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Archive for May, 2010
Texas memories
11 year ago
by Chris Valdez
in Random
BBQ at Salt Lick in Round Rock, Texas
Everyone keeps telling me to post more pictures, so do so I shall. However, no one ever said the pictures had to be of my time in Japan, so here we’ll go back to some of my final weeks in Texas before I moved. The following pics and more can be seen here. (more…)
Are cell phones really that great in Japan?
01 year ago
by Chris Valdez
in Random
My cell phone: The N-01A
Japan is a country where having a cell phone is almost a necessity if you live here. Looking up train schedules, addresses and more are easier to do here with a phone. Many people don’t know this, but street addresses in Japan aren’t really sequential and coherent. Buildings are numbered, I’ve been told, based on the order in which they were built. Google Maps on a phone is a godsend. (more…)