Now that summer is here and university classes are finished, I spend an hour or so lolling in the hot baths and sauna of a certain salubrious spot in the middle of town before heading over to Kemby’s to meet the foreign mahjong contingent and kick off the evening with [Read more…]
Things have been a bit hectic recently so the Cock’s Eye blog has been sadly neglected. We played four games since I last reported, and I also played a couple of games at Dr M’s… The key point that I can remember is that Noda’s advance was reversed by David [Read more…]
Quite often, when I pick up my five year old daughter from nursery school, I take her to a local Japanese “sento“, or bath-house. Bathing is a recreation in Japan. Bath-houses used to be as common as muck, and very good for removing it in the days when Japanese houses [Read more…]
I have been reading Leo Strauss’ Thoughts On Machiavelli. Strauss reminds us that Marlowe had Machiavelli say on stage that, “I hold there is no sin but ignorance”. Here is Strauss‘ own deep insight into the surface of things that must have left him free of all stain of ignorance: [Read more…]
One of my niche markets is Japanese manga comics. At the outset I did not know much about Japanese manga, but I was interested in the genre and in the social phenomenon of manga in Japan. However, I gradually received requests from people living outside of Japan for various manga [Read more…]
In my nocturnal meanderings around cyberspace I recently came across a fine recommendation for a healthy snack that would go just great with Sapporo’s “space beer”… Yes, Sapporo Holdings recently announced that it is planning to brew the first “space beer,” using barley grown from grain that was stored on [Read more…]
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