• The Week #42

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    • Tokyo is entering another State of Emergency. I understand why their doing it, Kanagawa should probably also be declaring one. But these half-measures for the past year(!) and a glacial rollout of the vaccine, I feel like I'm getting close to the "pandemic wall".
    • I finished and submitted the first draft (to be published in June) of a magazine article I'm writing (Japanese) for an internal review at work. I always get a bit nervous before submitting these kinds of things, like they'll suddenly realize "wait a minute, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about". Getting your Japanese nitpicked and seeing grammar mistakes that you know you learned back in college is also humbling.
    • Hoshide-san successfully launched and made it the ISS. Always happy to see JAXA astronauts fly.Β 
    • I ordered the new Bourdain book – Word Travel: An Irreverent Guide. Although Bourdain has been dead a couple of years (something I still think about on occasion and get sad about the loss), this new book was a work in progress until just before he passed. Apparently he was slated to work on it for a couple of weeks that summer. Either way I think it fits exactly what I've been wanting to read: something not heavy, not work related (no tech/design), non-fiction, and something in English. Excited for it to arrive.
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    Leo’s new favorite pastime is to crawl around the car and listen to music. He switched the radio station and Journey comes on. Immediately says β€œI like this”. Addaboy.Β 
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    in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
    The wind is so strong, last night it blew the cover off my bike, blew the e-bike over, and its cover has disappeared. Time to see if I can find it.

    Update: Found it a few houses down stuck under their car.
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    Made some optimizations to my site today.Β 
    • Enabled the django gzip middleware so html is compressed over the wire. Practically speaking, responses loads should be about 5kb now, or a quarter of the previous size.
    • Optimized the queries for public facing pages. All pages now require less than 10 queries.
    • All optimized images will now be automatically resized by 50% and converted to webp (where supported). This helps reduce images sizes from drastically, usually to around 100k or less, each.

  • Checkin to ホンダカーズζ¨ͺ桜 泉みγͺみ店

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    1 year tune up for the car. Time flies.
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