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Checkin to Katase Higashihama Beach (片瀬東浜海水浴場)
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byRewatching 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
Watching the bullet trains go by. So fast.The tail end of the Shinkansen. Barely got it. -
Checkin to Starbucks
by in Kanagawa, JapanPost kindergarten activity lunch. -
byHackers 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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Checkin to Starbucks
by in Kanagawa, JapanEnjoying 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
by- 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)
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Re: Ode to my flip phone
byReading 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.