Akihabara / Ginza...
Posted by ryan in Travel on June 18, 2006 | 2 Comments
Wow..I’ve finally come home. I spent the day touring Tokyo’s Electric City, Akihabara and the well known shopping district, Ginza. When I pictured downtown Tokyo..this was it.
Akihabara was dripping with bright lights, neon, and more electronics than one could imagine. I think every possible...
Hato Bus Tour...
Posted by ryan in Travel on June 17, 2006 | No Comments
A popular way to see both historical and modern Tokyo is the Hato Bus Tour. Of the several options available, I selected the full-day Panoramic Tokyo Tour, which toured the Meiji Shinto Shrine, Imperial Palace East Garden, and the Asakusa Kannon Temple. Along the way the bus stopped at a few markets...
Japanese Karaoke!...
Posted by ryan in Travel on June 16, 2006 | 3 Comments
This evening several members of my department through me a “welcome to japan” party. After a pile of food, a few beers…some sake…and yes, some shochu…my department head yells, “Time for Karaoke Party!”
Sweet mother…somebody save me…
This actually...
Fun with Windows Language Pack...
So I’m in between meetings when one of our Japanese Unix SysAdmins approaches me with a laptop from one of our remote offices.
“Ryan-San, we cannot read this Windows to fix properly”
“Dude, it’s Dutch…I’m from America. I don’t do clogs”
“Can...
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