This is the personal site of Makiko Itoh (Maki, 伊藤牧子). Maki is the creator of Just Hungry, a site (mostly) about Japanese cooking, and Just Bento, all about bento box meals. The journal on this site is about art, design, writing, making stuff, culture, web and other geekery, being Japanese abroad, being a U.S. citizen abroad, living in Switzerland, or basically anything but food. Read more about Maki, or contact her.
grüetzi. bonjour. こんにちは。hi.
Jury duty, this time for real
My recent jury duty experience.
posted on 17 Dec 2009 ::
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Email woes
To "Victoria": I tried to email you back but your email inbox is full.
So it's really you, not me.
Pot, kettle, black and Kindle: The New Yorker Digital Edition sucks
A recent article in The New Yorker dissing Amazon's Kindle made me snort with sarcastic laughter. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
posted on 17 Aug 2009 ::
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Star Trek, and movie watching in France vs. Switzerland
I've only mentioned this on my About page, but I am a long time Star Trek fan. At one point in my life I even was the type of Trek fan (Trekkie, Trekker, whatever) that went to conventions (though I never got into Trek cosplay). For what it's worth, I have autographed photos of all of the captains except for Jonathan Frakes/Scott Bakula. Yipes.
posted on 10 May 2009 ::
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