Mike, In about an hour, rakitty & son will have their sudden-death match continued from last week. Somewhat repaired after the Dom match two days ago, I’m ready & raring for this one, and the adrenaline is already coursing through my veins. To be continued… rakkity
Mike, Unfortunately, there isn’t much to the story. Dom and I got to the court about 10 minutes before time and started up after no warmup. This is usually a mistake for me, but this time it wasn’t. Dom failed to return any of my first 8 serves, and he went on to lose 15-3. […]
From the unposted rakkity Japan Chronicles Mike, Don’t post this around mealtime. Today I dispersed my food items from the warming cabinet onto a tray without looking carefully at the contents of the dishes. After I had started chowing down, I looked more carefully at the strange things on one of the plate (see attached […]
From the unposted rakkity Japan Chronicles Mike, Don’t post this around mealtime. Today I dispersed my food items from the warming cabinet onto a tray without looking carefully at the contents of the dishes. After I had started chowing down, I looked more carefully at the strange things on one of the plate (see attached […]
Mike, Have a look at APOD (below) and compare it with the original Adams picture Link (below that)..Even if you convert the color picture to B&W and fiddle with the overall contrast, gamma, andbrightness, you can never get that magical glow of light above the mountains that Adams somehow created. And the contrast in the […]
Mike, Tonight at dinner, Mukul brought down a bottle of sake that he thought we should finish off, since “Sake always goes better with dinner, right?” So after finishing it off along with dinner, I decided to go for a walk in the night. Being well insulated and especially well lubricated, I headed for the […]
Rakkity/Shamaru The space-time confusium Let’s see now, as I write here it’s 8:40 pm JST; that’s 6:40 am EST, so this email is arriving at Central St blog factory just before dawn. It’s Wednesday here, so it’s Tuesday there. These are my thought processes as I write to my intern back at Goddard in MD. […]
Just before we headed out the door, Deguchi san explained what he wrote in thenote at the desk. He described the camera, the black pouch, and the blue bag.”What blue bag?” I asked. “Your blue bag on the bench. I put your camera in the pouch, and then into the blue bag”, he explained. “But […]
Saturday Dec 9, 3:00 JST Mukul and I met in the cafeteria and waited for Degushi san, who was going to take us to a nearby hot springs. Promptly at 3, his little grey car drove up to the entrance, and Degushi waved us in. Degushi san is a balding, thin, professorial type, who’s part […]
rakkity/shamaru Mushrooms Houses
rakkity/shamaru Mushrooms Houses
rakkity/shamaru My perambulations around Nobeyama Observatory via foot and rattletrap 2-speed. And next door to that observatory is a museum with….. (Editor’s note: I think shamaru’s having entirely too much fun.)