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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kawasaki, 2020.04.27

It's funny that you could be pleased to do something as trivial as activating and charging a prepaid credit card with funds but given that I had to use Google Translate every step of the way it was something. Japanese website design is so graceless, it's hard to reconcile with the care that seems to go into everything in day to day life here. E.g. This is the main page once you've logged in the card management website.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009