RedSamurai

One can only hope🙏

Good morning from Taipei.

Yes living in the capital, but how green is my valley.

As a rule, don’t drink on ✈️ as dehydrating, but I thought - it’s a short hop, only 3.5hrs…why not?

Forgot how altitude is an alcohol force multiplier.

Totally crashed out (me, not the ✈️ 😉)

Enoshima, mon amour❤️

Caught Fuji undressing for the year.

A beautiful Tokyo morning.

Thank you 🙏

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Well, off to Taipei tomorrow

Suitcase full of stuff (biscuits, gravy salt, british tea, molton brown etc.) that I cannot get there

Don't need to carry clothes and basics etc. as already got all that stuff in the apartment there & replicated in the UK too. You only live - thrice?

Here we go again

A neighbour, who has exactly the same apartment as me internally, but without my large balcony/deck, has put his apt on the market for double what I paid, in cash, only 3 years ago.

I guess the weak yen has meant foreigners have pushed the prices up in my block.

Damn crazy…

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I have history re: this OpenAI/Claude issue. I helped design 🇬🇧 nuclear defense - SMCS

Use TMA (Target Motion Analysis) to identify incoming threats to be shot down, but as time was so short unlikely a human could react

I suggested autofire but 🇬🇧MoD insisted a human trigger

Excellent premise!

Seafood counts as vegetarian right?

I often do that when things get really chaotic, take a break, and find the eye in the hurricane.

When I was in 🇬🇧 I saw a woman, she was pretty, petite, well groomed to the waist, but then huge hips

I thought, eh, shape is so extreme it cannot be real but then I thought, oh, must be real, as no-one would do that to themselves

Now I am finding out what is BBL😬shoot me pls

87.5 years later, about 4pm, I guess I was standing/sitting right there with around 100 of my staff, watching the skyline buildings sway, telephone poles pringing like tuning forks, and getting knocked off our feet by aftershocks.

Then it started to rain, and I told everyone to go home.

👍

おかえりなさい

Agree always on the respect, but don’t agree that you open the door like this to debate each time, unless you are unsure in yourself, and actually want to have a debate.

Thank you.🙏

Well today is that day😉

Very cool 😎

Yes actually (acrylic - better in earthquakes and for UV) is UV protected.

I guess I am a little conservative, want these things to last for future generations.

I think toulouse-lautrec made that mistake with his😬

Yes its an original Ukiyoe. So multiple prints are been made from the same woodblock.

However the printer, Watenabe’s business was destroyed by fire in the 1923 earthquake, so a lot of inventory lost.

Love my 1916 Charles Bartlett Taj Mahal.

The one piece of art that seems to fit, in any room, in any country, in any season.

Though usually keep it in storage, as don't want it to fade.

Yes acquisitioned

Finally offices across Asia, nearly 300 people, including, at the time, the most expensive office space in the world, 69th floor of Central HK.

Well, cannot complain. What a ride...

First Regus office in Japan in Kamiyacho.

Enough room for 1 desk and computer, could stand in the middle and touch the walls.

Yeah got 4 guys in there, but only took a few months before we moved to Regus Otemachi with around 30 desks.

Yes, cannot plan these things👍

“It loved to happen”
~ Marcus Aurelius

Yeah never bought into that either. I think folks have vocations that they are compelled to follow. With the best will in the world, I would still be a poor plumber etc.

Yes, returning is the nearest to time travel humans can get I think.

London looked much better to me when I returned, but everyone seemed pissed off🤷‍♂️

Thats cool.😎

As a 20+yr old, flew in to 🇯🇵on a one way ticket, via Moscow, no money, no job, no Japanese,no place to stay, had to blag my way thru 🇯🇵customs. (I will sleep on trains🤞)

Nearly ended before it began.