May 2011
14 posts
May 31st
More pics of my war hero uncles.
After a conversation with my dad about my great uncle Mitsuo (shown below), it turns out I’ve got another uncle that died in WWII after enlisting from the internment camps, John Hashimoto.   I can’t seem to find pictures of him, but they both died in France trying to save Texas’ famed “Lost Battalion”.  More on the story of the 442nd can be found here, and...
May 30th
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May 29th
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May 27th
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WatchWatch
Okay, this is tetchy ground here (if the video’s title wasn’t a giveaway).   I’m kind of a “share the road, share the rules” purist.   I am all for the bikers out there.  There are many folks I love who bike on a daily basis and I couldn’t be happier for them.  But I also have been cussed out by bicyclists who run a stop sign or a red light, forcing me to slam...
May 25th
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May 18th
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Panhandling Ettiquette Question
Let’s just say I needed some money for a project…a big project. A big, awesome, let’s save the world and make something cool at the same time type of project. This project is really cool…i mean there’s robots and…okay, enough about this hypothetical project, other than to say it’s a little expensive. Okay, a lot expensive. Let’s just say...
May 17th
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May 12th
Exploding cars and homoerotic gunplay or demon...
Feeling a little blue today:  which one’s a better “Pick me up”? 
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