Good by cui daore

Two familiar things will disappear soon. orange train car of Chuo line. All train cars will be changed to a new type silver color with orange lines. I wrote about the reason why Chuo line had so many suicide accidents before. For me, that dark orange color always looked gloomy.

Another one is Cui Daore doll and the restaurant at Dotonbori in Osaka. The restaurant got to be old and, so they will close in July. The doll "Taro" was the symbol of the restaurant, so he will retire also. Osaka people will miss him, he was the symbol of colorful Dotonbori too. too.

Meet me is a Japanese 3d virtual community, and it will open soon. I have never used Second Life and I don't have an interest to do that, so I won't use Meet me, but it will be fun to look around 3D Tokyo one time. They said they made it from car navigation system data. So Tokyo would be very real. The funny part is that they said you can get some passive service "Meet me". It will mean Japanese people are not good at acting positive just like talking, asking, trying something in such a virtual community. When you go to Second Life and someone runs away from you when you say hello, it will be a Japanese person?!

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[mari]

hi there
yap! Chuo was fucked up and Yamanote stopped too! and Odakyu was depay as usual.

[gabuchan]

Meet-me should be avail in foreign countries. its the internet - no boundaries.

Speaking of Chuo -line there was a FIRE at kokubunji this morning so MAJOR delays on that line.

[bshock]

"Meet Me" sounds very interesting, if only for just one look. I wonder if they will allow people from overseas to use it?

This has been a problem sometimes with online games. My wife was trying to participate in beta tests for a game called "Monster Farm Online," but the company's servers were set to disconnect foreign IP addresses. She was eventually able to look at the game with a Japanese proxy server, but the relayed connection was very slow, of course.