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...DOESN'T BOTHER JASON MIKAMI that people all over the world see and hear what goes on in his closet. In fact, it's his job to figure out what to do when they can't. Inside the network operations closet--"the NOC room"--time passes in 15-sec. increments. A wall of 14 flat screens blinks with paired images like a nightmarishly complex game of Memory...
Here, a few of Mikami's staff monitor about 200 audio and video channels for glitches in service for MobiTV's carriers. Can't hear XM Radio or NPR? Call Mikami. Frozen CNN video? Call Mikami--provided the rare instance that someone on his staff of 45 (up from 6 in April 2005) can't handle it. NOC-ers flag problems by closely analyzing snippets of audio and video contents. "The NOC folks act as the first tier and open up the trouble tickets and provide the meat of the information that allows our technical staff to handle the problem...
Years ago he would have given his left pinkie to be the 12th man on the Golden State Warriors' roster. That MobiTV's hoop team, now defunct, lost every game in the Emeryville league doesn't bode well for a career change. But Mikami, 36, isn't done with start-ups: he is diverting some of his earnings to create a winery within three years at his family's 15-acre vineyard of Zinfandel in Lodi, Calif. He's also taking viniculture classes at the University of California at Davis and planning a three-month sabbatical to get his hands...
...skilled a butler who ever buttled. He takes our coats and bags and shimmers away, leading us down the corridor past gilded mirrors, Monet prints and bursting bouquets to our table in the Swallowtail's elegant tearoom. As I move to sit at our table, a second butler, named Mikami, materializes to ease me into my chair. "Good day, princess," he says to my dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare...
...work by which he now feels poisoned. But compared to Kurosawa's characters, these protagonists are less deftly rendered. Nango's fanatical devotion to the case makes him the personification of a guilty conscience rather than a flesh and blood character. And it's often hard to tell if Mikami is thoughtful, traumatized or just plain dumb?Sorimachi portrays him with a zombie-like flatness...