Oribotics - the art/science of robotic origami

First day awake in Tokyo

June 1, 2005 on 8:06 am | In Uncategorized |

Woke today at 4am to find the sun rising, and the local park closed until 9am, so I jumped the fence and practiced my tai chi anyway (it seemed relatively harmless - and I reasoned that the times were probably only there to keep homeless people from building tents there).

mY Trinh and I went to Ginza, to the Apple store to buy an Airport Express - tiny very handy wireless network is now in our tiny very handy apartment. We checked out the sony store, and played with the undeniably cute AIBO - the 6th generation is very interesting. We walked to ITO-YA so mY could get her sketch books and pencils for her animation. Then Tokyo showed me its reasoning for redunancy and consumerism. They make a prepaid phone with a built in SIM card. If the card expires the phone becomes useless and you have to buy another. To learn this I was given alot of help by a non english speaking Japanese service attendant at Yodabashi Camera in Shinjuku. Now I have to find out who will help me get another phone. They are a necessity here.