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  • Checkin to Katase Higashihama Beach (片瀬東浜海水浴場)

    Katase Higashihama Beach (片瀬東浜海水浴場) 35.30679041096077 139.4848680496216
    May 30, 2021
    by James
    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Needed to see the ocean. 🌊
    East Beach
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  • May 29, 2021
    by James
    Rewatching Long Way Up since we can’t travel. Making me think about my long planned “Trips” feature in Tanzawa. 😜
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  • Checkin to 二俣川二丁目公園

    二俣川二丁目公園 35.460278 139.53513
    May 29, 2021
    by James
    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    Watching the bullet trains go by. So fast.
    The tail end of the Shinkansen. Barely got it.
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  • Checkin to Starbucks

    Starbucks 35.42861 139.506997
    May 29, 2021
    by James
    in Kanagawa, Japan
    Post kindergarten activity lunch.
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  • May 28, 2021
    by James
    Hackers move poster came. Turns out movie poster sizes are non-standard and you can't easily buy American movie poster sizes in Japan. Luckily I found a shop that specializes in movie posters in Osaka  that a) knew the problem and b) has frames fit for the various sizes.

    Framed and ready to hang. Woo!

    Hackers: Their Crime is Curiosity
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  • May 27, 2021
    by James
    in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
    Got to try out my new umbrella Yumi got me today. I dig it. ☔️🌂

    Rain Dance
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  • Checkin to Starbucks

    Starbucks 35.42861 139.506997
    May 25, 2021
    by James
    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.
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  • The Week #46

    May 25, 2021
    by James
    • 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 wasn’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 they’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. 
    •  The government has set a goal of having the elderly finished inoculation by the end of July. I don’t think they’re gonna make it because at least in Fujisawa, my father in law couldn’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.
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  • Checkin to IKEA Restaurant & Cafe (IKEAレストラン&カフェ)

    IKEA Restaurant & Cafe (IKEAレストラン&カフェ) 35.522764 139.590671
    May 23, 2021
    by James
    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    Eating at a furniture store again.
    Plant balls taste just as good as the meat balls.
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  • Re: Ode to my flip phone

    May 22, 2021
    by James
    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 – your flip phone, your typewriter, will eventually disappear.

    But this line – this line hit me hard.
    And by privacy I don’t mean cookies or my Social Security number or whatever—I mean the fragile sphere of imagination in which I exist when I’m not diddling about online. I mean what’s left of my nondigital self. When I clack your two halves shut, you glorious techno-mollusk, that’s it. Sauron cannot see me.
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