Dali’s Graphic Tribe Tattoos Weblog [Tokyo Shibuya Ebisu]

My PowerBook got sick.

Its USB ports went numb and, somehow, the crippled logic board was affecting the whole shit. The trackpad froze, the entire OS froze. Restarting would give me the black screen treatment, booting from the install disk was taking forever, all kinds of force boots, safe mode boots and the likes were taking ages or were joining the give-Dali-the-black-screen-treatment party and so on.

My Powerbook went into a coma…

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I’ll be away — between Tuesday, August 23^rd and Thursday, September 15^th — on a trip to Bucharest – Paris – Rome.

Naturally, the website stays on — as usual — and, although I’ll carry my PowerBook with me, I’ll probably be out of reach for this period, because I have no idea how often I’ll be able to get online while traveling…

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Even now — XXI^th Century — young people are threatened (and not only threatened) to be fired for having tattoo.

Just like that! Hard to believe, heh? Well it is true and, in my 9 years here, I’ve encountered it so many times I can’t remember, both from people who ask me to make sure the tattoo fits above the lower margin of the t-shirt sleeve (or, for that matter, above the lower margin of the average above-the-knee skirt) and from people who were either forced to wear clothes in such a fashion as to hide their tattoos or got literally fired…

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