文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for February, 2006There are a lot of wires strung across the sky in Japan. A lot of wires. Here's a picture of the utility pole closest to our place: As you might imagine, it's quite pleasant to see every day. (NOT!) Looking straight up from where I took the first shot, you can see in the photo below the utility pole closest to the other side of the entrance. All the wires strung between the two go right across the face of the building. Double yuck. Frankly, since these poles and masses of wires are [...] 
View full post » Since I'm getting more interested in photography and understanding cameras and techniques, I find myself wanting to know the details under which a photo was taken. Modern digital cameras encode a lot of such data -- shutter speed, lens focal length, etc. -- into the image file, generally called "Exif Data" ("Exif" stands for "Exchangeable Image File Format" and as an acronym would normally be written as "EXIF", but the standard creators explicitly say that it should be written "Exif", which is nice.). So, I wrote a little online Exif viewer to view whatever data might be [...] 
View full post » I seem to be way behind on my photo processing, and today it got worse when an FFF (friend of a friend of Fumie) got married at the Heian Shrine, which is conveniently quite near where I live. A traditional Japanese wedding is attended by only the very closest of family; it's the reception that's the big celebration attended by throngs of guests, so it's for that the FF (friend-of-Fumie) came to Kyoto. We could, however, visit the public grounds of the shrine and witness the newly-married couple leaving the area by rickshaw for the reception venue [...] 
View full post » My posts seem to have a negative tint lately, so I thought I'd try to counter that with a post on the somewhat of a success story that are my recent workouts at the gym. Fitness HistoryIn the very old days I was quite skinny (more gangly, really, considering that I'm a geek), and weighed in at about 180 pounds [82kg]. I'm 6'4" [192cm], so 180 pounds is pretty lean. Then I started working out and I built up a fairly nice build; at my peak, I had Popeye arms (okay, not really, but at least [...] 
View full post » So, I call up PG&E to make a payment on the gas/electricity for the Cupertino house. They have one of those voice-navigation phone systems ("say 'card' to pay by card; say 'check' to pay by check") that for some reason I find really annoying. (Most of what I find I want to say to such systems are words they would likely not recognize, and which are not printable in a refined forum such as my blog 🙂 ) Anyway, I navigate through entering my account number and credit card number, but it keeps reporting that there's an error [...]
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