So with all the craze in social networking sites, how irritating is it that you hate some and love some.. I like facebook and its cleanliness, but it is a bit pretentious, check its origin. I hate myspace, but it is the defacto standard for most people, bands and shows. Linkedin is useful, maybe.. Anyways, www.spock.com is a social network networking site. Interesting concept and it seems to work well. Right now it is in beta and invite only, so if you want an invite, reply to this post.
Archive for July, 2007
I will pre-empt the post with the fact I am a bit of a math nerd. Being a comp. sci and math major, that should be a given.
I have started to develop a theory about living in Japan, more-so in Tokyo. I have recently noticed certain aspects of the people and the places I have been seeing and interacting with.. I thought it might be fun to start making some notes as to what I am seeing and then do some statistical analysis, more so along the lines of frequency. The data IS biased in the following ways: my personal ideals of beauty, sanity, hygiene, and general awareness. As if follows, this will be the first in a multi-post entry that deals with the above.
Beauty-
As I walk down a busy street in any given city in the Tokyo metropolis, various styles of fashions and styles can be seen. In fact Tokyo is well known for its “street fashion” and expensive boutiques. It holds true that this includes buses, trains, cabs, bicycles, motorcycles and all forms of transportation in between. The sheer amount of money that is spent on clothing and accessories is ridiculous. I see people sporting Omega watches, Louis Vuitton briefcases and armani suits on a daily basis. A majority of women can be seen with Coach, Gucci, Vuitton and number other Italian and European brands that cost enough to feed several sub-saharan villages for a month.
In addition, a majority of the women are very well proportioned. I would say 7 out of 10 women here are in the extremely attractive bracket. This is my based on my view of body type, not bathing in makeup, exercise (toned bodies), and general appearances (teeth/smile, stature, posture and general happiness in their eyes.) I am generally classifying women whom I think are in the age range of 20 - 35, obviously excluding school girls (but not college.)
With this in mind, 1 of 10 is average and 2 of 10 is very American eg overweight or just in need of exercise (put down the big mac.)
So as it stands, 8 out of 10 women, at any given time are attractive. I think in american, more so St. Louis, this is the exact opposite, 2 of 10 women are attractive while the rest could use a bit of work.
**This of course does not reflect personality or actual knowledge of the person. This is just an opinion of a guy walking down the street, absorbing his surroundings, trying not to get whiplash. I fully acknowledge that my personal bias various and of course once I get to know a person these weighted numbers shift. There is a lot more then what is on the outside.
Next Up, the thirty percenters…
Well, one of my goals or ideas about working in Tokyo was to network and align myself for a decent job when I am ready to come back to America. (I don’t see this happening soon but things change.)
Working in the foreign business group, or global operations group, I am provided the chance to meet NTT corporate people from all over the world. Thus far I have met managers from Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe and America. One of the guys from the NY office happens to be here on a 6 month “training” program.
First, it is really nice to get the opinion of another american working in the japanese corporate environment. It makes me realize I am not too weird for thinking how screwed up companies here are, but that is for another post.
Anyways, short of the story is, when he leaves in August I will should have a position available to me. Manhattan, downtown New Yawwwk. w00t. And that gives me something to look forward to.
I have been posting a lot through imified, but it seems that some of the posts are getting lost… in translation… Does this one make it through?