| Observations from our family trip to Italy over Christmas vacationSeems like all of the big old churches in Italy are museums now (or at least the ones they bring us tourists to).
Every time an Italian would say "Vatican City" it sounded like "Vortigaunt City".
The Sistine Chapel looks just like all the pictures of the Sistine Chapel, except really big and on the ceiling.
Even though it costs money to use the public restrooms in Italy, somehow I still ended up going to the public restroom more often than I do over here.
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| I pwn small fish in the face! (with a hook)My dad and I finally took Will Lin and Richard fishing today, and sadly the only fish we got was the one scup I caught early on in the afternoon. But we did get to walk half an hour through the sand (both ways!), try Will's exotic animal+beef sticks (buffalo, feral swine, and alligator!), catch and release many small scups no bigger than one of our fingers (I almost teared up as I was trying to release the one scup that nearly got hooked right through the eye), and I even got bitten by a seaworm (I hope they're not posionous...).
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| An experiment while visiting Bernie in CT/NYThis past weekend, I had my first prolonged encounter with depth perception. See, ever since I was young, my left eye has been very near-sighted, but my right eye is perfectly fine, so the two images can't really match up well, and I have little or no depth perception, and the same goes for Bernie. He's tried using the single contact lens to address this before, but I never have. But apparently he recently got a pair of glasses for the left-eye near-sightedness, so when my parents and I went to visit him this weekend, I tried them on for an afternoon. The degree of depth range that I could see was mind-blowing, all of a sudden it looked like everything was separated into individual parallax layers, some close and some far. Too bad it didn't actually improve my depth perception (at least not during that afternoon), because it basically just felt like everything was really close (which is more or less what things look like for me normally). As for looks, with glasses on, I basically just look like me + glasses, exactly as you would expect me to look. The most I can say is that there's sort of a "Calvin's dad" effect, but that's kind of stretching it.
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| the rumors are true!In-and-Out does have a secret menu of "animal-style"-iness! Although that neopolitan shake was a bit too much, feeling so fat now... (and we thought walking there and back would take care of it)
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