May 2012
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 18th
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April 2012
55 posts
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A Break!
I’ve been running posts about our trip to Japan continuously since December.  WHEW.  I never expected to actually continue to want to do this this long, but here we are, over 400 posts, and I still have a lot left to go. My wife and I are going to be out of town for a week and I can’t keep queue of more than 3-4 days, so I figured I might as well just keep it off while we’re out...
Apr 26th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Japanese burnout...
So, one thing I never really planned on encountering in my life was getting burned out on Japanese or Japan.   I took Japanese in college a little over a decade ago, but I’d let my Japanese fall off for a good number of years before I actually managed to get to go visit Japan properly.  When I did in 2005, I was there for 10 days and probably a little too dumbstruck by it all to care. When...
Apr 21st
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Apr 18th
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Apr 12th
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Television in Japan
One of the things that plagued me as a youth in college was wanting to visit Japan and just WATCH TV. Yeah. Really. I thought of it as an interesting way to absorb Japanese culture, less of a way to get to see unsubtitled anime. When in reality, actually getting to see what’s broadcast over the air in Japan over the years has in reality, been highly unimpressive. While not knowing...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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