Reblogged from WordPress.com News: It wasn’t just a one-time event! The Automattic Worldwide WP 5k is back again in 2012! Set your timers for April 29th! At Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome. One … Continue reading »

Reblogged from Grits and Sushi: Last week I attended the International Symposium on Okinawan Studies that was held at Waseda University in Tokyo.  It was the first time for me to attend a conference solely on Okinawa and it was great to connect with so many scholars I’ve followed for a while, meet up with … Continue reading »

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 36,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many … Continue reading »

Last week I made a trip down to the Yaeyama Islands, the most southerly of the Ryukyus. While on the largest island, Ishigaki, I called in at Bashofu, the minyo live venue which is run by Takashi and Chiyoko Hatoma. The Hatomas are both accomplished singers and musicians who have appeared at the annual Ryukyu … Continue reading »

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To all you fathers out there, karii (cheers)!

It’s 2007!!!

We’re about 12 hours away from a new year, 2007! Since I’m off from my real job, I’ll post a few things here before the year is over.