Typhoon Wave

Found this photo online last year, during one of the big Asian typhoons. Looks like one of the biggest waves ever photographed. I suspect it's amplified by some backwash. Kind of an enigmatic photo. I wasn't able to find any additional info on it. And it's hard to get a reference point. There are some building at the bottom of the photo. Using the building at the lower left, the waves looks absolutely huge. In any event, this has been sitting on my desktop for a while now.



Update: Found this Spanish page (translation) which has a little more information:

This is a giant wave in Ilan, west of Taiwan caused by the typhoon Krosa; the photo was published by APF in Yahoo! Reddit and although some people suggesting that it was false or is the effect of colliding against any rock or large structure. Still the size is impressively large.

Flu

Came down with the flu on 18 Jan (I marked my calendar). I was never totally miserable. It was a Friday, on my way to work, that I first definitively recognized I was not well -- a light-headed sort of feeling. Was uneven the rest of the day. Fever that night. Threw up a couple times the next morning (though, happily, because I had eaten little the night before and just drank a lot of orange juice, it was just a little orange fluid.) Felt good enough to go to work the next Tuesday (Monday was a holiday).

Then the cough started. And it kept going. And going. And going. And is still going. A couple people have suggested I see a doctor, but I feel continually better. I've been back to my regular gym schedule the last two weeks.

First time I've been sick in what must be over two years. Sounds like it's been going around. Heard Nick Harcourt on KCRW yesterday morning say, "I think I'm the last person in LA to get the flu," as he was signing off. I'm pretty sure I picked it up from my boss as he was out a couple days the week before I got it and has the same lingering cough. Curious to find out when I will be back to normal.