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In case of emergency

By: Tateru Nino

Emergency Chocolate

My family picked this up for me.

I presume that this is in case I should wind up surrounded by enemy forces, or some terrible occurrence should take place.

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An unusual find

By: Tateru Nino

You know how the old story goes. One of your in-laws visits, and the next thing you know, you’re down the road in old parkland with a metal-detector and digging holes.

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A sampling

By: Tateru Nino

Well, a lot of comment-spam turns up here. 100% of it gets caught, at the expense of maybe 1 in 100 legitimate comments winding up in the spam folder accidentally and needing to be fished back out.

It’s a pretty unusual mix.

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A curious gift

By: Tateru Nino

I was given a curious gift this year, among the usual passel of fascinating stones.

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Welcome, fellow tool-users

By: Tateru Nino

Joining the relatively elite group of species who are intelligent enough to use tools. Let’s give it up for the Octopus.

The stars are right!

By: Tateru Nino

Cthulhu as you’ve probably never seen it before.

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Size matters

By: Tateru Nino

I thought this was kind of cool, actually.

Just grab the slider below the image and drag it along.

Top marks to the University of Utah for giving such a neat display of sizes.

What’s not to like?

By: Tateru Nino

Now these are some awesome shoes, though not the first of their kind that I’ve seen. I saw something like these back in my home-town years ago, but there should be more of them about.

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Five shots: The Star

By: Tateru Nino

Some say that creativity is a product of our freedoms.

I’m more of the opinion that creativity is a product of our constraints, whether externally imposed or self-imposed.

So, the self-imposed challenge: Take five images (already taken) from the digital camera’s memory-card and weave them into a one-page comic that tells a story.

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