WalshWorld

In Cites

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:58:00 +0000

For a while, I'm just going to collect some quotes here...

Doubt is humble.

What we think is a problem is often a protection.

Time is the fire in which we all burn - Star Trek

For a concept to become a functional tool, it needs to become semantically heavy but procedurally light. - Eduardo Negueruela

Curiosity did not kill this cat. -Epitaph of Studs Turkel, Oral Historian

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Retailers to offer 100% off after xmas sale

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:36:00 +0000

In an effort to kick start the economy, retailers are planning a massive sale for the post Xmas season. All goods will be offered at a 100% percent discount. With most of the workers laid off and the corporate division in hiding, stores will be staffed directly by the illiterate children that produced the goods in sweatshops in exploited poverty stricken countries. They tend not to notice the lack of labor laws since they can't read. The plan is to somehow lure consumers to the shops and although they won't make a profit from the goods given away, parking fees and corndogs should produce hundreds of dollars.

This will scratch your ass good.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:36:00 +0000

Tools that make tools that make tools, just so we could screw up the planet.

Just Say No

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:49:00 +0000

Consolidate them all into Ford and force them to produce 1/2 electric models. Let the shit hit the fan, but come out in the end with almost a global monopoly on what everybody's been saying is necessary.

It aint over

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:16:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:33:00 +0000

I'd be glad to pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. I'd be glad to sell you my I.O.U.s from guys who promised to pay me for hamburgers last Tuesday.

Too big to face justice.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:47:00 +0000

Give me the money and pay interest on it too. I dare you not too.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:38:00 +0000

My bird and the economy like to nose dive. Nice picture of the bird anyway. Also, we're getting ready for Texas by studying the local dialect. (click here)

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Come on y'all! Get yer vocals on and sing along!
... 1,2,,,1234
We'll be coming around the mountain when we come.
We'll be coming around the mountain when we come.
We'll be coming into Texas and we hope the weather won't vex us.
We'll be coming around the mountain when we come.

He'll be coming around the mountain when he comes.
He'll be coming around the mountain when he comes.
He teaches about Al Gore, but he dashes to the mega-store,
He'll be coming around the mountain when he comes.

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.
She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.
She likes to sleep all day and get beat at chess by Creigh,
She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Geez! And hope it is! You know darn well that a lot of emotion poured out around the whole planet when we realized it was really really real. For us in Japan it was Wednesday afternoon. I sat on the floor and blubbered like a fool. As a reborn American, I need to represent this to my students. It's even bigger than it feels like now. The mindset shift just went into overdrive all over the world. Fear mongers of the world, your game just got lame. Of course the gridlock has causes and causes of causes, but the tone is opening up.

Yours Truly,
born again american still preaching to the converted....

I Told You So...

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:16:00 +0000

Getting my crash course in U.S. finance, real estate games, and so on while dealing with my Dad's things, the thing that dawned on me was that the house prices didn't make sense. For example it would seem reasonable that a house would cost more or less depending on the average incomes in an area, which of course get higher closer to economic centers, and would work out to...... however many years of income. Similarly house prices would correlate to rents and turn out to equate to X years of rent, again a percentage of incomes. You would buy if you had the down payment, felt secure and the numbers made sense. However what I saw was that these sensibilities had been abandoned and the name of the game was to buy a ridiculously priced house knowing you could sell it 5 years later for a doubly ridiculous price. This curve seemed upwards at about 20 degrees. The houses never get fully paid for but rather 'flipped' and shuffled with all sorts of people whose job it is to make this easier for you. Who cares about interest rates cause it's all coming back next shuffle. Well anyway, I just saw the clearest explanation I've seen so far of the crises and was reflecting on that summer and my first contact with how it all works in the US. If you care to take a look the link is below.

Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose 10/2/2008

Everywhere like such as

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:03:00 +0000

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future

Bird Brains

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:49:00 +0000

There are 4 bird brains in this picture. Can you tell us where?

Meet 'Little Wing'

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:07:00 +0000

No sooner had we wondered off on bikes to look at more bird goods than did we get the call. The stork had brought our cockatiel. The pet shop gave us the crash course and we got some other necessary things. On the bike ride home with chick in cardboard box, we toyed with the names Alice or Kris before the real name came: Little Wing.

