No Grasp of Your Reality

Author: Tom Albrecht

  • Ron Paul for President

    I realize it’s early in the election campaign, but I’m already throwing in my endorsement. Actually, my endorsement was given before Ron Paul even announced his candidacy. The Congressman from Texas is an oddity amongst his Republican peers, since he actually votes according to the conservative, libertarian values that those aforementioned peers merely give lip […]

  • New Email Address

    Bad news. I got an email the other day from what used to by my Internet Service Provider, and is now simply my email service provider, Speakeasy. They were announcing that they were acquired by Best Buy. I hate Best Buy. Therefore, I’m doing what I should have done earlier. I’ve decided to take my […]

  • Miwaza’s Photos

    Our friend Miwaza from Mitaka Evangelical Church took some beautiful photos of the kids… mostly Leah, but she’s the most photogenic, so nobody complains. My wife is jealous of her camera, but it’s clear she has a good eye for composition. You can check out Miwaza’s blog, and some of her other photography work up […]

  • Darfur Crisis Mapped in Google Earth

    I love when technology can take massive amounts of apparently meaningless information and compile and display that information in an intuitive, interactive display. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has teamed up with my favorite technology, Google Earth, to map out the ongoing crisis in Darfur. The USHMM has compiled a list of information about […]

  • Tōkyō Pictures in Google Earth

    I took some time yesterday to geo-reference some of our photos in Google Earth, so you can see where in Tōkyō some of the pictures were taken. Google Earth now runs in Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, and it’s free, so you have no excuse to not use it. Once you install Google Earth, the […]

  • Family Trip to Japan

    Looks like my last trip to Japan is going to be a big one. I took a job offer on a different program, so I won’t be working the international programs for much longer. Our big upgrade that’s been going on for the last few months is reaching its climax with a three week upgrade […]

  • Cheeseburger Champion

    My dearest Tabitha has reached another milestone in her life. It’s been a tradition, on the nights before I travel, that we take the family out to dinner. I asked the kids what they wanted, and all of them wanted to go get cheeseburgers. In Frazier, PA, there is a Cheeburger, Cheeburger restaurant. As you […]

  • 5-year-old plays Dance Dance Revolution

    This is why the Japanese are so much better than us.

  • I Might Be in Who’s Who in America

    So, I got a letter the other day saying that I’m going to be included in the next edition of “Who’s Who in America“. I don’t know what that actually means, but I guess it’s cool. I filled out all the biography information and books I’ve authored, including the 34 part definitive series on the […]

  • Fighting Cock Torpedo

    I picked up a pretty good deal this week at Cigars International. They had a cigar called, oddly, a Fighting Cock, which is a cigar made in Nicaragua, and possessing an extremely strong flavor. My typical cigar is oftentimes a mild cigar like the Macanudo Gold or an Arturo Fuene, and since it’s been a […]

  • Acrid and Foul

    I’m flipping through the latest copy of the Cigars International catalog this morning, and I found a surprisingly honest review for Fat Cat cigars. Remember this brand from the boom? At that time with the severe shortages, cigar smokers would resort to just about any cigar available on the shelf. Even despite those circumstances, it’s […]

  • A New Stove

    Christmas came early at our home today. Our last stove was dying, and my anger with it didn’t help it any. With Sarah’s busy schedule, the fact that our last stove didn’t have features like time bake and delay bake really was causing problems. I grew up in a home with time bake, and one […]

  • A Fundamental Flaw

    I’m writing this article in the midst of a lot of turmoil going on in our church right now. Many people who grow up in a certain lifestyle have difficulty figuring out whether they hold their beliefs through a conscientious decision, or whether they’ve come to that conclusion by default. For as long as I […]

  • Kiwi

    Sad little animation, but I liked it…

  • A Waking Dream

    Japan has started to become a recurring dream to me. I fall asleep, and feel like I wake up at 4am (like I did this morning). I take a shuttle down to the airport, jump on a couple airplanes, and end up in this fantasy world. I eat weird food, put on a thousand dollar […]