Yesterday I heard something new, that the next frontier will be our minds. Right now we are in the information age so information is key, but in the coming future the final frontier will be our hearts and minds. I find this quite intriguing and I think it is very true. I am proud to […]

In the same way that there's no absolute necessity to fill silence with speech, there's no absolute necessity to fill time with stuff. You don't need to be busy every second of every day. Often being busy is just a cover, a cover that you're trying to make up for something. When you're being busy […]

I popped a rugby ball by pumping too much air into it earlier today. Granted it was a smaller size, and I was a bit frustrated at not being able to work out the piece to use to pump it, but it was something that was completely avoidable. I'm over it now, getting over things […]

Japan making so many cliques totally works against them. I'm sure it helped in the past when rival townships had to compete for scarce resources, but that is largely irrelevant now, and they need to work together. There's too much unwarranted loyalty in this country. When I showed my friend my new sunglasses he asked […]

Bought El Suspiro beans at Espresso Aube (エスプレッソオーブ) in Nikaho. I say bought, but actually I got it with the point card, and I'm glad I did! Aube roasts their own beans, controlling the process the whole time, so you know they are good. The dude is pretty serious about his craft, and it shows. […]

One lesson I learned doing translation is that it's best to consider even completed jobs as incomplete. As with any art, perfection is impossible, and if you're doing something that demands creativity, the job is never done. I don't mean this in a negative sense at all, I mean it in a 'you can always […]

I think Japanese people are afraid of losing their culture, that's why they fear outsiders and outside influence so much. While I respect that they want to keep their culture, I don't buy the argument that learning a foreign language or learning partially overseas will lead to a loss of culture. In fact, I think […]