Aug 06 2008
Street view for Tokyo on Google Maps
As is already possible for other major cities around the world, you can now use Google Maps to virtually drive around Tokyo and enjoy 360 degree views of the cityscape. Here's Shibuya Crossing.
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May 05 2008
Four Day Weekend, Day 2
On Saturday morning (day 1) I drove my wife to work so we could have the car to go to Navel Park. That was the plan, but when I got home I crawled back into bed and didn't wake up until the crack of 1pm. I felt refreshed, but guilty for shooting our plans for the day to hell. The kids didn't mind though, they had their fill of portable, TV and PC games while I was in lala land.
Sunday I was determined to get the kids out of the house to do something fun. As a parent I'm supposed to do that. My wife is a lot better at it though. It was easy to convince Tony to go to Navel Park with me, but try as we might we couldn't convince Andy to come along. He wanted to stay home and play with his friends, who are a bit nutty but good kids. They think it's funny to talk to me all the time in a fake American accent. It kind of makes me want to whack them over the head, but I just go with the flow instead.
Tony and I had fun together at the park. We played catch until his arm gave out, roamed around the tunnels below the roller slide, swung on the skyrope, and climbed the rope and log jungle gym. Afterwards we bought lunch at a food stall, checked out the outdoor tsuri bori lake then went home to make sure Andy was still alive. My wife would be really angry if I left him home alone and he got hit by a car or something. But Grandpa was home and so was his friend's mother so I wasn't too worried.
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Mar 27 2008
Online stalk everyone with Spokeo
Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone you've ever been in contact with is up to. My God, for a quiet, lonely hermit, my life is quite an open book online.
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Feb 16 2008
Kanji Box
If you're a Facebook user and are learning Japanese, give the Kanji Box app a whirl. And no cheating by using Perapera-kun or Rikai-chan at the same time.
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Feb 15 2008
Tony & Andy's favorite YouTube video
I can still remember when Tony was a baby who only knew how to drool, eat, sleep and poop his diaper. Now he surfs the web all by himself. He even knows how to switch the keyboard to Japanese input mode and type out words in romaji. I have no idea how or when he figured that out. Kids amaze me. I wonder, if someone were to take the DNA from an ancient Egyptian and made a baby out of it, in ten year's time would the kid be reprogramming the TV remote and doing all that other technical stuff preteens seem to be able to figure out instinctively?
Anyway, here's the video the boys have been watching over and over lately. They found it on this site, which Tony can navigate through like you wouldn't believe.
