December 2009
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My last post on Posterous (and therefore Blogger,...
Just over four months ago yours truly began a grand experiment with Posterous, the anti-aggregator. That experiment is now complete. Whereas lifestreaming, as seen on the likes of FriendFeed and MyBlogLog, pulls in content from disparate sources for reading on a single page, Posterous does quite the opposite — blasting out the same content to multiple destinations. In my original defence...
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#ACRTW - Sucking face with a tuna at Midorisushi.
A heartfelt thanks to Q-Taro and his lovely girlfriend for ensuring that the penultimate meal of my trip around the around wasn’t McDonald’s… After an afternoon of shopping I got the call to head out to Umegaoka Station on the Odakyu rail line. A short trip that should have taken 15 minutes instead took over an hour, partly because I couldn’t actually find the Odakyu line...
#ACRTW - My Saturday shopping spree in Tokyo.
Though Japan’s kick-ass keitai aren’t really suitable for export, there’s plenty of other stuff that is. Here are some highlights from my Tokyo stopover: It’s not only white phones that I like… Here’s a collection of man-purses from Wise-Walker on display at the fashionable Tokyu Hands — specifically the Shibuya location near my hotel. These neoprene...
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#ACRTW - My very tasteful audio tour of the...
Here’s something a little different — an audio walkthrough of the fancy toilet in my Tokyo hotel room. If you’ve been listening to the DyscultureD podcast you’ll have already heard this at the end of Episode 59. If not, check it out — it’s totally SFW!
Japanese Toilet Audio Walkthrough by acurrie
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#ACRTW - A grand farewell to Taipei at The Grand...
Here’s a little video I did live from The Grand Hotel — a hugely impressive property but man, I’m glad I didn’t stay there… The Grand’s big drawback is its location — it’s a $100 TWD cab ride from the nearest MRT station, whereas the place I stayed at is right beside a stop further south and much closer to downtown Taipei. The...
#ACRTW - The serious business of eating dumplings...
Here’s David and Carol (Sandy Chen’s Mom and Dad) outside the world-famous dumpling restaurant DinTaiFung. As you can see from their expression, folks in Taiwan take their dumplings very seriously. Oh, ignore the mascot… Further proof: As soon as I sat down with Mr. & Mrs. Chen the server handed me this Laowai guide to Taiwanese soup dumplings. Little did they know I...
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#ACRTW - Taipei's Modern Toilet Restaurant. For...
Okay, seriously… How can you not want to eat at a restaurant chain who’s tagline is “Shit or Food”? Though Modern Toilet is a Taiwan-wide chain with multiple locations in Taipei alone, I chose to eat in the trendy Ximending shopping district. It proved quite challenging to find, and took a combination of Google Maps, the GPS on my N86 and an ad from a tourist map I...
#ACRTW - A tour of Taipei 101.
Living in a city with a fairly tall tower myself I of course had to pay a visit to the famous Taipei 101… The architects who designed this monolith cleverly stuck a mall in front of it that you’re forced to walk through to get to the tower. Evil! Facing northwest from the 89th-floor gallery. That building with the yellow roof is the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. The large domed...
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SOCAN doesn't want their #CopyCon submission made...
via scribd.com Another public service by tireless Canadian copyfighter Michael Geist… It seems that the Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers of Canada (or SOCAN) tried to make their public submission for last summer’s Copyright Consultation anything but. While our country’s government rightly denied SOCAN’s request to not publish their document...
#ACRTW - My first day in Taipei.
Though the battery on my N86 ran out mere seconds into this recording, the story here is that halfway around the world and a week into my trip I was back on Qik, and it was all thanks to the SIM card I got with unlimited data from local carrier FarEasTone.
Because my costs for transmitted data were now $6 CAD per day instead of $4 CAD per megabyte I was now free and clear to (for example)...
#ACRTW - My thrill-less ride on the Singapore...
Perhaps foolishly, I gave up my only opportunity for a famous hawker stand meal just so I could take a ride on the Singapore Flyer at dusk. You really don’t want to know what I had instead — suffice to say it was one of only two gastronomical transgressions during my trip around the world… Despite reaching a maximum height of some 42 storeys the experience wasn’t at...
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#ACRTW - There are no tech bargains in Singapore....
What better way to spend a Saturday morning in Singapore than in an air-conditioned shopping centre? Here’s a quick video tour of Funan DigitalLife Mall: It’s entirely true about the prices of local kit here. Check out the price list posted at Funan’s official Nokia outlet: When you consider the exchange rate — $1 SGD was equal to just a bit less than $1 CAD...
#ACRTW - My first durian in Singapore.
Here’s something a little different — an audio clip describing my first taste of durian fruit on the famous Bugis Street in Sinapore’s Chinatown: Download now or listen on posterous My First Durian.wav (1181 KB) Here’s what the “meat” looks like. The durian monger was packaging them to order so I paid a buck or two to...
#ACRTW - Facing my past in Singapore... Literally.
Here’s a little video I shot from my hotel room upon my arrival in Singapore: I knew I was going to be in the same neighbourhood as where I had stayed with Second City some eight years prior, but I didn’t think I’d be that close — literally everything I remember was within a block of where I was staying. It was kind of cool walking into the lobby of UE Square and...