October 2011
2 posts
Mourning Steve Jobs
Okaka kale
Chop kale into bite-sized pieces. You might want to use a nice Japanese knife. I used this one.
Rinse dirt off the kale, and add to a pot, with perhaps a quarter cup of water added to the drops clinging from the rinse. Apply low heat until tender.
Strain, grate a bit of fresh ginger over it, then add a generous handful of quality katusobushi, and drip a bit of quality tamari. Almost vegan,...
September 2011
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Ugetsu Monogatari
First gathering of Japanese Film Buffs occurs Tuesday evening, September 27 2011 07:00 PM, in Santa Rosa. We begin with—what else—Ugetsu Monogatari, by Kenji Mizoguchi (1953). The year 1953 was something of an Annus mirabilis in film history—a year that saw important films by Bergman, Fellini, Ozu, and Mizoguchi. Japan had only emerged from United States occupation (and American...
August 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
1 post
Successful corporate culture can’t be taken for granted. Toyota “unremembered” its cultural commitment to quality. http://bit.ly/lrf8HW
April 2011
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March 2011
5 posts
Data interpretation as business opportunity
The problem isn’t that specialised companies lack the data they need, it’s that they don’t go and look for it, they don’t understand how to handle it. —Hans Rosling, “A Data State of Mind“
Data enables market efficiencies. There should be plenty of business niches where most of the players have not yet noticed that market data is available, or have not yet figured out how to find...
That part of Japan devastated by tsunami three times/100 years. Utagawa depicted strange mixture of fire & flood 1896: http://bit.ly/hxHlmu.
