A few weeks back I was visiting Kurashiki City with Aki. Kurashiki City is right next to Okayama City (Aki’s hometown) and the second biggest city in the Okayama Prefecture. The city is known for its traditional district in the city center, the Bikan district. Most of the houses were built in the 17th century […]
Since I’m with Aki, I have started to watch a lot of Japanese movies. Initially I didn’t know much about Japanese movies and wasn’t sure what to expect. I, however, quickly realized that Japanese movies are good. Actually so good, that I would say the level of Japanese film making is higher, than what we […]
Let me introduce you to HelloFax, a free online fax service. I don’t know how it’s about you, but to me a fax is this machine my father used in business, before the Internet was popular. I used it when I was 12, to send messages to my classmates who also had a fax. It was […]
Here is something new by 21 Jump Street‘s Channing Tatum! If you have been sleeping under a rock the last days, here’s the original Volvo commercial.
This is great! He took pictures of the engine, to remember how to reassemble it and then thought, he could make a stop motion flick out of it. I should have done that with my scooter engines too…
A few weeks back, Aki’s family and I visited the city of Kobe to pick up our car (Honda Street G whaaaat?!?). Kobe is mostly known for its beef, but was also a hub for foreigners in Japan, in the early 1900s. The historical area of Kitano-chō features traditional Western houses from Europe and is one of […]
Somewhat like this guy…
The Setouchi Triennale is an international art festival, held every three years on various island of the Seto Inland Sea, in Okayama and Kagawa. Three weeks ago, Aki and I went to Naoshima, which is one of the main islands of the event, to see what the event is all about. Naoshima Naoshima is known for […]
I am a great fan of teardowns and couldn’t wait to see iFixit.com to release their PlayStation 4 teardown to the masses. After taking apart the PS3 several times (I guess at least 20 times, and probably 50 BluRay drives), I am glad to see that the PS4 received an repairability score of 8 out of […]
If you are one of my closer friends, you might know that I am writing heaps of blogs (I’m at least trying to). Unfortunately, all those blogs are hobby related and most of my friends don’t share my hobbies… Being abroad makes it of course more difficult, to stay in touch with friends and family. […]
