tonari no shibafu

Pictures of Japanese Highway Interchanges

Awesome photos.

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Some recent pics

Mint

Citronella

Casablanca. Love me some lilites.

Laundry

Cool stuff I've found...

...and need to get out of my newsreader.

Filedropper. Share files of up to 5 GB size for free.

How to burn multiple CDs at the same time with ITunes. (Of course you need multiple burners...)

Jump through files alphabetically regardless of sort order (mac).

Eye-Fi wireless memory card. How'd you like to have your pictures sent wirelessly to your computer as you take them. This would be great at house parties.

FuseCal. Online app to sync ICal based calendars. Perfect for finding time to work out with over-scheduled profs. on vacation.

Fontstruct. Create your own fonts.

Most of the above links go to the sites on which I found these neat things. I was to lazy to make a bunch of 'via X' links.

My neighborhood

I spent an hour or so taking pictures this afternoon.

Technorati Tags: Japan, Setagaya, Tokyo

Is it me, or does this guy look like Scott?

OK, maybe not exacfly, but trust me... in person...

The last picture ripped from Scott hisself (and, of course, 5 years old)

Heso

The latest issue of Heso magazine is out. My boy Ry is one of the contributors and an all around cool guy. You can check it out for yourself, tell me, who's not interested in Food and Sex?

Any of you arty types that are interested in contributing should go to their contact page.

Relatively recent pictures from the hood

This post is primarily for my homies and for anyone else that has never been to Tokyo. Or at least not neighborhood Tokyo.

Linkies in time for Xmas

Wired's review of digital cameras

Wired's review of 2006 video cameras

Use RSS to comparison shop

Drool factor 10

The Leica Digilux 3.

via Gizmodo

Cool pics

I've been watching this guy's site for a couple of months now, and I like some of his pictures so much I figured I'd drive a little more traffic his way.  The site's in Japanese. 

Random stuff

Christina Aguilera, vamping...

What happens after a decade of double digit economic growth?
High culture...
China's 50 most beautiful people
via Danwei

A list of the best vegetarian restaurants (and dishes) in Boston
via boston.com

Tips for new faculty from OSU
via Photoethnography

A cool water bottle sized/shaped bicycle repair kit.
via Boing Boing

You can be a girl for $900

A blog of a guy whose eaten nearly 14,000 bowls of ramen in shops across the country.

Terri Gross interviews CCH Pounder of The Shield, one of my favorite shows.

One of my new favorite photo blogs

Where to get the best sandwiches in Boston

Tyler

Check out Tyler's online portfolio.

Dissin' the Lumix

I am the type of person who is fairly fanatical about my brand loyalty.  I have bought multiple products (based on liking one) from Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, and Sony (back in the day).  I was, therefore, disturbed that the folks over at Akihabara News don't much care for the Panasonic Lumix series.  Their dispersion-casting is not enough to discount my personal feelings about the FZ10, but will give me something to think about when I get a new camera in a year or so.

Good images for use in presentations

There is a post at presentation zen that has a list of links to free and for-pay sources of images.  Could be useful for those designing websites and/or presentations that will catch and keep he attention of students (or other audiences).

Missing Photos

I got an email from Typepad the other day informing me that some of my data had been lost.  I don't think that anything crucial is gone, just a couple of pics.  I may reload them, but not for a while.

Last Sunday in Baba

Last Sunday we met up for a little bbq in Baba at Chris and Yuki's place.  The event was centered around the triumphant (if short) return of Alan and Melinda, who are en route to their new life in Oxford.  To do my part in the festivities I wanted to make sure that w had some real beer and so I headed out to Fuchu to a place called Ken's.  Beer House Ken is the closest place to my house that stocks Bryan's beer and I figured it was worth the trip to have some special suds.  I was pleasantly surprised by this tiny place that had many great beers including Sam Smith's, Anchor Steam and a plethora of European selections. 

Beer in hand bag we headed to Baba for a night of debauchery...

Aquafresh Campaign Girls in Shibuya

Waiting for my bus back to Soshigaya-Okura I saw these girls handing out something or other.  I guess they are supposed to be made up as toothpaste tubes, but I just found the 'hats' so odd that I had to take some shots.

B-Day

Reading the comment from Smitty, reminded me that I have yet to announce my birthday.  Consider it announced.

Approximately 38 years and 2 hours ago I was born.

