Jul. 3rd, 2008
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 10:15 pmToday I was hooked up to teh intarwebs by NTT, and at 9:45 this evening, received a webcam from them.
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Why? I don't remember the girl at Yodobashi, nor the two people I spoke to on the phone, nor the installation guy (granted, his job was only to set up my connection) saying anything at all about a webcam. Is it some sort of surprise gift? From what I understand of the accompanying letter, it's got something to do with a survey, so is this an incentive? Or do they think I've already filled out the survey? Because to my knowledge, I've done no such thing. I'll take the letter to work tomorrow and ask my (Japanese) boss what it all means.
On the other hand, I find it awesome that the Japanese think nothing of delivering things so late in the evening! The other day, I arrived home to find a missed delivery notice. It was 7:30, but I phoned the driver, and he was at my door not twenty minutes later with my package.
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jokersama)
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you read part of but never finished.
3) Underline the books you LOVE (or at least really, really liked a lot).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
(Extra rule from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
supplanter: strike out the ones you disliked.)
( Here be books )
Notes:
- I've read all of Austen, but nothing whatsoever of Dickens.
- My father tried to read us The Wind in the Willows, but neither I nor my brothers ever took to it. He read Charlotte's Web to my brothers, but I was too old to really listen in, so I heard bits and pieces of it and it wasn't enough to tempt me.
- It was in secondary 2 that we read the first couple of chapters of Les misérables and in sec. 4 or 5 (or cégep?) that I read a bit of Germinal. I can't remember when I read an exerpt of Mme Bovary, but I must have at some point, right? Oddly, I've noticed many more references to it as a "scandalous novel" in English than in French.
- All told, I've read perhaps less than half a page of the actual Bible (passages quoted elsewhere notwhithstanding), except for the Song of Songs. ^____^
- Of the authors on this list, I've read some of their other books: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (loved it!), Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans (didn't move me too much when I read it, but it stayed with me more than I thought it would), and Steinbeck's The Pearl. The latter I might have appreciated more if I'd been older, but I was 11 and found it too weighty and depressing -- which is the point, no? I still don't understand why we were made to read that book (in sec. 1) before To Kill a Mockingbird (sec. 2) and Lord of the Flies (sec. 3).
- I didn't read Le petit prince until I was in my twenties, despite my mother's gentle prodding, because I was sure I'd find it unbearably sad. I was right, and I bawled.
- I have no interest in reading Wuthering Heights
- Marquez, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are on my Really Must Read list.
...
Why? I don't remember the girl at Yodobashi, nor the two people I spoke to on the phone, nor the installation guy (granted, his job was only to set up my connection) saying anything at all about a webcam. Is it some sort of surprise gift? From what I understand of the accompanying letter, it's got something to do with a survey, so is this an incentive? Or do they think I've already filled out the survey? Because to my knowledge, I've done no such thing. I'll take the letter to work tomorrow and ask my (Japanese) boss what it all means.
On the other hand, I find it awesome that the Japanese think nothing of delivering things so late in the evening! The other day, I arrived home to find a missed delivery notice. It was 7:30, but I phoned the driver, and he was at my door not twenty minutes later with my package.
(The following taken from
jokersama)The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you read part of but never finished.
3) Underline the books you LOVE (or at least really, really liked a lot).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
(Extra rule from
supplanter: ( Here be books )
Notes:
- I've read all of Austen, but nothing whatsoever of Dickens.
- My father tried to read us The Wind in the Willows, but neither I nor my brothers ever took to it. He read Charlotte's Web to my brothers, but I was too old to really listen in, so I heard bits and pieces of it and it wasn't enough to tempt me.
- It was in secondary 2 that we read the first couple of chapters of Les misérables and in sec. 4 or 5 (or cégep?) that I read a bit of Germinal. I can't remember when I read an exerpt of Mme Bovary, but I must have at some point, right? Oddly, I've noticed many more references to it as a "scandalous novel" in English than in French.
- All told, I've read perhaps less than half a page of the actual Bible (passages quoted elsewhere notwhithstanding), except for the Song of Songs. ^____^
- Of the authors on this list, I've read some of their other books: Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (loved it!), Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans (didn't move me too much when I read it, but it stayed with me more than I thought it would), and Steinbeck's The Pearl. The latter I might have appreciated more if I'd been older, but I was 11 and found it too weighty and depressing -- which is the point, no? I still don't understand why we were made to read that book (in sec. 1) before To Kill a Mockingbird (sec. 2) and Lord of the Flies (sec. 3).
- I didn't read Le petit prince until I was in my twenties, despite my mother's gentle prodding, because I was sure I'd find it unbearably sad. I was right, and I bawled.
- I have no interest in reading Wuthering Heights
- Marquez, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are on my Really Must Read list.