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 These shots are from about two weeks ago, when the leaves were starting to approach their peak. Out for a walk a few minutes from the house, I was surprised to come across this tall grass, and I thought it would make a nice background. It wasn't really that cold -- maybe 15C (60F) -- but being the first cold snap of the season, it felt cold. Lately it's gotten down to 6C (43F). It won't get much colder... the low during the winter in Kyoto is about freezing, with the mid-day average about 5C (41F). 
View full post » I notice that this time, unlike his earlier drawing of himself with Mommy, we have fingers. Three fingers on each hand put us on the evolutionary stage just above the Tyrannosaurus rex (which had two). "Blue sky, grass, rocks, and Daddy with shoes. Daddy is sad because there are rocks in his way."I notice that not only don't I have fingers this time, but no arms. And no hair. Sad, indeed! 
View full post » Getting sort of sick of having to reboot my horribly flaky Windows system 10 times a day (I kid you not), I've finally succumbed to getting a new system. Despite being a geek for the better part of 40 years, I didn't buy my first computer until I was 30 (and I still have it below my desk -- almost 10 years old, it's the machine with which I wrote my last two books). In the years since, I've bought two laptops, a system for Fumie while we were in America, and systems for both of us here. I [...]
I couldn't help but to laugh at the irony when I saw this Associated Press article on Yahoo! News: Considering how pejorative offensive the term "Xmas" is (it is, after all, "Christmas" with "Christ" X'ed out), you can't help but question the journalistic integrity of the writer (Tom Breen) and Associated Press. Take this headline in comparison: Ariz. cop had black men rap away ticket, which, like the first, is currently on Yahoo's "most popular news" list. I don't think anyone would put up with this headline rewritten as "Ariz. pig had black men rap away ticket" or "Ariz. cop [...] This post describes how I made the funky-color Kyoto fall leaves image from the other day. I'd wanted to check out the vine growing through a bamboo fence again, in afternoon light (as opposed to the morning shade I'd seen it in before), so I went back on Wednesday afternoon. It was a productive visit, with a few shots of the fence that will certainly find their way here in the future. However, the subject of today's post is what I saw when I looked up. Kyoto's impressive autumn colors are in full force now, but there are [...] 
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