by David | Jun 13, 2007 | culture, photo, travel
7am and 80 degrees already. It’s too early for the crush of commuters that will be surging from the train and ferry terminals soon. As I walk along the elevated walkways I pass old women doing tai chi and old men doing nothing. At an outdoor pool, young men swim...
by David | Jun 13, 2007 | travel
but it doesn’t look so bad outside, at least not from inside…
by David | Jun 12, 2007 | culture, eating, travel
They opened this European-style bakery in 1948. Imagine what this neighborhood might have looked like then. That’s the reflection from the curtains of the hotel room in the last photo.
by David | Jun 11, 2007 | travel
Crunky is now available in convenient individually-wrapped chunks, of, umm, crunk?
by David | Jun 11, 2007 | photo, travel
It just goes on and on…
by David | Jun 10, 2007 | photo, travel, working
The good news is, in Tokyo you can get a good cheap umbrella almost anywhere, and they always provide long plastic bags to put your wet umbrella in when you go inside a building.
by David | Jun 10, 2007 | culture, travel
I think they’re scissors of some sort. I’ll be sure to put them in my checked luggage just in case. .
by David | Jun 10, 2007 | culture, travel
As I mentioned, in Japan there seems to be a lot more interest in dark chocolate among the common people than in the USA. Dark chocolate versions of candy bars, both domestic and imported, are common. This is a good thing. Kit Kat, one of the most international candy...
by David | Jun 10, 2007 | media, travel
Not by a long shot. I’m in a Tokyo hotel working on presentations. Here’s Garr in a Tokyo hotel working on a presentation. Notice the difference? He posts videos of himself talking about the 1-7-7 or 1-8-8 rule while I’m revising presentations that...
by David | Jun 10, 2007 | culture, media, travel
Finally, I’ve got some time to blog. You know, quality time, like when you’re jetlagged out of your mind at an hour when the only things to do outside the hotel are or should be illegal? So I log on to blogger, and here’s what I get: As you’re...
by David | May 24, 2007 | culture, working
Recently, I participated in an event at work that I referred to as “The Great Cube Shuffle,” in which every single employee – save two – moved to a different office or cubicle. I was not one of the two. I moved two offices over, from a...
by David | May 24, 2007 | photo, travel
Malaga is Picasso’s birthplace. There’s a museum there containing a fair sample of his works, few if any of which were actually created in Malaga. He left at the age of 14 to go to art school in Barcelona. From the Alcazaba fortress. From the balcony of...
