The Road Often Traveled by highwayGEEK

I have a bunch of articles to post and have just been to lazy. Time to clean house.

Links, not patty…

An Open Letter to The Secret Service (BWE)

Trick or Treat More Efficiently with Halloween Candy Code (Lifehacker)

BABY GYMNASTICS: WTF (Jezebel)

Fanboys Movie Poster (Slash Film)

Dean Wormer Would Be Horrified (Deadspin)

Just Pull Over: A Lamborghini Police Car (Geekologie)

Well Hello: Olivia Munn’s Costume Party (Geekologie) FOR JEFE!

Standalone VCR party finally ends, JVC shuts the door as it leaves (Engadget)

Intern cracks cold murder case … after 36 years (MSNBC)

Great, Just Great: We’re All As Good As Dead (Geekologie)

Your Final 2008 Serving Of Red Sox Fail (Deadspin)

New Dido Song: "Don’t Believe in Love" (Buzzsugar)

Tokyo broom store has not had a customer since 1972 (Update: HOAX) (BoingBoing)

‘Walter Reed’ for combat dogs opens (MSNBC)

Election Break: Ted Stevens Is Awesome (Gawker)

‘Changeling’ revisits a crime that riveted L.A. (LA Times)

Frank ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal dies at 79; sports betting expert inspired movie ‘Casino’ (LA Times)

That Cooper/Black Panel Video? It’s Here (TVNewser)

Three extraordinary Disney jazz CDs from Japan (BoingBoing)

Star Wars: A New (Cardboard) Hope (Geekologie)

10-Year Old Tennessee Boy Enlisted To Drive Drunks Home, Flips Van At 90MPH (Geekologie)

Mother’s Cookies Goes Out Of Business, Kills Off Circus Animals (Consumerist)  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Damn it all to hell!!!!!!!!!!

Asahi Kasei’s Plus-Nyan: The Most Feline Friendly House (Apartment Therapy)

The Other End of the Line Trailer: Cute or Cheesy? (Buzzsugar)

First Look: Single With Parents Starring Alyssa Milano (Buzzsugar)

Death Of A Nethead (Gawker)

German Artist To Smoke Kurt Cobain’s Ashes (Geekologie)

Kota the Triceratops ships from the land before time to your home (Engadget)

DONE! See I had a lot of things backed up.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK!

The Call & Bono
What’s Happened To You

This song came up on my iPod at work today. I thought of the great time I had with Tammy this weekend as it played.

It was 97 degrees today! Cats are hating life back home in front of the fan for sure, but they won’t sit still for shaving.

Roam……..

PG Porn (with Nathan Fillion) (PG Porn)

Texas Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution (The Big Lead)

Revenge Is A Dish Best Served On The Front Lawn (Deadspin)

Some freak tied up two girls on a Southwest flight (NBC SD)

Blondes are dumb, at least this one (MSNBC)

12 signs you are addicted to debt (Consumerist)

Recipe for Double Kisses Chocolate Cupcakes (Cupcakes Take the Cake)

ECTO-1 for sale  (/Film)

Long week. Very slow, not that busy. Movie night tonight at Chuck’s. Jeff’s dad flies in today and they head out to Utah Saturday, so a week to myself at home. I won’t know what to do with myself. Ate at Burger Lounge in Kensington with Sasha’s recommendation. Very good!

Roam was not built in a day…

Roger Ebert responds to a fan of Disaster Movie (/Film)

Kathy Griffin and the cyber-squatters (E!)

Office season premiere was great! (E!)

Keep a gratitude journal (Lifehacker)

MIT gurus dream up self-sustaining sensor network for preventing forest fires (Engadget) COOL!!!!

PSA 182

I was a 6th grader at Chesterton Elementary School in San Diego when this happened that morning. 

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080925-0942-bn25psa.html

Yes, I’ve been neglecting you for sometime. I came home and totally forgot about you. Not that I’ve had a ton to talk to you about. It’s been work and home and work and home for a bit now. Today is cleaning day, since the Chargers don’t play until tomorrow night. I’m putting it off until later, maybe after lunch.

Muggy decided that my laptop keyboard needed some rearranging, she just tried to jump up from the floor, passed me, and placed he claw down into the keyboard and dragged about 5 keys off. I turned to patience mode and fixed it. Darn CAT!

Thursday, Marlo and I attended a Big Brother/Big Sister social. I’m still considering being a Big Brother. Still some ruminating to do on this.

ROAM!!!

Computer in a bottle (Geekologie) 

Theft Proof Lunch bags (Geeklogie)

Friday was Talk Like A Pirate (Annoy Your Co-workers) Day (TLAPD)

Roger Ebert on Critics (Roger Ebert’s Journal)

I am back home. The Japan adventure is over! And it was great. On the last Friday before returning home Russell and Sylvia took Dave an myself to Imari and Okawachi Valley. This a center of Japanese porcelain, with shops lining the narrow streets in the beautiful valley.   

Thanks to Dave for his pictures, my camera was down for the count.   

The team on the last day

Bridge with porcelain inlay

  Rice field

Okawachi Valley

Hello all from Sasebo on Kyushu. We have pretty cool thunderstorms here tonight. Bit of rain and lightning.

On Monday, I met Russell’s wife Sylvia and they took me and Dave to a kushiyaki place, which is "Things on Sticks". We had pork, chicken, fried potato, and asparagus wrapped in bacon. The sailors next to us had cheese wrapped in bacon. Heart attack on the stick. Sylvia was a great hostess!

On Wednesday, for lunch Russell and Suzuki took us up to the top of the overlook of the 99 (really 204) Islands.  

Nice view. Ichi, ni, san…

  Dave, Russell and Suzuki

Looking back towards Sasebo

That evening, Russell, his wife and daughter took us to a noodle restaurant out near their house in Hairo.

Our hosts!

Sunset in Japan

Today for lunch we when up to the overlook on Mount Yumihari. Another great view.

Sasebo base and harbor

Suzuki, Russell and Dave

Greetings from the south. Not much to do here. Wandered around the town. Long mall, lots of shopping. Its still hot and the mall is outdoors, so yeah! Tried Mos Burger here. Different kind of Japanese burger. One they had this sauce, which is like a chili sauce, but sweeter. Burger was not too beefy, more like an after thought. Here are some pics of the Albuquerque bridge, the awesome view from the hotel Chisun and some fireworks from the Seaside Festival last night. 

I’ve headed down to Sasebo. I’ll have some pictures up later from my roaming. First, lets review the hotel in Yokosuka. Very nice place, a bit musty at times, but that’s what happens when they turn off the AC to your room when you are not there. You have to place your key in slot to get the power to activate in your room. Plus they make you hand your key in when you leave (same in Sasebo, but no plug-in/make your power come on situation here). So people come back from work and have mastered the multi-tasker that is the free toothbrush. You place this in your power slot and then when you come back from dinner, your room is wonderfully air-conditioned for you.

Here is the room size. Double bed, desk, couple of chairs, and another desk by the window. Then the microwave on the left side is a shelf unit, turns to the wall I’m standing next to and then out. Not very big.

Here is the bathroom. Only thing big in here was the leap you have to take to get into the tub.

Angela in her bathroom, demonstrating the size of the tub/shower.

ME!

Toliet

How to operate the bidet

Controls for bidet