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August 31, 2002 - 11:58PM
Wes Ehrlichman
To start off today I would like to direct your attention
to the bar across the top of this page. Every button works
now, exept for the "Board" button, which I may replace
with a different section anyways if a better idea comes along.
So when you're done reading this I urge you to click on either
the "Links" button or the "Projects" button.
Both of which are possibly entertaining.
On Friday I officially got settled in Japan. Everything
is good, or at least good enough. I got ISDN on my computer
and it works amazingly well. This means I can stay on the
internet as long as I want with no charge beyond the flat
$80 a month. Yowzers. Oh well, that's what my phone bill will
be this month anyways because I had to dial up until now.
Getting a provider like AOL here costs around the same as
getting AOL in America, except for the fact that you have
to pay for the local call to the provider. Every time I call
in it costs around 10 cents for three minutes. This isn't
too bad for regular phone calls, but since I usually call
my internet provider for about three hours every time I get
on it adds up exponentially. That's why I got ISDN.
Anyways, I also got a car, which is also pretty sweet.
I drove to Miyanojo twice today! It's a White Nissan Sunny
with around 60,000 KM on it. I'm not sure what year it is,
but it runs really well. I have some problems driving here
because the steering wheel is on the right side of the car,
I have to drive on the left side of the road, and I have to
use my left hand for the stickshift. I'd be fine with all
of these things individually, but put together it's a little
hard. It is also difficult to drive because the streets in
Japan don't have names. Everything is named by area instead,
making paying attention to driving well when I'm trying to
get somewhere specific pretty darn hard. Oh well, I'll get
used to it.
I have a lot I could say today, but I'm really tired,
so I'm just going to let some pictures I took speak for themselves.
In Japan English is seen as really cool. Japanese has a ton
of letters, so anytime they want to say something in a cool
way they sometimes just throw a few of these together in a
way that sounds cool but names no sense, but more often if
it's something that could benefit from an illegible description
on the side, they usually slap some English on instead. It's
just seen as cool for some reason. In America this is sometimes
called Engrish, but that's kind of Offensive. The Japanese
people call something in English that doesn't make sense to
native speakers of English "Japanese English." Here
are some pictures I've taken of "Japanese English"
(Engrish).
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