Archive for May, 2003
Tuesday, May 27th, 2003
Earthquake!
Japan had a major earthquake last night during rush hour in the northern part of the main island Honshu, an area called Tohoku. It measured 7 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was off the east coast so everyone in the area got a good rattle. About 70 people were injured, but [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
The FINAL final round!
Finally, at long last, after much sweating and grunting, I have the pictures in hand for you, the people, to judge. Without further ado, let the judging BEGIN!
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Monday, May 19th, 2003
Contest update…and an actual entry
Contest Update: Pictures have been taken by the competitors. They will be posted within the next two days for you, the eager judges, to pronounce once and for all who the superior photographer is. “And yea, it shall be written on web parchment and given to the people so that they shall know [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Japan Wierdness by Marc
Friday, May 16th, 2003
Long overdue update
Y’all,
Sorry about the length of time between updates. Work has been extremely busy. I can’t reveal too much on the website since I know some students read this weblog (hi, Takeshi!) but it’s been really crazy for the past two weeks, and I’ve hardly been able to catch my breath. So, that’s [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Travel Tales by Marc
Tuesday, May 13th, 2003
Technical difficulties…
I regret to inform everyone that the contest has been temporarily suspended for two reasons: first, I am stupid, and have not managed to remember to take my camera with me this weekend; and second, Michele has been unable to get pictures off her camera and onto her computer.
We will do our best to resume [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Teaching Fun by Marc
Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
And the winner is …
O.K. it’s a tie. Unless we are counting number of votes, then Marc kicked my butt. Marc won rounds 1 and 4 and I won rounds 2 and 3. Alex, the sweet, sweet lemon was in charge of all the vote tallying. Therefore, according to the rules, Marc and I now [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Travel Tales by Marc
Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
Tallying the votes…
I will tally the votes tonight and the contest results will be posted then. In the event of a tie, which is possible given that there were 4 rounds, we will have to have a tiebreaker round, with one set of pictures from NYC, and the second set from Osaka.
In the meantime, [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Not for competition…
I almost forgot! Here are some pictures of Michele’s last night and day in Tokyo. Enjoy. Especially notice the sweatshirt of the man. It says, “Bah.”
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Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Round 4 – The final round! (and Michele is gone too quickly)
Okay, so Michele’s gone and I’m heartbroken. Ben and I drowned my sorrows tonight at an Indian restaurant and an izakaya (Japanese bar/restaurant). So, without preface, here is the FINAL (add echo here) set of pictures. Choose wisely.
While posting, I was listening to Svefn-g-englar from the album “Agætis Byrjun” [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2003
Contest extension – and Nancy McKeon?!
Yesterday, Marc and I were going to go and see some more of Japan, but it didn’t happen. So, we didn’t take any pictures. We’re going to Tokyo in about an hour and we will be taking the final photos for the contest then …
In the meantime, check out this picture. [...]
