“Workplaces of the future are likely to be less reliant on men’s top-down leadership and more dependent on open communication between coworkers of all genders and utilises a lot of different peoples’ skill sets.”
"And that naïve shit right there is why you can’t buy a house."
— Larry Correia fisks a lecturing girly-manI’ve been trying to space out the insane-fall-colors pictures, because it’s so easy to overdose. And this was on a cloudy day.

I think if you set your camera to “vivid”, you’d crack the lens after a while.
As always, the boatmen on the Hozugawa Kudari river-boat ride are cheerful and funny. I just wish I could keep up with their jokes.



Just in case the kids don’t have the patience for a lengthy visit to the Kyoto Botanical Garden.

One of my goals for this trip was to revisit places without the time pressure of a tour group. The tours are worth doing once, especially if you’re short on time, but you miss more than you see.


I took this picture for two reasons. Because “BuilDing” struck me as an unusual romanization choice, and because I was curious what the place actually was. Turns out it rents 460-square-foot apartments for $840/month. So, not an expansive vision of Space.
Still no idea what it’s supposed to stand for, though, unlike the one in Osaka.
Fake Miko, Toei Studio Park:

Real Miko, Kasuga Taisha shrine:

Still no miko magic on display, sadly…