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For anyone who cares, I'm back from a great couple of weeks in Nova Scotia . There'll be lots of (crappy) photos in the near future...

Well, tomorrow I'm off to the "old country" until about the 10th of September. Although I could probably get online if I felt ...

Screw the Halt and the Lame . "People who don't realize that Ayn Rand was insane." Good one, P. Drano

Tea towels from Wales are a popular item for Japanese tourists. The tea towels we have in Japan tend to be much thinner and smaller. The ma...

Some more pics from today's drive along the coast (click to enlarge):

[I'm getting bored with posting about Canada, so it's back to our regularly scheduled programming...] The digital camera/blog combo ...

Our wingnut friends in the south are veritable fonts of information and trivia about Canada. They certainly know us better than we know ours...

On February 14, 2002, in Salt Lake City, Canada defeated the USA 5-2 to capture the gold medal in men's "ice" hockey. It had b...

... because it was poorly conceived and executed... because it was stupid... because when I sobered up it seemed mean...

Pamela Anderson was famous from the very moment of her birth. Born on July 1st, 1967, she was officially proclaimed Canada's "Cent...

Continuing with Canada-themed posts... This Saturday Scott Brison , Liberal Member of Parliament for Hants-Kings, Nova Scotia, is getting ma...

...of the Canadian music scene: Neil Young Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell 'Nuff fucking said... for now. More Canadiana tomorrow!

Paul Henderson's goal in the dying moments of the 8th game of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union gives Canada the game and...

Next Thursday I'll be heading home for a couple of weeks. In the run-up to this long-awaited, highly-anticipated return (and because I h...

I've just about got this out of my system, thanks for bearing with me... Here's what things looked like around here this morning: He...

I'm sorry that so many of my pictures are shot from my back balcony (like the ones below). This is the point from which I (usually) blog...

From This AP story we learn of a discrimination suit being brought against federal officials and JetBlue Airways in the US. Apparently in A...

Sunday morning boredom. Nothing to say. Some pics (click to enlarge):

Are we what we do? Is it inconceivable that, say, the best French chef in the world might actually hate French food? Would this make him, so...

A few more pics taken near where I live, in case anyone's curious: Tachibana-dori, Miyazaki's main street. City "center...