fukuoka day 1

sporadic net comms doesnt do justice to what i want to tell you guys. i had to retype this twice. Anyways, here i am in Fukuoka, Kyushu, at my 1st international conference. The once every 4 years, 6th international congress of dipterology. tomorrow's forensic science and diptera. That includes maggots for gangrene therapy, pig corpses in CLOTHES to tell the level of decay according to the maggots and so on. Its geek galore here; so many people eager on their work. And one guy whom im real keen and excited to talk to, Wolf "thats right, just like the animal"Blackernhorn. Hes one of THE diptera behaviorologist. gosh. soooo excited!

Anyways, placewise this place inst that beautiful; mostly very boxy, modernist buildings; there were almost 2D buildings that were ludicrously thin - you could spread out your arms and almost cover the width of the flat. I wonder how any one manage to live in them. An to play along with the modernist/cubist theme, the hotel is BLOOODY snall; me and my roomie have to squeeze into this wee cubicle where when i open my suitcase i cant open the hotel door. The toilet... well imagine an airplane toilet and then enlarge it twice. There you go.

Oh and one thing that tickled me pink were the commodes themselves - they got buttons and all to 1.warm the seat such that it felt like someone had just sat on it for an hour, 2.rinse your prosterior, 3. rinse a women's anterior(!!!!), 4.blowdry it and even 5.make tweety little noises to mask your fartin and all. heh. hilarious.

the keyboards here are really wierd, and lapse into jap language now and then. annoying.

k. till then, maybe more on the conference itself. AND shopping. Wowwowweewaaa!


-yc out