Musings from a financial translator in Tokyo (and now London)
Posted in Translation on Oct 30th, 2009
I don’t often talk about translation, even though translation plays a big part of my career, and is at least officially the name of this blog <g>. This came up in a piece I was looking at the other day. First, a little background – the writer is adjusting his stance on the GMS sector [...]
Posted in Music on Oct 22nd, 2009
It seems Christmas comes earlier every year. Not because I’m getting older. Because shops nowadays seemingly put out Christmas decorations right afer Easter. So, a couple of videos in honor of seeing my first christmas decorations in a store window today near the office. First, here are what our favorite Christmas carols would sound like in [...]
Our local supermarket sometimes carries beers made by local micro-breweries. I picked up a couple of new ones yesterday. First one was by Fuller’s, which is sort of like Sierra Nevada in the US – the local brewery that makes beers you can find just about everywhere. The brewery itself is in Western London, near Acton/Ealing. [...]
Posted in Food, Pet, Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
It’s a tradition in our family to make chili the first time it snows each year. Since we’re in London now, we’re not so sure how likely we are to get snow – so this past Sunday when we didn’t really have any other dinner plans, I whipped up some chili. Chili and football – [...]
The days are getting increasingly shorter – back in July or so, it was light out until almost 10pm. Now it starts getting dark seemingly from around 5 or 6pm. So the MBH and I are trying to take advantage of any favorable weather on the weekends. A couple of weeks ago I went out [...]
Posted in Sports on Oct 7th, 2009
For better or worse, I stayed up to 3am in the morning watching the Twins amazingly, impossibly, improbably, inexplicably, beating the Detroit Tigers 6-5 in 12 innings. It was without a doubt one of the most amazing baseball games – nay, amazing sporting events, period – that I have ever watched, and while I’m in [...]
Posted in Travel on Oct 1st, 2009
Sunday turned out to be a pretty hard day! I had been looking forward to going to one of the big historical sites on the island: Villa Jovis. In the last post I noted we visited Villa San Michele, built on the site of an ancient Roman Villa. Well, Emperor Tiberius built 12 such villas on [...]