'General' Category
Photo Tip: Crystal Clear Night Shots Without a Tripod
by James in General, Photography on February 8th, 2008
I was in Sakuragichou the other evening and saw a familiar site: landmark tower and the ferris wheel. I’ve been wanting a good shot of it at night to use as a background for a while as it is beautiful.
I was lucky enough to be there at night, but without a Tripod. My camera [...]
Expanded Site on the way
by James in General, Japan on January 27th, 2008
It’s been a little bit since the last update and a lot has been going on. I’ve started building lomohut locally that will accommodate more features and better utilization of the site. Of course the blog will still be the main feature, however to see *all* posts you will need a login and password to [...]
本当に辛いラメーン, Really Spicy Ramen
by James in Food, General, Japan, Travel on January 17th, 2008
If you generalize Japanese cuisine it is not spicy. The spicy dishes that they eat are generally imported from Korea or China and even then they aren’t spicy. I think I figured out why too.
The other day I went to this Ramen shop with my friend for lunch in 目黒 Meguro. We walk into [...]
回転鮨, Kaitenzushi, Sushi-go-around
by James in Food, General, Japan, Travel on January 16th, 2008
In my travels and studies in/about Japan I thought they could not possibly top the awesomeness that is the Beer Vending Machine. Especially during summer time when it is hot and humid. The only thing you want is a nice cold Asahi Super Dry to help make the mugginess a bit more tolerable. I was [...]
Apache on Leopard
by James in General, Technology on January 14th, 2008
Just a quick note - perhaps this might help somebody googling around for the problem I was having.
If you upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and you are playing around with Apache you will notice that if you try to access http://localhost/~username it will give you a forbidden message.
Problem: There is no username.conf in [...]
Sushi
by James in General, Japan on
We recently had to give a presentation in Japanese class (in Japanese of course) and one of the other students did his on sushi. This was a video that he played during his presentation. Obviously it is all true…or not….
Enjoy!
千倉、田舎、 館山城、,Chikura, Country Side, Tateyama Castle
by James in General, Japan, Travel on January 7th, 2008
This past weekend marks the last weekend of winter vacation. With that I did some traveling to see my friend Ippei in Chikura. Chikura is about 3 hours from my dorm and about 100 kilometers from Tokyo. It is located in Chiba Prefecture on the Pacific side of the Peninsula that is Tokyo Bay towards [...]
It’s time for something new
by James in Environment, General on January 2nd, 2008
When I look back on the idealizations of the past, there is always something interesting about the 1970’s. There are a lot of parallels between the 70’s and the recent years past: namely a war against an ideology, a new interest in environmentalism, and high gas prices.
What interests me about this is from that [...]
正月、New Years 07 - 08
by James in General, Japan, Travel on January 1st, 2008
Welcome to 2008! This year promises to be an interesting one. It started different than most - for starts I am in Japan (of course). Secondly - it also started with a traditional New Year’s ‘brunch’. There is no better way to start the first meal of the year with some warm sake. I think [...]
Library Design
by James in General on December 29th, 2007
In my university career so far I have used the library exactly twice. Once for a paper and we were forced to use the library. The second was to check out the (poor) Japanese movie collection and check out a movie. It dawned on my today why I never used the library. Design. Most [...]
