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Eco exhibit

4:08pm JST Thursday 11 February 2010 (day 14568)

Emiko invited me to see an exhibition featuring myriad (50?) companies with an ecological focused business model. The first thing that I found interesting was a zipper chain thing that zips together into a quite strong rod/structure/thing. That company's URL: tsubakimoto.com. They may have a video of it in action.

The second is a warm pack with liquid inside that when heated to 100C for 5 minutes will turn translucent, and remain clear after it cools down to room temperature (and below, I assume). Then when jostled abruptly, it will turn opaque while releasing a good deal of heat energy that it retains for an hour or so. Wow! Their url is www.sanki.co.jp. I doubt a video would effectively show the heat release, but the site may feature something interesting.

Emiko bought some lightweight modeling clay, which I agree feels quite light weight, but I don't know what I'd *do* with it, so I wasn't interested.

I've also been carefully declining all pamphlets offered, even in English. Not interested in what they're selling, not interested in carrying paper, and it's not as eco friendly as a good ol' URL.

Lesson

8:16am JST Friday 12 February 2010 (day 14569)

After the eco thing, we went to The Pink Cow for our lesson. We first spent about 30 minutes in near silence as she did homework and I worked on a maze. I intend for it to be a two sided maze, printed across two pages of my book, so I made little crossover points along the outer border of the page, allowing for paper cropping, so the crossover points are basically long black bars that extend to the edge of the paper.

I wonder how many pages of maze I can do this way without getting bogged down. I'm guessing five.

The restaurant was relatively quiet so I got to hang out with Moonie a bit. She's so cute!