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Comin to work

10:00am JST Thursday 15 May 2008 (day 13931)

I saw the two ducks again on the way to work, and they now have five little ducklings!

AND

There are newly installed signs for the being-built Meguro Line in Motosumiyoshi. It's coming soon, baby!

OM!

11:00am JST Thursday 15 May 2008 (day 13931)

Oh snap!!!

Doood!!!

I am *totally* interested in doing that job again!   Is it in Yokohama
(same as before)?  wow wow wow

You know I can't answer for you, but if you have the twinging feeling
that it would be going backwards, then it probably would be.

It's SO hard for me to suggest that you don't come back; I would love
love love to see you and play with you every weekend!!!  My GOD I miss
you a lot, now that I think back on all our happy times

BUT if Japan = stuck for you, and Perth = get a degree and move ahead,
then you should do that.

However, if degree = who-cares, and party = I wanna party forever,
then come on back to Tokyo, baby!!!

In either case, I love and support you, though by giving you this
mixed messages email, I might not be helping much!!

   Love Love
    - Rob!

ps: lemme know OMs digits (and his real name; I forgot!) and I'll call
him up; I'd like to make some yen, and I reckon I can run the compooter
too.

  Love Love
   - Rob!

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jen wrote:
>
>  Hey Rob guess what....my uncle is doing the racing
>  again in Japan..and hes offered me 500,000yen/month to
>  go back and run it for him! Hes got investors and its
>  all very official this time it seems(also i have to
>  take OM with a pinch of salt too;)
>  but wow eh!!
>  Im sooo sooo torn tho cos im at uni and im just about
>  to start my 3months field placement...AND my sissy is
>  having a baby in October!
>  But i miss japan and all you guys soo much and its
>  good money i think ...would help me clear some debts..
>  but i dont know if its kind of going backwards you
>  know...like been ther done that sorta thing..
>  I cant really further my career over tehre..and thats
>  the one thing that is relly holding me up
>  now...finishing my degree...
>  if i go back to japan and do same as before..and i
>  STILL havent finished my degree...maybe ill feel like
>  i havent really made any progress...no what i mean??
>
>  What do you think boberts?!?!

Weird flight path

6:03pm JST Thursday 15 May 2008 (day 13931)

Fred showed us (me, Dude, Jesse) a cool movie: APOD: Airplane Flight Patterns over the USA

And a bit later, Jesse was like,

Oddly, what is at the yellow circle?

Fred and I looked at it for a while in chat, and Fred noticed the important clue: airplanes were bouncing off the LHS of the movie!

Fred wrote back to the group:

my best guess is that it's japan(!).

i say that because flights bounce off the LHS of the movie!  (watch it
again, they really do.)  and the only flights that come to or from
that spot are from the LHS, indicating that it is not, in fact, near
the US (or flights from LA would go directly to it).  so i think that
it is a mirror image of japan, with the LHS of the screen acting as
the "mirror".

some flights, rob points out, leave "japan" and go away from the
"mirror"; perhaps they are flights heading to europe?

I added

Fred and I have been watching and chatting; I agree with his
description below..  I overlayed google maps
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.10119,-157.148437&spn=71.753687,155.039063&z=3
on the thing and can pretty much exactly see that the Latitude of the
lower left and Jesse-circle spots match Latitude of Hawaii and Tokyo.
 It's harder to match Longitude, but roughly speaking (slightly
different scales involved), it matches the google map above as per
Fred's mirror description.

But it seems Jesse has been looking at this even more...

He sent us a movie with the map overlayed, but I still think it's Japan that he circled.

Jesse wrote:

It isn't Hawaii! Hawaii is that brighter spot to the bottom left!
 
I put a map on top... remember this is not to scale...

I'm replying:

Who said it was Hawaii?

The spot Jesse circled is Tokyo (reflected off the LHS of the page)

The brighter spot in the lower left is Hawaii, and Jesse's overlay map shows that exactly.

Near the beginning of the movie, watch between 22:22 and 13:00 the next day (according to the clock
in lower right hand side of the page) There are several flights that go from Hawaii to Japan, but
bounce off the LHS to get there.  Airplanes in real life don't bounce, so it must be a reflection..
basically the reflection conserves space, both screen space and storage space on the movie.