@auteurhouse He has a damn backbone. Today many Japanese will just go “Oh no, I don’t want any conflict. Keep the harmony. I’ll work no matter what.” Unless it’s to complain about foreigners. 😅
Don’t believe everything you see.
He came to apply for a position. He was prepared. He had a great portfolio. He had a superb résumé. He had an incredible score on coding tests.
But the reason I turned him down, I told him…
In the era of dial-up, before YouTube, Netflix, and Crunchyroll, Japanese companies collaborated to launch W VISION. I wrote about my experience with this little forgotten experiment in early video-on-demand.
@OldInternetFeel Fun fact: That large display in front of Studio ALTA was used to display emergency information soon after the 2011 earthquake. (Display appears dark in the photo below. Taken on 16 March 2011 with an iPhone 4.)
I wrote about that floppy a few times on my site. The first time was in “Beige Boxes.” Later again in “Copy That Floppy,” accompanied by pictures of colourful floppy discs: https://t.co/x3v3QqwnK7
Updated the logo icon to actually make it look like a floppy disc like I tried before. It’s an homage to the floppy disc I carried with me everywhere with my text files of diary and contacts, batch files, as well as my GeoCities website. #NewProfilePic
@BroccuChan64 I was writing about IRC the other day and ended up wasting hours when I found out those networks were still up. Not a lot of chatting going on though 😅 https://t.co/XyU2LP2MbH