Crunch
One thing about the new apartment’s view is that you get a look at city life from a height. Earlier this morning, I heard a crunch that most people with driving experience would unmistakably identify...
View ArticleRainy Ikebukuro
Just a few shots from the pre-typhoon nighttime. This first is the top of the Sunshine 60, lost in the low rainclouds. The second is the orange lighting of Kasuga Boulevard.
View ArticleTokyo Thunderstorm
We’re having our first major thunderstorm after moving in to our new place. In case I didn’t mention it before, I love thunderstorms. Got some good audio on this one, too, just haven’t processed it...
View ArticleTokyo Bay Fireworks
One of the advantages of the view we enjoy from the 21st floor in Ikebukuro is the fireworks displays that can be seen during July and August. Today there were fireworks in Harumi, on Tokyo Bay. We...
View ArticleArts Day 2007
Well, the video was a big hit; people seemed to enjoy it a lot. As before, the live house we’re using has a WiFi connection, allowing me to connect and blog directly from the festival site. One of our...
View ArticleComing to America
So here we go, yet another trip across the lake. As usual, there was the usual forgetting-of-random-items (the zoom mag lens for my S1-IS, and my glasses prescription) and last-minutes delays and...
View ArticleAre Mac Users Better People?
This is somewhat of a weird idea, almost disturbing–kind of like saying that rich people are more hard-working, or Asian people are naturally better at math. But there have been some stories floating...
View ArticleOriginal Candy
One of the problems with some of the flavors of Christianity is that, to a thinking person, they include rather clear absurdities that make it difficult to accept the religion as a whole. I remember...
View ArticleMcCain’s Response to Lobbyist Story: Political Smear?
Read the report: “It is a shame that The New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign,” McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said in a statement. “McCain has a...
View ArticleCharlton Heston, 84
I was going to post that they can take his gun away now, but I see that thousands of others have already seen the obvious joke there and beaten me to it.
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