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Where in the World is Deadprogrammer?
I am in Kyoto, Japan, with my wife, on a vacation of a lifetime. We are spending two more nights in a wonderful ryokan here, and then one more night in Tokyo. There are 4.43 gigabytes of pictures in my...
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Deadprogrammer Visits Japan or Sakura in Partial Bloom Part I
Part I : The Roots Of Russian Japanophilia What are the roots of Russian (I should really be saying “Russian-speaking Generation X”, but that would be too long, wouldn’t it?) Japanophilia? Honestly I...
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Nippon on Hudson
What is the the first ever sister city to be twinned with NYC? That’s right, Tokyo, Japan. And nowhere it’s more apparent than in Brooklyn, at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival (aka Sakura Matsuri)...
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Deadprogrammer Visits Japan Part IVa : Day of the Tentacle
Tokyo has an awesome tourist attraction for those suffering from jet lag – Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market aka Tsukiji fish market. New York’s Fulton Fish Market used to be a similar...
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Deadprogrammer Visits Japan Part V: Japanese Architecture
Pilot: Welcome to Japan, folks. The local time is…tomorrow. The Simpsons, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo If you want to know what Japan is like architecturally, go watch Samurai Jack cartoons. The future...
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Deadprogrammer Visits Japan Part VIb : My Three Favorite Meals in Japan
I’ve had three exceptional meals in Japan. The first, and probably my favorite was in a little restaurant located on the grounds of RyÅan-ji, the famous temple with the rock garden. The restaurant is...
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[3F11] Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield Homer: [gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics! Bart: Don’t be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs. Homer:...
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