This is a really interesting and observant article about all the rules of going to the pool in Japan. If you read between the lines you can
learn a lot about the Japanese ways of doing things.
I used to go a sports gym pool regularly and agree that much of what she writes is true. But not everything: there was no whistle to get out and rest. Also, I think a public pool in Honshu would necessarily differ from one in Hokkaido (since it is hot for such a short time up north).
here is the history of Flickr:idea on a gaming project led to photo website
how would you like to have this posted after your name in every email (true story, just name and location removed):
Program Manager
Policy and Guidelines Section
Information Policy and Governance Division
Statistics and Information Management Directorate
Corporate Strategies and Business Development Branch
Canada Revenue Agency
yikes. yet more proof why bureaucracy is the death of reason.
after a conversation today about how pretentions James Joyce’s Ulysses is, I decided to do a search on what ulysses is about. in the unfinished spirit of run river run, here are the results:
Ulysses is about language, but that makes it sound like it’s some …
Ulysses is about Dublin in a way in which very few books are about their …
Ulysses is about failure, disappointment and yearning, …
Ulysses is about the lives of a few people in Dublin in 1904, …
Ulysses is about one of those days, and two people who are stuck within it, …
Ulysses is about a guy named Leopold Bloom, and another guy, Stephen Dedalus. …
“Ulysses is about what happens …
“Ulysses is about what happens to the three main character and what goes on their mind; all this spans a single day in Dublin in June 1904…”.
by all meanies, take your phick
in contrast with the previous post, facebook.com does a very good job when searching names. while it doesn’t allow you to do exact matching it may do this automatically. in any case, i searched for myself and i was the first hit. it seems to understand that you want to search for people’s names…
the other thing to note is that you can search your friends’ friends but you cannot contact them if they are not in your network. it is an interesting innovation to privacy. the name and network appears but that is all you can do with it.