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Comment on MoMo Love Mixer by Mobile Monday Tokyo

Mobile Monday Tokyo — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:29:44 +0000

[...] Update: Many Thanks to All Who Attended – Pix Below – Sending Love to Iwate! Also See another Really Great Slide-Show Collection of photos by Jim Grisanzio Here. [...]

Comment on Close Call by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:06:13 +0000

Yeah, too close for comfort, my goodness. I wonder how the driver is doing. She didn’t leave in such good shape, to be honest. And after this experience I’ll not use my headphones while walking on the street because you’re right, if I had them on I may not have heard anything until it would be too late. I was surprised at how quiet things were until she hit the curb. The cars are too quiet these days! I remember I saw a guy driving an electric car a while back … it was utterly strange not being able to hear it at all: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/3392377736/

Comment on Close Call by reznuk

reznuk — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:25 +0000

Scary moment – glad you’re safe Jim. One thing this made me think of is all those people who walk around with headphones in…. you wouldn’t have heard it. Phew.

Comment on Dark Days by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:32:27 +0000

ok, will do. Thanks.

Comment on Dark Days by reznuk

reznuk — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:42:09 +0000

Jim, I can’t find this photo on Google+, can you put it up there so I can share it please? It’s my favourite photo of yours recently (so good it’s now my desktop background, hope you don’t mind) and I’d like to share it. The photographic community on Google+ is thriving and growing and I think your work would be great in that community. Thanks.

Comment on Hurry by airsquadron

airsquadron — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:42:56 +0000

powerful subject…

Comment on Free by Selective Outrage « Jim Grisanzio

Selective Outrage « Jim Grisanzio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:56:20 +0000

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Comment on Teamwork by Hosam Al Ali

Hosam Al Ali — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:32:04 +0000

in very simple it’s learn how he can learn and work just it’s amazing

Comment on Christmas 2011 by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:18:48 +0000

Hi, Danese! Thanks! Hope things are well in SF.

Hey, Jon. Yeah, that would be nice in general, eh? Are we still saving power here? Can not remember. But why save power when you are not part of Tokyo Electric? Far away …

Comment on Christmas 2011 by itllallendintears

itllallendintears — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:56:02 +0000

節電！！

Comment on Christmas 2011 by divadanese

divadanese — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:42:44 +0000

Lovely, Jim. Thanks for posting.

Comment on Dirty Doctors by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:44:05 +0000

I do not see how this is a resource issue at all. You can buy soap most anywhere these days and I hear the prices are pretty good. It is simply an attitude issue (doctors are Gods, after all, right?) and the result is death for too many people. I think the bathroom at my gym is cleaner than the average American hospital. These guys get zero slack from me on this issue. If it were up to me they would be in jail.

Comment on Dirty Doctors by reznuk

reznuk — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:24:32 +0000

I agree that Doctors (and other medical staff) need to wash their hands, and keep their hospital/care-centers clean. However they’re under the same pressures that everybody else is – to save money and perform to their highest with smaller and smaller budgets. What do you cut when your budget won’t cover everything? Do you cut out one or two (vital) operations, or do you cut the floor cleaning from once a day to once every two days? Do you cut out using that MRI machine, or cut the amount of cleaning products available? These are tough choices hospital administrators have to make. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s okay not to wash your hands, but just that there is another side to this story, as with so many others. Hand washing (assuming enough hand soap, hot water for washing and clean towels to dry with, are all available) sounds such a simple thing – keeping the whole hospital really clean is more difficult and more expensive. If a loved one needed an operation to save their life and the hospital said “I’m sorry, but we’ve reached our allocation of those operations this year” (it happens) – you’d probably be less concerned with the cleanliness of the hospital and more concerned with just having the operation. Private healthcare has more money than public healthcare (because they charge the patient directly, and you’ll pay if you want it enough), but even the private sector faces competition (market forces) which drives their own prices down. Without a government (backed by a nations people) willing to fund healthcare adequately, you’re left with these forces which drive tough choices…. as in any industry.

Comment on Drop by Drop by Alan Pae

Alan Pae — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:29:24 +0000

So by your logic if your in Japan and you’re you and someone shows up in a white robe you may find it offensive. However, if over time you see more and more people wearing white robes with hoods covering their faces then you would join the klan?

Another extreme example would be a dictator that tells the opposition to convert to their ideologue or die. In some cases they refuse to convert to whatever the political dogma of the opposition is and instead chose to be shot.

I haven’t read the book that you referenced but it sounds like marketing. You see an ad once and you ignore it. You see another ad and it doesn’t bother you but it starts to pique your curiosity. And eventually you may decide to try product x.

Now you have product x and product y. You like product x and have never tried product y. You watch product y’s ads and decide to try it. You decide that you dislike product y even though they have better ads than product x. No matter how many more ads you see you have now tried product y and no mater what the ad says you still aren’t going to try it again.

alan

Comment on Drop by Drop by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:19:08 +0000

Well, consciously I may cut you off but my *sub*conscious will want to use Linux. And then it is just a matter of time before I switch.

Comment on Drop by Drop by alan pae

alan pae — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:47:45 +0000

I disagree. If I reply to every post that you post with “Use Linux” will you start to use Linux or will you disable my ability to post a comment?

