This was recorded in October of 2003 on my Clie. I have tons of these. Someday when I’m old and grey I’ll listen to all of them again.
 The blanket he’s holding is named “moo-an.” |  Memeshi, now world-famous. |
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A few months ago I stayed in Tokyo on Friday night and had to take the first train out on Sat. morning to go back home to Koga. I arrived at the station too early and had plenty of time to kill, so I decided to pretend I was a real photographer. Until now I completely forgot about these photos, but I quite like them.
I uploaded a soundscape of Akabane Station to herroflomjapan.com/chum_audio/ A musician who’s recording a CD asked me a long, long time ago to record some train station sounds. I wanted to make it into a podcast but I’m far too busy with work. Last night we recorded the first podcast for one of the five organizations run by the ten or so of us in the this office. It’s in Japanese, I’m not on it, and I wish I had time to redo it to improve the quality of the audio and add some of the outtakes to the end of it.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ceapodcast
Lots of other stuff in the queue too: a bilingual interview with a coworker about racism and discrimination in Japan; a widescreen, hires version of my walk to work, a view of Tokyo from the top of Roppongi Hills, the video I want to make to show off my bitchin’ new keitai…
There’s been quite a ruckus in the podosphere lately caused by a hate speech podcast. They’ve been posting extremely offensive messages in various forums and have been banned from many. Except Podshow-related sites run by Adam Curry.
I like Adam. He’s a good guy. He’s made the decision that hate mongering scum have the right to free speech on Podshow web sites. His company, his decision. I disagree with it. If the four of you who voted for me at Podcast Alley this month want to keep voting for me, please do it at Podcast Pickle.
I’ve been thinking about doing a podcast on what it’s like to be the victim of racism and discrimination, but frankly, I don’t know if I could get through it. Making the transition from being a white Anglo-Saxon male in the US to a minority in a foreign land was rough and painful, but it was a real eye-opener to how disgusting racism and discrimination truly are. In fact, until the tables were turned and racism became an issue that occasionally affects me and my family, maybe I used to be a closet racist myself.
So that’s the way I feel, and very strongly at that. It might not be the way you feel. I’m OK with that. Lots of people have strong feelings one way or the other. That’s why it’s called a controversy.
No flaming on my blog please. Hate and anger just breed more hate and anger, and I’ve never been good with handling either. That’s why I want nothing to do with Podcast Alley anymore. Being in the same community as those racists brings out emotions in me I don’t want to deal with.
Just a head’s up. As soon as I can find the time, I’m going to reinstall WordPress from scratch. I might have to clear out the database too, which means everything might disappear then come back in a way that’ll make your subscription go bonkers. Kinda like those Cambodian zombies, actually.
If I could, I’d simply move the blog to WordPress.org, which sounds like an excellent place to put a blog these days, but changing my URL would cause an even bigger headache than this comment bug from hell.
From BBC News, not Weekly World News. Start humming Louie Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” then begin reading.
There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in a small town near the border of Laos in North-Eastern Cambodia.
The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days.
After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
And here’s the clincher. Doesn’t every horror movie start out this way?
Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry.
General Ary Serey had this to say, “We have obtained samples of this new parasite and plan to learn how it starts the heart and other major organs of the deceased. We intend to use this to increase the quality of life for all.”
Update: Arrrh! I’ve been punk’d by the BBC. That’s what I get for surfing the blogosphere at 6am and not paying attention to the date of the story (April 1.) Those bastards! Paybacks are hell…
Are people using the Safari browser the ones who get an error message when trying to post a comment?
Update: Nope, that’s not it. Could someone who can’t post a comment please save this debug page as HTML and e-mail it to me?
I’m getting real tired of this.
In other news, I went to the Apple Shibuya Store last night and bled all over the Genius Bar. I was trying to crack open my junky old retro-cool 1G iPod with a stick of plastic and sliced my knuckle. Did you know that if your iPod refuses to recharge, removing then re-attaching the battery often fixes it? The Genius didn’t. He was quite impressed. Got the drive reformatted, now for the first time in many months I have a working iPod.
While waiting 1 1/2 hrs. for my turn I subscribed a few iBooks to HFJ and saved some videos to their desktops, but they probably clean them out every night. I also did a lot of drooling over Garageband and iMovie. They’re nice, but not worth the overpriced hardware they run on.
People like to do nice things for people they like. I like that about people. Part of being charasmatic is letting people do nice things for you.
Someone helped Adam Curry set up a wiki for his show notes. The content is user-contributed, and fanboys listeners went whole hog with the first entry.
Not that I plan on copying the idea–seems like the kind of thing that would work only for the uberfamous like Adam–but it’s an interesting step forward in the evolution intelligent design Flying Spaghetti Monster of podcasting.
I have thought of putting up a forum, but really, I should think first about putting out content a bit more frequently. And fixing that damn comment bug.
Every time someone tries to leave a comment but they get an error message, I receive a blank e-mail on my keitai, and a little piece of me dies. It says, “Arrrh! Dammit! Not again!” and then it dies.
I’ve tried all the easy ways to fix it. I can’t duplicate the error, but people have sent me the message they get. I’ll keep at it when I can find time. Meanwhile, please use the e-mail address on the right if you get at error. I really appreciate feedback from people who enjoy the stuff I put out.