Random photos of stations I have visited

January 6

Shinden. Not on Railway Photos surprisingly. Surprising because I've been here before I think and didn't photograph it.

January 6

January 6

Ryogoku Station. The displays are really nice.

January 6

I like these new LED displays in the barriers. I also noticed that just one of the sets of tiles at the back has this stain on it for some reason.

Another little industrial display on the barrier. I guess this is showing the status of all of them.

Kawasaki Station.

January 6

This last one is in Asakusa. I might have mentioned this before but the underpass has a belt for you bike. When you bike wheel enters it, the belt helps pull it up the steps.

January 6

They had a load of these NHK News tapes from past years. Unfortunately they were all mouldy. I don't know why someone is poking that guy in the eye with chopsticks.

Amazon old box art. The guy in the golden nappy/diaper looks like he's about to have his legs broken by the very angry man in red. The colours don't even match the players in the game properly.

They did have some nice model train stuff though.

January 6

1 hour ago, kuro68000 said:

Kubota make tractors so I don't know what the deal with his 12 cm magneto optical drive is. It was only 1000 yen, SCSI of course. If was the bulk that put me off. I don't have an 12 cm MO drive for my collection of failed storage media, but I do have a selection of 8 cm ones. Maybe it was for some farming software or something, although knowing these Japanese companies maybe Kubota had a line of computer peripherals I don't know about.

Yep, Kubota were involved in high end graphics in the 80s. https://cdromrom.wordpress.com/pc-fxga-wip/huc6273-aurora/

January 6

56 minutes ago, Gunzel said:

Yep, Kubota were involved in high end graphics in the 80s. https://cdromrom.wordpress.com/pc-fxga-wip/huc6273-aurora/

Amazing. I love this line: "In the 90s Kubota was cash rich and saw an opportunity in making workstations aimed at 3D graphics applications."

You have to hand it to Japanese companies, they don't shy away from new business areas just because, say, they are a tractor company and the opportunity is for a high end cutting edge bit of silicon that will require a completely new division, skills, and business contacts. Imagine being the Kubota guy in charge of selling their 3D workstation graphics chips. You call up NEC because you think they might be releasing a new game console, and instead of asking why the heavy machinery people are on the line they think "oh yeah, the motorbike guys also make top tier pianos, the train guys make vacuum cleaners, so why wouldn't these farmers produce 3D rasterizer chips?"

January 7

I am perpetually amused by our Panasonic toilet roll holder, it's literally just a toilet roll holder, no electronics involved. (Other household interior furnishings also available: https://sumai.panasonic.jp/interior/ )

Edited January 7 by railsquid

January 7

Hence the cyber truck…

jeff

January 7

2 hours ago, cteno4 said:

Hence the cyber truck…

Electric car company expands into the trash can business?

January 7

No, more the I’m successful I can just fire all the truck designers, not listen to them, and design it the way I want to. Obvious the dude never used a pickup truck in his life to do anything useful, irregardless of the other internal issues. But same thing I think happens at a lot of companies when successful and flush as it seems fo have happened way back in history as well.

jeff

January 8

Yesterday started off well, felt good, went for a nice walk that I filmed. Around 3PM I got really tired all of a sudden though. Felt like CFS but I think maybe it was just breathing problems. Managed to get home. Today as better, had some really bad moments by mostly airways clear and feeling okay, apart from a very stiff and painful neck.

The angry snow samurai guy is back on the TV weather.

Can't believe it's Wednesday evening already.

Tomioka and Nambushijo Station on the Seaside Line.

January 8

Grabbed this dangerous item. It's a UVC lamp, battery powered.

Building site signage.

January 8

Koza-Shibuya.

Little bit of tourism today. Can you see it?

Might be the only one left in the world.

Not sure what the green bails are. Temporary during construction work?

January 8

Southern Tochigi looks like the place to be.

Machida.

January 8

Holy moly.

Dinner.

January 8

3 X68000’s! Where was that?

January 9

Kobuchi.

Two have faults, but I think it's extremely likely that they just need the power supplies servicing or replacing.

I might go and get one and post it to myself. I have a box but it might not be thick enough.

I'll see. Still not feeling great. Neck is really bad for some reason. I'm hoping it's just Reactive Arthritis, you know, reacting to the last of this virus. Kicking myself for getting it.

Had an episode yesterday. Found a Laserdisc that was some old movie compilation, 1920s and 30s stuff. The cover had a guy in blackface on it... Couldn't let that go. Bought it and then discovered that Laserdiscs are not so easy to break with your bare hands. Asked for scissors and cut a big X in the cover and the disc, then asked them them to throw it away. The staff looked at me like I was insane so I said it was no good and I was improving the world, and left. I did buy some other stuff too.

Japanese people are generally not familiar with commonly understood racist tropes, I find. I should have explained that the guy was white and wearing make-up, but even that might not have helped. I'd have made more effort but there were customers behind me waiting to pay.

January 9

I'm clearly missing all the fun.

Was very tempted by this. It's so small and cute, but also quite well made with a metal case. The JR 100 model is extremely weak though. The JR 200 has a sound chip (this is just a Sinclair ZX/IBM PC style internal speaker connected to the CPU) and a second IO processor.

Me: Okay Paul, you really must stop buying Laserdiscs. Really special ones only from now on.

Hard Off:

January 9

Usui.

This was actually a lovely scene, but I didn't take a photo for privacy reasons. There were some children playing in the park. Bikes parked by the entrance, no locks of course. They had a cloth laid out with their stuffed animals having a picnic, while they played on the swings.