2005 Oct 29
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Mariko made gyoza and ramen for dinner. I could eat like this every day!

2005 Oct 27
Citizen Tanouye
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I received an email from and old high school buddy about this film that is being shown. Here’s an excerpt from the website:

CITIZEN TANOUYE is a kinetic “shoot-from-the-hip” style documentary that follows the three-day journey of eight ethnically diverse students as they search for the clues to uncover the lost story of local World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient Technical Sgt. Ted Tanouye of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

It’s a pretty neat feeling to have a connection to this movie, since I am part Japanese and the film is centered on a THS alumni and students from the THS Class of 05 who did the research.

2005 Oct 26
Smartcar, Please
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Here’s the awesome “Smartcar" from Mercedes. Wouldn’t it be cool if we drove cars this size here in the States? Smartcars, motorcycles and scooters, and if you needed a truck, one of those mini-trucks like those in Asia. That would be so great! 

2005 Oct 25
Hoth Llama
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[via Chris via FARK]

2005 Oct 24
GPS Fun
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I finally received my GPS unit, a Garmin eTrex Legend, last Friday, and have been having fun using it this weekend. The coolest thing I have found is that it records “Tracks”, which are the routes that you have taken. You can then upload the tracks to the software on the PC and save them there. I guess I am a geek about it, but I find it very interesting to map out the routes we have taken. It’s neat to see the route we took to go to breakfast, then after that, to the park, and then to the market, and then back home. When I expand the map, I can see that the route I like to take to the market isn’t necessarily the best way, at least distance-wise.

My only gripe about the software is that it doesn’t merge data nicely between the GPS unit and the PC. I haven’t figured out a way to keep all the tracks from different days in a single file. And the GPS unit keeps waypoint data stored in a different format. It is fine to create routes and waypoints on the PC, then download them to the GPS. But if you upload them back to the PC, the data is “truncated”, and it overwrites some custom data that the PC makes use of, but the GPS doesn’t, such as custom icons and waypoint descriptions. Maybe the newer software fixes that. In the meantime, when I upload data, I just select Tracks, but it creates a new file, not merging it with my normal file. So I just save that to a file named tracks_20051024.mps so they keep in order.

2005 Oct 22
Painted Plastic
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I painted the replacement front fender I bought a year ago. It was originally red, and I plan to paint it dark blue, along witht the bike frame, but temporarily painted it an off-white color, the same as the side covers. I didn’t want to have a red fender on my light blue bike. I used Rustoleum “Paint for Plastic”, and it turned out pretty good. I will put on a coat or two of clear coat in a couple days after it dries a bit.

2005 Oct 20
Dodger Stadium Seats
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The Dodgers are renovating Dodger Stadium this off-season, and a number of the original seats are on sale. Prices range from $250 - $600 a pair. Damn, the blue reserve level seats would look good in the gameroom of our new house…

2005 Oct 18
Keane Eyes
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When I was a little kid, my parents put this print of a Margaret Keane painting up in my room. I never really thought much about it, except that it kind of creeped me out. No, it *really* creeped me out. Those eyes… oh man, I can’t even begin to imagine how this image has warped my personality! I think this might still exist in my parents’ garage back in SoCal. I think it had a bamboo frame too. 

2005 Oct 17
Mariko’s Old Scooter
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While in Japan (and before we met), Mariko used to have a scooter like the one above. She cannot remember what happened to it, though. I can’t believe you can just not know what happened to you scooter? Crazy woman!

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