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This is definitely the first track of 2008 that has made me say wow. Absolutely incredible. Tweet

So I think I sat next to infamous call girl “Kristen” aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, in business class on a flight from LAX to Narita on Friday. Looking at the pictures, the girl next to me (flying alone and not saying much) looked like a dead ringer. Apparently the girl is in hiding, so a [...]

Delonghi EC200N-R Espresso Machine Mai got me an espresso machine for my birthday, and it has been an absolute joy to use. Instead of dropping 400+ yen a day at Tully’s, I can make a mean mocha in about 2 minutes on the new Delonghi. It is pump driven, so the espresso comes out smooth [...]

On a recent trip to the US, I took a swing by the Puma Concept Store in San Francisco. What did I see on the rack? The newly released Mihara line! They had the MY9 and MY12 reissues, but my eyes were instantly transfixed upon the MY32 slip-on. $140 dollars and I soon parted ways, [...]

USDJPY=X: Summary for USD to JPY – Yahoo! Finance Today, for the first time in over 12 years, the dollar dipped below 96 to the yen. To put this in perspective, when I first came to Japan in 2002, there were days when the yen was over 130 to the dollar. It is weird watching [...]

Thanks to Mark MacDonald, I had the biggest laugh I’ve had in ages today listening to his comment about Ben on the 2/21 episode of 1Up Yours! In fact, it inspired me to create a piece of motivational art with regards to my own lack of facial hair. Sorry, Ben. Tweet

I was part of a team that won a Nintendo Power 2007 Award for Best Story/Writing! Along with my writing partner-in-crime Janet Hsu, editor Brandon Gay, and original scenario writer Shu Takumi, we were recognized for our work on Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney: Justice for All. The article even goes on to cite the [...]

Watching a Rockstar PR campaign is like being taken to school in selling 4 million copies of a game in a month. April 29 is a little more than 2 months away. The 10 week window being triggered, the virals have started. Picked this one up from a friend on livejournal, and it is particularly [...]

One of the things that I have been working on lately is the PlatinumGames Facebook page. It opened to the public on Thursday evening JST, and the response has been great. Over 440 facebook users have become a fan of our company, and I couldn’t be happier. I really like what facebook is doing with [...]

I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about who I am and the relationships I am in. I’ve come to a few conclusions. 1) Through some sort of inherent social conditioning, Japanese women in their 20s all seem to be stuck in the pre-conventional stage in Kohlberg’s stages of moral development. 2) I share [...]