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Tuesday TigerBlog - Tokyo Time
July 28, 2026 | Tiger Blog
TB said something like "he seemed to be good at parallel barking." Barking. Get it?
This is a picture TB grabbed yesterday. The dog driving this car is definitely dialed in for safety, as he is checking his sideview mirror before heading out.
Of course, he decided he needed to turn around, so he made a three-point turn. You know what they call those? K9-Turns. Darn funny, that TigerBlog is.
Anyway, how did TB and the rest of the world survive without the ability to grab a phone and snap a picture of a dog in the sideview mirror? Seriously, TigerBlog didn't even own a camera before smart phones took over the majority of picture taking in the world these days (unless you count the many great professionals Princeton Athletics uses). Now he takes pictures of almost anything, especially dogs who appear to be driving cars.
TB did a search for what percentage of photos take these days, and he found some pretty incredible stuff, according to the PhotiAiD report analysis, if it is to be believed (and who knows what can be believed these days, right?).
You can read it for yourself:
- In each mobile phone, users can typically store approximately 2,795 photos.
- Globally, more than 92 million selfies are being clicked regularly in 2025.
- In America, average people check their smartphones six times a day to take a photo.
- As mentioned in passport-photo.Online, around 1.8 to 2 trillion photos are taken on mobile annually, representing 5 billion photos captured daily and 57,246 every second.
That's incredible, no? Also, what percentage of photos taken are taken on a smartphone? TB will give you until the end to guess.
While all this is being pondered and processed, there's the matter of something going on this week on the other side of the world. Specifically, that would be the World Championships of women's lacrosse, currently underway in Tokyo.
You can root for the United States if you like. The Americans are clearly the favorite, having won the gold medal in nine of the 11 previous events dating to Year 1 in 1982. The only team to win besides the USA?
That would be Australia, who won in 1986 and 2005, both times in the U.S., in Haverford and Baltimore. The United States has won the last four, defeating Canada in the final of the last three.
The Canadians are the underdog but also the sentimental choice for Princeton fans, possibly. Why? Because recent Princeton graduate Jami MacDonald is making her full national team debut for Canada.
MacDonald did win a silver medal with the Canadian team at the U-20 World Championships two years ago in Hong Kong, falling to, you guessed it, the United States.
By the time you read this, Canada almost surely will have improved to 3-0 at the conclusion of the round-robin portion. Canada already had easy wins over Australia and Germany to start the tournament, and its final game in pool play was against Wales began at 2 am today Eastern Time.
Should Canada win (or already have won) it would clinch first place in Group B. Next up would be the quarterfinals, which will be held tomorrow. The semifinals follow Friday, and the championship game is Sunday.
There are also two other Princeton alums who are competing in Tokyo, both for the Philippines. Those two would be Olivia Pugh, who graduated in 2022, and Sarah Nelson, who graduated in 2025.
The Philippines went 1-2 in Group D, finishing behind unbeaten Israel and 2-1 Japan, the host. The top two in each group advance to the quarterfinals, which leaves the Philippines in the consolation rounds to play for 9th- through 16th-places.
MacDonald had a goal and assist in the first two games. Nelson had two goals and one assist in the three games, while Pugh plays defense and has no stats on the tournament website.
Oh, and according to that report? How about 92.5 percent of all photos are taken on smartphones, with 7.5 percent on traditional cameras.
