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（日本語で）

I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say with this one, but it just makes a sort of cosmic sense to me right now with where I am in my life.

牧島昭成さん、おめでとう！

So, one of the things I've been super busy with lately is the humanities+digital conference my little group at MIT just put together. I would argue it was a success. I certainly had a lot of fun, and looking around and talking with others, I would say they did too. I met a ton of cool people and even persuaded my buddy Ted Byfield to come and give a talk, which turned out to be quite the awesome contrarian call to arms for re-thinking visualization in the humanities (although there were a number of those during the conference; Johanna Drucker gave one in the beginning and Lev Manovich continued the insanity at the end of Friday...an interestingly, those two were also the only two—if I recall correctly—to get up and raise issues with Ted after his talk).

I especially loved Martin Wattenberg's "Numbers, Words and Colors." It was lovely conceptually and visually. And I think every question asked of him he responded by saying, "that's a great/important/really interesting question," and then he would proceed to answer it in a great/important/really interesting way, regardless of its merits. Good stuff.

Of course, what I was most excited by was showing off the the timeline software I am building which we are releasing really soon now (a.k.a. as soon as it gets through the gauntlet of MIT lawyers and other bureaucrats). You can see it here for now. I got a lot of interest and great feedback from people coming up and trying it out. Many people seemed interested in using it with their own data sets, including Lev Manovich! Fun.

There's also a trail of tweets if you want to poke around there...and some pics on flickr under the tag hdigital, even a picture of yours truly! I'm famous, on that page on flickr.

This is like a juicy steak and a bourbon:

...and this is the ice cream sundae you have afterwards:

I think that that パフュームビデオ is part of an ad campaign, but, ya know, いずれにしても好きだ。

No really, just wait a bit.

Yes, that's my excuse. Until I can post some pictures and stuff, look at this.

変なの、ね？

皆さん、お早う。日本にいます。昨日の午後に到着しました。

Good morning everyone. I'm in Japan. I arrived yesterday afternoon.

また今日の後書きます。

I'll write again later today.

Well.

Let me try to breathe a little life back into this site. I think I may move it over to WordPress at some point soon, or maybe just finally upgrade to the latest version of Drupal, or, hell, write my own blog software in Ruby.

What I mean to say is, it'll stay the same for a while.

Anyways, the reason I'm posting now, all of a sudden, is that I'm going to Tokyo tomorrow (yes, again). I'm also going to try to start posting in 日本語 as well when I can, which will be a fun way to practice (and anyone out there who can correct me and is willing to, please do!).

そして、今週には、引っ越ししました。大変でしたよ！でも、終わりで、とても嬉しいです。

明日飛行機で日本に行きます。準備しないといけません！

じゃ、また。。。