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We’re all domed… domed!
I’ve sent several people postcards with photos that look like this. They were too good to pass up even though I had no idea what that was. It turns out they are ‘The Supertrees’, sculptures amongst the landscaping at a … Continue reading
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King of Porky Goodness
Japanese competitive food courts and Singapore seem like a match made in heaven. This place had seven or eight different ramen stalls, with posted rankings here and there. I have no idea if there is actual judging happening or if … Continue reading
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Dragonfly
These photos are framed so it looks like the paddies go on for ever. In reality this is just a little zone of rice fields surrounded on all sides by tourist businesses. I’m not sure if there are other areas … Continue reading
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The Tiger Balm Guy Builds Some Stuff
This place was built as sort of an philanthropist/educational/religious wonderland 80 or so years ago. In the 80’s the Singapore government tried to redevelop it as a theme park, but it rapidly went bust. Now the ruins are open to … Continue reading
Nothing happened in the Ordovician
Having spent my entire life living atop Ordovician fossil beds (and a fair bit of my childhood digging in them), this diagram is deeply disappointing. The story always seems to go “Cambrian Explosion! Yada yada yada… bony fishes in the … Continue reading
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Dinosaurs: Dawn to Extinction
This exhibit has a lot of skeletons of early reptiles and mammals that predate dinosaurs, great-looking things that I’d never seen or thought of before. The lighting here is very strange — often a spotlight is shining directly in my … Continue reading
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crash crash thumpthumpthump
There’s nowhere I can go this week that doesn’t have crashing cymbals — even up in my 10th floor apartment I hear the sound every hour or so of a little open-backed truck full of drummers rolling by. Just now … Continue reading
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