Given that the ground to the left and right looks unshifted, it could also be a result of heat-stress, independently of the quake, couldn't it?

@Gary_7vn: My first thought was about the Japanese Ba-na-na vending machine... oh well.

The hairbrush and lotion nearby and ready - that's the real mystery.

vooooooom, vooooooom, vooooslurp, —- oops, Fluffy!!!

And why can't we have decent beer in them cans?

did anyone notice: when you do this using two mirrors, the recurrent image bends (that's due to the refraction in the glass), and you can't really see the 'infinite' spot. With the two cameras it looked pretty straight to me - never seen that effect before!

@ChaosCon: gasp! \forces soap into CD drive\

@Joel Johnson: There is also the 'perfect insulted coffee mug' (4th paragraph). I wouldn't want to insult my coffee mug - I depend on it in the morning...

What's really worrying here is that 20-year old is driving a Lincoln. Talk about premature aging...

@LoftyDog: The Overmind's explanation is almost there: Trivium in Latin meant 'the place where three roads meet', and stood for the three liberal arts grammar, rhethoric, and logic. Trivia then has adopted the meaning of a 'commonplace of different things', while the adjectiv 'trivial' has evolved into a more negative…

@DingoJunior: oy, mate, good ol' Nissan Patrol gets you places jus' loik a Bruiser...

@SkipErnst: Absolutely with you! I could never understand the fuss about it. Then again, I hardly ever understand people's fascination with TV series...

Ahh - the old 'whitewash-and-all-will-be-good approach'...Did they learn that from Comcast?

what's that dark spot on his jeans - oh man, in public...?

@judacris: you must be in Oz, right?

The house itself might not be bad - but why hide it behind fake boulders? I motion to let it be a modern house in that environment, undisguised, with all the harmony, the tension, and the contrasts.

Wouldn't a surface-to-air missile put a limit to the "near-limitless" reconnaissance?

@Denver: Mick Jagger would.

Looks sweet! Could be a worthy successor to my OM-1 - ahh, the old days of a purely mechanical camera, with a huge and bright viewfinder, and no dependency on batteries...

@hilikusopus: thanks for sharing! Although for some reason the glass harmonica always gives me the cold shivers...