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  • 01.30.10 - i got back to japan, including a nice dinner at ku-u in shinjuku
  • 12.15.09 - some pretty good stuff showing at the la auto show this year
  • 11.02.09 - i had the unexpected opportunity to get to the porsche museum near stuttgart (and saw a few other cars while in the area)
  • 10.05.09 - also added some pictures from a local autocross and a couple things to my miscellaneous car photos
  • 09.30.09 - another mass update, although this time all taken from one trip to asia:
    • - while in singapore, we went out one night to get one of my favorite foods, durian
    • - then starting in japan, some unique tokyo building fronts
    • - and things seen in tokyo on the streets
    • - a number of loud and entertaining bon odori street parades in tokyo
    • - leaving the city, the beautiful nikko national park
    • - also in nikko, a hike through the senjogahara plateau
    • - a few shots on the way further north to sendai
    • - near sendai, the coastal town of matsushima
    • - returning south to a rural suburb of tokyo, the toro nagashi festival in nagatoro
    • - and finally, a few nice bowls of noodles and a couple cakes in japan
  • 07.14.09 - a mass update today, with the intention to keep up better:
    • - a fine ratatouille made by my brother-in-law
    • - details from my corvair
    • - some opportunistic shots of eating in new york city
    • - similar shots from the other end of the continent, eating in san francisco
    • - views on an unusually clear day from san francisco's twin peaks (including a very large panorama)
    • - taipei, primarily its fascinating and noisy shihlin night market
    • - some particular foods in taipei
    • - a scattering of pictures from denmark and germany
    • - an evening at seattle's amazing art of the table restaurant
    • - assorted general pictures of seattle
    • - seattle's unique central library (inlcuding a very large vertical panorama)
    • - finally, some cars found in various places that I imagine I'll add to later
  • 02.07.09 - apparently I had a few of my photos from odaiba published in swedish travel magazine naer & fjaerran (2nd page, bottom)
    • - also I did a banner for a friend's blog carp without cars that I'm pretty happy with
  • 02.02.09 - shortly after the perigee moon, i saw this strange lunar rainbow

  • 12.25.08 - the skies cleared up enough yesterday for a fine texas sunset
  • 11.01.08 - almost forgot about the meal we ate in seattle at the herbfarm
  • 10.28.08 - a variety of subjects from interesting places in the UK:
    • - victorian britain and the following machine age produced some wonderful steam engines, locomotives, and other technologies
    • - all this technology also featured a lot of great logotype work
    • - as a sort of british coda to my previous air museum stuff, i saw an avro shackleton
    • - lastly, a few bits of the ancient city of york
  • 10.16.08 - almost forgot a few shots of seattle's pike place market and some older ones of the photogenic mormon temple near san diego
  • 10.08.08 - seattle's museum of flight has some historic machines, notably the legendary (and beautiful) blackbird
  • 07.30.08 - a neighborhood in west LA has come to be called the latino byzantine quarter
  • 03.09.08 - shinjuku, tokyo frow low and high, in diptych combinations
  • 02.05.08 - my new wood and glass bed is finally complete
  • 01.27.08 - i ran across this painfully hot mid-60s Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 in a parking lot the other day
  • 01.24.08 - it wasn't what i planned to do, but i wandered around near an overpass on a cold day with a shockingly blank blue sky
  • 01.20.08 - i managed to obtain a set of futurist Syd Mead prints from the late 60s that I thought I'd share, since they aren't readily available anywhere
  • 01.12.08 - another consumer electronics show, more cars photographed

  • 12.23.07 - a number of new things:
    • - much of my last 3 years (including most of my travel) has been spent on the design and engineering of my slim DLP TV concept
    • - also a couple of other products: an audio shelf and a suitcase concept
    • - we did a little tasting of chocolates from Theo in seattle
    • - oh, and i inverted the website's color for variety's sake
  • 12.21.07 - inspired by the cool post-war modernist style, i did a faux ad for a real watch from nixon
    • - i also uploaded some old faux drink ads i did way back
  • 10.31.07 - i made a couple of alternate dock looks for mac os x leopard
  • 09.08.07 - i've been lazy with my updates, so here are a number of new things:
    • - folowing singapore, i spent a week in bali which was pretty amazing
    • - a few shots from jena, shot at and around the hotel esplanade
    • - a trip to chicago included the taste of chicago, culinary experience alinea, the aquarium, and a good bit of architecture
    • - the imperial war museum of london has some interesting items from the 19th and 20th centuries of warfare
    • - while in berlin, i happened across a gathering of classic autos that i thought were gorgeous
  • 02.21.07 - a visit to the singapore botanical garden at the start of my vacation

