http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ en-us michaelpanda@ezweb.ne.jp 2008-06-30T22:29:42+09:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001268.html It's been a while since I've posted some nighttime shots, so here are a few I took whilst walking around The Hood over the weekend. A quiet intersection... Near the neighborhood temple... View from my balcony... One more shot after the jump, as well as links to other entries with night shots.... 1268@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-06-30T22:29:42+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001265.html Nothing special. Just a random Wednesday night in the hood... My sundappled kitchen, in all its messy glory. The hood... I have no idea who painted this building, but...... 1265@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ miscellaneous 2008-06-26T22:06:11+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001258.html Thank you all for your kind wishes in the last post. I really appreciate it! ...So I took the LSAT on Sunday. In short, I don't think I did as well as I did on the practice exams, but all is not lost. I was scoring quite high on the practice exams so even if the score I get on the actual test is a few points lower than what I'm used to, it should... 1258@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-06-18T21:57:28+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001257.html So after making it through almost an entire year without getting sick, of course now - NOW - one week before the LSAT...! - I have to get struck down by a terrible cold and fever the likes of which I haven't experienced in quite some time. I was passed out, fevered and unable to even feed myself - let alone study - for the past few days. Nice. This is a picture of me... 1257@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ general 2008-06-08T21:02:46+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001256.html Damn, that title could have used some work, huh? *laughs* At first I was going to call it something like "tokyo upshots" but decided against it because that might bring in exactly the wrong kind of intarnets traffic... (see, 'upshots' can apparently also be used to describe (especially in Japan) the phenomenon of taking a picture up a woman's skirt... which, needless to say, is not what today's post is about.) (sorry to disappoint...) Lacking... 1256@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-06-01T12:32:05+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001255.html First shots from the wide angle Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM. Sorry for the lack of interesting subject matter, this was kind of an off-the-cuff series of snaps as I walked around Akihabara. Pedestrians headed home after a long days work... The weather has been getting warm and damp recently, reminding me that the incredibly humid and uncomfortable rainy season is just around the corner. Which, when added to the daily grind of a life... 1255@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-05-25T23:38:42+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001254.html 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... 1254@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-05-17T19:53:26+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001253.html 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... 1253@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ photography 2008-05-07T00:09:29+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001252.html 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... 1252@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ general 2008-04-28T20:52:57+09:00 http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/archives/001251.html 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... 1251@http://www.michaelpanda.com/blog/ general 2008-04-20T12:01:59+09:00