Geez, where has the time gone!? Time seems to evaporate when researching stuff, and for the last several days I've had my head buried in setting up a big data-backup system at home and in the cloud (something I'm sure I'll post about soon).

Anyway, it's been a week since I posted the Bendy-Line "What am I?" Quiz where many people answered "paper", and yes, it's paper, but there's a more expressive (dare I say "richer"?) answer....

Earlier this year I was given access to a huge pile of cash -- ¥7,000,000 (about US $91,000) -- though sadly that access [...]

The other day I posted "This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto", a photo that I really like of yet another not-too-bad Kyoto sunset, taken from the Shogunzuka overlook (将軍塚) that I often visit in hopes of a nice sunset.

As the proximity-search "nearby photos" link under that photo (and those below) shows, I post lots of shots taken from up there, most recently "A Typhoon Makes for a Good Sunset (But It’s Me That Makes It Great)" a month and a half ago, and a week before that, "Bland Sunset Over Kyoto: They Can’t All Be Amazing".

I've been up a [...]

So the Curiosity Rover just landed successfully on Mars.

In the type of scene that Norman Rockwell would have painted, Anthony and I watched live.... "live", except that it took 14 minutes for data to travel across space at the speed of light from Mars to the United States, then another second or so to make the trip halfway around the Earth to our house in Kyoto.

My laptop with the live video stream was on the dining-room table while Anthony huddled nearby and I watched from across the sink as I stood in my underwear doing the dishes in [...]

We had a nice sunset in Kyoto this evening.

Continued here...

It's been a while since I've posted one of Anthony's LEGO creations (the most recent having been on "Battle at an Abandoned Castle, Made Possible by Warehouse19.se"). This one is a recent McDonald's restaurant scene...