Mr. Speaker

Tags: japan, onigiri, konbu

Ok, no posts since last year, better get back to it. I have a good excuse though - I’ve been gallivanting around Japan for the last 4 or so weeks. Mostly in the awesome Okinawa prefecture (as seen in the hit movie “The Karate Kid - Part II”).

Okinawa is home to some pretty impressive stuff… Awamori, Goya, and all myriad of Spam-type ham-based products. Here’s some other groovy stuff I found around:
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Epiphanic moments of genius are relatively rare. Especially for me. That’s why I was kind of surprised to have one last Saturday night. It germinated while I waited for my change at the bar, and had blossomed into a fully-fledged revelation by the time I returned to my seat at the back of the room.

It began when I was charged with the mission of retrieving three beers; A Reschs for myself, a New for my friend, and a V.B. for a newly-met acquaintance at our table.

On the return journey I happened across a couple of friends I had not seen for some time. I sat at their table and had a brief “catch up”, before remarking that I had been charged with a mission of retrieving three beers and had better conclude that mission with haste.

I picked up the bounty of beers and returned to my table. Then, without so much as a tinge of self-doubt, I gave the correct beers to the correct persons and we merrily drank up.
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Crickey’s take on the new cross-media ownership laws. Thank goodness we have the interweb!

Tags: media ownership, crikey

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The man or woman who spreads rumours helps the enemy. Rumours are often started by enemy agents who know that weaklings will repeat them. Is it too much to ask you, for Australia’s sake, to refrain from passing on these rumours? Battles can be lost and ships sunk through thoughtless chatter. Keep a still tongue in a wise head.