( Dad's Japan Photo Gallery )
Posted on November 28, 2007 @ 9:13 AM | 1 comments
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oooh you brought back the Christmasy theme!
Shirakawa-go (UNESCO World Heritage Village of traditional farmhouses)
Takayama (Mountain town with traditional shopping streets and markets)
Kamikochi (Beautiful national park accessible only by bus)
and Matsumoto (home of Asama Onsen and the famous Matsumoto "crow" Castle).
Posted on November 26, 2007 @ 9:09 PM | 0 comments
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We had fun time browsing on Black Friday in Georgetown except for one shock-- We witnessed two thugs walk into Barney's New York and straight out again with about $10,000 in handbags from the wall near the door. One salesgirl, who must have been 5' 3" in heels and about 100 lbs soaking wet tried to stop them (we would have had we been closer) but they pushed past her and into their getaway car. According to the staff, these same guys with the same car (and plates, etc) pulled this same stunt three months ago. It seems kind of like perverted justice, given how much those handbags cost. You think Barney's would learn to leash them to the wall, or at least move the display away from the door. :P
I spent a ton shopping for myself on Black Friday, but I'm quite happy with what I picked up. I got a great deal on a BCBG suit (jacket, pants, pencil skirt, and button-down), which I'll make good use of at a conference in Philly this January. Woop.
Both of us caught a nasty 24-hour bug (luckily I got it the day BEFORE we left... Justin got it yesterday) but managed to get back on our feet quickly.
Uh, well, that's far more than enough of a laundry-list for now. I've finished editing Japan photos and will upload the final galleries tomorrow.
Posted on November 25, 2007 @ 9:58 PM | 0 comments
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( Photos from Kenrokuen in Kanazawa )
After dad and I got our Mazda Demio (!!) rental car in Kyoto we drove to Kanazawa... only briefly hence the lack of real photo evidence... to see Kenrokuen Gardens. Kenrokuen is supposedly the most beautiful garden in Japan. It was lovely, but I wasn't blown away. Must have been the weather...
Next, photos from Shirakawago, Takayama, Kamikochi, and Matsumoto.
Posted on November 20, 2007 @ 12:16 AM | 1 comments
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so, i have a used imac i'm trying to hook up to wireless. (it's the white one with bulb and the screen on the stem from like 2003). SO my neighbor in the apartment complex is letting me into his closed network. (i'll pay him half his monthly bill for the privilege). he gave me the name of his network and the "WEP" ID. the problem is the airport card already detects his network BEFORE i try to sign in (not the whole code but the first part of it, so i'm assuming it's the same one). it shows an almost-full signal but says "signal STATUS not available." it doesn't connect. when i go to sign into it manually, i can submit the WEP where it says "password" but can't put the network ID in because it has underscores in the ID. i try it without, various incarnations, i try CUT AND PASTING an underscore, and nothing. the underscores simply won't show up in that field. thoughts?? ps: i am retarded.
By 
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10:16 PM, November 25, 2007
( Osaka Photo Gallery )
Osaka photos are posted! More soon to come.
Posted on November 19, 2007 @ 2:07 PM | 0 comments
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Again, stories about the trip are forthcoming. I have to finish editing the photos first or I will lose my mind. Thankfully the pictures make it all come back to me so it will be easier to write about.
Posted on November 16, 2007 @ 11:55 PM | 0 comments
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An engagement photo teaser from Nicole Tavenner of Piknik Studios. Click for large:
Posted on @ 5:02 PM | 1 comments
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Great photo!. Love the black and white.
I've edited and posted photos from Tokyo and Kyoto to the Japan 2007 gallery. All the pics (about 400 so far) have been keeping me busy, hence the lack of posts. I will write to accompany the galleries later, but for now the pics will have to be worth their thousand words alone.
Posted on November 15, 2007 @ 1:03 AM | 1 comments
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the photos tell me that you had lovely time with your family in japan.
ureshii na.
mata yukkuri aitai!!!
hontouni.
arigatou.
pass my best regards to your mum and sister.
By 
kyoko, at
8:26 AM, November 15, 2007
Posted on November 09, 2007 @ 11:54 AM | 5 comments
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your wedding blog wasn't accepting comments. but who's marrying you guys?
By , at
2:41 PM, November 10, 2007
Dunno yet! It's Montana though, so anyone can do it, ordained or not. We've been struggling with that for a while. I'll let you know as soon as we do.
By Kat, at
2:44 PM, November 10, 2007
I LOVED that book too. I wish it never ended! I think I may re-read it. And I never re-read...I don't have the attention span for it.
By sometrouble, at
12:32 PM, November 11, 2007
It's been a long while since I read that book, but I think of it every now and again. For some reason, I've never gotten around to re-reading it. Then again, with my current courseload, I'd be lucky to have time for pleasure reading.
Charles
By Cad, at
1:58 AM, November 13, 2007
This one I come back to again and again as well. It's provocative, perceptive and so open to possibility...how do we really know what is essential, the core bit of knowledge about someone we love or even ourselves? What kernel of us trancends age? What grows and what stays the same?
This book makes me cry too- I did not want it to end...
