A friend of mine who I filmed a commercial with late last year recently sent me the link for it. This commercial is for a pretty cool television set by Panasonic that allows you to share and connect with your smart phones and other smart devices. I don’t know much about price or release date specifics of the actual smart tv (as I like to call it), but it does look useful. I had a feeling that this is where television would eventually go. Everything being connected is the way to go. I wonder what your smart phone won’t be able to do in 20 years. It’s really interesting to think about. We’ll have...

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Now that I’m pretty settled I sat back and realized just how busy the start of this year has been. I have moved twice in 60 Days?!? First it was Ouji, now it’s…well, I’ll tell later, keep reading: I told that being away from my beloved writing hasn’t been because of my master ghost ninpou tactics, but because the start of this year has been a whirlwind. Even thought I recently moved to Tokyo in early January, I did things a bit backwards from the “traditional job” perspective. I moved, then ended having to hunt after the modeling dry spell. I had to find a full-time job because I needed to eat, pay bills,...

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Pant, pant, hoo, hooo…hoooooo! (the sound of Donald gasping for breath). “I…I’m…I’m back”…hoooo. Oh my God, let me tell you what’s been going on with me lately. I recently finished up at the Tokyo Ninjitsu graduate school with a major in the Ghost Arts. During our final examination, all ninja candidates had to demonstrate all of the 忍法 (ninpou: ninja arts) they had learned over the course of the program. I REALLY wanted to impress my panel of instructors, especially head instructor, Ryu Hayabusa…yes, Mr. Ninja Gaiden himself. I ended up demonstrating the forbidden Shadow Ginpou technique (Shadow + Ghost + Ninpou) the ultimate disappearing ninjitsu. This is not to be confused with the...

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COOL PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING IN JAPAN featuring Kevin Davies 1. Kevin, tell us about yourself. Where were you born? Burien, Washington 2.Where did you grow up? Lived in Washington until I was 11 then moved to Idaho. A few years after I finished college my family moved back to Washington. 3. Where did you go to school? Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. 4. What brought you to Japan? I’m quarter Japanese and have quite a bit of extended family here. That was probably my main motivation. The only reason I ended up teaching English was because that’s the easiest way to make it over here. 5. I know it’s a weird question, but...

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