Japan is living in the future… we are not
4 thoughts on “Japan is living in the future… we are not”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Related Posts
It’s only New Zealand once
Friday Every time I write about us going on some trip I have to put the disclaimer about covid cautious behavior. Yes, we ate outside every time (except for planes which require a hold breath, bite/drink, exhale, remask procedure, which sounds ridiculous but it’s that or no water for 13 hours). Yes, masks everywhere. Yes, […]
It can get worse
A few folks have reached out wondering how we’re doing since we live in Los Angeles. Because it’s still a developing situation my update will be short: I wasn’t going to post about this, but I found myself on the blog looking up the locations of some of the places I’d taken my parents on […]
Following the Saint
Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
Omg this so needs to go on facebook! I’m forwarding it.
Forward away! I wonder if your Japanese friend can verify this thing. The website I pulled it from says it is only something like $10 a month for a pass (these are at metro stops) – and it takes 23 seconds to retrieve the bike later.
Toyota’s sales of SUV’s (in US) are dropping so they just raised prices. Sales of small cars are going up so they are raising prices even more. Toyota just released their profit figures and profits went down for the first time in 9 years–maybe they can copy the i-pod to show how Japan thinks up “new” things. (worked on a similar system for pallets at Shell about 10 years ago)
seriously…what the hell happened to Sony? If anyone should make a resurgence and beat down the ipod it should be the original mobile music people…but they are nowhere…
Nevermind the fact that US money after WWII sponsored all the Japanese innovation anyway…