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Tokyo, jour 3
... Je me retourne donc et aperçois ce type avec un filet de bave qui lui pend à la lèvre inférieure. Il n'apprécie pas, de toute évidence, les dires du messager. Ce dernier reste stoïque et continue son énoncé. Je crois même l'entendre dire arigato (merci). Plus poli que ça, tu meurs ! Je reste stupéfait par ce que je viens d'être témoin. Tout en traversant la rue, je ne cesse de me retourner afin d'observer ce type qui fait comme si rien ne s'était ...
State of the Map 2012 Conference Report
... t exist as the imagery is older than the disaster event. One conference member raised the possibility of a layer in JOSM which would alert such people to the parts of the image which were no longer valid. I responded by saying that perhaps we needed to expand the scope of open source mapping to also include aerial imagery. The first responder mentioned openaerialmap as one option, ...
Harajuku
The other day we ventured to Harajuku. Sunday is the best and busiest day to visit Harajuku because people dress in 'cosplay' (costume play). By 11 am the district was crammed with people and it was almost impossible to get from one end of the street to the other.
Harajuku is one of the epicenters for youth culture in Tokyo and Japan. Certain types ...
Hakone, Mt Fuji & Tokyo!
Hello everyone! This is going to be my last blog for a while because we have now left Asia and have a long stretch of days at sea until we reach Hawaii. In Asia, ports were very close to one another and we would only have class days two at a time, here and there. It was not consistent and hard to be very productive. So, now that we have a long period at sea, the longest on our trip by far, it means that we'll have a lot of schoolwork to catch up on and professors are cracking the whips ...