Category Archives: General

Well, I and all of the other 1st-year grad students here in the Chemical Engineering department turned in our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for our advisor. It turns out that my advisor is Dr. Bonnecaze. He wasn’t my first … Continue reading →

Well, I’m finally here in Austin with my family. I will be here for 5 years getting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. It seems to be a really nice city so far, and … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of posters I thought were interesting that I took pictures of while I was in Imazu-cho in Shiga Prefecture visiting my wife’s family. This first one shows the fairly low-ranked sumo wrestler 高見盛 (Takamisakari) endorsing a … Continue reading →

Ryoko, myself, and our baby just returned from a month in Japan, visiting her family and such. There were some days when I didn’t have much to do and just sat around, but overall I had a really good time, … Continue reading →

娘は5月3日で産まれて、名前は「カリサ」と決めた。アメリカの出産証明書でもちろんローマ字だから、Karisaで書いてしかなくて漢字ではまだ決めていなかった。しかし、カリサちゃんが二重国籍を持てるように2ヶ月までに戸籍に入れなければならない。その届けをするためにカリサに使う漢字を決めなければならない。 僕の場合は漢字の意味をわかるけど、苗字に合わせてからの雰囲気がいいとかはまったくセンスがない。それは涼子の役割だ。今日そのことを話して「伽里紗」がいいと思ったけど、「鳥居」の涼子の氏名に合わせたらあまり気に入らないって。最近、日本政府がの何百の新しい漢字を名前に使うのは許したみたいけど、「癌」とか「呪」とか使わない限り僕は別に何の漢字でも平気だ。

Since my wife and I will be going back to Japan in June, mostly for the purpose of Ryoko’s family seeing their new granddaughter/neice, It means that we need a passport for our baby girl, Karisa. I first looked up … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve been too busy and then too lazy to write anything here for the past week or so. My wife Ryoko gave birth to a baby girl, Karisa, at 9:40 pm on Monday the 5th. Pretty much everything went … Continue reading →

I guess I can finally get the satisfaction of being the first post on something, even though it has to be my own blog in order to do so. On sites like Slashdot or Dave Barry’s blog it’s almost impossible … Continue reading →