oh me

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oh my

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Oasis

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Deer in snow

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Ebullient pablum

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Illness illusion

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Proper education

“My father, Drake, educated me for one reason alone,” Daniel finally says. “To assist him in his preparations for the Apocalypse. He reckoned it would occur in the year 1666 – Number of the Beast and all that. I was, therefore, produced in 1646 – as always, Drake’s timing was carefully thought out. When I [...]

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“Sometimes I look at myself –” he waves his arms at the tavern “– and see the way it turned out, and wonder whether my father could possibly have been any more wrong.”
Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

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Title deleted due to parental scrutiny

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Skin fears

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On an unrelated note

I’m watching this show on NHK (Japanese PBS, usually boring but very occasionally revelatory) now about Finland. Apparently there are a few woodsmen who hunt bears in the northern, forested part of the country. They interviewed one bear hunter, dressed entirely in red, talking about the bear coming from heaven and how he will return [...]

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Strange ideas

I looked at this pool and a thought sprang fully-formed and grammatically constructed into my head.
“Aww yeah. That is one limpid pool. That pool’s limpid as hell, bitch.”
I wish I was kidding.
*edit* heh. sprang.

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Pour ideas

How you say “careful” in Japanese. Makes about as much sense as 小心　I suppose.
P.S. I know “ideas” is a bad translation of 意.

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Closed systems

Haruki Murakami said in Underground that he’s always been fascinated by the idea of closed systems: trains, tunnels, wells, etc. That strikes me as a particularly Japanese thought.

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Kortirion among the trees

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In rare form

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Drop the pressure

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Pendulum motion

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My Photos Are Like Life

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Off kilter

This pic is not as exciting as the rest, so I’ll use this space to talk about today’s update. I went to the park in Meguro again today, except this time it was daylight and it was open. I had a really great time sitting there reading and snapping away. It was hot as hell [...]

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But the Grinch who lived high on Mount Crumpet….did not.

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Bullet Bill from the old Mario games

I saw this little fixture in a nice apartment building, so I walked in and took a few pics of it. The wall this little guy is attached to is thematically incongruous, there would be no logical reason for a statue/water fixture to be placed off-center on a bare wall, but that’s exactly what it [...]

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Sexual services Information hut?!

That’s my translation…but I still can’t figure out why this exists. Like, you go in and say, “I’m looking to take advantage of someone for cash. Do you have anything in North Korean?” and they say, “Oh well be at this street corner from 12-2:30am and we guarantee you won’t be sorry.” What an unnecessary [...]

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I totally wanted to break into this

I couldn’t see exactly where this went, but I could hear cars flying by so I assume it led down into the traffic tunnel. I love how abandoned it looks.

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Spraypaint grass-style

Farther down the street of sketch.

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Same place, different angle

I don’t have a tripod so if I don’t want to use the flash, I try to find a flat surface about chest high…and hope it works out.

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Here we go….Jason, wannabe urban explorer

Super-sketchy back road. I actually joined the “Tokyo Urban Exploration” meetup group. We’ll see where that takes me…i guarantee the pics will be interesting!

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Moulded plastic

Taken in a park near the shrine from before. It was good to see all this grass in one place. Getting to be around all that green was therapeutic, no matter how unkempt it was.

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Is this Manchu on these funerary tablets?

I stole into this graveyard at night…heh, I’m super morbid.

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Shrine stairs

Shrines and other places meant to be seen sometimes have what we would call in Texas “deer lights” strung up all around them, giving me some good opportunities to use some external light sources. This one came out ok I think.
Actually maybe it isn’t really like a deer light because I think deer lights are [...]

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