• Checkin to Starbucks

    in Kanagawa, Japan
    Enjoying the new issue of @OffscreenMag with a small coffee as a reward for sending in my taxes.
    Offscreen #24. The gradient cover is fantastic.
  • The Week #46

    • I've started using Gluon when using Micro.blog. The client is so fluid and smooth. I also really like that it displays my figure tags inline properly.
    • Speaking of doing things properly, as a I ramp up for releasing a developer release of Tanzawa, I finally integrated a CI process into the repository. I also took the opportunity to fix the lint/typecheck errors that I'd let slide because I wasnโ€™t running the suite manually.
    • Leo's been trying really hard for the past couple of weeks, but he's transitioned to being in undies full-time! Since he's been wanting to get the Ikea t-rex and complete the collection, to celebrate we took him to Ikea to find t-rex. When we were walking around the store he kept calling "t-reeeeeeeeex" looking for him.
    • In Japan Covid news this week theyโ€™ve finally approved Moderna and Az vaccines. Moderna is being used at the new Self Defense Force run mass inoculation sites in Tokyo, Osaka and other places as they ramp up. It has me feeling slightly positive that I may be able to get the vaccine this year.ย 
    • ย The government has set a goal of having the elderly finished inoculation by the end of July. I donโ€™t think theyโ€™re gonna make it because at least in Fujisawa, my father in law couldnโ€™t get an appointment until August and my mother in law is still awaiting her voucher. Maybe this will change once more mass vaccination sites get running.
  • Checkin to IKEA Restaurant & Cafe (IKEAใƒฌใ‚นใƒˆใƒฉใƒณ&ใ‚ซใƒ•ใ‚ง)

    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    Eating at a furniture store again.
    Plant balls taste just as good as the meat balls.
  • Re: Ode to my flip phone

    Reading Ode to my flip phone reminded me of Frank in You've Got Mail, singing the praises of his typewriter as everyone is getting computers and getting online. Society, for better or worse, has picked a new technological successor and the old ways โ€“ your flip phone, your typewriter, will eventually disappear.

    But this line โ€“ this line hit me hard.
    And by privacy I donโ€™t mean cookies or my Social Security number or whateverโ€”I mean the fragile sphere of imagination in which I exist when Iโ€™m not diddling about online. I mean whatโ€™s left of my nondigital self. When I clack your two halves shut, you glorious techno-mollusk, thatโ€™s it. Sauron cannot see me.
  • Tried the @pycharm Code With Me feature today editing some Markdown with a co-worker. It's great for code, but doesn't handle Japanese input cleanly. Cursor jumped and deleted text randomly.
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