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Martin’s Top Ten for 2011

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As it was for a lot of you out there, this wasn’t the easiest year for me and my family. Following Giant Robot’s print magazine going on hiatus at the tail end of 2010, I was unemployed with no job leads or responses to my queries for the first six months. Then, after I got an awesome job out of nowhere, the company my wife worked for was purchased by a competitor and shut down. Fortunately, we’ve managed to get by through frugal habits, a rock-solid support system of family and friends, and the PMA. And yes, there have been highlights. Here are ten of them–some of which has been written about in the blog, others merely alluded to, and a couple of odds and ends–in no particular order.

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Top 10 for 2011

This list represents a lot of stuff that I just got around to in 2011 and really dug. I hope you get a kick out of it.

 

 

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10,000 Foreigners Will Not Be Going to Japan Free

After the hype of the idea of going to Japan for Free, and for some odd reason, our own post titled: “Japan May Let in 10,000 Tourist for Free” got tons of views and tons of comments asking us to choose them to go on this trip. We’re not in charge! It appears that the entire program isn’t happening. According to a released statement: “We realise that this announcement is going to disappoint thousands of people around the world, but we hope people will understand how insensitive it would appear for the Japanese Government to give people free flights to Japan when the cities, towns and villages devastated by the tsunami are still in desperate need of funding for reconstruction.” (seejapan – 10,000 won’t be going)
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The Tomb of Christ is in Japan

The Tomb of Christ is in Japan according to a town in northern Japan. From the Japan Times: “The pamphlet goes on to explain that, according to this testament, Christ first visited Japan between the ages of 21 and 33 (the Bible does in fact skip over large periods of Christ’s early life, and many theories exist about what he did in the intervals). The document claims he studied the native language and culture before returning to Jerusalem, where he was crucified.” It goes on to say that He later came back to Japan and lived to be 106. It’s a tourist attraction in a town of 2800 where there’s only 1 Christian who outs it all. Ironically, the rest of the town are the ones who keep the story in tact. If you can’t believe this story, then what can you believe? UFOs? That happened too. (Japan Times – Christ)  
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