feet. [35° 39.6' N 139° 42.1' E]

--tokyo, japan--

i hadn't seen s---- since dr. liu's vector algebra class 5 years ago...

turns out he was in tokyo too, so we met up to eat shabu shabu and talk about camera sensor circuit boards, airplanes, and japanese crepes. we wandered around shibuya and escaped into a 7 story arcade (fun x 7) when it started raining...

this sign was in the photo booth section:

are we to reason that this means

one girl enters photo booth: ok

one girl + one boy enters photo booth: ok

one boy enters photo booth: NOT ok.

i think.

??? it doesn't really bother me anymore that i have no clue what is going on in that country.

japan does photo booths

like joan rivers does plastic surgery.

can you tell what is weird about these pictures???

the camera in the photo booth must've had facial recognition software,

because it has enlarged my eyes.

like, ridiculously.

(it missed them, in the lower right picture.)

it's also added makeup to my eyes,

whitened our teeth,

slightly over-exposed our skin,

and gave us the option

for additional sparkles.

(the raindrops are not natural either.)

if this sort of technology exists now in photo booths, it's only a matter of time before it's in every digital camera...imagine! pictures will automatically clear blemishes! add makeup! shave off ten pounds! and get rid of double chins!

do i kindof love that?

YES.

but to be honest...

the anthropological implications of this are alarming,

and of more importance than the petty supplications to our vanity.

as the virtual world encroaches on reality,

the increasing fidelity is increasingly unreliable...

so how will history see us?