Monkey Pox

I don’t know if that’s what I have, but I have something. I’ve been sick for over a week now. Last week was horrible, feverish every day in class (and Japanese are insane about temperatures — it’s late April and we’re having freak weather that is actually more like the end of May, and the [...]



WABOT

Check this out! How awesome! A robot that plays the keyboards. Apparently this incarnation was made in the 80’s, so just imagine what a robot build today could do — a One-Man-Band-Bot!
Also, WABOT is just fun to say. WABOT. WABOT. More on the WABOT here: http://www.humanoid.waseda.ac.jp/booklet/kato_2.html. WABOT.



Beautiful Spring in Japan

Working on the Cherry Blossom Festival in Philly gave me a bit of a sense of how serious the beauty of spring is here in Japan… I mean, I knew it was taken a bit more seriously than we do in the US — or at least taken a bit less for granted. Last weekend [...]



Fiber Optic!

The guys came to set up my high speed internet during the middle of last week, but I didn’t have a chance to set it up until last night… and boy, is it fast! This is great!
I just read on Digg and Slashdot the other day that Comcast just came out with 50 Mbps fiber [...]