Pet Peave

noreply@blogger.com (highlander) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:21:00 +0000

I ain't joking, I really want a pet!!!!!! Should I get the crazy cross lab/beagle from the dog shelter? Or the lab puppy from the hardware store pet shop? Maybe the frenchie from the good pet shop? Jeez, there's a fatal problem with every option. Alas, we will get a cockatiel! Chick should come end of September so we are arranging the cage and studying up on how to be bird parents.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0000

LARKS IN THE PARK

oala!

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:22:00 +0000

Who needs a recipe when it's just as easy to mix any number of canned foods vaguely Mexican into a frying pan, stir it up into a nice slop, and add garlic?

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:09:00 +0000

Sock Anxiety

Yes, that's right. You are looking at an enormous number of the same brand and size of new socks. After a long and arduous sock quest spanning decades, I have found these to be the toughest and most comfy. 25 bucks a pair but they last way way long. I will now proceed to throw away all the other socks in my drawer and never have sock anxiety again!

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:37:00 +0000

I went to doc's today and got the news. After 24 weeks, the virus has disappeared and become undetectable in the blood. Congrats on that big fat piece of luck. It was a little late in doing so, so doc wants to extend the treatment from one year to a year and a half in order to ensure any hiding critters are gone, so I guess I'll be putting up with the meds a bit longer, but who cares! There is a chance the virus could come back after the treatment is done, and there is some liver damage that won't go away but knock on wood, its looking like the main worry is gone!!

Blueberry Letter

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:25:00 +0000

More Pics! Munch is not all scary. I saw the paintings at a museum.

Below are friends at a cherry blossom picnic, and a little mysterious picture I took: what happened to the girl in the shoes?

The Cherry Blossoms fall like snow. Cherry Blossoms have many cultural meanings.

Strawberry Letter 23

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:15:00 +0000

Hmmm...Well, Mom is a blog entry junkie and she needs a fix.

For the lighter side. Let's watch our fearless leader tell them how it is:

See if you can catch the thing about waffles.

Other than that news is that I'm finally up and riding my bike so my blood sugar is way down. Also, it's embarrasing, but I had a bit of a relapse with ciggarettes but on Kerry's advice I got this new med called Chantix which has got me off of them. I've gone a step up on the health front.

Here is a picture of my students and me on the Child Labor Awareness March in Osaka organized by 'Free the Children' a groups started by a 12 year old in Canada. This year was the best turn out. About 15 from my school.

Ami's shining collaboration

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:03:00 +0000

My friend and artist Ray Dunlap made the piece of wood on the back. We tried a couple of different things before this one made the cut. It's finally in place! Click on the picture to make it huge.

MSF volunteering

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:53:00 +0000

The photographer was from Germany and goes to Kenya every year and takes pictures of the slums near Nairobi with his digital version of the legendary Leica camera that Robert Capa (Spanish Civil War.. etc.) and all those guys used. It costs 6 thousand dollars. Most of the pictures were from the AIDS clinics run by Doctors Without Borders there. The gallery layout was designed by an artsy fellow who gave me a card that read 'independent curator.' Tokyo language is a little different so all the men sound a bit feminine or childish and the women sound educated. He was a very nice guy and it turns out he and Yukari have some friends in common from the art world in Kyoto. It was an event designed to attract people to a fashion goods building that has all those stores like on Rodeo Drive, handbags that cost 10 thousand dollars. It's in that part of Tokyo. Me and the other volunteer interpretor went downstairs to get a soft drink, and she was shocked when her little mango juice was going to cost 10 dollars. She and I followed the photographer around and translated everything he said for a dry run, but when it came down to the time when the viewers gathered for the lecture, the young member of MSF Japan, I think she was a nurse who actually went to Kenya, decided she wanted to do it herself so I ended up sitting around a lot. I got a lot of pictures I will laminate and use in the classroom.

Crossing my energetic fingers!

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:26:00 +0000

I got the carnitine and energy juice packets in the mail. I took them and now I'm a bright-eyed funky monkey spry chicken, chronic fatigue out the window!!!!! Boy oh boy, I hope it continues like this!!!!!!
By the way, before this it was seeming like I was on slope into FUBAR land: tired, sleepless, and a lazy sod possum.

Dollar shop baking tinned this.

noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Walsh) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Bran fiber cereal
Bran flakes
Oatmeal
Pancake mix
Milk
Eggs
Bananas
Apples
Cherry Cranberries
Dried fruit
Honey
Coconut Syrup
Peanut Butter
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Vanilla
Baking powder