game face
I’m not sure why, but when I play video games I can zone out the rest of the world. Bombs could be exploding next door and I probably wouldn’t notice. This image captures that perfectly. It’s a wonder my tongue isn’t sticking out (I tend to do that if I …