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Entries this day: About_Last_night About_Today ljmatch About Last night 8:54am JST Wednesday 18 June 2003 Great night with ふみ - first teaching her, and she gave me a chocolate something that I've not opened yet, so I don't know exactly what it is. She set herself a goal of learning the language in Chapter 2 of the book we're using. Next week we will have a conversation with that language. "How many CDs do you have? What type of music do you like? Do you like pop music?" and the like. (not just about music, but structures like those) Then zipped over to a Mexican food restaurant and yammered with Andrew et. al. - Stewart, Andrea, Toron (sp), Ben, James, and one more cat whose name I don't remember. ふみ basically followed the conversations, and participated as well as she was able. That rocks. And gives me inspiration that I could do the same thing in 日本語. After dinner all the others went off to get drunk. ふみ and I did not. On the way back to 渋谷 station, I asked her what was the meaning of some counter on a billboard, and then I realized it didn't say "6478", but "647日" with the last character being the kanji meaning day. The billboard is an advertisement for the Tokyo Expo, which will begin 647 days from yesterday. In scanning the rest of the billboard, I noted "2003先 03月 25日" It starts on my birthday in 2005! ふみ explained most of the kanji on the thing, and I told her I had just read about the technology to be used on the tickets: each ticket will have a unique RFID tag (Radio Frequency IDentifier (I think!)), which is basically the new generation of barcodes. The difference: barcodes must be scanned by visible light (laser), but an RFID can be scanned via radio waves. I don't know how the tickets will be handled at the Expo, but this type of technology could bring to reality instant checkout at the grocery store. No individual scanning needed. Just roll the cart through a portal and bang it's all scanned. (possible exception of food that is sold by weight). I'm sure there are one or two or a million-jillion more possibilities for the technology. I read about it here. For the record, I predicted individual bills would eventually be scanned/monitored. permalinkAbout Today 7:48pm JST Wednesday 18 June 2003 Hands down most happy/unexpected thing today: Matty took my passport to Lloyd's so I didn't have to fax a copy to them. I'm thankful that I remembered my need when he said he was going! Doubly thankful that I was able to tell him to bring his passport so he wouldn't have the same experience as I had yesterday. - - - - Couple days ago Aki cancelled our meeting on Thursday (tomorrow) (radio). On my way out the door today, she called and cancelled today (fever). - - - - I fucked around on my computer, trying to get it to execute cgi scripts as a local web server, but couldn't get it to work. Due to directory permissions, at first I couldn't even serve text files, but now I just can't serve results of executables. My goal is to get days in Japan counter on my site, and I wanna test it locally so I won't be spending a lot of dollars at the cafe to do it. Took a big ol' phat nap (haha fell asleep on my bed with my computer on my chest; the screen hit my forehead as I drifted off..) whack, hey jack, wake up! - - - - Frank came home. Apartment will be much louder than while Matty and I were kickin' it alone. - - - - I'm in Kikuna to meet Shin now. permalinkljmatch 12:42am JST Thursday 19 June 2003
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