• Morning Swim 🏊
    Low of the high 20’s this week had me skip a run and I could hear myself trying to convince me to not go out this morning. He’s dumb. Don’t listen to him.

    4.4km

    30.1min

    19m climbed

    153.2avg bpm

  • Checkin to Brewer’s Coffee And Bar

    in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
    Avocado toast. πŸ˜‹
  • πŸ”— The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
    I was more of an xmms guy myself growing up (desktop linux), but I love how...human the artifacts are in these corrupted skins. More like this, please.
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  • The Week #212

    • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Joe Biden is no longer in the race for POTUS. It seems like Harris might be the actual nominee on the ballot. I'm not entirely sure where she stands on the issues I care about, but I have a hunch they're miles closer than the old guy that's left in the race. Please don't mess this up. (Opinions my own yada yada yada).
    • πŸ“± I spent about 3 hours at the local docomo shopping changing my cellphones/internet from an MNVO (owned by docomo) to docomo proper. Nowhere on earth should it take that long to fill in a form and get a new sim card.Β 

      Initially they told me I'd need my passport in order to change over. Informing them that I was a permanent resident and having the manager peep over the cubicle to give me a once over confirmed I didn't need one. Our turn came around to talk to a sales person and, to my surprise a Nepalese guy came out. We did the entire exchange in Japanese until the very end when we both decided to have a chat in English.

      He changed me over to a trainee to fill in the application because it'll be faster (it was not faster). But I can understand why – I'm a good exception cases from the regular customer that you probably get to fill in forms / screens that usually aren't relevant.

      The main reason for the switch, besides not having enough data to last the month (I stream music while running), is that I can use it abroad at no extra charge against my regular data allotment.
    • 🐻 Season 2 Episode 6, "Fishes", of The Bear. Holy shit was that intense. Maybe the best episode of television I've ever watched. I foolishly watched it on my commute in to the office and I was glued the entire time.

      It's a Christmas episode and the way the family interacts is not entirely like my family, but there was a lot of rhyming. It rhymed so much and was so intense that my headspace was entirely in Houston in the old family home and it felt surreal to be "suddenly" walking in Shinbashi station to make my transfer.

      Like the algorithm knew I needed to decompress a bit when I arrived at the office,Β  it offered up this Deep Relaxing Brunch Terrace DJ Set where they're DJing on a sunny terrace and making cinnamon rolls. It worked.
  • 5am run club
    Day star out doing its thing. One of my β€œaccepts touch payments” vending machines wasn’t having any of it, no matter the flavor. Up the tally for Crowdstrike?

    4.3km

    30.4min

    25m climbed

    151.8avg bpm

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