More pictures

We just got the last roll of film developed, so here are a couple more pictures from the trip out West. One picture of me in the national park, and then one picture of me with my brother and niece. If you're interested in seeing more pictures of me (and why not, I'm a good looking guy), Amy has posted 11 pictures of this same trip on her own website here.

Useless Wikipedia Fact
The last words of Sir Walter Raleigh, after he was allowed to view the axe that would behead him, were "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases."

Link of the Day
I recently found the Japan SAQ (Seldom asked questions about Japan) archived on line here. While in Japan I used to enjoy reading these in the Japanzine, an English based publication.Perhaps you have to have spent some time in Japan to really appreciate these, but it sure answered a lot of things I have always been curious about. For instance:
Why are urinals in the men's public restrooms visible form the outside?
Why do foreign movies take so long to get to Japan?
Why do Japanese school girls wear sailor suits?
Why did people stop adding the suffix 'ko' to women's names in the 1970's?
Why is 'tentacle porn' so popular?
Why is the parliament in Japan called a diet?
How do you explain the frequency of female Japanese office workers running for no apparent reason?
Why do cyclists set their bicycle seats so low? And many other fascinating questions.