The Monday Read

Going snowboarding edition

Well, it’s snow season but there isn’t any snow. Hoping to go to Appi next week with my granddaughter, so hopefully we’ll get a bit more by then.

I’m sure it’s completely fine that it isn’t cold in January in Sendai.

This week’s links

  1. This seems a bit harsh, although it seems the police asked him to leave and he didn’t: Estranged Australian husband freed after trespassing to find his children
  2. Food for thought: 2020: Party Like It’s 1999?
  3. Great as ever: Updating My Favorite Performance Chart For 2019
  4. I’ve had this exact same conversation with people: Is It True That A Tesla Creates More Pollution Than A Conventional Car?
  5. The truth really is stranger than fiction: Experience: my brother framed me for murder
  6. Baby steps: EDITORIAL: 25 years after Kobe quake, victim support plans deficient
  7. My wife would love this: Projects to lease abandoned farmland in west Japan urban areas proving popular
  8. Fun RJ post from two years ago: Only in Japan: Keeping Up With the Suzukis
  9. This seems like a really bad idea: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
  10. If in doubt, do Brazilian jiu-jitsu: What do you do when you don’t have to do anything?
  11. Not just Ghosn then: Fleeing Japan may be more common than many think
  12. Good advice: Remain calm when stopped by the police in Japan
  13. Would rather they spent this on renewables: Costs for managing Japan’s nuclear plants to total ¥13 trillion

What do you think? Anything good in there?

This week’s books

5 Responses

  1. #2 & 3 — Both are interesting and valuable.
    #6 — There’s already the 2% surtax for 3/11, money that falls into a bottomless pit. There’s no need to establish another one.
    #8 — Good nostalgia! (and I still have my Fit)
    #9 — Scary. Tho he’s sold it off, Peter Thiel owned 44 million shares of facebook when it went public in 2012. He owns part of Clearview. And one of the problems so far–that security cameras are often mounted up high–might be ‘solved’ by the latest camera-laden cars taking pictures of everything on/along the roads.

  3. #13 – “Would rather they spent this on renewables: Costs for managing Japan’s nuclear plants to total ¥13 trillion”
    The link for this page has already been removed…or shut down by the Smoking Man?!