20% google theory.

20% of my time.

At google the employees devote 20% of their time to things that they want to explore. So let's say they're database people, but they love baseball and know everything about baseball. They then spend their time developing some kind of baseball database system, or guide, some baseball specific service perhaps (then google sells it to baseball fans and makes kajillion dollars - oh my).

Back to my discussion: They spend 12 min. an hour x 8 hour days = 96 min = 1 hr. 36 min./day on what they enjoy.

I think that's great. I think that when you are doing what you like without worrying about what you can get out of it, time passes more smoothly and your quality of life changes.

This is why I hope I can keep up this blog. I hope I can spend 20% of my time towards something like this blog. Something that is fun, yet productive and exciting to me.

English Misuse - oh Japan!

So I've been looking at some old pictures and here are some hilarious ones from 2004/05 when I was in Japan teaching the English. Okay, so I've only got two. But at least they are for real. We've all got at least a few of these suckers right?

A garbage area just for dust. Japan must be really dusty!

And here's Blooklyn, I think that's near Brooklyn. Let me google map it...
that's all folks.

I got my first Japanese E-card!

I was super happy when I got it because I've never gotten one of these. So, 2009 is the year of the Ox. Mr. Ox comes in to the room with a box strapped on him and it pops open. Then he spreads happy sakura flowers in the room.


Then it says happy new year.


So exciting.

And a Happy New Year to you too!