'General' Category
All Good Things
by James in General on July 8th, 2009
Over the past 5 years (wow…5 years already?!) lomohut has served as my virtual home on the web. It has a lot of memories in it, even if most of them are no longer public. It has served as a collection of my thoughts and ideas throughout my undergraduate years.
However, just like my undergraduate years [...]
Twitter and Foodblog
by James in General, Technology on December 9th, 2008
I’ve been cleaning up the CSS a bit on lomohut and adding some new features. I haven’t had time to write a serious post on lomohut in a while both because I’ve been busy and nothing too terribly interesting going on.
I have added a few things though that is neat for me and you [...]
A Map For Saturday
by James in General, Travel on November 26th, 2008
I finally got around to ordering and watching A Map For Saturday based upon a recommendation from Justin Klein’s blog.
Even though I was only gone for a year in Japan and have never been backpacking in my life, the film has a certain amount of resonance within me. It’s something I’ve dreamed about for [...]
Graduating
by James in General on November 3rd, 2008
This is just a very quick post to update those that still read the site. I am all set to graduate from university this semester. My degree will be a Bachelor of Arts of International Studies with a concentration in Asian Studies minoring in Japanese and Geography. I will also be graduating with Cum-Laude honors. [...]
The Relevance of the United Nations
by James in General on September 19th, 2008
This is a short essay that I worked on and has been sitting in MarsEdit for two weeks now. I’m not entirely happy with it, but it is good enough for now. The ideas are clear enough. More writings and more thoughts later.
People often ask what is the purpose of the United Nations, mistakingly believing [...]
Reverse Culture Shock II
by James in General, Japan on August 12th, 2008
Why must 200 people all go the same direction to more or less the same place via separate vehicles without any form of public transit? It made no sense before and makes even less now.
Everywhere I look in society I see madness. I see 4 dollar a gallon petrol prices yet people still drive [...]
Packing…
by James in General, Japan on July 21st, 2008
It’s been quiet on lomohut this second semester. The semester flew by much faster than I had anticipated. I’ve started packing my stuff as my room is getting inspected on Thursday so it needs to be clean and such. I’ve got 10 days left.
When riding the trains (or at least the JR variety) they [...]
Raising Money for Charity
by James in General, Macintosh on June 21st, 2008
This post has mostly been copied and pasted from my blog on SugoiSoft, but the information is still relevant.
I have signed up to donate as many copies of Jisho and Byoyomi as needed for the PMC challenge, for research and treatment of cancer. The idea is simple: people buy software bundles (auction or otherwise) and [...]
On Oppression of Political Voice
by James in General on May 31st, 2008
I often sit and ponder about the world. Having studied politics, international law, international relations theory (and practice), economics, history, geography, and literature all to a decent depth I am able to look at a particular problem or conflict and break it down. I can understand it from most all angles.
One thing that always [...]
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
by James in Environment, Food, General on May 22nd, 2008
“Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.” is the advice given by Michael Pollan in his book “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto“. Having devoured the book in less than a week I think I couldn’t agree more.
A large portion of the book covers the flaws and mistakes in nutritionalism. That is eating [...]
