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I wonder if people wash their hands more often after they get iPhones.

I’d really like to see how Edwards, Obama, and Clinton would respond to this two part question:
(1) On what basis do we have the right to send in troops after Al Qaeda in Pakistan against the order of the Pakistani government, or to make the unilateral decision to launch an attack on Iran?
(2) Under what […]

Children are asked to leave some food for Lucia (a sandwich, or anything else available at the moment) and for the flying donkey that helps her carry gifts…
—wikipedia

Last year, for our friend’s birthday, her boyfriend surprised her with dinner at the French Laundry, a diamond ring, and a marriage proposal. We didn’t think he could possibly come up with a more extravagantly romantic gesture this year.

Perhaps we were wrong.

I think I can safely mark 21 September, 2007 as the longest day of my life. Between 21 September and our trip to Singapore on 19 September, we almost completely exhausted NWA’s on-board entertainment (4: The Rise of Silver Surfer, Oceans 13, I, Robot, The Good Girl, and a couple others).

Singapore was lovely. Sadly we only had some 28 hours to take the city in, but that was more than enough to know that we want to go back. We lodged (i.e., dropped off our stuff) in the Perak Hotel (formerly known as the Perak Lodge) in Little India, and we spent […]

Once again our visas haven’t finished processing and once again our 90-day temporary permission to stay is expiring. As much as I enjoyed going to Seoul, I wasn’t looking forward to another 2-day trip out there—I’d much rather return to Seoul when I can spare a few weeks to really get to know the […]

Last Tuesday we went to 日光. Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jundai/sets/72157601628191939/.
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A strange thing occurred towards the end of our trip. In front of a shrines that was not open at the time, there was a dragonfly sitting on the handle of the ladle that was sticking out of the 手水舎. […]

I seem to recall hearing people say things like “he died of old age” when I was a kid. Was that just a euphemistic expression that people used to explain things to children, or was that actually a common way to put things? In any case, it occurred to me the other day […]

A large percentage of Japanese vocabulary comes from Chinese (more than half?). As I’ve heard it, the original Japanese language had no writing system (or it was lost to history) and when the Chinese writing system was adopted during the first millenium AD, a large quantity of Chinese vocabulary was brought with it. […]