Tales from the Cryptic: October 2007

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Gollum Wants Precious

Ah, hope springs eternal…

Labels: Celtics, NBA

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Another Thing I Miss about New York (City Councilman James Oddo)

Okay, he represents Staten Island. Still…

Labels: New York New York

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Go Celtics!

I speak on behalf of everybody in Japan (I have affidavits from all permanent residents except members of the Imperial Family) in wishing the mighty Celtics a clean sweep in the 2007-2008 NBA playoff finals.

We also know that the Lakers suck, okay?

Labels: NBA

Saturday, October 06, 2007

The Locomotion

In order of appearance; Little Eva, Grand Funk Railroad, and Kylie Minogue. And the working mother who wrote it. This is the original recording.

Oh, why not? Here.

Labels: music videos, Videos

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Strong-Jawed Dino Likened to Arnold Schwarzenegger

… brought to you by Live Science:

Scott Sampson, another Utah Museum paleontologist who was involved in the study, called the animal the "Arnold Schwarzenegger of duckbilled dinosaurs."

"It was a like a dinosaur on steroids," Sampson added. "The bones were thick, not just in the skull, but in the limbs as well."

I don't think that the governor is going to like it when he hears about this.

Labels: science

About Me

Name: Jun Okumura

Location: Japan

After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.

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