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Meditation

2:06pm JST Tuesday 7 December 2004

I just meditated for about 30 minutes. Now it's time for work.

Work

11:38pm JST Tuesday 7 December 2004

Work was filled with students, and with one shocking surprise when I was expecting Mieko (one of my girlfriends) who had chosen my lesson, and the smoke-reeking guitar kid came instead. Mieko had vanished from my schedule and he had appeared. Nightmare.

All things for a reason, I tried to remind myself.

emails with Fred

10:47am JST Wednesday 8 December 2004

Fred Nugen 	
Dec 6 (2 days ago)

Someone hacked a library that allows the use of your gmail account as
a filesystem.

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html


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Rob Nugen 	
to Fred
6:07am (4 hours ago)


Woah.

That's pretty fly.  I'm not going to install it; i have 7 gigs
available on my computer for less work than it would take me to get a
bit less than 1 meg via googleFS.  Still cool, though.

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Fred Nugen 	
to rob
8:12am (21.5 hours ago)
?  less than 1MB?  I assumed you would get the full 1GB (-overhead).


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Rob Nugen 	
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	 More options	 10:51am (0 minutes ago)
Oh, I meant gig.

But I can still get more gigs on my machine more easily...
However......  it would be nice to have a backup system that worked.
Currently mine does *not*.

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As a big sidenote, the first email from Fred includes an excellent example of why I try not to use "your" when I'm not referring to the person to whom I'm directly speaking. In this case, Fred was referring to me, but I thought the guy Fred was talking about was able to use *my* gmail filesystem.

Normally Fred has exquisite grammar, with perfect spelling & punctuation. His vocabulary definitely surpasses mine. (He used the word "levity" yesterday without an apparent second thought, and I had to look it up.) But in this case, I would write "Someone hacked a library that allows people to use their gmail account as a filesystem."

and if I was being really picky, "Someone hacked a library that allows an individual to use his or her own gmail account as a filesystem."

The only reason it made a difference is that I thought the guy could hack into random cats' gmail space as his *own* filesystem (, and then released the code). Nightmare.

soml email to Dad

12:40am JST Wednesday 8 December 2004

Email to my dad:

Rob Nugen 	to dad   	 
Dec 7 (21 hours ago)

Hi Dad!

Just checking in from Japan

1)  In my quest to do something big in/for the world, I have decided
to begin exploring astral/4th dimension / OBE / NDE / fractal
realities etc.  I've been envious when reading about people who
discovered things in new sciences, just because the people were around
when the science was new.   This seems like a new science to me.   I'm
gonna name something a nugen.

I therefore came upon IANDS website and recognized the face of the
journal as something that you have subscribed to.   Cool.

2)  Because of silliness with my paypal.com account, I changed my
credit card mailing address to your house.   MBNA.   I'll keep track
of it online; don't worry about them.

3)  This reminds me that recently you asked me about an IRS payment I
hadn't made.  I said I would paypal you some money, and I never did.
I have money in my paypal account now.  What was the amount, and to
what email address can I send you money?

4)  I forgot number 4.

I'm planning to ride my bicycle from Tokyo to the northern part of the
north island of Japan, to a city called Wakkanai, which is a really
funny name.   It's an even funnier name in Japanese, because
"Wakannai" means "I don't know" and "Wakkanai" is the name given to
that city.

So when I tell people "Jitensha de Tokyo kara Wakkanai ikimasu" they
usually think I mean "I'm going to ride my bicycle from Tokyo to I
don't know."   If the person knows the name of the city, and I
pronounce the word very accurately, then they understand the first
time.  Usually I just name the island (Hokkaido), not the city.

My bicycle is named TJ Bike, where TJ stands for Taihen Jyanai, which
loosely translates to Ain't No Problem, implying there's no mountain I
can't climb.

5)  I remembered 4.   I want to bring a GPS with me on my bicycle
trip.  I ordered a GPS from the least expensive (and most recommended)
supplier I've been able to find in the US.  The prices are well higher
here in Tokyo.   If the guy won't ship to my address in Japan, can I
have him ship the GPS to you, and then have you ship it to me?  I'll
paypal you the money.

6)  I heard from Cordie a few weeks ago and excitedly wrote her back
the next day.  Haven't heard back from her.   I think I am online more
often than she is.

   Hugs and Love and I hope you're well.
   - Rob