thingsinjars

  • 16 Sep 2023

    My Books

    Not Geek, Ideas

  • 6 Jan 2008

    Firemen's Parade

    Firemen's Parade

    I went to the Tokyo Fire Department's annual parade today and took over 200 photos. It was very impressive, all in all. The only thing that bothered me was the poster advertising the event...

    Am I the only person who expects to see Eric Cartman standing in the middle?

    Photos

  • 2 Jan 2008

    Banzai!

    I went to the Imperial Palace today to see the Emperor and his family. Lovely people. We had tea. And biscuits.

    If only there wasn't this huge crowd of people cheering the whole time...we couldn't hear ourselves think.

  • 30 Dec 2007

    Sushi is good for you

    Sushi is good for you

    It's also very filling. I visited a friend from Edinburgh today who's over here helping her mum pack and they made this excellent dinner.

    Photos

  • 20 Dec 2007

    Christmas Card

    Christmas Card

    Before I get any concerned e-mails, I haven't been arrested. I just thought this would be a funny card. I also don't look that rough. At least, I hope not. I've included a couple more recent photos in the pop-up in case you need proof.

    Everything here's going well, my Japanese is coming along slowly but surely. I'm now getting private lessons twice a week to help overcome the fact that Japanese is really hard.

    I think I must have made it to every area of Tokyo by now, I've been going to a different one each weekend but I still keep finding cool new stuff. I'm also deliberately not going near Akihabara at this time of year just in case I get tempted to buy a bunch of stuff as christmas presents to myself.

    Anyway, y'all have a good Christmas and New year...

  • newer posts
  • older posts

Categories

Toys, Guides, Opinion, Geek, Non-geek, Development, Design, CSS, JS, Open-source Ideas, Cartoons, Photos

Shop

Colourful clothes for colourful kids

I'm currently reading

Projects

  • Awsm Street – Kid's clothing
  • Stickture
  • Explanating
  • Open Source Snacks
  • My life in sans-serif
  • My life in monospace
Simon Madine (thingsinjars)

@thingsinjars.com

Hi, I’m Simon Madine and I make music, write books and code.

I’m the Engineering Lead for komment.

© 2026 Simon Madine