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Archive for May, 2008

Back from Taipei.

— May 31st, 2008 4:15 pm

Coming home from Taipei.

— May 31st, 2008 1:49 pm

Is this really cool or kind of weird? British, regardless. http://tinyurl.com/57d5sa

— May 30th, 2008 4:06 pm

Checking out the practice test (http://www.sc-top.org.tw/)—going to bed soon.

— May 30th, 2008 3:43 pm

At what age/stage do we look at and act towards kids as independently and fully thinking humans?

— May 30th, 2008 3:54 am

Wow, a guy working at hulu.com emailed me saying he enjoyed my blog post. ^^

— May 29th, 2008 11:54 pm

New Blog Post: The Japanese Office http://mitcho.com/blog/

— May 29th, 2008 5:30 pm

The Japanese Office

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I got hooked on The Office since I’ve been in Taiwan, which I watch at hulu.com via VPN. Checking for a new episode the other day, I found this clip from Steve Carell on Saturday Night Live this past weekend: The Japanese Office.

I’ve been a fan of the SNL Digital Shorts since Lazy Sunday, but this is absolutely something else. It’s a brilliant piece of cross-cultural parody. Many on the associated Hulu page had some questions, however, so I decided to write up a little explanation of what’s actually going on in this short, and why I love it so.[^2]

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@bpick Congratulations! Btw, it’s The Association of Teachers of Japanese… they’re just based in CO. Sounds more special that way. :)

— May 29th, 2008 4:03 pm

Looking into doing ling next year—being a “research student” is surprisingly cheap ($4000/yr), but if I don’t have income, that’s hard.

— May 29th, 2008 2:31 pm

Quote of the day: “globalization means that we have more reason than ever to learn a language.” http://tinyurl.com/5t4dar

— May 29th, 2008 7:58 am

@gruber Wait, I thought people knew your site was like that…

— May 29th, 2008 7:33 am

Feeling like a zombie.

— May 29th, 2008 3:15 am

Oh VPN, where would I be without you? Somewhere without hulu, I guess.

— May 28th, 2008 3:46 pm

@ejenk Funny, I was just reading some other clustering stuff on his blog the other day. Did you know he was my first gf’s TA at Harvard?

— May 28th, 2008 7:44 am

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