The French Dispatch is really good eh. Edifying and revivifying on this rainy Tokyo expat night.

Effed around and bought one of those height-adjustable book stands that swivels cause you know I read like that. It's gonna be good for playing through pro go games, too.

Tomorrow is going to be bizarro warm. Even tonight feels weird.

My calls for white's sealed move in game three of the Kisei title. Ichiriki is in a tough spot; if I'm him (which I most certainly ain't), I'm doing something to try for a clutch of points up north.

Tennenbaums and Budapest Hotel are on Netflix. Downtime sorted.

Hard to overstate how wild this is www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

It's wild that we've come all the way back round to broadcast hosts reading ads in the middle of their programming. 1938, eat your heart out.

Somewhere, someone is blowing dust off of the LDP's 2012 draft constitution.

Yesterday at a library I encountered a book sterilizer.

Likkle jelly of the snow volumes around the world right now. Can the Kanto plain get a few centimetres? Can we eat too?

Hope this slab lives forever. It should be turned into a giant waterfall.

Time to guess the sealed move in today's Kisei title match. I'm just a lowly mudansha, but if I had black I'd either prioritize the farmland up top, firm up my wall in the middle (the better to fight with), or make a huge knight's jump to a hinge that can swing between the corner and the side.

"Onnacounta yous guys didn't give me the peace prize maybe I ain't gonna be so peaceful no more."

That moment when people sit down and tally what they spend each month on cigarettes and alcohol, except with me it's mixed nuts and 350g packs of greek yoghurt. This is why I can't have nice things.

This story in the FCCJ's magazine by @gavin-blair.bsky.social is worth paying attention to. On the vagaries of DNA evidence, Japan's justice system, and what may well be a false conviction. www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shi...

There's a lot going on, but I can't take my eyes off Iran. This is turning into a Berlin Wall-level event.

Smallest of shakes in Tokyo. The walls made the sound, basically.

Iran has been fighting to throw off its oppressive theocratic regime for, what, 11-12 days now. You'd expect to see some of the large news sources covering it in depth at some point.

I gleeked on my keyboard whilst eating yoghurt and blueberries. This, too, is a microseason.

Happy Go Day everyone! Here's my little thread about the many ways that go can enrich your life. #囲碁の日 #囲碁 #GoDay

It's been a long time since Congress lent its imprimatur to one of American's many military strikes, but this Venezuela adventure represents new levels of unilateral, unaccountable, renegade action. Nothing good can come of moving in this way.

A few different Japanese friends have mentioned staying in Tokyo for NY and then going to their hometowns a week later to avoid the travel crush on roads, trains and planes. I wonder if this is becoming more of a thing.

People talk about faces and rabbits, but in the moon I have always seen something like a vulture or a pterodactyl.

Lamping

Dark horse in the sleep champs. Might be overtraining a bit though.

Happy Christmas to one and all!

I do wish someone would give the moon a quarter-turn every 10 years or so

I say to you that this is as velvet as citrus can get. No serration to the flavour, no detectable edges. Just big billowy bubble letters that spell YUZU. #yuzu #柚子

Lennox Lewis is looking extremely dapper

Pro tip: Add lemon and pakuchi to your miso soup. It's like opening the curtains to a sunny day.

The 99% cacao chocolate is back and it's wicked expensive.

Already missing them hills

Sand hound

Silky tofu with brown sugar sauce from a beach vendor. Flatland vibes in La Union

Vehicles of Sagada

Mountain stage complete. En route to the ocean.

A few of the hanging coffins of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.

My dreams must be like "we'll be right back after this regularly scheduled message from our sponsors."

Dip it in bronze

One has to wonder whether they keep stats for the crime rate among police officers

Read this article aloud in a Bennet Brauer voice. Some say they are “roaming near schools" aaaand "rampaging in supermarkets"... www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

according to linkedin i've been on a roll for like, months

Heated up a prefab pizza as opposed to summoning one. That kind of day.

"McCarthy was starting to seem like a man whose talents and intelligence were without limits, yet he lived in a hoarder’s shambles and couldn’t stop buying nonstick skillets and fruit bowls." Finally got round to reading this. www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

馬場田の高

大事な模様が荒らされた #囲碁 #baduk #igo #go

I might be at my calmest in libraries and book stores. The zone-out is total.

Time to not hike in those hills for a while.

Fired up the humidifier, which freaked out the air purifier, triggering online research to the effect that ultrasonic and evaporative humidifiers emit mineral dust. Currently converting credit card points into a warm mist humidifier.