SOFTWARE, JAPAN, SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND

“Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in , pretty soon Im singin’
doo, doo, doo lookin’ out my backdoor”
+5 points to the person that knows the band
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There are 3 commercials in that video made by the Japanese cell phone carrier Softbank.
Ive seen the 3rd commercial at least a half-dozen times, and each time I see it I cant help but laugh. Is that a real song? If it is - hilarious!
By the way, I hyphenated that first word in the […]

Today was another day at the office. Rather pleasant weather outside and a productive environment inside thanks to headphones that I remembered to bring today. Then again, the office wasn’t as loud as it normally tends to be.
For lunch I tagged along with a few co-workers and ended up going to great restaurant […]

Although Japan does not celebrate Valentines like the Western world - I still bought my wife a present… although perhaps with a Japanese twist.
I bought her a nabe pot and filled it with boxes of chocolate - including a real life Wonka chocolate bar sold here in Japan (Ive never seen them in the US, […]

So last night I met up with a friend that I haven’t seen since last summer. He and his wife recently bought a house in Chiba and have been overly busy moving and living between two places.
We ended up going to a station on the Yamanote line (it circles Tokyo) that I had never […]

Ok, enough with the bento countdown already, the suspense is just killing everyone! I can hear it in the eerie silence that is the world of blog xml feeds.

Here is my number 2 favorite bento on my top 5 countdown. This bento is so delicious I cannot adequately describe it in words. Granted, […]

Changing this post from its original, since I forgot to hit publish last night in my hurried escape from the apartment (working late). I was running late for a dinner with Ayako so I sprinted out of the apartment to the train station.
What is normally a 10 minute walk turned into a 3 […]

So back to the bento countdown. Last time we looked at 2 delicious bentos, one with a hamburger in sauce and one with chicken nuggets.
Here are 2 bentos that did not make my top 5… but that is because Ive never tried them (will do so later and give a verdict then):

I took […]

So I’m going to interrupt my bento countdown to bring a special post.
A couple of months ago I discovered, on a local city government’s website, that an outdoor basketball court was at some park about 20 minutes away.
Most of last year I had been traveling 1 hour every Sunday to meet a co-worker at one […]

It is Friday, and I hope you are having a great week! Today Im going to share a couple photos of my favorite bentos in Japan. A bento is the Japanese word for a packed lunch.
Although Americans usually pack a plate lunch or a bowl of food it usually consists of […]