Yikes

屋形船

Last night we went on a Yakatabune cruise.  The ship departed Shinagawa just after 6:00 and we returned around 8:30.  The food was good if a little typical: sashimi, various things made into tempura, some noodles, sushi, tofu and miso soup.  Terada-san and I were co-coordinators of the cruise and we had about 38 people, most of whom I at least know on sight from Terada-san's restaurant. 

These pics don't really require a lot of commentary.  We ate and laughed and drank and sang and danced together. 

Back from Tsukuba ... phoneless

Back from Tsukuba and the Tsukuba express was a delight.  Two hours door-to-door.
I somehow managed to lose my phone somewhere between the bbq and the Hirasuna sento; the irony is that I have recently started a Getting Things Done system to help improve my process and I was just starting to feel like I was getting it together and then I go and lose a crucial piece of my information processing puzzle.  Taka is going to have a look around for it this morning and talk to the sento guy so I should have it back in a week or so.

Anyway, here are some pics.

Taka's niece shaking hands.

Taka and his older younger sister.

Hideo

More Pics

So it seems that I have already used up my August allotment on Flickr.  It was predictable, though, because I have been uploading the pics at close to full filesize rather than limiting them to a width of 640 pixels as I had been doing. 

Anyway, here are the pics I would have sent to Flickr and/or would have put in an album here if I wasn't so lazy.

Stop me before I scan again

Clockwise from upper left:

Nate, me, Todd and JUM at now-defunct Go-Go Lounge in Harajuku.  Ryo from 5F used to run this place.
Todd and Youssef in my old room in the kaikan
Todd and Drew in the kaikan
Macchan and Todd at Go-Go Lounge
Nate, Bunshi, Todd and JUM

Clockwise from upper left:

Group shot at Go-Go.  Back left is Fujimura Ikuzo.  I'm sandwiched between Todd and Ryo-kun
Brian after he first arrived from the States in Spring 2002
Drew supporting America's team
Todd, Bri, Nate and JUM.  Hiking in Hakone.
Rab, me and Chris.  Probably drinking by the Sengawa River.

New Life for the Scanner

Up until now I didn't realize that I could easily convert PDFs into .jpg format.  When I have some free time I'm going to scan in some old pics that I have and upload them.

楽しみ

Two pictures from Urakami Kyudojo a few years ago, and one from Chris's Wedding in April.

Yesterday

On my way to the Do-it-yourself place I noticed that there were some sentries posted next to a small parking lot.  I took some pics of them on my way home.

Last night after English conversation class I wasn't sleepy so I took a bike ride along the Nogawa (river).  Really nice paths for most of it, and noone around so I got in a good ride.  Surprisingly there were almost no mosquitos.  Must be because of the lack of rain we had this year.

Shinjuku Zoom II

Hello Catherine Kitty

I just got this picture from Todd.  I'm not sure where to begin to comment. 

Cosplay in middle America.

UPDATE: Picture removed by request

BEN FOLDS Pictures from the Road at Dakanyama 5F

Starting today, pictures taken by Ben Folds are on exhibit at Ryo's place in Daikanyama.  You can see them there until June 10th.

BEN FOLDS写真展＠５F-communication lounge-:
Tower Cafe、エスキス表参道で行われてきた「BEN FOLDS写真展」が５Fにも登場します。　BEN FOLDS FIVEデビューから10年、待望の2ndソロアルバム「SONGS FOR SILVERMAN」を記念する企画です。
BENさんが奥様（Frally）とツアー中に撮ったり、子供さんを撮ったり、日常の瞬間を撮ったりしたものが中心です。「SONGS FOR SILVERMAN」のジャケット本もBENさん撮影の写真で構成されています。BENの音楽性、彼の日常の時間性を感じられる写真達です。
音楽以外のBENの世界に触れられる良い機会になると思います。是非、遊びにいらしてください。

BEN FOLDS 写真展＠５F-communication lounge-
6/1〜10
17:00〜23:00

www.sonymusic.co.jp/benfolds/
www.benfolds.com

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Pictures old and new

The first five pictures taken by Juan Luis_

Earth Day Celebration

We have had some righteous weather of late, and unfortunately I have been spending a lot of time in classrooms and my office. Since I finally fixed the brakes on the bike that I got from Mark, I think I'll head down to Yoyogi park and photograph some Earth Day hippies.

Images

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