Joe Auricchio » Japan/Japanese

Tokyo Trains in 1991

Joe Auricchio — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Lyle Saxon of Tokyo Linux Users Group posted a few videos from 1990-1992 Tokyo. He compares train ticket gates then (hand-punched tickets) and now (magstrip and Suica), but the more shocking video is conductors pushing people onto packed trains.

Now, I’ve been to Tokyo, and I rode the trains at rush hour, and it was one of the most… compact experiences of my life. But that didn’t prepare me at all for this. I cannot even imagine riding a train like that every day to work. It’s insane.

Via Jim Grisanzio.

Looks like I’m going to Japan!

Joe Auricchio — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:07:20 +0000

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Paul on compliments

Joe Auricchio — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:53:47 +0000

Paul: I defer to Joe on that [Japanese language], because he's way awesomer at the language than I am.
Joe: No...
Paul: Yeah, he's even got the whole cultural thing down where he can't accept a compliment.
Joe: No... I got that from you!!
Paul: No...

Paul on Kanji

Joe Auricchio — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:01:35 +0000

Why am I practicing ‘ichi’? That’s dumb.

Ichi is the kanji for “one”. It looks like this: —

Eric on coping in a foreign land

Joe Auricchio — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:44:47 +0000

So if there’s something I can’t order at a restaraunt, I usually just point and say ‘kanji ga yomenai desu ga, kore wo onegaishimasu’ [I can't read this, but, one of these, please].

Some take a different approach though. Last night Ryan just said, in English, ‘I’ll have the unagi [eel] nonsense, please.’

Eric on coping in a foreign land