Archives for November, 2003
2003.11.30 (Sun)
Pictures of the Apple Store, Ginza
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Well, pictures of the outside of the store. I wasn’t going to queue for more than 3 city blocks to get in. It was, as predicted, a madhouse.
2003.11.28 (Fri)
Stock Up for Buy Nothing Day
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Get all of your Buy Nothing Day shopping out of the way early.
Weed Species
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There are just too many of us — by a factor of 1,000! — and consequently we are doomed. Have a nice day.
2003.11.25 (Tue)
I almost never take vertical pictures, but I’ve been following Kristen’s creativity series and have been trying to see if a 90° shift in perspective doesn’t make a difference.
2003.11.23 (Sun)
Umbrellas at the Edo Tokyo Tatemono-En — the museum of Edo and Meiji period architecture.
Air Stocking Redux
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So by now I’d say everyone’s heard about Air Stocking, the spray-on stockings in a can.
White Kura
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Kura are storehouses, usually 2-storey and made of stone. They can still be seen tucked away on the grounds of wealthier houses and estates that haven’t yet been broken up. I guess they became a fixture towards the end of the shogunate when a nouveau-riche merchant class arose and began to accrue stuff, but I might just be making that up.
2003.11.22 (Sat)
Name That Maple
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A couple of people asked me about the specific kind of momiji shown in this photograph. I was on the verge of telling you that it was Acer tenuifolia, but it turns out to be a cultivar of A. palmatum called Aoshidare.
A Rake and Five Brooms
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It’s an enchanting but little-known fact that the number of human calories expended world-wide in raking leaves each year equals π times the number of arboreal calories required to make the leaves throughout the preceding year.
2003.11.20 (Thu)
Many Maneki-neko
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Lots of beckoning cats at Gotokuji
2003.11.18 (Tue)
Apple Releases 42-inch Plasma iMac
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Exclusive picture.
Autumn in Gotokuji
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A beautiful wan sunlight fell all morning and I had a feeling that the temple would be pretty nicely lit by the time I got there. I arrived to find a good selection of trees in full autumn colour … and the sky almost completely overcast. From above I heard something that sounded like chuckling.
Omote-sando, Late Afternoon
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A good example of the ‘ideal viewing distance’ — this shot looks not bad at about 500px or larger, but it loses anything it had at this smaller size. Alas, we are all prisoners of our design choices.
2003.11.15 (Sat)
Libraries Told ‘Stop Lending’
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The corporatisation of the world comes to the thorny problem of public libraries.
Birds on a Wire
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Birds sitting on electric wires like notes on a stave.
2003.11.12 (Wed)
Nothing If Not Eclectic
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Every so often (OK, every day) I look down the page here and see a string of completely unrelated items masquerading as some sort of half-baked Weltanschauung and must force myself to imagine that one person’s complete and utter lack of focus is another’s vibrant eclecticism.
Take Control of Panther
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Haven’t installed Panther yet and wondering about the best way to go about it? Or you’ve installed it just fine and now it’s time to figure out all the groovy things you can do to customise it?
“Why Were Their Poets Silent?”
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The Literary Saloon points to an article by John Pilger called The Silence of Writers.
The Journal of Happiness Studies
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Yes, there really is a Journal of Happiness Studies — which could either be wonderful news or yet another sign of our imminent demise.
2003.11.11 (Tue)
It’s starting to get cool here. I wish we had an open fireplace, or even a wood-burning stove like I had in Australia (makes the tastiest bread, and you can cook chapatis on the hob).
More on Face Transplants
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The BBC reports that British, French and American teams are on the verge of performing the procedure.
Alera Digital Photo Copy Cruiser
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This could be interesting: Alera’s Digital Photo Copy Cruiser copies photographs from common media cards directly to CD without a computer.
Stop the Page, I Want to Get Off
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Why on earth did DesignObserver go with light-coloured type on a dark grey background? I’d love to read it, and I would … if only the page would stop moving.
2003.11.10 (Mon)
Exit the Matrix
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Last night I watched the second film in The Matrix trilogy, Matrix Reloaded. To be honest, the machines couldn’t take over fast enough for me. It was utter gibberish from start to finish. Talk about a squandered opportunity.
2003.11.07 (Fri)
Like a Big Pizza Pie
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The moon as it was rising tonight.
Tapestry: RSS Delivery of Comics
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Three words: Doonesbury RSS feed.
The thought occurs to me, as such thoughts often do at this time of night, that the plural of fax should be faxen.
2003.11.05 (Wed)
Marunouchi Shop Window
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Marunouchi is going through some pretty radical changes these days. What used to be bland, lifeless corridors of grey now resemble pleasant boulevards lined with shops and cafés.
Galoshes
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I think “galoshes” — perhaps even more so the singular, “galosh” — is my current favourite word.
Big News in the Duh Department
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Last Friday, October 31, Antipixel turned 2 years old and I was too busy and preoccupied to notice. This is generally a good thing, but jeez … you’d think you’d remember your own site’s birthday.
Fabric Table
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Such a big beautiful practical table — but a single-minded table. Built only for bolts of cloth.
Date Set for Apple Store in Ginza
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Guess I know where I’ll be Sunday morning, November 30.
2003.11.02 (Sun)
Panthered
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Speaking of big cats, the ol’ Pismo was Panthered a few days ago. I swore I wasn’t going to install Mac OS 10.3 yet — too busy, deadlines, must develop a sense of responsibility and so on — but, naturally, who could wait?
Big Feline Predators
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Turns out there may be something to the rumours of large feline predators stalking areas to the west of Sydney.
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