inkochi comments

Ironic!

The nature of the commodity to be marketed would suggest remote digital contact and interaction rather than the real f2f.

Suggesting real world interfacing is same as it ever was.

Different types of social dynamics.

Online mode not as fulsome, but good if proximity is not required or preferred

Interesting statistical comparison, esp income-related, and cost of ramen!

Actual contact with ‘outside Japan’ still indirect for most people.

Recall a Chibby Mariko-chan episode -(ser just afternoon that time) - she takes her Ojii-chan around the world - places selling spaghetti, then curry rice then chuuka.

Hmm - things have changed (except in Kochi where you still need to look around for more global variety).

Repurposed industrial robot ... an attached Tablet Computer smiles ...

So retrenched factory robot gets bartender job!

Not sure if redundancy payments would have been made

Hmm -

world-first, or post(-human)-Industrial Age has begun.

Would sentient ‘robot’ rely on humans’ repertoire?

Just toy-like Extension of people.

Ai conducting music composed by AI - now that I would inspire curiosity. Or fear.

what do machines need music for anyway?

Didn’t work on the Boston part side in 1918-19.

Don’t world I on the Tokyo 地下鉄 either:

As if a nation as wide as Australia requires an isolated island near Java, away from proper medical facilities to quarantine people not breaking any law with 2 people (2 Sri Lankan’s plus their 2 Aussie-born kids) who ostensibly did (?) defies common sense.

Quarantine is common sense - are there no medical facilities within hundreds of kilometres of an Australian international airport?

Royal Prince Henry Hospital is 10 kms from Sydney airport, and Cairns Hospital is 3 km. Other places like Townsville, Darwin and Brisbane have copious Defence space too.

The people going would be likely to have to pay for it too - just 14 days? Hahahahahahhh!!!

Government policy to feed naive public Xenophobia and distract from bad press from flawed bushfire responses and sports club pork-barreling. Responsive but a sad, bad decision all around.

Like several of the Aussies able to be returned, taking chances on the ground in Wuhan rather than trusting decisions by a flopsy prime minister’s department ironically also suggests common sense.

Quarantine Station (now Museum and ghost boarding house) just inside Sydney heads held plague, Spanish Flu, other pathogen contagious people for years.

Off-shore like this suggests paranoia, Xenophobia, desperation and a publicity stunt by a government running out of ideas and originality.

Christmas Island has a family of 2 Sri Lankan’s and their 2 Australian-born kids, only in spite of accommodation for hundreds and tax payers paying for it.

I hope the Australians evacuated ‘home’ (?) have good travel insurance, because this Australian government is not the type to do all this for free.

Take note, Japanese government, your country is an island nation too. Is there any space on former leper colony islands in the Inland Sea? Or hopefully, Japanese hospitals on shore are sufficient to provide appropriate treatment? Latter I think.

Looks like cracker of final

Halep as underdog

Red, White and blue! Same colours as 20% of world nations’ flags.

Just wonder if ‘Australia Day’ got a mention in English-language press today as well as the age-old Indian national occasion (the 26 Jan norm)

Interesting background story, a bit less sad than what has happened to Mad Max’s Interceptor (https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/05/15/theres-only-one-original-mad-max-interceptor-and-its-not-in-australia/), which also ended up being driven legally on the road.

Certainly something to have been talking about.

Gone but obviously not forgotten. - yet.

if you want attention do something outrageous or at least unexpected.

so it happened, and after the former CEO’s press conference this week we shall ignore it and god or bad will make no difference to most people.

Not only in Japan. Just more formalized.

Far worse than ever, and season is only half over.

Initiatives at local, mid and ground level only.

Political leadership lacking.

Still most people not effected because they stay in the cities where this year lots of smoke haze - with one identifiable cause.

Sadly a few more seasons of that are needed before most people move beyond sympathy, and occasional inconvenience of a fire ban stopping their barbecue plans.

Employed now as opposed to unemployed then.

Skill? No, got lucky!

Too busy to think about this question.

Ihara Saikaku wrote a series of anecdotal short stories about this very question (This Scheming World in English) 350 years ago though

Glad Xmas in Japan closes down about 23rd, though starting in shops in October, which is fine.

KFC or a one-night stand on the 24th I can miss though.

Glad to work on Xmas Day.

Glad to avoid and not think about the guilt, fights, debt, nostalgia, gluttony and hangovers rels in the home country willingly suffer together.

Locality image-based list only - confirmed with the Dogo Onsen inclusion

Iya in Tokushima, Ubusuki in Kagoshima, a few in Nagano and Niigata I have been to again and again.

Dogo onsen - baths did not filter water (lots of little floating bits); lots of guys looking mean with the same types of tats together, tour of Showa imperial family's section with graphic description of how the old Showa Tenno took a dump down a hole in a small room in 1952.

Morrison’s electoral area is bathed in smoke from fires around Sydney while he has been on holiday with family, in Hawaii!!

Then his deputy stepped outside party lines to admit there is a climate emergency.

Australia is leaderless without Morrison as much as with him.

The sound of raw fish.

From the standpoint of cost performance, Aisekiya will often work out cheaper even for guys, with one hour amounting to under 4,000 yen

Certainly better value than the Philippine place round the back, and no need to practise bad English.

No mention of guns

So not as bad as ...

There is always the signature.

Even digital in PDF it works better than inkan do.

Still have my 印鑑しょうめいしょ from Tokushima City Office from 1985 though - anyone even know what I am talking about

Utilitarian is obviously ‘No’

’Realities ...’ is obviously Yes

Sad when reality gets in the way of a perfect world

Wooh!

Yeah, I’m thinking (he’s) back

Wonder the extent to which there are zero imports of Korean beer to Japan anyway.

Yes, overlooked.

Actually has a freeway through the area - about 40 km shorter than the other way if you are going up Hokuriku.

Worth a few stops (and better seafood than in Kochi)

... or of course,

... about 40-something (WO)man’s relationship with SON’s schoolboy friend ....

OR

... (DAUGHTER'S ) school(GIRL) friend ...

Whatever!

Japan and US mentioned .... um, I can think of a lot stinkier places to be, and have been there too.

Part of life though, for instance, chewing gum after 焼肉 anyone?

The targeted advertising missed its target with me.