I have to share what has consumed me for the past few days with the rest of you. Saturday during a walk Masako, Frankie and I came across a pet shop not far from our appartment. What we saw there was absolutely disgusting, apauling and sad. Please read (in Japanese), and stay tuned for updates.

When I was a kid I remember asking my Dad what he did at work. "Drink coffee," he replied. What might I say? "Papa plays quake honney. And sometimes, just sometimes Age of Empires." Turns out my father was a stationary engineer at a paper mill, and drank coffee.

In other news, been watching a lot of teletubbies lately and did you know the ABC song and twinkle twinkle little star are like the same exact song!

Ahoy! talking like a pirate got old quick, it's one thing to talk starting every sentence with arr! and another to type it all day... in serious news my sisters experience with hurricane Isabel from Virginia Beach VA.

this is too cool. It's kind of like a dream I had once, but there were more guys with Chinese hats smoking keys involved. But I'll get into that some other time. Check out some of the artist's other animations after the game/movie/puzzle. found via greggman

I remember we were finishing up some cisco labs in the hotel classroom when one of our classmates who had gone back to his room for a study break called up to the room. He spoke with our instructor for a brief moment, hung up the phone and told us that a plane had just crashed into the world trade center in NYC. We all looked up for a second and imagened a small 1-2 seater cessna bumping into the colossal building, then went back to work. After a few more minutes of study we decided to hit the restaurant for dinner. Before our food could get to our table Wallace ran in huffing, puffing not able to speak in full sentences. We ran to his room with door open and the FOX news channel breaking news graphic scolling across the screen. A few seconds after our eyes focused on the television the second plane came into view and slammed into the second WTC tower. We sat stairing at the TV set in disbelief as the first tower fell, then the second. Thinking back it still seems surreal, spending Sept. 11 2001 in India with Wallace, Roland, Robert, Ahmed, and Ashish.

There was an assassination attempt on Sheikh Yassin today. I just want to say I loved him in Lord of the Rings!

"The United States is putting together a Constitution now for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It's served us well for 200 years, and we don't appear to be using it anymore, so what the hell?" - Jay Leno

"Well, we're all excited because President Bush has started his 35-day vacation. He's down there in Crawford, Texas and on the first day of his vacation he went fishing. He didn't find any fish, he didn't find any lakes, but he believes they're there and that his intelligence is accurate." - David Letterman

To make a long story short this is how I got my little battle wound today. I was walking back toward Masako and Frankie at Machida Sta. after buying a ticket and I saw she was tring to get a young teenager with his girl friend to put out his cigarette inside the station. When I returned he was still holding the smoke as Masako repeatedly asked him to butt it out. He gave the common yeah, yeah, yeah defense but wasn't budging. He finally got the message that we were not leaving untill he did what we asked and broke off the burning tip and tossed the still burning cigarette at Masako. I lunged forward and gave him a good hard punch/shove in the shoulder. He came right back at me but never tried anything. We went face to face for a few seconds as I egged him on some and his girl friend pleaded with him to just go. We walked away laughing a little and seemed to make him even more angry by the looks of his face red. Masako and I both tought he was just tring to impress his girl but obviously failed miserably. I didn't think he got a chance to hit me but noticed three red marks on my inner arm from his nails, a few minutes later.