Archive for September, 2007

Subways of the world

Things I rode Originally uploaded by Durf There’s an interesting page that shows the subway networks of the world’s major cities, all at the same scale. These are the ones I’ve been on. Tokyo’s network is overwhelmingly packed with people and convenient, so it has a sprawling feel, but compare it to BART and you [...]

Twitter: 2007-09-15

Finished doing laundry in our new washing machine. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Getting clean

Our washing machine was getting on in years, and tended to leave bits of black mold stuck to our clothes after a wash. Not good, especially with a baby in the house and load after load of baby-related things going through the cycle each day. So we went to the neighborhood Laox last weekend and [...]

Fukuda up?

I wrote earlier that I wasn’t so sure about Aso becoming the next prime minister. The papers yesterday had lots to say about the LDP’s wrasslin’ match—particularly the evening sports rags, which were filled with exciting stuff from LDP faction bosses (Aso? Not on our watch) and Koizumi (“I am 100% certain that I won’t [...]

Twitter: 2007-09-13

Up way too late . . . time to sleep now. Zzzzzzz. # Powered by Twitter Tools.