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 January, 2006Niigata (新潟) is an area of Japan that's gotten a lot of snow -- more than 12 feet (3.8 meters) so far this year. Yesterday on the news I saw a video of a tiny car driving down the street, with accumulated snow still on its roof. The snow was at least as tall above the top of the car as the car itself was tall above the road (about four and a half feet each, I'd guess). Someone had chiseled this thing out of a snowbank, cleared the snow from the hood and windows, and left all the [...] 
View full post » Anthony is a big kid (approaching 3 years 3 months) and can use the toilet to make a pee-pee all by himself. But he's not so big that he's no longer gleeful when he's successful, so it still is somewhat of an "event" that he's generally happy about. Yet, for some reason (probably because he's a kid) he's often is reluctant to use the toilet. For example, this evening before bed, as I always do, I said "let's make a pee-pee before we sleep" to which he responded (as he always does) "I don't want to". This is [...]
Continuing with my new camera posts... So, yesterday I went down to the Joshin Denki electric shop with Anthony, to actually look at and handle the Nikon D200 camera I'd pretty much decided on. Although the shop we went to was the closest of the various branches in Kyoto, it doesn't have parking so it's quite inconvenient unless I go by bike (which I didn't want to do at night, with Anthony, in the cold). I'd called around other Joshins in Kyoto to see if they had the D200 on display, but only this one had. So, [...] 
View full post » We've been wondering when it would start, and like a switch it started last week. One day Anthony just started asking "why" at any and every chance. Here's a representative conversation: Anthony:What are you eating? Daddy:(some answer) Anthony:Why? Daddy:Well, because it's dinner time and I'm hungry. Anthony:Why? Daddy:Why is it dinner time or why am I hungry? Anthony:(thinks for a bit)Why is it dinner time? Daddy:Earlier we ate lunch, and now it's getting dark, and so now it's dinner time. Anthony:Why? .... continue ad infinitum ... We're thrilled that he's curious and we try to answer [...]
So, as per my previous post, I'm considering a big full-function SLR to augment my micro-sized point-n-shoot Canon SD500. In the last day or so, my feeling has gone from "considering" to "will buy" to "have ordered". To some extent, the decision about what to get is easier with an SLR than with a point-n-shoot; with the latter, the choice for me involves balancing three things (cost, features, size), while with an SLR it's just two (cost and features). Of course, with an SLR there are many, many more features. I don't have a lot of "boy toys" [...] 
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