Archive for August, 2005

For Boyd.

Boyd writes: Durf, You need to spice up your blog. I read it every other day. Maybe you can mention me in it sometime? sb#21 You got it, baby! “Steve Boyd.” The following post is a reprint of something from this old page, and it’s all for you. OKUTAMA FESTIVAL! In summers past the Bochi [...]

Saturday Night Live

The good: Just got back from a walk around the neighborhood. There was a festival going on up near our station, so Megumi and I walked up to the soccer field, where they had a bunch of people playing drums and dancing and stalls set up to sell beer and fried noodles and such. Summer [...]

Whoops!

Crap. I think I just erased a real human being’s comment instead of approving it. There was a new batch of about 30 spam posts and I zapped them all at once, but as the server was working on it I noticed that one comment was titled “Sorry for spamming” . . . That sounds [...]

Work weirdness

So there I am, sitting in the office, translating something about this year’s crop of literary award winners. Someone comes over with a phone message for me: “Call this cellphone now.” I do, and it’s a National Diet member. I’ve written some speeches for him in the past (he speaks good English and gives talks [...]

Currently mousing mightily

So I took a walk and headed over to Ginza on my lunch break. Hit the Apple Store there and bought myself a Mighty Mouse. Some quick thoughts on this thing: It’s not a bad mouse. The right- and left-clicking work fine, although I prefer the Logitech mouse I use at home, with its separate [...]