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I think you meant “No-Touch Sensor”.
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My purposely-stupid Maps search yields a result. @aburkhalter: “Did that just happen!?”
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Beyond the Lighted Stage GET! Shop lady says her 6-year-old son loves RUSH; go go next generation of fans!
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My first FaceTime: the back of my phone, reflecting infinite copies of @robinstewart’s screen.
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This comparison of 零 and Fatal Frame boxes tells at least four stories about games in USA and in Japan.
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Bonus: parents brought my long-lost Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy VHSes.
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My favorite area of the Container Store — hundreds of colorful boxes, some tiny enough to store a single Cheerio.
“Bullying is a Crime! I Absolutely Won’t Condone It!”
Satou Fumiya, one of Japan’s top comic artists, lends her drawing to a public education campaign. I admire the sense of civic duty.
Tokyo Disneyland
There are just a few things I truly love at Disneyland; this relatively subtle gag in Toontown is one.
Obama is popular in Japan
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.
Shibuya
Shopping in Shibuya, we saw this giant 20th Century Boys movie advertisement.
Kamakura
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”.
Kamakura
Big huge pickup trucks are the norm for many areas of the USA. But to see one in Japan is photo-worthy.
Kamakura
I am not sure what this rock is for. But it is important enough to have a convenient handle.
Kamakura
This is, I believe, at Hokokuji temple in Kamakura. But it’s been 14 months.
Fossils
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.
Kinokuniya
20th Century Boys, our beloved comic series by Urasawa Naoki, was made into a movie. I heard it was awful.
Shinjuku
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.
Gamers
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.
Shinjuku Station
Walking the huge main corridor of Shinjuku Station always brings me back to 2002. One of my favorite places in the world.
Good Swimmer
It was a good dinner, and somehow I managed to have a conversation about literal interpretation of the Bible.
Mt. Fuji
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.
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1. So awesome to see the Exotic font in a modern game. 2. CONGRATURATIONS!
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RT @dv0rak: I mean, of course the lightbulb works, but OMG THE LIGHTBULB WORKS. Thanks so much, @drwave!
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Coffee table GET!! Our faithful Ikea Lack tables of 5 years can finally retire.
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BayoGETta! It’s too bad that Sega is sticking to the cheapo black & white manual tradition.
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Maybe I will get into Western comics when they can produce a successful series about a topic as classy as wine.
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Took quite a while to realize that by “Top In App Purchases”, Apple meant “Top In-App Purchases”. Hyphens matter!
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One Seattle style, one Chicagoesque. Dante’s Inferno Dogs at #mobilechowdown
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No photography allowed in the museum, so this is as close as I can get you to La Velata:
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Oh thank goodness, I think I finally have the MacBook Air and the Dell display agreeing on colors.
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Overnight another @omnigroup espresso mug decided it couldn’t go on living
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Nothing says Christmas like new science books. Thanks Mom & Dad! #notkidding