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| November 19, 2009 |
My plants.
- Report:
Ten
states face looming budget disasters -- Arizona, Florida, Illinois,
Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin
- Related -- the
Ten
Happiest States are Utah, Hawaii, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota,
Maryland, Washington, Massachusetts, California, and Arizona -- and the
bottom of the list? The Ten Unhappiest -- Michigan, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia
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| November 16, 2009 |
News photo from day before yesterday, story:
Obama's
bow in Japan sparks some criticism -- some say the POTUS shouldn't
kowtow to any foreign
sovereign, not even symbolically but it's not without precedent, apparently
Nixon once bowed to Hirohito -- but you can bet this fellow never did:
General Macarthur with the Emperor, September 1945
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| November 14, 2009 |
San Francisco yesterday afternoon, looking
west down Post street from the 8th floor of the
Kabuki Hotel in the Nihonmachi district.
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| November 11, Armistice Day |
 The
LA motel where I stay, periodically, near the airport. Was there
Wednesday night last week but this photo's from five years ago.
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| November 7, 2009 |
Back from another whirlwind LA tour. Here's a view from the driver's seat
while waiting on Fairfax for the light to change at Wilshire, 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. (Later I learned it's
now part of the ever-expanding LACMA Museum of Art down the street.)
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. |
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