Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part VIII: Tokyo Drift [II]

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“The famous and super-busy scramble crosswalk at Shibuya.”] [/caption] Here we are on the last (full) day of the Main Tour. It would be the last day that Dave and I were together in Japan, so we decided to hit up all our Tokyo loose ends. That mostly meant wandering around getting the last of our souvenirs and checking out some of the famous districts within Tokyo. ...

October 5, 2009 · 11 min · el33tcapitan

Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part II: Journey to the East [II]

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“A reenactment of me starting to write this entry in emacs”] [/caption] I begin this entry sitting at the gate for my ANA flight…1 (No joke, my flight number is NH0001), listening to Japanese ska to get into the mood as I await my 1220 flight out of America. As per usual, I got here a good three hours before my flight even was ready to think about starting to take off thanks to something I like to call hyper-punctuality, but I’m sure most would call insanity. In fact, I was so early this morning when I arrived at 0900 that ANA hadn’t even opened up their check-in terminal (don’t worry, I’m sure to repeat this detail later) ...

September 3, 2009 · 12 min · el33tcapitan

Domo at Cornell [Photographic Memory]

The famous McGraw Tower. A Cornell icon… …About to be consumed by Domo-kun

May 5, 2009 · 1 min · el33tcapitan

The Chronicles of the Traveling Domo [Photographic Memory]

So it’s shameless self-promotion of the highest degree, but I’m really enjoying this photo project I’m working on. For now it’s been a picture a day on my iPhone of Domo-kun in various situations, but the general idea would be for me to take pictures of Domo in various places I visit. For example, had I started the project when I was in South Beach last week, I would have taken a picture of him at the beach. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the set so far. ...

March 17, 2009 · 1 min · el33tcapitan