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Monday, May 25, 2009

	Christie Lily Anita's Calendars
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Monday, March 10, 2008

juicy

Meet my new lab power supply "juicy"

Using the instructions from here, I was able to construct this from a donated ATX computer power supply. (Thanks ruf!)

It provides +12V white, -12V blue, 0V black (Ground), -5V yellow, +5V red and +3.3V (not installed yet... need one more binding post but shouldn't be a problem to hook up).

Now I have a working power supply, an oscilloscope, a soldering iron + lots of stolen donations from the uni labs I can finally start constructing random electrical crap.

I need a life don't I?

Oh... yea... I'll get back to the travel blog eventually ^^ plenty of boring posts to come!

12:48 AM - 70 views - 4 eprops - 2 comments - email it

Friday, February 22, 2008

	long time no blog once the dust settles, i'll stop ignoring xanga
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Monday, December 03, 2007

new layout v2.3

went for something simple and clean, the text in the momiji leaves is kinda meant to be like 'worm eaten out' but yea there wasn't a font for that so i just went with whatever i thought was closest. the japan flag in the middle is a direct link the the original japan travel guide that links to all the other 2006/07 japan posts.

enjoy!

[edit:: 04.12.07]
Moved the momijis to the left hand side instead of keeping them on the top. this was to enable easier navigation and less scroll work.
[end edit]

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Japan Day #5 251107 [fukuroda falls, ibaraki]

Fukuroda falls the biggest waterfall i'd ever seen in my life (i'm going to see niagara falls soon so that should top it). Due to closed off observation decks for renovations I wasn't able to get really good snaps of it. It's a multi stage waterfall at the width of 73m and height of 120m according to wikipedia.
Pictures will be ordered by stages from top to bottom gravitationally speaking.

Stage 1, this would've been a nicer shot if all the red leaves on that top branch hadn't had fallen off. Too bad uni exams couldn't have finished earlier otherwise I would've gotten better autumn snaps.

Stage 2

Stage 3, 4 & 5

A pedestrian suspension bridge over the water, it's quite bouncy and fun the scare children on >:).

Finally at the bottom of the mountain the momentum of the water has dispersed and gently flows towards civilization.

All Japanese cities/tourist destinations has some kind of local speciality. In ibaraki it was locally grown persimmons, daikon (white radish), ringo (apples), charcoal grilled fish and yuzu (citron) jam covered dango (sweet gooey mochi).

Mountain grown daikon (left), it's different to normal daikon (right) as normal daikon is usually quite straight but mountain daikon can wear fluro underwear coz it has 'legs' :D

An impressively large persimmon tree. We wanted to steal some fruit but they were quite high up and our of our midget reach. Lily had the brilliant idea of standing underneath and waiting for fruit to fall but alas due to time constraints we could not do a newton.

As most many have noticed by now, the Japanese are eccentric about the appearance and presentation of everything. It's a country that bothers to align each alfafa sprout in a vertical position to place into pretty boxes to sell or similarly align their strawberries all in the same direction. So when I came across these bonsai trees with BEER cans weighing down its branches I was initially quite puzzled. Lily explained that the branches were weighed down as the tree looks prettier with lower branches. I suppose its equivelent to trimming hedges into animal shapes or letters... but still...

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juicy

long time no blog

new layout v2.3

Japan Day #5 251107 [fukuroda falls, ibaraki]