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Today’s #office view
No place like Kyoto for nomadic work
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Took a 4K 60fps vid of the marble clock from yesterday at the top of the hour when most of the action is. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/HbugnRWGUzI
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Replying to @chadkoh
I watched the show based on @ProZD’s recommendation. It’s really as good as he says! So of course I wanted to visit Omi while in Kyoto. So dragged the wife, kids, and grandpa out here
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Over in the Kangakukan there is tons of Chihayafuru stuff. They have a little souvenir store.
There were kids upstairs practicing karuta!
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Very interesting clock design at this clock museum
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Replying to @chadkoh
Tons of Chihayafuru stuff here
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Made it to Omi-Jingu! #chihayafuru
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Replying to @chadkoh
Inside Fuyoen. Very nice tofu lunch, surrounded by a garden and pond, small “waterfall” and a cave in the old wall to hide in if your enemies attack!
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Currently in Shiga prefecture. Lunch at Fuyoen, located at the foot of Hiei-zan and surrounded by temples.
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Current status: checking out the rat army!
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Replying to @alanb
Will do! Could probably trade some good edtech war stories! 👍
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Replying to @alanb
In about 2 weeks I am going to spend a few days in Fukuoka and stop by Startup Cafe and maybe make some connections… really difficult to network in the age of corona…
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Replying to @alanb
Yeah we arrived in Japan the day before flights were stopped in Canada! And being on Iki we are out of the way of the virus too and can conduct a pretty normal life. Totally thrown my plan to write a Kyushu travelogue though! Still doing the research, but have to change the angle
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Replying to @alanb
Yeah I get that. My old consultancy I started while I was here, but things are a little more complicated after going back to Canada and doing a few startups.
Thanks for the offer by the way. Will keep it in mind once things start getting serious. I am still on my year off…
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Replying to @alanb
Side question, but how are you bringing money into J to finance things? (These are super basic questions, but I never started something international here before)
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Replying to @alanb
I was thinking more about the banking situation. Don’t want my bank accounts raided if I am away longer than a few months
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Replying to @alanb
Thinking similar things, but between Canada and Japan. Unfortunately, with me going back and forth (if corona lets up), I am worried I will be dinged for the residency requirement here. Might have to set up in Canada. Anyone have experience?
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Replying to @japanesepearl
May I ask, what app is that?
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BREAKING NEWS: https://twitter.com/PhilipMichaels/status/1295568118257917952
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“No young person under forty is ever to be allowed to travel under any circumstance.” — Plato, Republic
#travel #Philosophy
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Dzogchen wisdom from Malcolm Smith on the @WisdomPubs podcast
https://wisdomexperience.org/wisdom-podcast/malcolm-smith-3/
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It me https://twitter.com/yeskiri/status/1293459243262124032
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Replying to @chadkoh
Normally, when they are all lit up, the 6 locations on the 6 mountains look like below
⛵️ 妙
大 法
⛩ 大The one in my pic in the previous tweet is the main Dai 大 which is the bottom right in the pic below
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We can see it pretty clearly from the top floor of the building. I bet that helicopter above is filming it. #kyoto #京都 #送り火
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Replying to @wesinjapan
That’s awesome. We can only see part of the 大 from here. Gonna watch it on TV tonight.
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Sun is going down on the Kamogawa and Shijo-Kawaramachi. Lots of people compared to Golden Week, but empty by normal Kyoto Obon standards.
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Paying respects on Obon 🙏
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Egads yes… 42!!! Just stepped out of my air con haven now for the first time today and am baking. Now climbing up to the お墓 and then going back home to watch the mountains “set on fire” on the TV, in my AC 極楽 bliss! https://twitter.com/kyotohotasballs/status/1294818835434856450
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All I can think when I see this is:
“You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, moulded by it!” https://twitter.com/sugorokudaisu/status/1294085284150165505
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
Yeah this is the chance for the leadership here to try and fix things. It is hard to change direction with the money flowing… but there is a lot of damage to cleanup. All the empty hotels that have plonked down in the city for one.
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Replying to @discountcompost
I am only able to watch a couple of films a month, so I tend to only watch ones that come well recommended. Mostly 4s
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Saturday night in Kyoto. Having a nice meal and watching everyone rush around below. Not a lot of people, especially for Obon.
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Another round of castle rebuilds, and the politics involved https://twitter.com/OlegBenesch/status/1294236572863340544
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Made it to Kyoto. We spent an hour in Fukuoka having a late lunch and shopping a little. With that it took about 8 hours door-to-door from Iki. If you took the jetfoil and didn’t spend time in Hakata, it would be 6 probably.
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Replying to @JeffreyKotyk
Why do many with arrows in their heads?
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Entering Hakata Bay at Fukuoka
(Side note: doing a pan during a timelapse by hand is pretty hard!)
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Replying to @chadkoh
Actually I like this shot better since you can see Oronoshima on the horizon #nofilter
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Weather is nice so the water is brilliantly blue today #NOFILTER #壱岐島 #seascape
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Just left Iki. Heading to Kyoto for summer break. No more beach pics for a little while, sorry! 🙇
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RT @RZA: We’re dropping a different kind of track: a new ice cream truck jingle. Sound UP to hear why I collabed with @GoodHumor.
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RT @chadkoh: I saw some art! Now I am sharing it with you! Please share with others! #ikijima #壱岐 ＃壱岐島
https://chadkohalyk.com/2020/08/12/the-statues-of-koganemaru-ikuhisa/ https://t.c…
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Replying to @DavidinSetouchi
Wow! That actually looks pretty good! I am on an iPhone X and badly need to upgrade my camera. Gonna get something this fall methinks!
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Replying to @V_Varen_EN
Are we thinking back in the J1 next year? Is football Coming Home™ to Nagasaki!? 🙌👏🙌
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I saw some art! Now I am sharing it with you! Please share with others! #ikijima #壱岐 ＃壱岐島
https://chadkohalyk.com/2020/08/12/the-statues-of-koganemaru-ikuhisa/
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RT @RoyKenagy: 200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II @openculture https://t.co/ia…
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RT @JHarrisonWriter: A great thread on the tar pit that is Uber.
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Replying to @IAF__FAI and @m_roellinghoff
Japan was always the “top of the bottom” of the racial hierarchy once they started hiring lots of Brits to modernize in 19C.
I’ve been researching the Yamato conquering of the Kumano and Hayato peoples in Kyushu, extending Yamato rule over the southern isles. It goes way back…
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Replying to @m_roellinghoff
In the past few years I have been trying to shift focus outside of Kyoto (where I have been based for a long time) and it has been very interesting to learn more about the variety in Japan. I appreciate efforts to spotlight it!
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Replying to @m_roellinghoff
But I saw modern Chinese gov at work first hand when traveling around Kashgar 15 years ago. There are so many examples… it has a long legacy as you point out in your comments. Thanks for sharing the threads!
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Replying to @m_roellinghoff
Wow! You aren’t kidding about messy. TBH I was hoping it would be more on Japan. I have been working on Kyushu history (a whole ton of violent displacement from different directions here) and only learned about attitudes toward the ヤマトンチュー maybe last year(?).
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