Japan:
In honor of the Japanese crow story in today's Links Dump, here's a filler post with a picture of a Japanese crow:...
Posted on May 8, 2008 8:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm kicking myself for not using this as a filler post a couple of weeks back when it was Easter: This is from one of the shrines at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto-- the temple with the gigantic wooden platform looking out...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 8:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It occurred to me this morning, that in some senses, what I'm trying to do with lab pedagogy is rather like giving directions in Japan.
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Posted on April 24, 2008 11:24 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lest you think that people in the US are uniquely alarmist about threats to Chiiiiillllllldrruuuun, a picture from last summer's trip to Japan: I have absolutely no idea what that says, but it sure is lurid....
Posted on April 24, 2008 8:10 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow. I'm cranky today. I really need to be more Zen about things. Here's a picture to meditate on: This is the famous "Crane and Turtle" garden at Konchi-in in Kyoto. It's one of very few gardens absolutely known to...
Posted on April 3, 2008 12:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a Christmas present for her grandparents, Kate put together a coupld of albums of pictures from our Japan trip, including this shot of What Japanese Commuter Trains Look Like to Me: (That was taken standing up looking straight ahead...
Posted on January 2, 2008 8:37 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the same basic spirit as yesterday's knit cephalopod picture, here's a sign from Takayama that we really liked: I'm not sure exactly why the octopus has punched the fish to the moon, Ralph Kramden style, but Kate and I...
Posted on December 28, 2007 8:11 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's a chance that, if I make a serious push this week, I can have a first pass through the book complete before Christmas. So, of course, I'm procrastinating madly. I understand it's traditional to post pictures in these circumstances,...
Posted on December 18, 2007 10:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Which of these statues seen on the street in Japan is more disturbing?
Posted on December 17, 2007 10:48 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On our first day in Kyoto, Kate and I went to a bunch of temples, including one that was showing a bunch of really cool paintings featuring Buddhist temple accessories come to life and chasing monsters around. They had a...
Posted on December 15, 2007 10:11 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've gotten away from posting Japan pictures, but here's what may be my favorite warning sign ever: In case you have trouble reading the text in the image:...
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Posted on November 3, 2007 7:52 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you could go through life either seeing no evil, hearing no evil, or speaking no evil, which would you pick?
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Posted on October 15, 2007 9:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's as good an explanation as any for this:...
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Posted on October 6, 2007 11:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A demonstration of why "framing" is an important technique.
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Posted on September 30, 2007 6:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Silver Pavilion: The Golden Pavilion: Which do you like better?...
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Posted on September 27, 2007 7:57 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A simple question: We have the Great Buddha at Nara: and the Great Buddha at Kamakura: Which is better?...
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Posted on September 25, 2007 8:22 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks