Your Bag Is Private: Police Searches in Japan
A request to open your bag is not the same thing as a legal duty. Here is why I recommend declining voluntary, suspicionless searches, and where that advice has limits.
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Harry Negron Field notes from Japan
Puerto Rican geneticist, Army veteran, father, builder, and Honda obsessive. I document what I learn, test, drive, build, and change my mind about.
Journal / Recent
Latest entries
One life, several disciplines. New writing appears here before it fits anywhere else.
How My Honda Fit Became a $21,261 Carbon-Fiber Family Car
I bought a practical 2018 Fit RS with 11,000 km. Then I changed almost everything except its ability to carry my children.
ReadJapan's 15-Day Free Trial Lasted Almost 33 Years
Japan finally arrested a man who entered in 1993 on a 15-day stay, built a life under an alias, and somehow outlasted several generations of bureaucracy.
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Current coordinates
Leaving academia, building independent ventures, raising three children, and learning what retirement looks like before the usual age.
Garage / Honda × 4
Four Hondas. Four versions of freedom.
The Fit handles ordinary life. The others wait in storage for the roads and days that suit them.
Honda
Fit RS
The daily driver—the car that does the ordinary work freedom depends on.
Honda
S2000 Type S
A focused road car saved for the right weather, road, and state of mind.
Honda
Integra Type R
Light, direct, and from an era when speed still felt mechanical.
Honda
Civic Type R
Modern performance in a color that refuses to disappear into traffic.
Jivaro / Ventures
The network
Specialist sites explain subjects. This notebook explains why I care about them.
Jivaro
Apps for the everyday
Browser tools for documents, images, audio and text, alongside downloadable desktop software. Start with the task you need to finish.
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NexusArc
For the love of games
Games, gaming news, hardware and player culture, with guides and browser tools for exploring the things you play.
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Aerod
Know your connection
Check your browser and network with diagnostic tools, privacy tests and practical guides to defensive security.
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Nortune
Make room for choices
Finance guides and calculators for working through budgets, debt and longer-term plans at your own pace.
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Kadomony
Look closer at the evidence
Health guides, research explanations and evidence reviews that help you look beyond a headline and understand what a study actually says.
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Urobolus
The details behind the drive
Explore vehicle specifications, compare documented configurations and find maintenance references with traceable sources.
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Etrenank
Build around what fits
A cordless-tool and battery-system catalog for checking documented compatibility between tools, batteries and chargers.
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