My blogs

Blogs I follow

Industry	Engineering
Occupation	Technical Support Engineer
Location	Greater Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Introduction	So far... I've offered nothing to anyone except my confusion.
Interests	Cooking, reading, writing, rock climbing, hiking/backpacking, mountain biking, East Asian studies, martial arts, travel, symphony, opera, theatre....
Favorite movies	Ongoing work in progress: Il Mare, Kids Return, Kikujiro, Brother, after life, Le diner de cons (aka The Dinner Game), Le placard (aka The Closet), Seven Samurai, 400 Blows, Eat Drink Man Woman, Fist of Legend, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Before Sunrise, L'Auberge Espagnole, Cool Hand Luke...
Favorite music	Another ongoing work in progress: John Coltrane, Buena Vista Social Club, Kenny Dorham, Royksopp, Rog Dougan, Counting Crows, Vivaldi, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sasha, Bizet's Carmen, Gomez, Noir Desir, David Tao....
Favorite books	Too many to list but a sampling of my favorite authors: Bill Bryson, Pico Iyer, Bruce Chatwin, Jan Morris, Will Ferguson, Paul Theroux, Suketu Mehta, Jon Katz, Thomas Merton, St. Augustine, Joseph Campbell, E.B. White, Robert Frost....

If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying "poop deck"?

I would train my parrot to bite me in the crotch after I said it. Then I'd train my parrot to say "poop deck" and to laugh for me.