The other kind of crazy drivers

I saw this one morning last week on Highway 101 near Redwood City.  I managed to yank a camera out of a backpack in the back seat and snap a few pictures without endangering anyone else...




She had so much to say that when she ran out of space on her car, she put up a pair of plywood sheets perpendicular to the direction of the wind!  (Doing so adds drag, which drops her mpg a lot, which puts more money in the hands of the evil corporations).

This condition, which is often seen in association with extreme mania or paranoid schizophrenia, is called hypergraphia.
My first reaction upon seeing the car was laughter, but the more I read it, the more it was clear that she had a really depressing life's story to share, even if it's a series of events she can barely comprehend.

I was amazed she could even keep part of her life together, but then I remembered that people with similar disorders (properly treated) have won the Nobel Prize. 

I actually cooked something

I don't usually cook anything fancy, but I was recently inspired by the selection in a supermarket in Japantown.


We have
- Soba
- Shiso leaves
- Lotus root
- Yamagobo (picked japanese carrot)
- Lemon pepper spice

Aikido test

Despite feeling very sick, I attended zingkotori's aikido test.  Aikido is basically like hacking -- you look for weakness in the way the human body is put together, and exploit those weaknesses to down an opponent.  Many of the pictures came out too light, but in some cases this actually created a cool effect -- a luminous glowing zingkotori, downing her opponents with ultimate serenity.  If you zoom in to see the big Flickr versions, you'll discover that her face is completely dispassionate, completely serene in almost all of them. 

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