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Eclipse excitement building up
The solar eclipse craze is building up less than 2 months before the big day. This nice map resumes pretty well what you’ll be able to see from major cities in the country with and the times to adjust your schedule. (click to zoom) Better hope 梅雨, the rainy season, will be over by July…
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completely lost in mansion typ…
completely lost in mansion type internet plans for my move… why is this so complicated? anyone with experience in this to help me out?
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booked to see pre-screen of Te…
booked to see pre-screen of Terminator 4 @ Shinjuku Piccadilly this saturday… weeks after the whole world saw the movie…
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I give you my books!
As you might have seen in a previous post, I will soon be moving to a smaller apartment closer to Tokyo center. This causes some minor logistic problems like: where to put all my stuff? Since it seems apparent that my girlfriend will not reduce the size of her consequent wardrobe and shoes collection, I…
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yep, kusanagi-kun is back on a…
yep, kusanagi-kun is back on a special live SMAP show… saying he’s so sorry while his buddies are making fun of him
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Blacklisting words in Twitter Tools
There’s a new game trending on Twitter these days, Spymaster, and it likes to write out stuff to your twitter feed. There’s a good controversy running on the web whether these tweets are spam or not. I’m playing and I’ve set it up to tweet out only level ups which is pretty minimalist. However, I…
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writing a patch for twitter to…
writing a patch for twitter tools to exclude all the spymaster stuff from being copied over to my blog
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Moving to the city
After a bit more than 1.5 years since moving to my current place in 志木, it’s time to move again. I’ve set my mind on a tower mansion 2 minutes from Ikebukuro station in Tokyo and should get the keys by the end of June. The view from the living room should be like the…
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selling all of my books on ama…
selling all of my books on amazon marketplace… 30 books in total, we’ll see how many i can get rid off before moving
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applied for the 1LDK in 池袋…
applied for the 1LDK in 池袋, if all goes well we’ll move-in end of june, i hope we can fit all our stuff in the smaller place…
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Corporate flu prevention in Japan
Since coming back from Golden Week vacations, my company has been sending flu-related information by email to all employees twice a week. Last week we had an employee coming back from the US get yanked into quarantine at Narita for a week because he sat in the vicinity of a guy with a fever. Today…
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back from visiting tower mansi…
back from visiting tower mansions in Ikebukuro… nice view, close from the station, but 1 room less than i have now for 50% more expensive
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everyone knows you NEVER go fu…
everyone knows you NEVER go full midget! http://bit.ly/DS3EZ – Gary Oldman in the dwarf role of a lifetime – i gotta see this movie
Hi 👋, I’m François
I’m a French engineer who moved to Japan after my studies and will soon hit half of my life spent in Tokyo.