Japan: cool man hole covers

On June 11, 2012, Posted by , In Travel, By ,, , With No Comments

Many public works projects in this country turn out really nice. I have to wonder where they get the money for all of them. For example, every sidewalk in the big cities has a strip of specially textured tiles to aid the sight impaired. It makes it easy to tell…

Delicious Snowballs

On September 13, 2011, Posted by , In Random, By ,,,, , With No Comments

He slumped down into a plastic, vacant rail station seat across from me, pausing for a moment as if to contemplate the enormity of the task he was about to undertake. His right hand held a European citrus soda while a package of six snowballs dangled from his right. Go…