From NikonRumor comment by David Teltschik http://nikonrumors.com/2011/07/29/more-on-the-white-housing-nasa-uses-on-their-nikon-cameras.aspx/#comment-148302
Friday, July 29, 2011
Nikon: Out of This World Camera
From NikonRumor comment by David Teltschik http://nikonrumors.com/2011/07/29/more-on-the-white-housing-nasa-uses-on-their-nikon-cameras.aspx/#comment-148302
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Mid Week In Review
Wendi Murdoch stole the spot light in the phone hacking hearing not only by her long black hair and fitted jacket but by her quick tiger claw too. She leaped to her husband's defense by swinging a tiger claw at an assailant who tried to throw a shaving cream pie to the seemingly senile Murdoch senior. Most other people at the hearing were so shell shocked by the sudden cream pie attack that they could utter only What or WTF, including James Murdoch who is forever seen flinchingly dumb-founded mouth ajar in repeat slo mo on TV. Only Wendi Murdoch had the good sense and reflex to give the best defense she knew how: striking back head on at the assailant. Ang Lee was quoted saying he would have cast Wendi Murdoch to star in the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was she not too busy home wrecking and gold digging.
While China press was given carte blanche to report, in glee, the News Corporation phone hacking scandal, showcasing how corrupted the English press, law enforcement and politics and by extension Western civilization is, disaster struck home. Whenever there is disaster there is scandal, or so it seems in China particularly. A high speed train collision this past Saturday resulted in 39 deaths, hundreds of injuries, and plenty of questions unanswered. The official explanation was lightning. But nobody believed that or that was the whole truth. Immediately after the crash, people started to question the rescue effort given way to the priority to resume service, corruption leading to shoddy design and construction and the cover-up of the true cause of the train crash. Three rail officials were fired while news conference scheduled was cancelled without explanation. High speed train technology is generally considered safe as in Europe and Japan; there has been no fatality reported in Japan since its inception in the 1960s. The billions dollar high speed rail is a pet project of the government and a source of national pride, at least for some, has now turned into a disaster and an embarrassment.
Talking about train crash, Amy Winehouse lived a life alternating between brilliance and of a train wreck, but mostly train wreck, died at the age of 27. The cause of death is as yet unexplained but many people would have attributed it to ill health due to years of drug and alcohol abuse. Her second and last album "Back to Black" released in 2006 gained critical and commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic. Her death I would say eclipsed the passing of her fellow country man, a man with certain last name and pedigree, Lucian Freud, arguably one of the greatest modern portrait painters. I almost couldn't believe his death as there has been scantily coverage of the painter's passing. At some point I just thought I read it wrong. But yes, he was dead at 88.
More deaths and terror happened in one of the world's greenest and most livable cities, Oslo Norway. Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik bombed and shot people to death. In all, 8 people died in the bombing in Oslo and 68 people were shot dead in Utoeya, an island about 25 miles from Oslo by car. Breivik admitted the killings but pleaded not guilty, essentially claiming what he did was necessary ("imperfect necessity") to save Norway and Europe from "Islamification." Breivik is probably a secret admirer of Ted Kaczynski, aka the unabomber, or his work or both as he copied the latter's work without giving proper credit in his own 1500-page manifesto "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence." This makes him a plagiarist in addition to being a mass murderer. Bad very bad.
While China press was given carte blanche to report, in glee, the News Corporation phone hacking scandal, showcasing how corrupted the English press, law enforcement and politics and by extension Western civilization is, disaster struck home. Whenever there is disaster there is scandal, or so it seems in China particularly. A high speed train collision this past Saturday resulted in 39 deaths, hundreds of injuries, and plenty of questions unanswered. The official explanation was lightning. But nobody believed that or that was the whole truth. Immediately after the crash, people started to question the rescue effort given way to the priority to resume service, corruption leading to shoddy design and construction and the cover-up of the true cause of the train crash. Three rail officials were fired while news conference scheduled was cancelled without explanation. High speed train technology is generally considered safe as in Europe and Japan; there has been no fatality reported in Japan since its inception in the 1960s. The billions dollar high speed rail is a pet project of the government and a source of national pride, at least for some, has now turned into a disaster and an embarrassment.
Talking about train crash, Amy Winehouse lived a life alternating between brilliance and of a train wreck, but mostly train wreck, died at the age of 27. The cause of death is as yet unexplained but many people would have attributed it to ill health due to years of drug and alcohol abuse. Her second and last album "Back to Black" released in 2006 gained critical and commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic. Her death I would say eclipsed the passing of her fellow country man, a man with certain last name and pedigree, Lucian Freud, arguably one of the greatest modern portrait painters. I almost couldn't believe his death as there has been scantily coverage of the painter's passing. At some point I just thought I read it wrong. But yes, he was dead at 88.
More deaths and terror happened in one of the world's greenest and most livable cities, Oslo Norway. Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik bombed and shot people to death. In all, 8 people died in the bombing in Oslo and 68 people were shot dead in Utoeya, an island about 25 miles from Oslo by car. Breivik admitted the killings but pleaded not guilty, essentially claiming what he did was necessary ("imperfect necessity") to save Norway and Europe from "Islamification." Breivik is probably a secret admirer of Ted Kaczynski, aka the unabomber, or his work or both as he copied the latter's work without giving proper credit in his own 1500-page manifesto "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence." This makes him a plagiarist in addition to being a mass murderer. Bad very bad.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Monday, July 04, 2011
The Pale King
What surprises me is The Pale King actually is intended to have a plot as enumerated in the end notes that are included in the unfinished novel by the late David Foster Wallace. From my reading, which sadly was mostly done on my commute, I couldn't find a plot, something remotely resembles a plot maybe but not in the traditional sense that I understand it. In fact it's more like a collection of short stories, those that have no beginning or end at all. I find it difficult if not impossible to make any sense out of the characters, who come from and go nowhere, in the grand scheme of things such as the story of the novel. But once I accepted the novel was probably written by a mad man who happened to be smart, articulate, pedantic and very good at moving words around then I kind of came to the conclusion that I could enjoy or even admire it, all these were of course done without me realizing it--the novel is so hypnotic that it either puts me to sleep or totally engrosses me during my daily commute to and from work. His use of footnote is somewhat annoying to say the least. I am in the opinion that if you cannot incorporate your thoughts in the body of a sentence or a paragraph then you should leave it out otherwise just write it in, that is, unless you are writing a research paper or you are DFW who tends to write extensive footnotes whenever he feels like it (of course being a wordsmith he can absolutely write anything in a sentence or paragraph, it's just that he makes a conscious literary choice not to and instead happily writes footnotes in the length of a chapter or a section). There are a few chapters or rather pages (out of more than 500 pages) that I particularly enjoy and am duly impressed. One being how an agent got an epiphany and turns himself from being a wastoid at college to an accountant; the other being how a father got killed in a busy subway platform. I personally think the detail and the psychological landscape presented are pretty out of this world. And above anything else (and despite his fixation on footnotes or rather my own fixation and displeasure on his writing footnotes), I find his writing touching and deeply sincere, which turns out to be the real surprise for me.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
山口百惠 - 秋桜 (Live)
update 7/4/2011 (I am going to ruin the post my writing something)
This is what happened when you stripped away the ridiculously gaudy costume, fancy stage design and cutesy dance moves. An almost stoic yet oddly evocative performance from the one and only Momoe Yamaguchi san.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
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