Posts from — June 2007

Rainy season has descended upon us. It rained all day today, steady and hard most of the day. It’s just letting up now at dusk, but the humidity will probably not be letting up until almost October.

This is Ramune, a drink associated with  summer in Japan, especially summer festivals. There’s a glass bead inside the neck that blocks off the mouth of the bottle, confounding novices who don’t know how to drink it yet.

Ramune tastes like lemon-lime soda with a bit of gum arabic, I think.

Father’s Day surprise from Yoshiko and Greg. New York trad vs. Lynchburg weirdness in an Over-The-Top-Rope Battle Royale. Open up that belt a notch, this is a war I can get behind. The slice on the left is Papa Jon’s Father’s Day special Jack Daniels Chocolate Cheesecake. Coffee jelly on top adds a touch of sour to balance the bite of the Jack Daniel’s whiskey and chocolate mousse layer below, with chocolate cheese below that. Papa Jon’s link.

If this crashing leads me back to another kernel panic situation adn the whole thing goes kaput, here’s a sample crash log:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 G4 emac kernel panic following application crashes on launching

Host Name: softbank218123120002.bbtec.net
Date/Time: 2007-06-19 01:44:20 +0900
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: firefox-bin
Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin
Version: 2.0.0.4 (2.0.0.4)
PID: 407
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0×0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0×0002) at 0×00000040
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Sorry.

Bamboo, wood and moss in a gate in front of a house.

A stretch Cadillac limousine really stands out in Japan

I saw three Lamborghinis in three different colors (white, orange and yellow) in my neighborhood in one week. Something going on?

What happens when a guy has to put an English caption on a sign on Friday evening with no one around to check his work. Not really a car post, but otherwise it wouldn’t make it onto the site at all.