More Japan Business

It appears that I have some issues with my G5 that need resolving before I can share some pictures. However, I will continue to compile my pictures into a blog-like format so I can upload all of them and make them available at http://stolee.dyndns.org/japan/ when possible. I can't log in remotely, or I would have this fixed already.

Today, we had to amuse IBM and let them tell us how great they are for innovating as well as sponsoring the contest. Afterward, they sent us to Tokyo Disney Sea for the rest of the day. We knew we wouldn't last long in there, but since the ticket was free, we decided to take a quick walkthrough. It was too much to bear. The fact that we were in a US-based company's theme park marketed towards Japanese featuring an AMERICATOWN was too surreal. We ditched the place and used the food money they gave us to head back to Tokyo downtown. There, we got to go into all those places that were closed yesterday, including the Palace East Gardens and the Museum of Modern Art. Look forward to pictures from the gardens. I don't feel like getting in trouble by supplying museum pictures right now, so I may not put those up.

Now, we're back in the hotel and gave up a few hundred yen for 24 hours of in-room internet since the hotel has no wireless and IBM is only supporting wireless during select hours. Now, I can keep up a bit with my email and other communication.

Tomorrow, we have a busy day with contest activities, including a couple practices at our machines. This will keep us from going anywhere, so few to no pictures will be taken tomorrow. This will give me a chance to catch up with labeling and captioning all of them. Yuliy and Travis are so sick of me taking pictures that they either actively try to hide from view, cover their faces, or show their butts. So mature.