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Wed Feb 17 06:00:01 EST 2021
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Slept from nine to seven, but lay awake for a couple hours after waking around two.
Mostly sunny then becoming partly cloudy early in the afternoon then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 20s.
West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest late in the morning, then shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
Lowest wind chill readings 5 below to 15 below zero early in the morning.
Work
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- 6639, Email laptop questionnaire to main office staff
Done.
- 6974, call Jim/Heather, close webmaster ticket
Done.
- 7244, follow up on Lori's Entrata issue
Entrata has yet to triage the issue. Their support is molasses.
- Order keyboard, mouse, and USB hub to Jim's home
Done.
- Review credit card statement
No.
- 7193, maybe resume work on DNS (shudder) which I've been procrastinating about
No.
Fifteen minutes on the exercise bike at lunch.
Definitely a more rigorous cardiovascular work-out than walking, but I should probably make time to get outside too.
Home
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- 9–11 AM grocery delivery (prop door for driver!)
Done.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/llbmuh/the_man_from_tauredsolved/
> Last year, u/NatanaelAntonioli posted to r/japan about the story. He/she linked to an Aug. 15, 1960, clipping from Vancouver’s The Province, which told the story of conman John Allen Kuchar Zegrus (emboldenings mine):
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> > Mr. Zegrus wanted to travel the world. To impress officials, he invented a nation, a capital, a people and a language. All these he recorded on a passport which he made himself. […]
> > John claimed to be a “naturalized Ethiopian and an intelligent agent for Colonel Nasser.” The passport was stamped as issued at Tamanrasset, the capital of Tuared “south of the Sahara.” Any places so romantically named ought to exist, but they don’t. John Allen Kuchar Zegrus invented them. […]
> > [Zegrus’s] gallant gesture for the individualist, unfortunately, ended with the Japanese in Tokyo. They began looking up maps.
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> Antonioli also linked to a 1960 speech by British M.P. Robert Mathew, published in Hansard. According to Mathew (emboldenings again mine):
> > My hon. Friend may know the case of John Alan Zegrus, who is at present being prosecuted in Tokio. […] This man, according to the evidence, has travelled all over the world with a very impressive looking passport indeed. […]
> > The passport is stated to have been issued in Tamanrosset the capital of the independent sovereign state of Tuarid. […] When the accused was cross-examined he said that it was a State of 2 million population somewhere south of the Sahara. This man has been round the world on this passport without hindrance, a Passport which as far as we know is written in the invented language of an invented country.
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> And then in Nov. 2020, u/taraiochi figured out the last piece of the puzzle. He/she linked to a 1960 Japanese newspaper article that is clearly about Zegrus. As translated by u/johnmasterof, it reads:
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> > A mysterious foreigner of unknown nationality and background, accused of illegal entry and fraud, tried to commit suicide in front of the judge who handed down the verdict, at the Tokyo District Court on April 10. The defendant, John Allen K. Ziegler [sic] (36), was sentenced by Judge Yamagishi to one year of imprisonment…
> > Zieglass [sic] and his Korean wife entered Haneda Airport with a forged passport from Taipei on October 24 last year, and in December of the same year, he stole about 200,000 yen and $140 in traveler's checks from the Tokyo branch of the [Chase Manhattan Bank], and another 100,000 yen from the Tokyo branch of the Bank of Korea. The forged passport used to enter the country was handmade and the name of the country, Negusi Habesi Ghouloulouloul Esprit, was completely fictitious, and the characters written on it were also unclear, even after being authenticated by a specialist, as to what language it was written in.
> > The defendant spoke 14 countries, and in response to the investigation, he stated that he had come to Japan on orders from an Arab-related agency and was working for a U.S. intelligence agency, but there was no such fact, and the district prosecutor, troubled by the fact that the nationality of the defendant was unknown, prosecuted the case. The identity of the riddle was not revealed at the trial, and the English newspaper reported that he was a "mystery man".
Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 3/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: wrap with egg and cucumber, coffee
Lunch: banana, tomato, two hot dogs
Dinner: potato chips
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