Shackalicious

Went out with a ping-pong tournament against Agile Media Networks:

Again, reverse chronological order. After work on Monday, we went out for grilled meat (yakiniku) with the SAKK IT team (the story's in the flickr captions).

Jason flew across the pacific ocean to help us revise the network at SAKK. After a long day of work, I showed him how to party like a Tokyoite :) Pictures are in reverse chronological order.

• Today starts a new asleep by 1:30/ 6+ hours of snoozing campaign. Lets see how long I can last... #
• at school early to work, not twitter. something is wrong here. #
• rt @ShaneSakata @Thornzz you know u have been in Japan too long when you are upset the vending machine doesn't take 10,000 Yen bills #
• rt @lazysupper @japundit: China sex theme park closed before it opens tinyurl.com/osroo9 #
• very cool web dev event, event cooler website design www.public-image.org/method/ (via @jonnyrockunit) #
• correction: Log onto facebook. Hit up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter. Click anywhere on screen. Magic! #easter ... #
• Secret Konami code websites (pretty surprising) ping.fm/6k5wE #
• rt @paskalamonik new flu infections in japan:snurl.com/ibetm #
• Ruminating on Japanese/non-Japanese relations for my 考えるための日本語 class. Hard to avoid turning it into an outright rant on 日本人論 and derivatives #
• Econometrics exam is next week, not today...sweet! #
• Econ prof: "Don't come pick up your graded work because you'll clog up the elevators." #
• more gems from prof: "My class is hard. Why did you take it?" then proceeds to quiz students at random about why they took it #
• Student: "Excel and Eviews gave me different results." Prof: Why did you do the same calculation on two programs? #
• rt @maryag Apartment Hunting: A very informative post on the “art” twurl.nl/fak21j #
• OMG used content-aware scaling for the first time and almost pissed myself ping.fm/Q2XsH #
• TEDxTokyo launches live Friday...if I was going to be here next year, I'd totally get on the volunteer squad for 2010 tedxtokyo.com #
• There are a few covers and mixes of this, but none come anywhere near the original. Stevie is the MAN. ♫ blip.fm/~6loue #
• @furlatq: "@momrocks2: "MTV videos of 1983 - Talking Heads - Burning Down The House" - Thanks for the great tu... ♫ blip.fm/~6lp0n #
• another round of thanks to @imorpheus and @jimgris for providing the grown-up replacements for my way-too-emo profile pictures everywhere #

• I still like the original a little better, but this is expertly done. ♫ blip.fm/~6gsbj #
• funky good love song ♫ blip.fm/~6gsfd #
• It's just an illusion. ♫ blip.fm/~6gt5h #
• TokyoHackerSpace is born #hackerspace #tbarcamp ping.fm/dqOwH #
• You can pack an essay into 140 characters when you tweet in Japanese. It definitely changes the dynamic of the service. #
• Blogging 'Blip.fm: Everybody is a DJ' bit.ly/M96SJ #
• Bets on what percentage of the news tonight is H1N1? #
• headed to waseda to study econometrics and get some work done. I'm horrifically unproductive at home. #
• When I stay off twitter, facebook, adium, youtube, and google reader, the work just hums along. Who woulda thunk it? #
• #musicmonday rocking out on blip.fm blip.fm/dshack #
• rb @fromlondonwithlove: he's on the move can't seem to shake the shade/ within his dreams he sees the life he ... ♫ blip.fm/~6ion3 #
• "¡Esta revolución será tuiteada!" The revolution will be tweeted? ping.fm/SBoz9 #
• I look at my watch, and it's been 40 minutes of distraction since I tweeted about working well without distraction. Yarr. #
• rt @abartelby loving The New York Times' new photojournalism blog, Lens: lens.blogs.nytimes.com/ #
• I don't think I'll fully appreciate my host mom's cooking until I go back to college and live on bagel pizza #
• Яolcats= English translations of Eastern bloc lolcats www.rolcats.com/ #

• rt @rafik @Fumi what is Arduino? #
• rt @LonelyBob Strange similarity between these images twitpic.com/5clae by @drzuco and twitpic.com/5clae by @keikosan #
• rt @andymatic funny interoffice memo bit.ly/WZHah #
• rt @jamest0wn Shake that attitude off your back. ♫ blip.fm/~6ge5h #
• Barcamp Tokyo is in the Slideshare spotlight! ping.fm/2vQfT #
• A career at New Yorker magazine, told in a series of tweets. Excellent. ping.fm/JwqpE #
• Spam filtering idea: only accept communication through blip.fm rebleeps, and judge humanity/botmanity through musical taste bli ... #

• off to #tbarcamp for some nerdcore head sessions #
• girl, leaning your sleepy head on my shoulder is not going to get you into my pants, so give up already #
• #tbarcamp kicking off. looks hella good. #
• As of now, you are all standing in a wiki #tbarcamp #
• Opera caches and renders every requested page server-side for opera mini #tbarcamp #
• Umeboshi face! #tbarcamp #
• The military will fly more unmanned than manned aircraft this year #tbarcamp #
• Creator of TV-B-Gone talking about the Hacker Space movement #tbarcamp #
• Cold boot attack is freaky #tbarcamp #
• Be excellent to each other #tbarcamp #
• The semantic web is about intention, not markup #tbarcamp #
• Give me more functionality without more networks to join #tbarcamp #
• ping.fm/p/6rHFy - excellent bento action from fujimama's #
• I feel so inadequate when a nerd joke goes over my head. Also, iPod autocorrects nerd to need. #tbarcamp #
• AR cyber-guitar do want. @fumi #tbarcamp #
• Let's not take twitter too seriously, but it's got its uses #tbarcamp #
• Who shouldn't use twitter? People who have work to do #tbarcamp #
• As a conversation between geeks continues, the probability of comparing twitter clients approaches 1 #tbarcamp #
• Tokyo barcamp live streaming Mogulus.com/yis #
• You have your twitter, you have your jaiku, you used to have your pownce #tbarcamp #
• Bump works on the ipod touch- awesome! #
• I like @nseki's shirt #tbarcamp #
• Yahoo! Japan (not yahoo US) is alexa #10 worldwide #tbarcamp #
• Akky Akimoto: "Rakuten interface is ugly because that's what the Japanese are comfortable with" #tbarcamp #
• "rakuten is an online don quixote- a disaster." #tbarcamp #
• drinks and soccer at the Hobgoblin shibuya #
• strongbow cider is damned good #
• what has better coverage: flet's spot or livedoor? #
• i feel like さすが and ftw are occasionally interchangable #

