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I almost felt like I’d started to adjust to Japanese time when I woke up at 10AM. Tonight was to be the first night of several drunken outings as Yuki was taking us out to a Japanese bar. I was going to rest for the morning and catch up on my email and journal, but [...]

This morning I was thinking about different ways that people become famous. Not just celebrity fame, but the fame that lasts through death and sometimes even through the fall of your civilization. People like Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Wilt Chamberlain. So I decided to make a list of 20 human beings of lasting fame [...]