combining blogs

I was thinking of migrating this blog into my tokyo kuri blog, now that we have tags available. But given my last posts, it'd be a little embarrassing to force this content onto general readers. It's a topic of limited interest, after all, if you don't work with this stuff.

I will be copying my posts from my work sns over to here, though.

An interesting talk on avoiding obsolescence

From the authors of the Pragmatic Programmer, a talk on How to Keep Your Job.

Tools are more reliable than those funky people anyway.

taco bell?

I felt like an American the other day.

I was watching a show where this music promoter talked about Eminem visiting Japan. Apparently he really likes Taco Bell and that was the only thing he wanted to eat every day. However, Taco Bell doesn't exist in Japan; none of the Japanese celebrities had ever heard of the chain. So, they actually had Taco Bell staff come to Japan (bearing Taco Bell supplies I presume) and feed Eminem while he was here on tour.

One of the guests on the show asked the promoter what Eminem's favorite Taco Bell food was. She had no idea, so she offered, "Taco Bell hamburger?"

ROTFLMAO. Obviously, they have never been to Taco Bell.

The show is set up so they have 4 people who fall under a specific job description, but one of the 4 is an actress merely playing the role. The celebrity guests get to ask various questions about the work and the 4 people tell stories about their jobs. So that day there were 3 music promoters and one actress playing a music promotor. After hearing the woman say "Taco Bell hamburger," I thought that she had to be the actress. But she turned out to be a real promoter, so apparently she didn't actually deal with the Taco Bell people or look at the food. It also might have been a story that she heard from a coworker, or she could have been just clueless.