So yeah, was in Berlin for a week and a half or so. Had a good time! No time for detailed write-ups, but I posted a bunch of photo sets to tumblr using hotel wifi, so I'll just link all those in one place for now, for those who don't want to flip through other stuff over there looking for 'em.

• misc 1st-day wandering
• misc part 2 and 3
• Reichstag
• cool ( Read more... )

Here's a picture of the scurvy rodent that I caught eating my morning glories...


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Just got back from seeing akiko's family in Maryland. It was a fun trip overall. Let's see, we went out for dinner with her sister one night (to the Dogfish Head Ale House, where I got a yummy "martini" made of Chambord, Grand Marnier and pineapple). Then we hung out in DC with eirias, from whom I am totally going to shamelessly steal this linked list of ( Read more... )

Japan! It was awesome. Uncharacteristically, I'm not going to be lazy and just point you all to akiko's inevitable huge posts on the subject, but actually write something up myself. With pictures! Bold stuff in the post refers to the pics, which will be thumbnails linked to full-size images ( Read more... )

I finally got around to downloading pictures on my cell phone from last October to now, and you know what that means.
( Time for another low-res cell phone picture post! )

Yup, it's picture time again.

( In this edition: Hammond organ, through the Dry Swamp, steampunk beetle. )

Man, ScapBook has some interface issues. Aside from the fact that all the management options are poorly linked and laid-out, I could not for the life of me get it to show automatically generated tag-galleries at the top level, even when I explicitly told it to. I've made a dummy gallery and added some tags to it meanwhile... but you don't have to ( Read more... )

So... taking advantage of my new paid account stuff I have Things. Firstly, a bunch of new userpics. Secondly, I've dumped a bunch of pics of recent wanders from my cellphone into ScrapBook, which I'll explore embedding into the entry behind the cut. BTW, I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to make ScrapBook automagically just create galleries ( Read more... )

In the tradition of both the PataPillow and the PrincePumpkin, I give you...

( the PataPumpkin )

Once again, I have totally geeked out in my pumpkin carving.

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