Even though the statement comes with enough caveats to choke a horse, it’s nice to be able to say “Oh yeah, I was in GQ one time.” You know, without lying, like when I said it before. more…

I have swallowed my pride and set up a blog. General Nonfiction Pulitzer Prize, here I come. If I had a cat, I would write about how wonderful she is, but life finds me without a cat, so I have backfilled this with some older things I had written to make it look busy.

I refused to use emoticons for the first few years because I thought they were plebian, and I even went through a phase in high school where I refused to use conjunctions. If Dan can do this, there must be relatively little linguistic harm in it.

This post has been emoticon- and conjunction-free.

You have two choices when it comes to eating in Japan: stick to the tried and true and only eat things you’re already comfortable with, or just give up and eat whatever creatures happen to be for sale. I opted for the latter. more…

“Oh, Andrew? I Totally Forgot About Him…”

I want to start off by thanking those of you who have come to visit me in Tokyo. It really means a lot to me. In alphabetical order… not a single damn one of you. Bastards all. more…

For the exceptionally out of the loop, I just moved to Tokyo to help start up the Google R&D Center we have out here. I’ll be in Tokyo through December.

Many thanks to those of you who emailed or sent me messages making sure I was still alive and well. I hope that you are also alive and well! As for the rest of you, I could go either way.

Short version

Rode with a crazy man to the airport, made it to Tokyo ok, being illiterate sucks, mangoes too expensive. more…

The other day I went to the drugstore and, among other things, bought a lot of mints. In fact, the random guy standing next to me in the candy aisle wheezed to me, “That’s a lot of mints”. Yes, Mr. Random-Guy-In-Walgreens, it is. But $5 will buy you a lot of mints these days. Huzzah for capitalism. more…