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日本人は奇妙です

Posted on 6 October, 2010 by Mike

(Tech note: This is also a test to see whether the database can handle having unicode as part of the reference key…) Edited to add: まじで？ 素晴らしい製: Compare and contrast the full-scale version: The only way these could get any … Continue reading →

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Go fever

Posted on 21 April, 2010 by Mike

We left to see The Lion King last night in a cloud of despondancy. The new ash plume was heading southeast, looking to blanket the entire United Kingdom for another five or six days. Little improvement was expected. I blamed … Continue reading →

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Day 6

Posted on 20 April, 2010 by Mike

Still here. Last night, we thought we had a glimmer of good news, in that a bunch of flights were supposed to operate from London airports later today. That doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, and Iceland continues to … Continue reading →

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Greetings from Vilecano land!

Posted on 18 April, 2010 by Mike

Week 5 of my epic circle-half-the-globe-twice-in-a-month adventure started out swimmingly. We left Swansea on Wednesday night, spent the night near Heathrow, planning to wake up early and catch our flight to Amsterdam the next morning. Rode the Hotel Hoppa to … Continue reading →

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It's nice to see you too!

Posted on 18 January, 2008 by Mike

Green sea turtle, Anaeho’omalu Bay, Waikoloa, Hawaii 18 January, 2008 It’s nice to be back.

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Open Letter #46: I don't think that's going to help

Posted on 1 December, 2007 by Mike

Dear Kayak: Earlier this morning, I asked you for some help finding flights between Kailua-Kona and Honolulu at the end of January. Now, I’ll admit — I wasn’t trying to use you to buy the tickets, merely to get an … Continue reading →

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Some kinda wonderful

Posted on 30 May, 2007 by Mike

Here’s a little flashback for fans of humorous Canadian music from the early 1990s: Often on the weekend I’ll jump in my car I won’t fill up the tank although I’m going far And if somebody asks me if I’m … Continue reading →

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20/20 Hindsight: Memories of Paris

Posted on 28 January, 2007 by Mike

I keep meaning to finish telling stories about Europe 2006 here, and I keep putting it off — probably because the last entry took so long, and because I’ve been kinda busy since then. So I’m going to change things … Continue reading →

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Okay, what the heck happened?

Posted on 22 January, 2007 by Mike

I was gone for ten days. I went from this: Science World, Vancouver, BC. 10 January, 2007. To this: Kahalu’u-Keauhou, HI. 18 January, 2007. And back again. And on my return, I discover: there are giant potholes in virtually every … Continue reading →

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Random Europe photo #1

Posted on 1 January, 2007 by Mike

Below the cut because it was screwing up my formatting… Banks of the Rhone. Arles, France. I really promise I’ll get around to (a) finished the Europe stories and (b) putting pictures from Europe and Japan on-line Real Soon Now. … Continue reading →

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