lylehsaxon's Diaries
"Death via the Railways - Blue Lights to the Rescue?"
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lylehsaxon (Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 05:23:06 AM EST) (
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For suicide in San Francisco, people head to the Golden Gate Bridge. For suicide in Tokyo, people head to the railways....
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"Knock 'Em Off the Rails! Grrrrr!!!!"
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lylehsaxon (Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 03:26:34 PM EST) (
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Recently there have been an increased number of train delays while they "clear the tracks" of someone wandering around on them. ........
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"More Tokyo Videos - September 1990, 2008, & 2009"
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lylehsaxon (Sat Oct 03, 2009 at 04:59:38 AM EST) (
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Four more videos.... They never quite turn out the way I want them to, but still might be of some slight interest for views of Tokyo & its trains....
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"Is YouTube Incompetent, or Vindictive?"
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lylehsaxon (Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 01:08:10 PM EST) (
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There's a certain video I took in 1991 of happy Tokyo commuters leisurely (hee-hee) boarding a morning rush-hour(s) express train. I posted it to GoogleVideo first, and then it was copied and e-mailed everywhere, and many of those "everywhere" folks thought they'd help spread the joy by posting their shiny copy-versions of my video to YouTube.
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"Time - Not Infinite"
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lylehsaxon (Sat Sep 12, 2009 at 11:57:56 PM EST) (
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The limitations of what one person can do are very much in mind these days. I have several - no... make that *mountains* of projects in mind for my photos and videos, both material already recorded ("taken" & "shot" are the standard terms), and material that I should/hopefully-will record in the future - hopefully near future. The tendency has always been....
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"Having Fun in September 1990..."
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lylehsaxon (Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 11:48:01 AM EST) (
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I'm still trying to figure out (or get used to) the concept of stepping back into my own shoes, 19 years in the past (from the vantage point of the video camera that was in my hands at the time)....
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"Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo - 2009, & 1991 Summer Festival, Etc."
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lylehsaxon (Sun Aug 16, 2009 at 10:17:12 AM EST) (
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A photo page of the 2009 cherry blossoms in Tokyo (with too many photos, most of them boring), a 1991 video of a summer festival in Tokyo, and a 2009 video of the view through the window of a commuter express train....
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"Returning to Chaotic Boarding?"
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lylehsaxon (Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 11:04:30 AM EST) (
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When I arrived in Japan in the summer of 1984, the orderly lining up for trains in neat rows of three seemed right enough that I never even thought about it. On the other hand, I wondered why there were separate lines for each ATM machine at the bank, each order window at fast-food restaurants, and a near free-for-all for public phones ......
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"Are Middle-Management Bibeds Actually Human?"
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lylehsaxon (Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 10:54:32 PM EST) (
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I'm beginning to think they are not....
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"Looking Out the Window" (June 2009)
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lylehsaxon (Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 11:53:13 PM EST) (
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(June 2009) - The lazy way to show what's between two points on a rail line, is to aim a motion picture camera out the window. There are three basic ways of doing this:
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