Monday, June 23, 2003
Making the current top 10 list of groovy things about Japan: close and open buttons on the elevators that actually work! Still holding on to #1: vending machine beer!
What is it about girls in life science and boys in physics?!? I am a science teacher and I still can't figure it out. In the upper level science classes at Meikei, it's boys in physics, girls in biology. I feel like the answer is obvious, but I just can't get a grasp on it. I think my perspective is skewed because I'm too close to the front lines, so please, enlighten me by clicking on the 'Shout Out' button below this post. Totally opposite from what I work in, the science department is dominated by men. Eight full time staff in science and one of them is female. I'll give you one guess as to what subject she teaches.
First, I don't have cable at home. No, I'm not one of those people who are all high and mighty about not having cable, boasting my intellectual superiority because I don't watch TV, implying that I do something more productive with my time such as reading books, or running numbers. Heck, sometimes I wish I had cable so I could change the channel away from Trading Spaces or watch the scrambled nudie channel hoping to score a glimpse of a booby. No, I'm just a workaholic that understands economics and the fact that I don't want to pay that much per unit time of television watching. In other words, I'm a cheap bastard. Well, since someone else is footing the room bill, I decided to go for the cable option. It was pretty much the only way I could watch anything in English, so why not?
So, I'm flipping channels after dinner tonight and I come across the music video channels. Surprisingly, they were all actually showing videos, even MTV. So, interested in knowing more about what makes Japan rock, I decided to tune in for a few minutes. If you think rap in the States is bad, you should see this crap. You may even start to like good old American rap. No wonder these folks love Michael Jackson and Britney. Hell, Michael Bolton might be preferable to some of the craptacular selections I endured. One video was for some Japanese equivalent of the teen pop goddess. I couldn't understand a word she said (in Japanese, duh) but I could tell it was meaningful because of the gigantic, ultra-slow hand gestures the singer produced while simultaneously rocking the hips slowly, but rythmically. Not to mention the overabundance of digital 'fairy dust' in the video. I don't know the current state of affairs in the music video industry in the States, but I really hope it's not this bad. Unfortunately, no scrambled channels here.
What is it about girls in life science and boys in physics?!? I am a science teacher and I still can't figure it out. In the upper level science classes at Meikei, it's boys in physics, girls in biology. I feel like the answer is obvious, but I just can't get a grasp on it. I think my perspective is skewed because I'm too close to the front lines, so please, enlighten me by clicking on the 'Shout Out' button below this post. Totally opposite from what I work in, the science department is dominated by men. Eight full time staff in science and one of them is female. I'll give you one guess as to what subject she teaches.
First, I don't have cable at home. No, I'm not one of those people who are all high and mighty about not having cable, boasting my intellectual superiority because I don't watch TV, implying that I do something more productive with my time such as reading books, or running numbers. Heck, sometimes I wish I had cable so I could change the channel away from Trading Spaces or watch the scrambled nudie channel hoping to score a glimpse of a booby. No, I'm just a workaholic that understands economics and the fact that I don't want to pay that much per unit time of television watching. In other words, I'm a cheap bastard. Well, since someone else is footing the room bill, I decided to go for the cable option. It was pretty much the only way I could watch anything in English, so why not?
So, I'm flipping channels after dinner tonight and I come across the music video channels. Surprisingly, they were all actually showing videos, even MTV. So, interested in knowing more about what makes Japan rock, I decided to tune in for a few minutes. If you think rap in the States is bad, you should see this crap. You may even start to like good old American rap. No wonder these folks love Michael Jackson and Britney. Hell, Michael Bolton might be preferable to some of the craptacular selections I endured. One video was for some Japanese equivalent of the teen pop goddess. I couldn't understand a word she said (in Japanese, duh) but I could tell it was meaningful because of the gigantic, ultra-slow hand gestures the singer produced while simultaneously rocking the hips slowly, but rythmically. Not to mention the overabundance of digital 'fairy dust' in the video. I don't know the current state of affairs in the music video industry in the States, but I really hope it's not this bad. Unfortunately, no scrambled channels here.
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