'80s vibes toyotagazooracing.com/jp/gr/gr-fou...

Freezing this morning at 39F. Mt. Hamilton was covered in snow

Alert: matsutake hype is coming

I didn’t realize they specialize in durian 🙂 Looks like I owe them another visit!

OK, I think now SF Chronicle acknowledged the origin of salt bread. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Happy lunar new year! Easiest Strands quiz day ever

The "Fire Horse" lunar year has been associated with a lower birth rate in Japan, due to a traditional folk belief

Next Tuesday is “Fat Tuesday”

A new bakery just soft-opened in San Jose Japantown

I always feel like I’m about to fall off the rollers when I watch skeleton 😄

"If China really is the driving factor here (as you make it seem), why not make a slightly different front end for the rest of the world and let Chinese car buyers enjoy the oversized eyesore?" Read More: www.jalopnik.com/2093197/bmw-...

I feel nostargic when David Lapworth mentions Kuze (President of STI) introducing Subaru Legacy to Prodrive www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31p...

One spot inflated like a mountain 😄

TIL: "no bother" is a typical Irish phrase www.instagram.com/reels/DSAbAD...

It’s been a while since I heard the name “Eric Heiden”

SAGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP - it's a legit rally in Japan 😄👍 gravelmotorsportsclub.com/outline/2026...

777th bake

I guess he was just pretty relaxed on the couch 🙂

Friday, the 13th

Super rare sighting from Thursday morning of a sperm whale off Monterey Bay. Credit: Monterey Bay Whale Watch/Capt. Evan Brodsky

"Meriwest Credit Union’s roots go back to 1961 with the formation of the IBM San Jose Employees Federal Credit Union." Interesting contrast: IBM is shrinking in the South Bay, while its credit union is expanding there www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/12/s...

I just wonder if people might confuse it with PayPal. Would that qualify as a Unicode "confusable"? 🙂 www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

Found a bug in JDK's code that was written 23 years ago 😄 github.com/openjdk/jdk/... That "break" breaks the parsing of special case map

Lavender

TIL: "Ueno Zoo" is pronounced like "Way-No" Zoo 😄 www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...

No "Japanese" instant ramen tested? Seriously? 😒

Upcoming Unicode 18 seems to include some more Japanese Hiragana/Katakana ligatures ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%...

TIL: filbert == hazelnut

Supposed to rain

"Correction Feb. 9, 2026 A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to Super Bowl LX as Super Bowl XL." Yeah, it was Extra-Large 😅

Verdict: better suited for Korean BBQ (Samgyeopsal - 삼겹살)

the bushes were people 😂

boring game

Pastries

Sorry for Lindsey

Austrian Beast Mode!

Can anyone identify this? 椿 (Camellia Japonica) or 山茶花 (Camellia Sasanqua)?

TIL: 山茶花 (Sazanka) is "Sasanqua" in English, a weird romanization of "Sazanka"

It’s that time of the year

Calling this “Shabu Shabu” is wrong by definition. It is way too thick

「まである」 doesn't make no sense, and that's the point. I guess it is analogous to "six-seven" 🙂

Yellow blob

Glad to see you, Buster!

Good morning

Polenta - Japanese style (soy sauce, bonito flakes, seaweed, egg) Visually not appealing at all though 😅

Ok, eventually.

Levi’s 🏟️

TIL: "Doberman" is the American spelling of "Dobermann" www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Watching the debate for the California governer

Glad to know that Lazyboy returned home safe 🙂