No Car Pic Yet / New Link

OK, I know I didn't get the car pic up yet but it's coming!  It's kind of hard to take a picture of my car in the parking space at my apartment (if you've been there, you know my car is somehow jammed in between a wall and a Celica, and doesn't look like it should fit).  I will take the pic once I move the car out tomorrow so everyone can see the beautiful dent and scratches!

Added a new link to old airline timetables.  This site has old timetables from the 1930s and after and is pretty interesting.  In 1931 you could buy tickets for "Universal Air Lines" at Embry-Riddle!

The First Tour

OK, I took a first shot at laying out the page here. I looked through the gadget list, and wow there are a lot of weird ones. I am tempted to add the "play Zelda on your blog" one!! So I went a little crazy with the linked lists, and that was the only one I used to add stuff besides a picture. I'll change that "pic of the day" everyday. And if I don't, I owe you lunch (as long as it's cheap)!

So what do we have --
*first up is job related links. All the space stuff I work on plus some of the computer stuff.
*I put in a couple of video game links. That list will grow soon once I figure out how to use these other blogger gadgets!
*links to my old school and aviation safety records. I will add some news links here later, such as the info on the Spanair crash. They're not there right now so have patience!
*Links to stuff about trains. Will add some news links here too.

I decided to leave all the Japanese links in Japanese, since that's how I read them. Gotta keep my practice up! I think it's easy enough to find English links on those sites if you want.

"Hey Stuart!" "What about that sexy car of yours?" I hear you ask? "No pictures?" Well, guess what, I put a nice dent down the side of it. I will post a picture for you tonight. That's the next blog you get to look forward to!

Mainichi Shimbun apoligizes for what it shouldn't!

Wow, I was just trying to lay out the blog to continue our lovely tour (I will get to that on the next post) and I wanted to add the "Mainichi Shimbun" daily news because I always used to read it every day and enjoyed it a lot. One of the interesting sections was "WaiWai" which always had news on the sex industry in Japan, and apparently something in an article posted in that section made them shut down the site for now!

The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. continued to post extremely inappropriate articles in the WaiWai column of the Mainichi Daily News (MDN), its English Web site. We have reported the results of an in-house investigation into the case on Pages 22 and 23 of the July 20 morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun.

We continued to post articles that contained incorrect information about Japan and indecent sexual content. These articles, many of which were not checked, should not have been dispatched to Japan or the world. We apologize deeply for causing many people trouble and for betraying the public's trust in the Mainichi Shimbun.

The Japanese site has the same message, but interestingly in both it is mentioned that the "English site" is the cause and not the Japanese one. Makes me wonder who actually initiated the complaint on the article! Now they are planning to be a more serious news-oriented site. I don't like the sound of that. We already have The Japan Times for a serious English language Japanese newspaper, and I never liked it.

Begin

Well I have been posting to my blog on myspace on and off for awhile, but I figured why not start a blog here since I have a gmail account and all! Plus the myspace blog doesn't work half the time. Let me show you around. In front of you is the new blog. That is all for now!