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There’s a nice article here at our travel agency’s website about ramen in Japan, including a mention of the ramen museum which we’ve visited. It makes me want some ramen right now–not the usual instant Top Ramen, but the hot, thick, flavorful stuff found in Japan.

…it’s apparently because of network issues on the East Coast. If you have geek curiosity, the incident report for my web host is here: http://status.mediatemple.net/incidents/2258-east-coast-latency/ UPDATE: apparently it’s the server itself and not the network. “We’re working on it,” they say.  

I’ve been remiss in posting photos of flowers this year; actually I’ve been somewhat remiss in even taking photos of flowers this year. Our burgundy day lillies came into their own this season but it seems that they went entirely unphotographed. Oh well; they’ll be back next year. The star this year may be the [...]

Here’s a blog of photos of a young Japanese woman levitating: http://yowayowacamera.com/

I ran across this by accident on YouTube this morning. I first saw it several years ago but it’s still mind-blowing:

We drove up to Ranchester, Wyoming last weekend to visit Tracie’s parents. While there I took some photos in the Tongue River Canyon, which is a few minutes’ drive from their house, which I’ve placed on my flickr page here. There’s also a panoramic composite image stitched together from seven overlapping photos.

In case you’ve ever wondered what the flight deck of a real space ship (as opposed to, say, the Enterprise in its various incarnations) looks like, in detail, there’s a high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic photo of Discovery’s flight deck here.

Despite my recent ruminations about space exploration, the 21st century does sometimes produce some futuristic stuff. Flying cars, for example.

Apple released Lion today, and demonstrated once again that they really don’t care about the subset of their customers who use Apple computers to make music. Reports are rolling in of all sorts of things not working under Lion, including both hosts and plug-ins. Chris is testing our stuff and the major hosts today and [...]

I’m sitting here feeling a little bummed because I missed watching live coverage of the last-ever Space Shuttle launch (by about seven minutes). I’ve watched a number of launches and landings and I meant to pay attention during the last one, but I forgot. I grew up during some of the best years of the [...]