I should probably start a category just for closeup pictures of animals making funny faces, because there are few things as amusing to me as animals staring into cameras. I don't know why. Is that weird?
There is not much to this post besides just more pictures from the zoo (hence the title - I am nothing if not creative). I have been too busy lately with work and study to have much of any adventures recently, I'm afraid.
I have been working on some neat things for the website redesign in my spare time, most notably a nifty AJAX-ified photo gallery that I think will be quite cool when I finish. It'll still be a few weeks (at least) until that goes live, however, so in the meantime I whipped up a little script that lists all the blog entries I've written so far and their lengths relative to one another. Which reminds me that some of the older entries on the blog no longer have their images (they got lost when I transferred my data over to the new server) so I have to go back and add those in later... sigh maintaining a blog is so much work - it's like an old house where the water heater constantly needs to be fixed, the roof leaks need to be plugged, the carpets changed, the lawn mowed, the database indices rebuilt...
Anyway, if you're so inclined, you can find the (colourful!) list of entries by length at the link below. Some of the really old entries show some erroneously small lengths - that's because the data got screwed up somewhere along the way... just ignore them for now.
Entries by Length...
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More pictures from the zoo after the jump...
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I spent all weekend studying for the LSAT, translating documents for work, mirroring my blog and production server onto my local machine (with varying degrees of success) and taking pictures of animals.
Since only the last one is of any visual interest (unless you have an unhealthy obsession with the OS X terminal window), here are a few pictures of parrots for your enjoyment.
Something that was kind of odd about these parrots was that even though they weren't tied down or anything, they didn't fly away. I suppose perhaps their wings were clipped, but I still wonder why they didn't even leave their individual branches in the couple of hours I was at the zoo. You know, like they could have hopped around or something, even if they couldn't fly?
Alas, I know nothing about parrots or parrot husbandry so I suppose this question shall remained unanswered unless one of my lovely readers knows something about bird keeping and cares to enlighten me in the comments section.
Well, one more picture of the parrot after the jump (but it pretty much looks like all the rest above) and more pictures of animals later this week. But for now, off to bed.
Smiley Snowman
Playing around in the frozen snowfields of a world heritage site in northern
Japan.
Sleepy panda...
So this is pretty much what my bed looks like at this point with all the stuffed animals...
Friday's reward...
Sometimes you just need a good burger, ya know?
Siblings...
I just realised I have a lot of big/small pairs of matching stuffed animals for some reason...
Mistar Parrot
I spent all weekend studying for the LSAT, translating documents for work, mirroring my blog and production server onto my local machine (with varying degrees of success) and taking pictures of animals. Since only the last one is of any visual interest (unless you have an unhealthy obsession with the OS X terminal window), here are a few pictures of parrots for your enjoyment. Something that was kind of odd about these parrots was that...
My life at present
This is my life everyday. Sigh. I work 8 to 10 hours, then I come home, try to cook some dinner, and then sit down to face this: Trying to study for two major standardised tests while working full time sucks. I wish I was a college student again so I could just concentrate on studying. But alas, this is the way things are, so nothing to do but just suck it up and try...
Vietnamese Chicken Panda
So I wasn't going to post any more food pictures, but this was just too delicious to pass up. Last Sunday I woke up with the strange urge to buy the (Product)RED version of the iPod shuffle for some reason. (I wake up with the strangest urges at time...) Anyway, the only place they are sold in Japan is at the Apple store in Ginza (or over the internets, but I demand instant gratification and...
What a panda eats
Did you ever wonder what pandas eat in a day? Okay, probably not. But I haven't updated in about 10 days, and the only pictures I've taken recently are of food, so I guess that's today's post topic. Breakfast Kiwi and Blue Cheese Bruschetta on Vanilla Sponge I wish I could take credit for this recipe, but this incredibly tasty and delicious meal comes courteously of Bron Marshall and her gorgeously photographed blog. This was...
Nighttime Sakura
Nighttime sakura on a rainy, drenched sunday evening in Tokyo. Can you believe this is the only shot of the cherry blossoms I got all weekend? The irony of it is, last weekend was the last opportunity to see the cherry blossoms in prime bloom here in Tokyo (northern parts of Japan bloom later). Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day, so I thought about going to see them then, but decided in the end to...
Top of the Morning
It seems like such a shame to spend 30 minutes dressing up nice and getting ready for work in the morning just to head out the door and have it all ruined by the combination of wind, rain and heat which conspires to turn one into a wet, tussled, sweaty mess in a matter of moments. Even if one does miraculously manage to avoid all three of the above and make it to work unscathed,...
Mashiko
A bit out of chronological order, but a few weeks ago a friend and I went up to Mashiko in Tochigi prefecture on a day trip package offered through JR. Tochigi itself is famous for several things, not least of which Nikko, an important tourist attraction and a generally interesting and beautiful place to visit (especially in the autumn, save the almost unimaginable throngs of tourists - a friend told me he was stuck in...
Snow Panda
Haha, in all the years I've kept this blog, I don't think I've posted as many photos of myself as I have in this entry (and the previous one). Is the panda blog turning into a venue for indulging my inner narcissisist panda? Oh my goodness, look, I can never spell that word. Narcissist. Ha. That's it. Thank goodness for spell check. Clearly the thing to do when surrounded by snow is to make a...
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