Well, in fact I’m the stuffy guy to the left of Lee Harvey Oswald.

You know trouble’s around the corner when the Israel Defense Forces pulls out the silly hats:

I don’t know what organizational scheme mandates that sports and horror be placed side by side, but I think I like it:

This woman’s hair makes me happy:

This phantom torso makes me terrified:

Pictures from The Big Picture via Reddit.

What I presume to be Sylmar fire smoke (or just low hanging clouds):

Today I saw this lone protester outside the Mormon temple in Los Angeles:

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Why are photos of politicians often so good? Is it just that they’re photographed so often? For whatever reason, I really like this picture:

The moon was pretty impressive from my balcony last night:

It would have been more impressive if I could have found my camera’s zoom lens…

My last set of pictures from the big trip is now online. Joining New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia is Japan. From Japan we have a sumo tournament, a baseball game, the Tsukiji fish market, Hakone, Kamakura, Tokyo and people.

As always, here are a few favorites:

And while the picture is not so amazing, the Tokyo government building did have a sign listing the offices of the Declining Birthrate Countermeasures Division.

Oh, wait, no it doesn’t:

The only thing scary about Borders’s Halloween Spooktacular is their spelling:

And yes, I’m frightfully concerned about Muphry’s Law (please don’t point to the apostrophe-s in “Borders’s” as an error — I contend that’s grammatically correct).

Here are my pictures from Cambodia. Unlike previous countries from the recent trip (New Zealand, Australia and Singapore), these pictures from Cambodia are all collected in a single large gallery. Sorry about that.

Here are a few of my favorites:

The current view from my roof, which I’m sadly not allowed to go up onto:

I’m going to head down to the beach to do a sunset tomorrow. Maybe.

My brother, though not the aforementioned brother, points out the Stick Figures in Peril group on Flickr, to which I should contribute some, or all, of these:

Ok, I’m slowly getting my pictures from the trip organized and online. As part of that ongoing project, I present to you pictures from New Zealand: Christchurch, Queenstown and Franz Josef (a glacier). Also, a collection of pictures of me, and people I was with (boring!).

Here are some of my favorites from this batch:

I actually wasn’t all that happy with how the pictures came out on this trip. I don’t know if that’s a factor of me taking bad pictures, or my camera getting older and having trouble focusing on anything but that speck of dirt on the sensor that I had to photoshop out of every picture… anyway, these are the best of New Zealand. Enjoy.

Japan, Tokyo, Sumo Tournament (2008)

Japan, Tsukiji Fish Market (2008)

Japan, Yomiuri Giants Baseball Game (2008)

Japan, Tokyo (2008)

Japan, Kamakura (2008)

Japan, People (2008)

Japan, Hakone (2008)