New name, same-ish dude. Name runners-up were:
GrizzlyBaddums (disqualified due to my lack of experience with bears)
SouffleofMan (came very close)
aModifiedLudovico (esoteric in a great way but inaccessible and also a character too long)
ChekhovsName (too self-indulgent and circular logic-esque which tends to either really fascinate or really annoy people)

Also wiped questions, they were ages old.

This section needs updating so often that it's hard to keep up.

Writer/journalist/radioguy/podcaster/TVguy/voiceover/etc. Let's say I'm busy. Entering my sixth year in Japan, third in Tokyo. Not madly in love with the country like I was but not as disillusioned with it as I used to be.

The most fun thing I think I'm doing right now is hosting/recording a podcast called The Japan Show, go google it. Hint: I'm not the Australian guy. That seems to be not obvious. Other Hint: Please don't listen to episode 1, at least not before you've listened to a post-15 episode. You'll see why.

Not bragging I swear.

"Look at that hige, he must be oyaji!"
I had a bunch of kids call me ojisan when we were shooting a show up in Hokkaido, that's the moment where you go "where has my life gone?"

Also I am apparently 100% unassuming.

I used to have a lot here. Instead, there is now my recipe for our new patented (with another fabulous member of the expat community in Japan) cocktail.

"Facts 'n Proof"
2 parts gin
4 parts fizzy water stuff
1 part lime juicy stuff
1 part sodium pentathol
all parts SCIENCE!

Ludicrous yet astoundingly boring Japanese politics
Shiny fancy microphones
and blar blar blar

seriously just go watch this youtube video instead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M67JwFsM_M

"Was I supposed to do that gig today?"
"Ooh, I could put that on the website."
"God, I'm hungry."

not spending time writing this. That's more of a 4:55am Thursday morning thing.

Most recently, every few days off I'll stop by the rock climbing gym, there are two within a half-hour bike ride and they're MAGNIFICENT. I still suck, also :-|

Here's a good one; I've been filmed naked (partially) for a major worldwide non-pornographic broadcaster. EDIT: It's apparently important that I mention, that wasn't the main meat of the recording. And again that it wasn't pornographic.

If you've stalked me via checking out my podcast and related fiddly internet bits, you'll probably already know more about me than most. But here's one I don't particularly have any reason to type anywhere else:

I used to be compulsive about checking words I typed on a computer to see if they were symmetrical based on the keyboard layout (like 'mead' would be 1-2-1 toprow-midrow-bottomrow, and thus satisfying in some weird way to my brain). Then I did it in my head not long after that. Reason being, my dad had an old 486 with DOS, when we did cool shit with text and text alone. I basically toyed with that when I was a kid. Explains my ridiculous typing speed. And that I built my own desktop computer.

I was oddly satisfied with words that were symmetrical. That may be the reason I like the word 'sandwich' (2-4-2). And 'manhole' (2-3-2).

**WOOP WOOP ALERT I'M A GEEK**

the first thing you think when you see my photos is NOT "Bieber."

I just haven't found my patent papers so I can take the little asshat to court.