Japan tech

So Japan can feel very high tech, especially compare the the US (less so compared to China, say). Have I talked about my washing machine, my automatic-fillikg bathtub that keeps the water a fixed temperature for four hours, or basically any toilet in the entire country? But then you innocently walk down an aisle at […]

6 AM Niigata

Picking up trash with the neighborhood association. Which is ironic because there’s no trash at all, or barely any, because Japan. I found maybe half a dozen cigarette butts and I had to fight for those. Yet we had twenty menfolk from the neighborhood, plus Mel, on patrol. I love this place 🙂

Things you would never see in the US

Life with cats and shōji

Or, why you should never inadvertantly close a cat into a room with shōji screen doors.

6 cats and 3 dogs are freshly minted citizens of Japan!

Meanwhile, I’m here on a 90-day tourist visa :S

You can take the child out of the Midwest…

… only to have them end up in the farmland of Japan. Of course, not so many Shinto shrines in the Illinois cornfields.

Tokyo rain

Up, up, and とおい!!!

さよなら、アメリカ。こんにちは、お日本! Also, did you know that when traveling with a cello, you buy an extra seat and it travels in the cabin with you. In our case, in between us :S

More Canon, Less Canonical (Part II)

Our experience of video games will be richer if we can avoid the archival mindset of film, and instead ask game developers to periodically revisit old games the way theater artists approach a new production: by fully reimagining it for the here and now

Look, gravity works! (once you add rigidbodies)

I’m teaching myself Unity, which is actually a lot of fun. It’s like a whole bunch of other pieces of software and programming tools that I’ve used all had a big love-in and spawned this one thing that does it all. Or that’s how it seems right now, when admittedly I know very little. So […]