I think you meant “No-Touch Sensor”.

I enjoy finding things in used books.

My purposely-stupid Maps search yields a result. @aburkhalter: “Did that just happen!?”

Living room art piece GO GO

Use Your Fingers

I guess I have used this title for testing before.

I am eating cheese curds… in Seattle.

Verizon: I would have included Washington on this map.

Beyond the Lighted Stage GET! Shop lady says her 6-year-old son loves RUSH; go go next generation of fans!

My first FaceTime: the back of my phone, reflecting infinite copies of @robinstewart’s screen.

My RUSH tickets came in a bubble mailer.

I recommend against writing RECYCLING on your trash can.

デュラララ novels GETTT

NERV phone accessories GET!!

Ghost chairs GET

Had to trek across the terminal to find it, but Scharffen Berger GET!

Tonkotsu ramen at Asuka. I am happy.

Roger Dean prints spotted in gallery!

Ok Go GET

Blue Bottle

Kimchi ramen at Katanaya. I am happy.

Croque Madame at Cafe de la Presse. I am happy.

Hey, our chevron-stripe pegboard wall turned out.

Reading this sign out loud is my favorite part of visiting Ikea.

I did a lot of blue-taping. We like chevrons.

This comparison of 零 and Fatal Frame boxes tells at least four stories about games in USA and in Japan.

Close-up of the Chandelier of Nine LEDs and Many Many Crystals:

This chandelier was very hard to install!!

Bonus: parents brought my long-lost Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy VHSes.

This pizza has a nice aspect ratio

Lots of Apple posters here, including ones for Jagwire.

This is the sort of garage my uncle has.

Discovering the pleasure of Japanese input on iPad.

Let’s Cooljiven

These ebooks are faithful to the originals.

The art store has a lot of Paris.

What. #wordswithfriends

Sigh. #wordswithfriends

My favorite area of the Container Store — hundreds of colorful boxes, some tiny enough to store a single Cheerio.

Satou Fumiya, one of Japan’s top comic artists, lends her drawing to a public education campaign. I admire the sense of civic duty.

Attention to detail in the gift shop.

Frontierland coexisting with Cinderella’s Castle.

There are just a few things I truly love at Disneyland; this relatively subtle gag in Toontown is one.

Neatly parked strollers outside the line for a ride.

I bought a cup of coffee. The lady put it in a bag.

Being in Japan in the days surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration, I got to hear a lot about him from another country’s perspective. The general sentiment was, as you can see here, excitement and anticipation.

Or, if you prefer, “Merge”.

Shopping in Shibuya, we saw this giant 20th Century Boys movie advertisement.

We visited a Zen garden and enjoyed the tea ceremony. This was one of the most pleasant experiences of my life. With everything from cereal to wastebaskets getting branded as “Zen”, it’s easy to forget that it means more than “kinda naturey and relaxed”.

This kitty pretty much had the run of the temple grounds.

Big huge pickup trucks are the norm for many areas of the USA. But to see one in Japan is photo-worthy.

I am not sure what this rock is for. But it is important enough to have a convenient handle.

This is, I believe, at Hokokuji temple in Kamakura. But it’s been 14 months.

In the middle of a hyper-dense urban area is this fossil park, where you can see the layers of sea creatures that used to live there.

20th Century Boys, our beloved comic series by Urasawa Naoki, was made into a movie. I heard it was awful.

Part six in an ongoing series, “Kabukichou from above”. 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007. Every geeky trip to Shinjuku gets more focused, as I care less and less about the trends of the day and instead hunt down specific items. Even so, I ended up with five artbooks, ten games, and 13 comic tankoubons.

Game shops have these poster-saturated stairwells between their many floors. This one is rather tame. They usually make me wonder at how much product there is out there, probably dreck but just maybe good enough to be my next Sakura Taisen or Ar tonelico.

Walking the huge main corridor of Shinjuku Station always brings me back to 2002. One of my favorite places in the world.

It was a good dinner, and somehow I managed to have a conversation about literal interpretation of the Bible.

On the way to the house, we took a little detour to see the view of Mt. Fuji, one of the better ones in Tokyo. Aunt K told me I could get a clearer shot if I moved over a bit, but I wanted to capture the characteristically Tokyoesque utility poles too.

Oh yeah, big dining table get!

Absurdly high-qual chaise GET

Wait a second. That is not how dish antennas work.

Whoa, they hot-swapped in some new parking stall lines around my car.

1. So awesome to see the Exotic font in a modern game. 2. CONGRATURATIONS!

Work & home projects merging…

I made a little deoxyribonucleic acid.

Wondering who left me this killer present.

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Page 1 of the manual for my “SIMPLICITY” brand TV mount.

This is a recycling bin with a crutch in it.

RT @dv0rak: I mean, of course the lightbulb works, but OMG THE LIGHTBULB WORKS. Thanks so much, @drwave!

There is a pie button! (Or possibly a cheesecake button.)

Getting things done:

Installing these shelves took 10 hours.

An attractive bonus indeed.

Also, it is donut time.

This is one fully-populated Virgin Mary.

Heritage Dr Pepper! No need to drive to Canada.

@tjw Congratulations; you have wrested the crown from @ssmtwtf.

Coffee table GET!! Our faithful Ikea Lack tables of 5 years can finally retire.

Time for homemade (homelaid?) eggs & soy sauce on rice. :D

BayoGETta! It’s too bad that Sega is sticking to the cheapo black & white manual tradition.

Louis XVI chairs get!!

Maybe I will get into Western comics when they can produce a successful series about a topic as classy as wine.

Took quite a while to realize that by “Top In App Purchases”, Apple meant “Top In-App Purchases”. Hyphens matter!

I love that these are two different categories.

Only pack of Pepsi Throwback in the whole store GET

One Seattle style, one Chicagoesque. Dante’s Inferno Dogs at #mobilechowdown

Dinner

No photography allowed in the museum, so this is as close as I can get you to La Velata:

Love, love Portland’s public design.

New year’s cleaning time

Oh, Apple. Even your springy battery holder thingys are classy.

This is getting to be one classy closet.

H Mart food court wins at food courtship.

Oh thank goodness, I think I finally have the MacBook Air and the Dell display agreeing on colors.

Overnight another @omnigroup espresso mug decided it couldn’t go on living

Ham roll-ups. Keeping the crazy Midwest holiday recipes alive.

Nothing says Christmas like new science books. Thanks Mom & Dad! #notkidding