By Hilary, at
2:24 PM, November 14, 2007
There isn't anything WRONG with this, it's just a little weird. See, I have a small Facebook "problem." If you look at the Google image search results for Facebook, you will get an idea as to why. That profile screenshot is mine... and some days it floats at the number one result. It's also in the first page of search results for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Why? Because back when I was working on the Web 2.0 Awards for SEOmoz.org, I used that screenshot to illustrate my interview with a Facebook employee. The Web 2.0 Awards got a lot of notice and a lot of links, thereby rising rapidly in the SERPS (such is the "magic" of SEO). So my screenshot, which Google associated with "Facebook" and "Mark Zuckerberg," got a lot of 'street cred' in the image search.
(Google image searches are weird, a friend once told me that she was searching for "dish cloth patterns" or something like that and my picture came up on page 2...)
Some people have friended me asking how I did this and why my profile shows up in an image search, but this is only a prelude to the real oddity. Apparently, and probably for lack of a better source, the image has been appropriated by several publications, all of them foreign. Let's see if I can find a few examples:
Do you know that you were on newspaper in Turkey. Check it out at (address removed because link no longer works) Actually it's just a small article on growing interest for FaceBook in Turkey. There's nothing about your personal info or photo.
hey !!! How's life
i searched 4 u coz ur profile were in an article about facebook in a journal... r u famous zat much 4 posting ur profile in a jounal
i saw ur profile on a news paper
i was visiting egypt two days ago on a vavaction tour to the pyramids
and i saw it by accident
never knew u were true lol
And most recently, someone sent me a link to this article. Have a look and through to page nine.
It's an odd sort of notoriety, and it certainly doesn't bother me. I get maybe one or two messages a week from someone who looks me up on facebook after seeing my profile somewhere. It's a bit strange, however, to think about all the people who are probably passing through who DON'T say anything. To them, I would like to just say that yes... I am "true."
Heh.
Posted on November 08, 2007 @ 9:02 PM | 4 comments
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the internet is a fucking weird place.
By , at
10:22 PM, November 08, 2007
tru dat.
By Kat, at
10:54 PM, November 08, 2007
geez, you'd think that they could have at least blocked out your name in those screenshots when repurposing it! wow, you must get a lot of traffic.
By gleek, at
1:51 PM, November 10, 2007
This had me laughing out loud. Sorry, it's scary and funny at the same time.
You could milk it on your résumé, saying you've "contributed" to news papers all over the world.
By Louie, at
9:10 PM, November 10, 2007
Really, it baffles the mind that they can still market and sell these things. I always hated getting them as handouts when I was a kid, and so did all my friends. They were the last things we ever ate, if at all, because usually by the time we got to them they were stale enough to pull all of our fillings. Yet they're still around! And they're still the last things remaining in every candy stash I see... at home, at the office, anywhere!
Were Tootsie Rolls actually popular in the past? Maybe during and post WWII when there was a definitive shortage of anything that might resemble real candy ingredients and some company was forced, in desperation, to combine imitation chocolate-flavor and wax into a disgusting Lincoln Log-shaped monstrosity??
Let us ask the Wikipedia...
Tootsie Rolls are a chocolatey chew candy that have been manufactured for more than 100 years*. The cylindrical cocoa-flavored candies come individually wrapped, and are an American cultural icon**. They are one of the best-selling candies in America and throughout the world today**. The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois.
* My guess is that they made one batch and are still selling from it
** Damn lies!!
*** WHAT.
In 1896, Leo Hirshfield came to the United States and started his candy in a small shop, when he decided he wanted a chocolate *tasting* candy that would not melt in the heat, and would be an economical artificial alternative to traditional chocolates.
LOL. "Chocolate tasting." That explains a lot.
In 1931, the Tootsie Pop, a hard-candy lollipop with Tootsie Roll filling was invented, and quickly became popular with Dust Bowl refugees during the Depression era due to its low price. During World War II, Tootsie Rolls were added to soldier's rations because of their ability to withstand severe weather conditions.
Oh, sick! It's like the SPAM of the candy world!
The ingredients of the traditional Tootsie Roll are sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, condensed skim milk, cocoa, whey, soy lecithin, and artificial and condensed flavors.
Mmm... DELICIOUS. >_<
From the company's website (love that design): Who doesn't love Tootsie Rolls?
The answer: ME. o.0
Posted on @ 5:56 PM | 2 comments
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omfg they are srsly one the best candies evar. why u gotta h8? :)
By Rachel, at
1:46 PM, November 09, 2007
I luvs me some tootsie rolls!
By , at
1:47 PM, November 14, 2007
I had a good trip, though there was always some sort of travel mishap waiting to happen to my family. I enjoyed showing them Japan, even if it was stressful. And I am looking forward to coming home... mostly just to be with Justin. I do love it here, but I miss him terribly.
Posted on November 03, 2007 @ 11:53 PM | 1 comments
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enjoy!
By , at
5:21 PM, November 04, 2007
Since my father knew I'd be on my own for two weeks he generously offered to fly me out to Montana for some father-son time over the weekend. So last weekend off I went to Helena, MT to bond with my dad. What does bonding entail? Well truthfully it involves talking about art, health, family and relationships. Yeah, very masculine I know.
BUT!
Bonding on this trip also involved a trip to Dillon, MT in which I got to drive dad's Miata through mountain S-curves at 105 mph. I'm sure some of my car friends find this sad and boring, but it was my first time over 100 and damn, that car could take pretty much any turn in those mountains at 80-100 mph. I gotta say, great way to commute...
Posted on November 02, 2007 @ 10:52 PM | 0 comments
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