Sea otter fight at the COEX Aquarium

Apparently play fighting for sea otters entails grabbing the other otters butt and rolling.

Two heads turtle at the COEX Aquarium

White fish abstract

Piranha at the COEX Aquarium

Red fish abstract

The natural enemy of the earthworm

Don't these chickens (chicks, actually) look terrifying??? To an earthworm, they would, apparently.

Computer aquarium at COEX Aquarium

TV aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Pocari Sweat aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Mommy, Mommy little Billy put my pet goldfish in the refrigerator!

Little Scotty: "Mommy, Mommy little Billy put my pet goldfish in the refrigerator and now he is a frozen fishcicle!"

Mom: "WHAT?" "That's weird, he went to the aquarium on a school trip yesterday."

Little Scotty: "Mommy, Mommy little Billy put Daddy's prized ornamental fish in the washing machine....and turned it on!"

Mom: "UGH!" "I will have word with little Billy's teachers at school tomorrow."

Washing machine aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Refrigerator aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Close-up view

Sink aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Toilet aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Elbow crab at COEX Aquarium

Wonder why they call it elbow crab? Look at the front appendages...very appropriate name.

Phone booth aquarium at COEX Aquarium

"Leaky" aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Coca Cola vending machine aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Postal Box Aquarium at COEX Aquarium

Aquariums at COEX Aquarium

Most of the tanks in the COEX Aquarium are open at the top...and no one I saw stuck their hands in the tanks...you could never have that in the US.

The kimchi will kill him first

So I walk into this restaurant in Seoul, I ordered the conch, kimchi, and rice noodle platter (it feeds three) and a Heineken, the waiter laughs as he takes my order, probably thinking "crazy American, he will never finish this whole platter, the kimchi will kill him first"...his eyes got as big as saucers as a little bit later he walked by my table and the plate was empty and I ordered another beer...

This reminds me of the Monty Python SPAM sketch

Do you have anything without BEAN in it? HOT DOG, that doesn't have much bean in it...

For the Monty Python SPAM sketch that I am referring to, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Purple flowers outside the National Museum of Korea in the rain

National Museum of Korea in the rain

What do you do when you are on vacation and its raining?...visit a museum.

Just remember to bring an umbrella or you might wind up buying one at the museum gift shop like I had to do.

My hotel in Seoul looks like a brothel or a hotel in Las Vegas circa 1970

There are shiny red walls and floor to ceiling framed pictures. Elvis would LOVE this place.

Slik tripod van

I bet all my old photo buddies are jealous!

Gyeongbokgung The Palace of Shining Happiness

Wards off evil spirits

These carvings were placed at the entrance to a Korean village to ward off evil spirits. The hair/top is the root system of a tree. At the National Folk Museum Seoul, Korea.

Duck on a pole

Stone duck on a stone pillar at the entrance to the Children's Museum in Seoul, Korea.

Flowers in Seoul park

Keller's Liquor Store in Baltimore

Gone Fishin'

We look like twins.

Anyone remember the Fish Heads song?

See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU

Bait and Blake

Letting my hair and beard grow out before my trip to Japan and Korea

Notice the gray hairs in the hair on my head and the red and gray hairs in the hair in my beard

The meat contained herein is for personal use only...

The meat contained herein is for personal use only...what does that mean?

It sounds weird when you think about it.

What happens if you use the meat for public use? Your meat for public use...

Searching for the truth

Isn't this always the case?

Wild Caught Oysters

I was a little confused when I saw "Wild Caught" on a container of oysters.

Is it just me? I didn't think of oysters as "caught." Fish are caught. Criminals are caught.

Oysters are collected and fished, in the broad sense of the term, by simply gathering them from their beds.

When I think of something being caught, I think of evasion techniques...duck and cover, a flight or fight response, run for your life...and other evasive maneuvers.

When I think "Wild Caught," I think of wild stallions or powerful sailfish fighting with cowboys or fishermen for grueling hours.

Oysters live on an oyster bed. A BED...that tells you how immobile they can be.

Ass Knob

A replacement part for a Bogen/Manfrotto tripod.

I am a big fan of their tripods.

The new stimulus package

Super Special Ed Genius Headphone Adapter

We have Canon ZR800s in our collection and we recently purchased Canon ZR960s. Although both video cameras have a microphone IN port, neither of these cameras have a true headphone OUT port. This makes it difficult to test for/listen to audio when using internal and external microphones at the time of recording.

I discovered a work around that should work for most video cameras with a 4 pole A/V out port.

If you plug a 1/8" stereo mini plug pair of headphones into the A/V out, you will get feedback and distorted audio.

However, if you use the 4 pole A/V cable (4 pole to RCA male plug cable) that comes with the camera and a Female Stereo 3.5mm (1/8") mini to 2 Female RCA Adapter (See B&H site: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/408128-REG/Hosa_Technology_GRF_341_GRF341_Stereo_Mini_to.html), you will be able to plug the audio RCA male plugs of the A/V cable into the RCA female plug of the adapter. Then you can plug the 1/8" stereo mini plug male end of a pair of headphones into the female end of the stereo mini plug adapter.

Tiny Warning and Instructions for a child's toy

Here are the Warning and the Instructions:

Here is a US Penny to show you the scale.

The toy was a small jelly ball with liquid inside it with a cord.

Missed it by that much...FSOT

I missed passing the Foreign Service Officer Test by 1.96 points.

I got a 152.04. I needed a 154 or above.

As Maxwell Smart would say: "Missed it by that much." [Corresponding hand gesture to demonstrate by how little he'd missed it]

From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Get_Smart