Comment on Absolutely Impossible by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:06:11 +0000

Also, as long as Japan remains an absolute client state of the Americans, nothing will change here (nuke or otherwise). At some point Japan needs to actually be a *nation* where its population can have at least some influence over policy. Granted, Americans have very little influence in the US and that country is supposed to be a constitutional republic and free and all that, but I would argue that Americans have much more influence in the US than the Japanese have in Japan. So, there is room for growth politically here. Stating the stupidly obvious, I suppose. We are probably many, many decades away from that, though. In the short term, there is no hope. More catastrophes will occur.

Comment on Absolutely Impossible by itllallendintears

itllallendintears — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:17:55 +0000

It’s disappointing – japan is basically the best in the world at production. You can’t help but feel that, if they were correctly motivated, the big manfs. could crank out a new sustainable energy system quicker than it has ever been done…

Comment on Tokyo Protests Nuclear Power by itllallendintears

itllallendintears — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:09:14 +0000

Encouraging. Agree that they have to keep it up, keep getting large numbers out on the streets.

Comment on Dealing with Thoughts by T

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:20:19 +0000

Yes! I have been noticing those same sensations when meditating and a painful thought creeps in. I find that when I notice my heart beating rapidly that I begin to fixate on it and try to calm it down. But I should probably not TRY at all right? Since mindfulness is in nondoing.

Also I often talk myself through meditation at first, for example telling myself to breath in the peace and out the distractions. Is this ok to do? I am new at this and tying to improve. What are your thoughts? Thank you

Comment on Observing vs Judging by T

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:05:44 +0000

Thank you for this great description. I have been practicing mindfulness meditation and have been confused about the nonjudgement part. your post really helped me understand .

Comment on Can You Teach Leadership? by A Bright Shining Lie « Jim Grisanzio

A Bright Shining Lie « Jim Grisanzio — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:42:49 +0000

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Comment on Obama Guts by Cutting Social Security « Jim Grisanzio

Cutting Social Security « Jim Grisanzio — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:14:14 +0000

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Comment on Obama’s Villain: The Missing Rhetorical Element by Jim Grisanzio

Jim Grisanzio — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:54:36 +0000

An undocumented, closed interface! re Bush, Obama surely could have gone after Bush and put him and his crew in jail. But presidents do not go after previous presidents because then they will get the same treatment the next time around. I agree with your basic thought, though, that presidents are largely figure heads at this point.

Comment on Obama’s Villain: The Missing Rhetorical Element by Pietro Zuco

Pietro Zuco — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:39:07 +0000

People voted for two consecutive times the guy before him!, two times! so I wonder if talking about Bush as a villain is convenient for him, considering the huge amount of people that maybe still support previous president. Anyway I think that this guy, as many other presidents that will come in the future, are just icons representing whatever exists behind them. Let’s think about the life of the CEO of a huge company and then compare it with Obama’s life. Take a look at the pictures of the White House in Flickr. The president doesn’t even have a laptop, (yes sure security…) the desk is always clean, he has only few papers in his hands. Sometimes, he has a bunch of papers or is in front of a computer, but I doubt he is even used to use it. He is constantly in meetings and moving around his image everywhere participating in a lot of events. Sometimes he is in on the phone… Do we really think that this is the kind of life for a guy with such a responsibility?
Now let’s think about the life of a CEO in a big and popular company. The guy has no life! He reads emails, prepare reports for meetings, always around with people working, always with a mobile phone, going up and down, working on weekends… I can’t imagine a Steve Jobs working on a huge desk made of wood with some few papers on it, no laptops, no iPhone around, nothing. If we see the pictures of previous presidents, the image is always the same. It’s like time never pass, only the guy sitting there changes.
I think presidency is over, the image of a leader commanding a country is an idea of the past. A country today is much more complicated that a an empire in the past. Too much stuff going on for just one guy to handle. Obama is just a symbol saying what a group of people decide he has to say. He is the guy that will take responsibility if something goes wrong and the real responsible will be always covered. So I wonder how much we can ask to presidents, how much we can think of him as “the man”. Maybe we should start looking at him as just an interface.

Comment on Obama’s Villain: The Missing Rhetorical Element by jonolan

jonolan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:03:24 +0000

Obama has always been against all that is American so he has had to avoid a specific enemy, thereby allowing his various special interests group to paint their own onto his tabula rasa.

Comment on The Monkey’s Medicine Chest: 1993 by Fur-Bearing Pharmacists: 1992 « Jim Grisanzio

Fur-Bearing Pharmacists: 1992 « Jim Grisanzio — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:59:26 +0000

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Comment on Observing vs Judging by Dealing with Thoughts « Jim Grisanzio

Dealing with Thoughts « Jim Grisanzio — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:31:43 +0000

[...] as I suggested in the previous post, actually focusing on your thoughts instead of the underlying sensations in your body can be a [...]

Comment on A Deafening Silence on Somalia by Alan Pae

Alan Pae — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:36:46 +0000

The civilians are only important if you can use them to rush through important type documents at the U.N. that allow you to do anything. And I mean. Anything. After that then they are forgotten.