Chik-fil-A.   And the larger issue of gay marriage.   I haven’t really touched on any political issues yet in this blog. There is no premeditated reason for this, but maybe on the spot I could try to think of some. One would be that I feel like the vast majority of people who might ...

Why do you live here?   I get asked this question a lot. By the way for those of you who don’t know I’m a Tokyo-based……guy. I guess if I was cool and actually doing something meaningful with my life at this present moment I could tell you I was a “Tokyo-based journalist” or “Tokyo-based ...

(For context, I originally wrote this around Memorial Day, but never got around to finishing it because of school, laziness, and the Internet).     I can’t take it anymore.   I’ve been wanting to write these words for a long time, and I feel my patience is at an end. I am so eager ...

Let me complain about some Japanese people for a minute. Technically I don’t have to ask your permission since it’s my fucking blog and I can write about whatever I want. But I still try to observe decorum, and that counts for something in this crazy world.  This isn’t going to be a Japan Times(read: ...

Let me complain about some Japanese people for a minute. Technically I don’t have to ask your permission since it’s my fucking blog and I can write about whatever I want. But I still try to observe decorum, and that counts for something in this crazy world.  This isn’t going to be a Japan Times(read: ...

As I alluded to in my final class-related post, I knew there was a possibility that the end of CIS 0835 wasn’t necessarily the end of this blog. Hell, what can I say, I missed vomiting my thoughts out onto the Internet. You might say that I do this very frequently on a daily basis ...

As I alluded to in my final class-related post, I knew there was a possibility that the end of CIS 0835 wasn’t necessarily the end of this blog. Hell, what can I say, I missed vomiting my thoughts out onto the Internet. You might say that I do this very frequently on a daily basis ...

Once upon a time there was a crazy guy who painted the ceiling of a building somewhere in Europe. Also, some other stuff was happening. Historians refer to this period as “The Renaissance”, which is a word they made up. Bryan Alexander liked this made-up word so much he used it to describe his 4th ...

Once upon a time there was a crazy guy who painted the ceiling of a building somewhere in Europe. Also, some other stuff was happening. Historians refer to this period as “The Renaissance”, which is a word they made up. Bryan Alexander liked this made-up word so much he used it to describe his 4th ...

This should be obvious by now, but this blog is written as a reflection on this article. Where to begin…I must say that Professor Lock Scott’s lecture about this article was incredibly useful to me, not because I didn’t read the article previously, but because it simply didn’t make that big of an impression on ...

This should be obvious by now, but this blog is written as a reflection on this article. Where to begin…I must say that Professor Lock Scott’s lecture about this article was incredibly useful to me, not because I didn’t read the article previously, but because it simply didn’t make that big of an impression on ...

I just realized that I’m racing against time (14 minutes and counting) in order to write this blog assignment before the section deadline. But I just wanted to share a personal anecdote about the human side of the internet, and an example of how things can go horribly wrong. But of course I will have ...

I just realized that I’m racing against time (14 minutes and counting) in order to write this blog assignment before the section deadline. But I just wanted to share a personal anecdote about the human side of the internet, and an example of how things can go horribly wrong. But of course I will have ...

So recently I gave my presentation for this section of the course. It was about this article, and for those unwilling to go read it, basically it’s a blog written in reaction to another blog. One guy blogged for Wired, floating ideas about the dreadful consequences of Syria having a chemcial weapons stockpile (if it fell ...

So recently I gave my presentation for this section of the course. It was about this article, and for those unwilling to go read it, basically it’s a blog written in reaction to another blog. One guy blogged for Wired, floating ideas about the dreadful consequences of Syria having a chemcial weapons stockpile (if it fell ...

Friends, I blog to you today about grave matters. As you can see by the title of this post, I have decided that the moniker “Fear and Loathing on the Internet” is just not quite strong enough for the subject I am about to broach. It is more base and inhuman than the most sinister ...

Friends, I blog to you today about grave matters. As you can see by the title of this post, I have decided that the moniker “Fear and Loathing on the Internet” is just not quite strong enough for the subject I am about to broach. It is more base and inhuman than the most sinister ...

I did have a good, creative writey idea for the first blog post of this section. But then I realized it had already been done, by the greatest comic mind of my generation no less, and I couldn’t hope to top him. The Internet can be an incredibly creepy place. The negative interactions you can ...

This is the infographic that Group 3 has chosen to analyze first. I will be doing the bottom portion (the red part which mainly deals with government surveillance). Big Brother. The Man. The State. Do they have your best interests at heart? Or do they like to watch you take a pee? Some people don’t care, ...