Koshoji temple.

Holy crap, I haven't blogged in awhile. It's because of combination of being sick for most of a month and then recently moving into a new place (huge headache because of the language barrier). Lots of stuff to come.

Here is a pic taken from a near by park. It's actually part of a huge temple complex (koshoji temple). Some pics of that to come later as well.



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On the way to a clinic

Another auto stitch test
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Summer is here

Our summer vacation officially starts tomorrow. I have a ton of videos to edit and post so keep a look out for those. In the meantime I'm trying out this new panoramic software for the iPhone called "auto stitch." it seems to be a lot easier to use than the previous application I've been using, panolab pro, but it also seems to lack the manual controls that panolab has. I think I'll stick with it though. Here's a sample.
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Kirin lemon

Best lemon soda... Ever!
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$95.00 for a melon

Ever wonder what a $95 melon looks like? Well here you go.
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Farmer tan showdown

On the way to the applestore this morning to get my MacBook repaired (I spilled mitsuya cider all over my keyboard in my sleep) I saw these 3 kids on the subway having what appeared to be a lengthly discussion about their famer tans. I should have shown them mine. They would have been blinded.

On another note, I am still cameraless. Hopefully that will change next month.
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My future partner

There she is. The canon rebel T1i, known as the canon kiss x3 here in japan. It looks like after I save up some money I'm going to buy this lovely piece of hardware. I lost my HD camcorder and I feel naked without it. I already have a canon rebel (the first rebel body; it's a dinosuar, but a solid workhorse), but this new kiss x3 is both a digital slr and HD (up to 1080p @ 20fps) video recorder. It will cut down on the amount of devices I carry around. Can't wait. We're going to get along famously.
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Better than IBM

There is some sort of school for technology, maybe a design school- I'm not sure, in this spiral tower next to Nagoya station. One of my students told me it's called HAL (as you can see in the photo) because they wanted to be "better" than IBM. So they named it HAL, H comes before I in the alphabet, A before B and L before M. Therefore HAL > IBM? I think it's pretty funny.
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Nanzan for lunch

Ramen at nanzan. I'm still trying to figure this ramen shop's strange operating hours. Good ramen though.
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Free soda

Free mitsuya cider being handed out outside my apartment this morning. It's going to be a good day.
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Mountain dew?!

I found some at a small stand on a subway platform near our apartment. I don't even drink the stuff, but it seemed rare...

I'm also testing out this new blogger iPhone app, hope it works ok.
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