  • 12.10.06 - a handful of proud photos of my 1961 chevrolet corvair
  • 12.08.06 - a few older automotive shots i hadn't uploaded before, and updated versions of a few others
  • 12.02.06 - i haven't been shooting much, but cleaning up some old photos, i've added some extras from 2006 and shots from a local speed shop08.20.06 - while in san diego for the weekend, i took a few shots at the zoo
  • 08.16.06 - london feels like it's still the capital of the civilised world
  • 07.01.06 - webpage is working again, so i have a number of updates:
    • - i think chicago is one of the most purposefully beautiful cities in the world, particularly in its gallery of highrise architecture
    • - the old section of berlin is being transformed into a (neo) classically stunning museum district
    • - the town of jena in former east germany is the birthplace of modern optics
    • - just a couple macro shots from my back yard
    • - on a flight out of osaka, there were some pretty eerie high altitude clouds
    • - a few shots playing around with wide and telephoto shots of a view of hsinchu
  • 06.05.06 - this might be a good time to mention my duplicate gallery on flickr.com
  • 06.05.06 - apparently i was in napa and san francisco for the two beautiful days in the midst of a lot of storming
  • 06.05.06 - i did a little driving between portland and sisters, oregon
  • 03.13.06 - finished converting all my older photo galleries to use apache::gallery, which i like quite a bit
  • 03.12.06 - february, the maritime museum in san diego featuring the star of india, the hms surprise, and a soviet b-39 submarine
  • 03.12.06 - later that month, castles and shrines in nara and osaka, the island of miyajima near hiroshima, and a little kyoto
  • 03.12.06 - january, the consumer electronics show where they also have a lot of shiny cars
  • 03.12.06 - also tokyo and the exhibition island of odaiba, and the megaweb auto museum there
  • 03.12.06 - catching up from a lot of travel the last few months, november in seoul

  • 10.12.05 - a few from little india, also in singapore
  • 10.11.05 - the parkview square building in singapore is a deco fever dream
  • 10.04.05 - hong kong is a marvel, down to the neon-lit fish market
  • 10.03.05 - a couple days spent in taipei were pretty interesting
  • 07.11.05 - i went to a family reunion near estes park in colorado
  • 06.14.05 - some more from shanghai: walking around the city, yu yuan garden, and in and around the oriental pearl tower
  • 04.17.05 - a bunch from china (shenzhen, shanghai, the shanghai market) taken with my new canon 350d
  • 04.17.05 - some photos of osaka and narita, japan

  • 12.05.04 - over the last few months, i've been to the zoo again, japan, philadelphia, and the nasher sculpture garden
  • 05.01.04 - some pretty neat looking nagra hi-fi pieces
  • 03.16.04 - wow, sometimes i just get lucky: cloud waves

  • 01.18.03 - i suppose it's a little ambitious to think anybody is linking to me, but if so i've now moved from hine.cx to hine.org
  • 12.15.03 - i really like my new honda s2000
  • 12.11.03 - getting through some backlog: some overpasses and a trip to santa cruz island off the los angeles coast
  • 06.09.03 - a few new logos
  • 06.07.03 - new page design (with much cleaner html/css code)
  • 04.22.03 - for lack of a better theme, here are some photos
  • 03.18.03 - a tree, some strange dallas snow, a horn, and a mazda rx-4 i'd forgotten

  • 12.29.02 - just in time for the new year, some old (hair, lizard)
  • and some new (high5 construction at night, the meyerson)
  • 11.20.02 - added a couple more interesting sky shots to that last section.
  • 11.12.02 - skies like this are a reason to like texas
  • 10.02.02 - the blue ridge parkway is really amazing
  • 09.16.02 - welcome to fine HiFi
  • 09.06.02 - looked around the dallas high5 construction area and a building nearby
  •         (whoa, almost a year since last update... i'll get through some backlog photos soon)

  • 09.09.01 - the dallas zoo is neat
  • 05.21.01 - been lazy, but i caught a distant storm (another on the 24th)
  • 03.13.01 - ran outside and caught an austin lightning storm
  • 03.06.01 - some automotive photos in 2001_03
  • 02.20.01 - new photos in 2001_02
  • 01.11.01 - new photos in 2000_12_motel and 2001_01
  • 01.10.01 - yet another site redesign!

  • 10.11.00 - new photos in 2000_09 and 2000_10
  • 08.30.00 - new photos in 2000_08
  • 07.18.00 - eliminated frames-based design
  • 07.13.00 - new photos in 2000_01-07