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Here’s what you might find interesting:
100 Views of the Empire State Building project: I try to take 100 interesting photos of Manhattan’s (sadly) tallest building.

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Where in the World is Deadprogrammer?

I am in Kyoto, Japan, with my wife, on a vacation of a lifetime. We are spending two more nights in a wonderful ryokan here, and then one more night in Tokyo. There are 4.43 gigabytes of pictures in my Tablet PC, I really hope Windows XP / Acer hardware is not going to eat them before I get them into a more secure location. My Canon EOS 300D broke (the poor thing does not power up at all even though the battery is ok), so I am down to my trusty Canon Powershot G2.

Meanwhile, enjoy this picture of a rainbow as seen from an airplane. Yes, it is circular.

P.S. Right, I forgot that it’s April Fool’s today. But I am actually in Japan, this is not a joke. I wish I’d have though of something witty, but it’s a bit too late now.

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Fri, 04/01/2005 - 19:41 — TAHbKA (not verified)

Wow, I can’t wait to see the pictures!

Tue, 04/05/2005 - 16:21 — yacullo (not verified)

Deadprogrammer, come home!

Tue, 04/05/2005 - 17:23 — deadprogrammer

I’m baaaaaaaak!

Tue, 04/05/2005 - 20:55 — deadprogrammer

I’ll try to organize and edit the pictures soon.

Thu, 04/07/2005 - 00:48 — Kathy (not verified)

You deleted your livejournal? I thought I was going insane for a moment before I realized your rss feed was still working.

Thu, 04/07/2005 - 18:14 — deadprogrammer

Yep, I am getting rid of it.

Fri, 05/20/2005 - 02:29 — rob (not verified)

that’s a glory, not a rainbow. but close.

Fri, 05/20/2005 - 06:32 — deadprogrammer

You are technically correct, and that’s the best kind of correct. :)
I’ve seen the explanation that this is simply a rainbow from above, but now, digging deeper I found out about glorys and cloudbows and other stuff. Thanks!

Wed, 06/08/2005 - 01:50 — rob (not verified)

:) surprised to see you read the comments so long after the original post.

anyway the only reason i know about this phenomenon is from reading the weatherunderground.com blogs, which are great.

Wed, 06/08/2005 - 01:53 — deadprogrammer (not verified)

Sometimes I forget to answer a comment, and then get around to it. I try to answer most comments.

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