Catwalker

Had to stop and see my favorite,
the "Ogon no unko" as the locals
like to call it.

The Asahi brewing company
with a new neighbour.

Fugu, anyone?

Puffer fish on the fin

Need a taxi?
Not the fastest thing on wheels,
but I bet she has strong legs after
towing that thing around full
of overweight north Americans.

A Ricksha...

Near Asakusa.

So I finally forced myself to start dealing
with this today - my pocket full of
change (queue ZZ Top ;))

My pocket must've weighed in at close
to 10 pounds this morning.

Wound up on the Metro at late rush hour.
Oops. Won't do that again.

This is not my photo, not sure
where it came from, but it gives
you an idea of how much fun
a subway ride at this time of
day can be. ;)

Walking from the Skyliner station
in Ueno was like doing the Time warp,
except a few things had changed, a few
old buildings gone. :(

But when I came accross a familiar
sandwhich board sign and turned
left, I saw this - time warping
again. looks exactly as it did
five years ago, though it has
changed owners since.

A few monster towers up or on the
way up. Including this, the Tokyo
Sky Tree. Visit web site.

There goes the neighborhood. :(

Oh well, Godzilla has a new beacon
to find his way. ;)

Sort of like Where is Waldo, but not quite the same. :)


On my way to Japan. 

My ride from Vancouver to Narita.












Rice Paddies - taken from the Keisei
Skyliner on the way into Ueno (In
Tokyo Metropolis)






More later.

My first post of 2012. Still plugging on my electronics projects. Just picked up a tiny power supply with enough juice to power a bunch of Light Emitting Diodes. And took these photos today:

 

The first snow day of 2012!

So if anyone tells you "It doesn't snow or get
cold on Vancouver Island!"
You can call them on it! ;) 

 

 

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Well, there are just a few days left in 2011, it has been a roller coaster ride of a year, in many respects. I haven't posted anything of significance this year, thought I posted more than last year. I may get up the steam to re-post some postings I took down earlier: A new electronic project on the go... (However I want to get it to the stage where it works, and some official twit doesn't think I'm building something unsavoury....) Also - some model projects coming up, including a scratch-build if I can get around to it. Stay tuned. じゃまた

What is wrong with the current crop of open source programmers? On the heels of Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome 3 shell is Firefox 4. Overall I don't mind Firefox 4, but why do the current crop of programmers have to change things so drastically? Sometimes users will install updated software and find old stand bys (which worked) taken and replaced by something grossly obscure. I am referring in this case to the padlock. What? The Padlock? Yes, the padlock. I went to a secure sight today (one which I had gone to in the past with previous versions of Firefox) and the padlock was no where to be seen. What happened, I thought to myself. Is the sight no longer secure? I looked and looked in settings but couldn't find that icon anywhere. Off to Google, my search revealed that it was gone and replaced by a more obscure "identity button". Well done guys. Why are programmers deciding they know what's best for the community? Why replace something which everyone who uses these features are familiar with? This is not a specific poke at the Firefox team, it's all of us who code or create interfaces. This seems to be an adoption of the Micro$oft way; changing things either for something to do, or changing things because you can. じゃ　また