Since I love you all, and since I am as busy as a honeybee on speed, I’m going to give you something to tide you over until I can update again. I give you Giant Pets Invasion.
Archive for the ‘Linkage’ category
Giant Pets!
February 6th, 2007Kintaro Walks Japan
December 5th, 2006Here’s something I found today. It’s the story of a guy from California who travels to Japan and walks the whole distance on foot, from the southernmost point to the northernmost point. It’s a long video, slightly over an hour long, but it’s worth watching if you’re interested in seeing what Japan is really like. I think it shows more of Japan than all the Tokyo and Kyoto blogs with their photos of capsule hotels and temples and palaces.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3067683435545761102
look out Tokyo, here comes another bad movie spoof
October 13th, 2006And here I was thinking that “Radioactive Snails” would be a great name for a band.
shopping for a new camera
September 26th, 2006I don’t think I mentioned it before, but my longtime workhorse Canon Powershot S50 digital camera was stolen off my desk at work, probably by one of the construction crew members who have been wandering in and about rebuilding the school. Whoever you are, I hope you have an accident and fall off the roof, you dirty thief.
So I guess this means I’m looking for a new digital camera, and I stumbled across this fine article:
Enough already with the megapixels.
The Powershot was a great camera, but I was always a bit underwhelmed by its low-light shooting and lack of dynamic range. So I took a look online at the next step up, which was digital SLRs. Both the Sony DSC-R1 and the Canon EOS 350D have the features and performance I’m looking for, so I suppose the next step is walking into a store and trying them out, but I hate spending massive sums of money.
teach the alphabet!
September 21st, 2006Here’s a list of politically incorrect alphabet cards. Ironically, I think my students would know some of these, and the ones for UFO and vampire would actually be quite appropriate. If you can’t figure out what the word is (some of them are British expressions), hover the mouse cursor over the picture.
24 seconds
August 29th, 2006Alright, sports fans, it’s time for a pop quiz: when did the NBA introduce the shot clock? Why is it 24 seconds, and not 25 or 30? Read all about it:
locks are jokes
August 25th, 2006Do you think that locking your door with a mechanical pin lock makes your house hard to break into? Maybe you should think again: even the dumbest criminal can break into your house with a bump key.
