I'll have photos and a whole post up soon on the blog and the Hammy Central page, but until then: 19:04, May 17, 2013 is all you need to know. #perfectloverblog Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.
Category Archive: face to the world
May 12
The Hammy (Baby Photos) Broadcast System
In anywhere from a few hours to a couple of weeks, if all goes well, I will be adding a new member to the family. I know how annoying it can be to be inundated with friggin’ baby photos and posts about babies, so I am going to restrict my posting to a non-front page …
May 07
Hey Canada, WTF? Or: Wow, I Thought Getting My Passport Was a POTA!
I'm investigating registering my soon-to-be-born baby's birth with Canada so we can get the passport to visit Canada for Xmas. Before I can do that, I need to get a certificate of citizenship (which apparently can take 6-12 months). The form that I need to fill out is… well, typical bureaucratic nonsense, but that's fine. …
Apr 02
An Open Letter
An open letter to the very old man who runs the Keikyu line and is always too cold. Dear old man who runs the Keikyu line and is always too cold, Just because your teeth chatter and you worry about catching a chill, does not mean that the train services you run need to be …
Mar 28
Bibs, Bibs, Everywhere
I've got some really generous friends. My friend +Kara MaruMaru gave me a stroller, a playpen, a changing pad, a baby backpack and more on Tuesday. Then, yesterday, my sister-in-law dropped off three enormous bags and one plastic box of baby clothes, including… wait for it… more than 15 bibs! People with babies: you need to …
Mar 20
Fucking Facebook
So, as many of you know, I run a small Theatre company, an NPO, that also provides Theatre classes. We mostly have to rely on word-of-mouth and Google searches to find students to join our classes, but recently, after some success in the fall, we've been using Facebook's advertising options. Initially, as I said, we …
Feb 14
Tech Problem: Bright Ideas Appreciated
Okay, so for the last few weeks I've been having this weird problem on my primary PC. Almost every time I wake it up from sleep, there's this crackling over the speakers, and it's been getting worse. It happens when the machine is idle, or when it is playing an audio/video file. The video is …
Feb 08
Thoughts on Fatherhood
So, the cat is out of the bag, and I can finally officially write about it: my first offspring is due (if all goes well) in mid-May. Sadly, my own father didn’t live long enough to meet his third grandchild. The photo on the right is the first (and last) ultrasound photo of Hammy I’m …
Jan 24
Oh fuck
Just spent ~4 hours chasing down a discrepancy between YTG's general ledger and the final budget for the last semester of classes. Finally determined that I'd overcharged a student by 6000 Yen last term. I called her, and she was happy enough to get the money back, but I felt like a total douche. I really wish …
Jan 21
The Ballad of Aaron Swartz
On January 13th, I read about Aaron Swartz’s suicide in Brooklyn. I was deeply affected by it, and not just for the normal reasons. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, you should, at the very least, read his Wikipedia page, and possibly do a bit of Googling. Long story short: among other things, …
Jan 18
ただいま！ Yokohama Bound
I type this aboard the bus from Narita to YCAT with the low-hanging sun shining directly in my eyes. I am back in Japan after more than six weeks in Canada to deal with the aftermath of my father's sudden death this past November. I was so busy that it really hadn't hit me until …
Jan 17
Goodbye Canada
Getting ready to leave. 15 minutes until the taxi gets here. Not looking forward to being up for the next 24 or so hours (can't sleep on planes and then have to stay up when I get back to try to avoid jet-lag), but I'm ready to go. I'm super homesick and can't wait to …
Jan 13
An Apology for Replication
Apologies to anyone who follows me on multiple social media feeds. I will now be cross-posting any long-winded G+ posts to my blog, which in turn (unless the recent site move has disabled it) will be auto-posted to Facebook. I know that all my G+ posts are always available, but sometimes after posting, I would …
Jan 13
I knew of Aaron Swartz, but not by name
Here is another technologist and activist who deserves the kind of international mourning that Steve Jobs received, but outside of a relatively small niche, nobody knows who he is, or what his activism was trying to accomplish. I believe in skirting or even breaking laws that are unjust and or silly. Before you frown at …
Dec 14
Post-Funeral Thoughts
I’m riding the TTC back from the airport after dropping my wife off there. Thanks to the generosity of her family, she was at least able to attend the memorial gathering. (Technically, you could say that that was the funeral– a memorial gathering at the family farmstead was all my father wanted.) I’m still mostly …
Dec 08
Thoughts on a Memorial
It’s the morning of my Father’s memorial gathering and I’m asking myself why I pushed to have an active part in it. Today needs to run like clockwork, and I’m involved in taking cues and doing something at least twice. Maybe three times. I think the cold and wet will probably protect me from …
Nov 30
In the Air
I guess that one hour and forty-five minutes isn’t so late in the grand scheme of things, but it’s hard looking down at my watch and thinking if we were on time, we would be landing in 30 minutes. I can’t believe they still have the same movies that they had when I flew …
Nov 24
The Family Strong-Man
I just spoke to my father for what will probably be the last time. He didn’t answer; there was just the sound of the respirator. Or something. My mother held the phone to his ear and I held my phone to mine. I didn’t realize at first that he couldn’t talk back. …
Nov 11
The Big “C” and the Big “D”
My parents have recently announced it to friends and family, and some of my own friends will know already the purpose behind my trip to Canada last month. My father had been diagnosed with cancer. When I went to Canada in October, it was clear that his condition was serious, but it was …
Mar 08
My Take on Kony 2012 So Far
Okay, the big controversy today has been caused by Invisible Children’s Kony2012 campaign. To stop me from having to recap, here is the film they released: http://vimeo.com/37119711 And, trending this morning, here’s an article, reposted by Neil Gaiman on his tumblr feed, by Grant Oyston: http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/18900935579/i-think-this-is-what-im-most-comfortable-posting-on Below is my response (originally written on …
Feb 08
Post Showcase Discussion
Last night’s rehearsal, our first since the showcase, was disappointing in some ways, and great in others. Disappointing because most of us weren’t there. Great, because Takahiko, Mayu, and I had a really great follow-up conversation about what we discussed with the audience on Saturday after the show. I learned more about Takahiko in …
Oct 25
Facebook and My Blog
I thought I’d write a short entry on the subject of my blog’s integration with Facebook, since I’ve had some queries and complaints. Facebook’s RSS feed integration is incredibly broken. It was always crap, but there were ways for me to jog it, making my blog entries show up as notes. Unfortunately, I can …
Jun 10
Air Canada – B-
I’m writing this on the second leg of a flight to Toronto from Tokyo. I am doing so because a) the seat has a power outlet for my tablet PC, and b) because the in-flight entertainment is not so great. On the first leg of the journey, I took my usual watch-as-many-movies-as-possible approach, but …
Jun 09
Toronto Bound
I am writing this on the airport bus. I had about 5 hours of sleep last night, which is much more than I usually get the night before a flight. Of course, today’s flight departs at 16:00, which gave me some wiggle room in the morning. Not that I wasn’t tearing out the door …
Dec 21
Lights at Meguro
They’ve changed the stoplights at Meguro over the weekend. Now they’re the kind that count down.
Aug 08
Shitty Curry
Went to see an art show at Higure 17-15 cas near Nippori station. Cool stuff. After the show, one of the few restaurants that was still open with a set deal was this Indian place close to the station called ‘Darjeeling Palace’. The atmosphere is great. It’s obviously been decorated with 100% authentic furniture …
Aug 07
Okay, Once More
Because this goes so well with the other video I posted… because this one is similar, except the humour is unintentional:
little birds