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Twitter: 2007-07-24
- Settling into the office, drinking iced coffee. It’s FREAKING HOT in Tokyo today #
- leaving office, walking to Ginza to see the Apple Store #
- Playing with a 17″ MBP in Ginza. This 1920×1200 screen is nice but text is murder to read without a lot of magnification. #
- Just bought a black MacBook. Doh! #
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Twitter: 2007-07-23
- Got a summer bonus. Do I buy a MacBook Pro, or a MacBook and a Nikon D80? #
- Hmm, or just the Nikon, and then wait for a new MB later this year? #
- Playing with WordPress: http://durf.org/translation/ #
- Outta here. Going home. #
- Home! Now waiting for some soup to finish cooking. Baby being fed as I type this. #
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Playing around
I stuck this WordPress install into a “translation” folder because I started out thinking it might be a work-focused thing. But then I played with the MT importer and filled it up with randomness from my main blog, and then I stuck the Del.icio.us and Twitter links over there. Now it doesn’t look so professional. Oh well.
Maybe this will end up the real blog, and the other one will get zapped at some point. (I should probably change this directory name to something other than translation/ at that point, huh.)
Just messing around. Need to get back to work.
Twitter: 2007-07-22
- Finishing up a translation for a friend. A weekly gig I do to earn beer money. At the end of the year I add it up and find I drank too much. #
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Rewriting the government’s tourist lit
INCENTIVE DESTINATION JAPAN is a nice, informative site if you’re looking for tourism info on this country, but man, I wish they’d left the tired old middle-school-English-textbook junk out of it. Needs a rewrite:
DRAFT:
Japan is one of a small number of countries that have four distinctive seasons. Throughout history, the Japanese have learned to find beauty in seasonal changes and nurtured a culture of incorporating seasonal elements into daily life.
EDITED:
Japan is one of a vast number of countries located from subtropical to subarctic latitudes that have four seasons, and four words to describe them. We ignore the rainy season and the typhoon season and the Chinese yellow dust season and all weather above 2,000 meters’ altitude, by the way. We have imported a poetic sensibility from China that forces us to cram all cultural artifacts into one of those four rigidly defined categories. We confuse this with enjoyment of a unique situation. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. P.S. Don’t listen to those blasted Koreans when they tell you the exact same thing about their so-called four seasons. Pretenders.
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