Confidential Misanthropy Names have been changed to protect the innocent. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923 2006-06-29T12:48:25Z Blogger
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 true Matthew 2006-05-01T02:25:00+09:00 2006-04-30T18:20:11Z 2006-04-30T18:20:11Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-114642121173661548 Too many champloo. Okinawa: I didn't get to the chance to see Shuri like I'd planned (I only had 2 days off while we were in port; one of them ruined by the most rain I've seen since I left WA) but I did manage to snap a few photos during my visit to Okinawa. I spent one afternoon in a reconstructed, old style village called Ryukyu-mura. My timing was a little bad 'cause some photo-op's were ruined by some false Matthew 2006-04-30T02:10:00+09:00 2006-04-30T17:20:56Z 2006-04-29T19:47:05Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-114634002588086192 So yeah... Trish mentioned to me a while back that she hates reading my blog 'cause it's "full of incomprehensible videogame techno-babble". Truth is, life isn't a bowl of cherries right now and I don't enjoy writing about it. I don't want my blog to devolve into some long, angsty rant about how much life sucks but what are blogs for, right? My Navy "career" has officially jumped the shark. I've lost any false Matthew 2006-04-12T01:33:00+09:00 2006-04-19T06:38:09Z 2006-04-18T17:32:54Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-114538157407134973 Hong Kong, City of Contrasts More where that came from. Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated regions in the world, and is famous for its energetic metropolitan area. It has experienced over 5 millennia of human activities, and its unique modern history started when it was founded as a British crown colony and an entrepôt in 1842. Despite its density, only 17% of land is built up, and greenery is everywhere. false Matthew 2006-03-29T02:53:00+09:00 2006-04-09T17:19:13Z 2006-03-28T21:13:52Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-114358043215917528 Out Of Exile Despite my lack of posting, March '06 is somehow my biggest month in pageloads (since Nov. '04), so I figured I'd justify the last 1500 or so with something resembling an update. I procured an EOS 20D a couple of weeks back. I'd been flirting with the idea of buying my own SLR for sometime but I didn't feel like I could justify the purchase, given my skill level. However, digital photography false Matthew 2006-02-15T11:42:00+09:00 2006-02-15T21:05:41Z 2006-02-15T02:48:47Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-113997172758969327 It's that time again, folks. But enough talk... Have at you! false Matthew 2006-02-09T00:41:00+09:00 2006-02-12T01:41:58Z 2006-02-08T17:24:19Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-113941945995044819 Full Circle I've been in possesion of an Xbox 360 for roughly a month now in a country where it's spectacularly underachieving and I have to say I'm pretty enamored with it hardware-wise. I don't currently have a HDTV and having never really owned one I really don't know what difference it makes. It's completely capable of earning kudos from staunch MS haters and naysayers on a conventional television. What false Matthew 2006-02-04T09:55:00+09:00 2006-02-04T05:52:38Z 2006-02-04T05:50:04Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5348923.post-113903220469178281 Red Tape If January is a sign of things to come, this year is going to be quite the roller-coaster. It wasn't a good month to be a 7th Fleet Sailor, that's for certain. The only way I can possibly comment positively about all that happened is that it remedied my indecision on whether or not to stay in Japan for my next tour. The backlash and the resulting restrictions have pretty much disuaded me from any false