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Back downunder

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Hi everyone, Long time, no post, it wasn’t that I didn’t have things to say, rather it was a case of that I couldn’t find the correct words to say them. I am finally back in Australia. I arrived back in June of last year, and I returned to Brisbane at the end of January this year. This blog has been mostly quiet for the last 5 years, though my life has been anything but quiet. The quick summary of my life events to date, are given below: Returned to Japan at the end of November 2014. Began job searching in Japan. Returned to Australia in order to attend my […]

Latha Bealltainn

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Hi everyone, 皆さんこんにちは, Long time, no see. 久しぶりですね. Updates, アップデート Went to Malaga Spain for work for what was supposed to be 1 week, which ended up being 2 weeks. 仕事 にマラガスペイン へ行った。1週間期間ことになっている。しかしながら 2週間期間なっている。 Hotel was fine. It was very close to the office, (which everyone else said was a bad idea, but I found it nice to be back to a short walk commute to work, like I had previously in Brisbane).  Highlight was the Spanish TV channel Boing, which had Doraemon (both series and movies) in Japanese and Code Lyoko in English  (yay for Dual Audio) . ホテル を良い とでした。ホテル は事務所に非常に近い。ホテルの一番いい点は Code Lyoko と ドラえもん 見てい のために「Boing」テレビ局持っている た 。 Other […]

Everything is bigger in Texas

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Hi everyone, Long time no update, very busy with work, lots of changes and other nonsense going on. My unpublished draft from April will eventually be published, unless I forget its contents in which case it will be dropped. In Dallas for a few weeks for work. First time in the USA, very interesting experience so far. Positive Highlights Limousine bus to Narita Airport (Baggage Attendant reported to me in English that my luggage was a structural weakness. I said I already know, and thank you very much, he also tagged it fragile and marked it as damaged though it wasn’t actually broken any more from the bus trip then […]

パインジュース,暖房,銀魂,深層水

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Hi everyone, 皆さんこんにちは, Long time, no update, mainly because I couldn’t find the correct words to express the emotions and circumstances. 正しい言葉が欠落していたので、私は長い時間で書かれていない。 All the while I re-realise what I first learnt at Uber Tweak so many years ago. If I don’t write then eventually I won’t be able to contain myself in the realms of my mind alone. 私が記述する必要があることを覚えて. Today is the public holiday Coming of Age Day (成人の日). Also it is currently snowing in Tokyo, Yokohama and Shinyokohama. This is a big surprise as I didn’t expect to see snow. See pictures below. 423427430436 See poor quality video here  (taken from phone, will convert from 3gp to HTML5 at […]

ケーキブルーベリー炊飯器

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Hi everyone, 皆さんこんにちは This post was going to be finished earlier and cover more than just my culinary adventures, however I figure I may as well just finish this post and dedicate it to them. Note: The Japanese translation of rest of the post will take me sometime, but should eventually appear. Update: Translation is done is except for most of the banter, it only took me a few years to find the time (about 3 hours total) Baking is Science for Hungry People. (ベーキングは、飢えた人々のための科学である) What you need (ことが必要とされる) 1 Rice Cooker (mine is a Toshiba RC-10NMF), preferably with a Bake Mode / Setting, though the original cake / pudding was […]

海の日 & 秋葉原電気街 よく混ぜる

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Hi everyone, 皆さんこんにちは Work is still quite busy. 仕事がとても忙しいです。 Last weekend I visited Akihabara Electronic Town, looking to find a replacement laptop. 先週末は、交換ラップトップを探してい、秋葉原エレクトロニック·タウンを訪れました。 I wasn’t able to find one I wanted and was told to look online. 私が欲しいものを見つけることができませんでしたし、オンラインに見えるように言われました。 I couldn’t find a replacement fan for my NAS. I will need to try again another day. 私はNASの交換用のファンを見つけることができませんでした。私は別の日にもう一度行う必要があります。 I went to Ueno and played Marco Polo. 私は上野に行って、マルコ·ポーロを果たしました。 Ueno Park is very scenic and Ueno Station has a lot of entrances. Apparently the zoo was closed. 上野公園は、非常に風光明媚である。上野駅では入り口がたくさんあります。どうやら動物園は閉鎖されました。 I found the people I met. We went to the “Hub”. It was like a British pub-style bar. 私が会った人々を見つけた。我々は、[ハブ]に行ってきました。 それは、ブリティッシュパブのようなスタイルのバーだった。 The next day was a public holiday, […]

七転び八起き , Oh when the saints go ….

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Hi everyone, こんにちは みんな I am in an apartment now. 私は今アパートで午前 Work is very busy. 仕事がとても忙しいです。 You never realise how many simple things you just get used to until they all change. 変化はささいなことに記載されています. I appreciate my home cooking so much more now. 家庭料理ははるかに高く評価 Laptop hard drive has bad blocks, but managed to backup all important data after eventually buying the correct power adapter from Yodabashi Camera, after trying Don Quitote, PC Depot and BIC Camera. ラップトップのハードドライブが不良ブロックを持っている. ヨドバシカメラから正しい電源アダプタを購入しました。次に、データの回復が可能であった。 Best wishes, ご多幸を祈る Benjamin Southall aka Appelman1234 🙂  

日本 初心者 and other news

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Hi everyone . こんにちは みんな。 Have arrived at a new country and employer. 新しい国と雇い主に到着した。 SIM Card doesn’t work here as it is 2G. SIMカードは2Gです、ここでは動作しません。 Missed last direct bus from Narita. But managed to arrive safe and late anyways. Didn’t realise I could have had discounted bus fare due to youth until I was on the bus. 成田からの最後の直通バスを逃した。しかし、安全かつ遅いとにかく到着することできました。私はバスにあったまで、私は若者のために割引のバス運賃があった可能性を実現しませんでした。   First week at work was busy but fun. Lots of new faces, new systems and new processes. 職場での最初の週は忙しいけど楽しかったです。多くの新しい顔、新しいシステム、新しいプロセス。   Power  adapter for laptop is sick. Will eventually buy a new laptop. Discovered 価格.com , which makes up for not being  able to use umart any more. ノートパソコン用の電源アダプタが壊れている. 発見された  価格.com , これはumart に適した代替手段です。 Passmo and Suica cards , already are […]

Early bird gets the matyrdom, spaghetti,causality

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Hi everyone, Been very busy. Doors closing and windows opening. Employer and physical location have changed. I had such a wonderful experience giving my own goodbye speech. Thanks to everyone at Emerchants that made working there so fuffilling and fun. Have enjoyed saying good bye to several people in Australia, including a wonderful fish dinner complete with discussion regarding children conditioning their parents with verbal triggers, the nature and definition of live and living. (See announcement of synthetic life here and the line between life and non file here by Martin Hanczyc, also  see Theo Jansen’s Synthetic Creatures here , also see the Chinese Room Thought Experiment). For most of the information from the […]

Sweet dreams are made of sugar ?

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Hi everyone, New things :  Fixed second hole in umbrella  Darned hole in pants (Cloth hacking FTW)  Plenty of apricot nectar  More Icecream and Blueberries  Pineapple Juice  New Icecream Scoop  Got book I loaned back  Got new working headphones SSL update broke AMSN (still looking for fix) Found someone’s special lost magazines and books. Rescued someone that was lost. Had 4 litres of Mountain Dew recently. Work keeping me busy. Was delayed by random stranger that referred to Australia’s heart as dead and didn’t appreciate subjective aestheticism. Caught up with several colleagues from who I met at university. This was good. We talked about animals in pet shops, adoption, Advanced Microsoft Word, […]