Modern paarentS

Denver, Colorado

Stanley Beer Hall

Christmas Eve. Warm Afternoon. Open patio-window  Aurora Colorado. 

Stanley Marketplace

Aurora, CO

Aurora, Colorado

Aurora, CO

Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center

The Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center overlooks the Union Pacific Railroad's Bailey Yard, which is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. Around 140 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard each day.

North Platte, NE

Fox Squirrel (Sciurus Niger)

Aurora, CO

iHeartMedia Holiday Party

Council Bluffs, IA

Harrah's Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs, IA

Imagine.R

               

Glen Huntington Bandshell

Boulder, CO

Travelingmanjoe Retro: DMZ Tour

December 12, 2006:

A word of advice before entering this post: "The visit to the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom will entail entry into a hostile area and possibility of injury or death as a direct result of enemy action." -JSA

Atop the worlds 4th largest flagpole fly's this 600lb (272 kg) flag above Peace Village (Kijongdong) on the North Korean side of the DMZ.

The Bridge of No Return on the Military Demarkation Line (MDL), which at one time was used for prisoner exchanges. 

At the Joint Security Areas "Truce Village" a ROK solder stands facing North Korea. 

Panmunjom, South Korea

A. Second Session

Omaha, NE 

Pokewalk

Denver, CO

Little America Hotel & Resort - Cheyenne

Cheyenne, Wyoming

Chimney Rock

Bayard, NE

All States Ag Parts: Tractor Salvage Yard

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Bridgeport, Nebraska

Lake McConaughy

Ogallala, Nebraska

Cucumber Bamboo

Kyoto, Japan

Arashiyama Bamboo Grove

たけ竹

竹たけ

か蚊

蚊か

竹の森

蚊の森

京都、日本

Curly Hi-Fi

Omaha, Nebraska

Fox Burger

Omaha, NE

Cauliflower Sheep

Benson, Omaha

Gas Syrup: 40 Spouts + 4 Flavor Shots

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Brown Sheraton

Denver, CO

Falls last Fall

Council Bluffs, Iowa

A. Session

Omaha, NE

Foggy Fall

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Curtains Edge

Yokohama, Japan

Twelve and a Half Years Later

Kanagawa, Japan

Kongobuji

Koyaasan, Japan

A Pokewalk Through Yokohama

Yokohama, Japan

Osaka Museum of Housing and Living

While I did not don a Yukata, I recommend it. The only thing missing from this experience was the smell of smoke in the air.

This museum is the size of a large television set and provided a very accurate representation of what a street in Osaka would have looked like near the middle to end of the Edo period (1750-1800).

Because it is inside, in the course of an hour you get an entire days worth of lighting. The two pictures above were taken at late dusk and early dawn respectively.

Osaka, Japan

Softbank Robotics: Pepper

Standing at 4-feet high Pepper is quite childlike. This model was greeting customers at the entrance to a Softbank shop along a very busy shopping arcade in Osaka. A few of fingers on her left hand were broken. Their strings left snapped and hanging; likely by an overly enthusiastic child.

The touch screen made it simple to choose topics of conversation. While not perfect with conversation, Pepper remembered faces and some past conversation topics. At this point its not the hardware, its the cloud that needs to catch up.

I imagine that is why Pepper's are placed in Softbank shops across Japan, to learn. To improve Softbanks machine learning algorithm. You are looking at the future of the service industry. A hive mind. Plug and play. No training necessary.

As John Conner said to the T-800 in Terminator II: "No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk."

Turns out the robots aren't coming for us. They're just coming for our jobs.

Osaka, Japan

Hiyakuban: 百番

It was 10 o'clock at night as I stepped out of a 116 year old whore house turned nabe restaurant into western Japans largest brothel district. Throngs of salarymen perused the expansive selection offered by Tobita Shinchi. 

Tobita Shinchi, Osaka 

Daisenryo Kofun

Osaka, Japan