Japanish.org: October 2004 Archives

Not a lot happening here in God's Frozen Land. It is getting colder as we march towards winter. I have always wanted to climb mount Fuji and I thought this was appropriate from QOTD.

Old Japanese proverb: There are two kinds of fools -- those who never climb Mt. Fuji, and those who climb it twice.

Electricity

By microage97 on October 25, 2004 5:30 PM | Permalink

A Little fun from Qoute of the Day:

Your home electrical system is basically a bunch of wires that bring electricity into your home and take if back out before it has a chance to kill you. This is called a "circuit". The most common home electrical problem is when the circuit is broken by a "circuit breaker"; this causes the electricity to back up in one of the wires until it bursts out of an outlet in the form of sparks, which can damage your carpet. The best way to avoid broken circuits is to change your fuses regularly. Another common problem is that the lights flicker. This sometimes means that your electrical system is inadequate, but more often it means that your home is possessed by demons, in which case you'll need to get a caulking gun and some caulking. If you're not sure whether your house is possessed, see "The Amityville Horror", a fine documentary film based on an actual book. Or call in a licensed electrician, who is trained to spot the signs of demonic possession, such as blood coming down the stairs, enormous cats on the dinette table, etc. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

House Progress

By microage97 on October 24, 2004 10:33 PM | Permalink

I made some good progress today. Too bad it was nasty yesterday because I am certain that I could have had the complete roof on the porch today if it wasn't so rainy. Here are some pics.

©Dave Marquis. Click to Enlarge

Not Much Progress Today

By microage97 on October 23, 2004 11:28 PM | Permalink

©Dave Marquis. Click to Enlarge

There isn't a lot going on today. It started out like it was going to be a nice day, but ended up raining for most of it. Got a couple of hours in on the porch, not as nearly as much as I had wanted to get, but I will take what I can.

Here is a picture that I took when Yuko and I and her mother made a trip to the folk's house in Des Moines, IA back in July. I was taken aback the other day while I crusing some pictures taken while Daichi was just a little peanut. Man his legs were so thin. Now Daichi is a little chunk! Everyone was right, babies do grow up fast.

New Features

By microage97 on October 22, 2004 9:05 PM | Permalink

I have added a subscription feature to the site. If your interested, please sign up! You can find it on the right hand side of the page.

Go Ahead and Make My Day

By microage97 on October 21, 2004 9:48 PM | Permalink

Not a lot happening around here tonight, just getting ready to get a lot of work done on the porch before the snow flies. I did get around to implementing this little trap for nast spam bots. Check it out here. It works when nasty spam bots try to access certain files in my /cgi-bin/ folder... HEHEHEHE

Cleanup Day

By microage97 on October 20, 2004 9:21 PM | Permalink

©Dave Marquis

Even though I am pretty sick I have to comply. What I mean is that the city sent me a nice little letter informing me that I need to remove my rubish from in front of my garage of face their rath.... So I decided that I would take the day off and go and rent a Uhaul pickup truck and make some trips to the dump to clean up the old porch remains. Here a pic of the event:

I thought this was pretty funny:

ONE THING KIDS LIKE is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to a burned-out warehouse. "Oh, oh," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.

Photography Links

By microage97 on October 19, 2004 3:40 PM | Permalink

Here are some links that I found usefull and maybe you will to.

Commercial

DVD Technik Specializes in Russian gear.
Retro Photographic Ltd. Retro Photographic Ltd is a specialist in black and white photographic supplies based out of the UK.

Informational Links

Robert E. Barrett A great exposure calculator.
Ultimate Exposure Calculator Another good resource on exposure.

Interesting Links

How to Scan 35 mm Slides On a Flatbed Scanner - A good cheap way to get negs and slides into your computer. This only works with lamp type scanners and not LED lit models.

Lens Reviews
M42 A site dedicated to M42 mount lenses.

Japan Photography Links
PhotoGuide Japan -A large collection of information for photography fans in Japan.

Macro Photography

Macro Photography for Beginners

Manuals

Zenit 122 (Cached Version Here)

Personal Web Pages

Zenit Photography

Ugg, I'm Sick

By microage97 on October 18, 2004 9:32 PM | Permalink

I think Ia m comming down with a sore throat. Just what I need as I am trying to get the porch project wrapped up. Well I am getting closer so I don't have much further to go. It just seems to be taking forever. Here is my progress.

Daichi Pictures VII

By microage97 on October 17, 2004 10:36 PM | Permalink

Today was an icky day. I did get some work done on the house but I also had a killer headache, so I called it quits after a couple of hours. I guess it didn't matter much as when I woke up it was raining.....

Here are some pics of Daichi!

Trip to Des Moines Pictures

By microage97 on October 16, 2004 8:47 AM | Permalink

It has been a cold day here in the North Woods. I spent most fo the day working on the porch project. It is really coming into shape. Ia m hopping that I can be done soon. It is just taking so long.... I guess it is because I am slow.... The niegors all think it is really looking nice, I have my doubts though. Here are some pictures of Daichi and my sister and her duaghter, Jillian.

Still Working Away

By microage97 on October 15, 2004 1:47 PM | Permalink

I am still working away on the site. Please excuse the mess! Here is a funny/dirty limmerick from the quote of the day:

There was a young girl from St. Paul who went to a newspaper ball. Her dress caught on fire And burnt her entire Front page and sport section and all.

Slowly but surely

By microage97 on October 14, 2004 10:55 AM | Permalink

Well I am slowly rebuilding japanish.org after I upgraded the site software to the new MT 3.11 release. It was working fine, but the comment spam software, Blackist 1.65, wasn't operational and I can't let that happen. So I was messing around trying to roll back to the old version of MT and really screwed things up. Oh and I didn't have a good backup system so it might be awhile to get all the posts reloaded.

I am going to wait untill the dust settles with Blacklist before taking the plunge again.

Blowed up.....

By microage97 on October 14, 2004 7:30 AM | Permalink

I am testing the system as I managed to mess it up really bad..

October 2004 Archives

Dave's Japan Links

Daichi and new Teeth, Maybe

Naughty QOTD

The Witching Hour

Funny Stuff From QOTD