"Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen."

Pope Palpatine I Update: I'm kind of embarrassed about this post now, as the joke turned out to be obvious enough that people all over the Internet did it better than I did. (The funniest thing I saw was the Wikipedia article on Ratzinger where someone temorarily changed the picture to Ian McDiarmid's face.) I didn't even get around to photoshopping blue lightning in or anything.

One reason I love living in Japan

Irozaki, Izu Peninsula Sakura Touring Update: This was going to be a real blog post with acutal content, but it's such a pain to get blogger to do anything recently that I just don't have the energy left to write it. Enjoy the pictures.