This is my current bike, parked in front of the building housing my office. I took this the same day I took the other shots of the risible bike parking lot in Shinagawa.
I'd just written an article for Metropolis, and I took the photos just in case the editor wanted them.
The article's here, and the conditions described haven't improved noticeably:
I'll read that book at my first opportunity, even though the only thing I found really surprising in the review is the quoted figure from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, saying that 24% of US 12th graders can compose "organized, coherent prose in clear language with correct spelling and grammar".
The navigation stuff is in Japanese, but unless you want to subscribe to it you really only need to know that the box with the list of dates and the arrows at the lower right is where you go to look up previous weeks' articles.
The first one, April 26, 2004, gives a more detailed introduction of my background.
From San Francisco CA originally, I'm a long-term resident of Japan with interests in motorcycles, good booze, good food, books, computers, and too many other things--both indoor and outdoor--to mention, even if discretion weren't indicated for some of them.
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