I was gonna make some posts sharing pictures and stories from our trip, but I decided it would be lazier to just put a bunch of pictures on a Flickr account. So I did.

Check it out.

Start at the end to see them in chronological order (at least 'til you get to the ones i took with my phone).

whale meat (deep fried) - delicious, soft, kinda like chicken
horse meat (smoked, served sushi-style) - so-so, but i felt strangely guilty about it
snake meat (soup) - lots of bones, kinda like chicken

( photos from tokyo )

Day 5 in Tokyo now, if you count the day we got here and did pretty much nothing ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I watch Japanese TV to try to learn the language better, or see how much I can understand (usually a word here and there). Of course sometimes it's just 'cause it's cool. Anyway, I noticed that Japanese audiences make a unique kind of crowd noise; you can hear it in this video, the rising pitch 'surprise' noise. It's interesting, it ( Read more... )

hey, remember Improv Everywhere? the ones who did the starbucks loop and the best buy thing?

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so lately i've been reading a lot of Vernor Vinge, a sci-fi author who's known for being pretty accurate in his predictions. the one i'm currently reading is "Rainbows End", which takes place in 2025, and whose characters wear contacts with computer chips that give them heads-up displays in their vision.

then today i read that some people at UW ( Read more... )

from Futility ClosetA razor company once invited George Bernard Shaw to shave his famous beard. He responded with a postcard ( Read more... )

just a moment ago, i went into the bathroom to take a leak, and i heard a splooshing noise outside like somebody thrashing around in water. i figured someone(s) was goofing around in the kiddie pool, so i looked outside and saw a very wet cat making its way out of the pool and running away all freaked out like it had just had the most traumatic ( Read more... )

This site recently opened up where you can help classify galaxies. It's pretty neat.

Also water has been found on an extrasolar planet for the first time. Another article mentions that they're pretty sure that if they find a planet with oxygen, there's gotta be life on it. It also mentions that some new planet-finding projects were canceled so we ( Read more... )