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| November 7, 2009 |
Back from another whirlwind LA tour. Here's a view from the driver's seat
while waiting for the light to change at Wilshire on La Brea, leaning out
and looking up at the massive corner decoration of the old May Company
department store . The building doesn't seem to be in use now but I believe
it has landmark status, so can't be torn down.
Meanwhile, some links
have been piling up.
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| October 31, 2009 |
Great class ended last week, first conversation course of the school
year, and the demographic of this one almost half Japanese. In
the center, one of the Reikos is holding a plaid shopping bag from the
Isetan department store, very
common to see people carrying this bag in the Shinjuku district of
Tokyo.
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| October 30, 2009 |
Cans of kaya
at King's Seafood in Sunnyvale. (Posted for an AskMe question.)
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| October 28, 2009 |
An example of why Halloween has become my least-favorite holiday -- the
decorations are mostly tacky, aesthetic violations. Especially, this
spreading around of cotton to simulate cobwebs -- looks instead like
a severe infestation of tent caterpillers. "Trick or Treat!"
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| October 25, 2009 |
The majestic, spreading Bay Laurel across the parking lot from the
Los Altos library. This was today;
another, bigger view
from a few days ago -- one of my favorite trees.
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| October 23, 2009 |
Tonight's sunset (with moon) from my front steps.
Have endured the colonoscopy and as was expected, nothing
non-nominal was found. Still. now that it's over, glad my big
intestine has been purged, feeling better -- that's been my experience
previously too, during the similarly invasive visit by Dr Sigmoid in
2005 and the enematic 'lower GI' received in 1980.
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| October 21, 2009 |
Aboard the Seattle streetcar, October 2004
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| October 19, 2009 |
Down on the platform waiting in the Hamburg HauptBahnhof, 2005. |
| October 18, 2009 |
For a while here, I'm showing photos, old and new. Click for biggery.
This is inside the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station in Berlin, 2005.
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