This canal is about a five-minute bike ride from our apartment. Yesterday i was chatting with my dad and he found our apartment on google earth. If anyone reading this is a google earth buff, you can look up our coordinates at 34 53'32.16" N, 136 59'48.41" E . Google earth is really strange. If they make satellite images of the entire globe available to every joe on the street, then what information do they have about us? And i mean they as in 'they'. THE 'they'. Capital A 'they'.
Who's to say they don't have live images of the entire world straight into their offices?
Anyway, i don't worry too much about this particular question. It's just not worth the time. I have too many surveillance cameras to appear on, never mind the satellite cameras. So much to do.
The other day, Mandy and i were riding our bikes along this canal on our way to the Hekinan library (where we are now patrons), and we stopped to look into the water. It was filthy! I was slightly appalled, but mostly i was reminded of this Japanese cartoon i saw that was about how the environment is getting mucked up.
I don't understand much about Japanese religious beliefs; most have to do with good luck, from what i have heard. But a Shinto belief is that everything has a spirit, and in the cartoon, this river spirit goes to a bath house to get clean, and eventually it does, and all the gunk that comes out of it reminded me of the canal water a little bit.
We were just about to leave, but then i saw something moving in the water, and behold, some sort of ray! Not as big as a Manta Ray, not as dangerous as a Stingray, but a smaller kind of ray. Still very nice to catch a glimpse before it swam beneath the murk. It's nice to know that things can still live in there.
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