• i get real conversational on the shuden #
• the more i hear about star trek, the more i want to see it. when's it coming to japan? #
• ping.fm/p/ZUpAH - i wish they would print the caffiene content of can coffee- i'm not drinking this stuff for the taste #
• feeling an inclination to increase my pants supply #
• #followfriday @karamoon @tokyoMOD @kenbrady @ashuttleworth @jamest0wn @nakedtokyo @invisiblegaijin @jonnyrockunit #
• groovy beats from @HRK on blip.fm ♫ blip.fm/~6blcu (via @jonnyrockunit) #
• listening to "Glass Danse - The Faint" ♫ blip.fm/~6blkp #
• I like him better than Aretha ♫ blip.fm/~6bltr #
• Clashik ♫ blip.fm/~6bluh #
• Just discovered blip.fm, and it's about to eat my evening. Pandora meets twitter meets awesomesauce blip.fm/dshack #
• rb @crispast "The way I want to love you, well, it could be against the law" ♫ blip.fm/~6bm57 #
• rb @InvisibleGaijin "Sakamoto Kyu. Released in 1963 as "Sukiyaki" in the US- the only song entirely in Japanes... ♫ blip.fm/~6bmms #
• rt @2nihon GhibliWorld giving away free Ponyo DVDs: bit.ly/10W7ND #
• Finally found my hella-pack of imported Israeli razor blades; time to kill off a two-day neck beard #
• rb @graphic_lucidity I knew I liked this song, but I had no idea what it was called or who played it. ♫ blip.fm/~6brk2 #
• "No, I'm not a large water-dwelling mammal. Where did you get that preposterous idea? Did Steve tell you that,... ♫ blip.fm/~6bs4z #
• High-def and slo-mo: this is the coolest surfing shot I've ever seen ping.fm/x8jqD #
• Wristwatch designed like Yamanote line platform display ping.fm/wYioO #
• Feminists don't have a sense of humor ping.fm/7c6YT #

• Tokyo 2.0 hello, thank you, and お休み @InvisibleGaijin @keiki @Fumi @wrightak @ya_ko @LonelyBob @stevenagata @ashuttleworth @kenbrady #t2p0 #
• Eigo + Obama = Eigobama. Cool! ping.fm/5y5sE #
• Blogging 'The Best Tokyo 2.0 So Far?' bit.ly/14PvTo #
• No class today, but going to Waseda anyway to see if I can get in a productive state of mind. #
• Thinking about stealing @sippey's awesome css sippey.typepad.com/unfiltered/ #
• Awesome internships in SF: Six Apart (ping.fm/DTMXY) and Edufire (ping.fm/YWoe3) both hiring. #
• dshackrt @JamesJPN Japan 19th in Electronic Police State ranking tinyurl.com/qd6mfu #
• rt @ZDNetBlogs 10.5.7 breaks hackintoshes - Apple, you suck. #
• Best take on microsoft's "laptop hunters" ads yet ping.fm/anchO #
• talk of the nation is making me remember how much i want google voice #
• ping.fm/p/aOugh - let's become beautiful joggers! #
• 4 can coffees at 120 yen each, or 900ml of excellent blackness for 200? gaijin-size ftw #
• yay, making it home tonight! can i major in giri-giri? #

• Presenting tomorrow at Tokyo 2.0 with @ya_ko about @sixapart, @sixapartkk, and vox.com #t2p0 www.tokyo2point0.net/ #
• rt @gilliebean817 photographers take note: out of focus does not equal artistic #
• Econ teacher: "Your biggest enemy is not Al Qaeda. Your biggest energy is your parents' generation. They like the good life and you're ... #
• rt @ami_harikoshi loving everything from Suck UK ff.im/-2PLDv #
• mash up chartbeat and google analytics, win cool stuff ping.fm/K3FvR #
• more gold from prof baak: "if you want to have happy life, please read econometrics textbook" #
• need to move the bulk of my work from evenings to mornings- the difference in energy is amazing #
• en-route to Roppongi for Tokyo 2.0 #t2p0 #
• Helped @ya_ko rock a cool presentation on community management at @sixapart, but I need to work on my translating #
• 通訳時がなくなりそう #t2p0 #
• Really well-behaved crowd, and with good reason. Mozilla Japan's presentation was superb #t2p0 #
• Irl contact with @tokyoMOD. Sweet. #t2p0 #t2p0 #
• DARPA project is like knight rider. Http://www.jokerracer.com #t2p0 #t2p0 #
• best tokyo 2.0 yet- otsukaresama, y'all #t2p0 #
• two trains waiting so passengers on a delayed one can make their connections. good system. #