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 the 'General' CategoryGeneral posts More pictures from Anthony's birthday the other day. We had a couple of those pull-the-string-and-streamers-pop-out party favors.... Yet just 0.69 seconds later.... A present from Grandma and Grandpa had him looking for assistance... Inside was an "age 8+" radio-controlled car that I'm sure we'll see more of in a later post, and a book that got an immediate and thorough inspection... Fumie's mom made a wonderful spread for dinner. Anthony and Fumie's brother are playing with Anthony's new train in the background of the next shot.... The foreground bowl is rice topped with egg (the yellow stuff), cucumber, ikura salmon [...] 
View full post » Anthony turned five years old today. Like last year, he picked out his own present. This year it was a little train set... In the picture above, I like the perspective of the candles and how they rise out of the focus into the blur. There were lots more silly times and more presents, but we'll save those for another post or two.... 
View full post » Anthony played with an older friend the other day, who made for him some origami puppies (origami being the Japanese art of paper folding). They were adorable, all the more so because their heads bobbled in the breeze like a bobblehead doll. Made from two sheets of paper, the head is balanced on a point, and hence the bobble.... One you have the basic concept down, you can make adjustments to the body and head and end up with a whole pack of different puppies, each with their own personality. (The one with the lobster shirt is not origami, but [...] 
View full post » Well, I'm not sure "650× magnification" is exactly the right way to say it because there are so many ways to lie with numbers. The area of the bill shown is about 8mm by 5.3mm, or about 0.066 square inches. With an average LCD display at 86 DPI, the image above appears at about 8 × 5.4 inches, or about 43 square inches (although how big it appears for you depends on the physical size of your monitor, your monitor's dot pitch, your desktop size, and perhaps some browser settings). So, from the actual area of 0.066 square inches to [...] 
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