Say what you will about the USA, but we are, at the very least, good at making websites. I'm traveling through Japan and Technically: It's France!, and the websites are simply unusable... Emperor Naruhito, Président Macron, I implore you to **** **** **** and then employ us all as web design serfs

I'm at the nicest ryokan in da fukken world and everyone is posting about Barry Weiss!! For some reason!! I don't want to hear it

Just as Jesus was denied by Peter, I have now been denied delicious wood-fired pizza thrice here in Shizuoka Prefecture

Yesterday I had a nice hike around the Hakone caldera and was Lucy-and-the-footballed by Mt. Fuji twice 😭

Took the ropeway down the mountain to my inappropriately large vacation rental

Getting to Hakone, which was two normal trains, followed by the second-steepest train in the world, a funicular, and a bus I may not have paid for (oops)

Kappabashi and our last dinner in Tokyo before 🐻 and 🐯 returned to the States

Couple more from yesterday

I took so many pictures at the Evangelion 30th Anniversary exhibit, sorry~ :(

One of those essential but frustrating Tokyo days where none of your plans pan out exactly how you want, and you get lost in train stations a lot, but it's still a good time overall

Dinner and shopping in Omotesandō

Angel's Egg Exhibition and Sen-Oku Hakukokan in Roppongi

First night and morning in Shimokitazawa

The guy next to me has been watching One Piece the whole flight, and it has been an exhausting presence in my peripheral vision 👴🏻

hi I'm almost done I'm almost there 😭👍

Not to put too fine a point on it but people who watch videos on public transit without headphones should be transported immediately and without trial to the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe

Ask Grok to explain this post

"Looking forward" to being at work for 12 hours today (not including the 3-4 hour commute)

Sprinting hard to the finish line (a week from today, when I leave for Japan+Tahiti) and hoping there's anything left of me when I get there 😵

I have received no fewer than nine automated emails from my employer today where the response I'd like to send would absolutely result in justifiable termination if any real person were to read it

Finished the last of the persimmon pudding 🥲 the real end to autumn in my reckoning

Any Slut Squads looking for a tank? Can flex healer

Nigella Lawson has posted a sweet potato casserole w/marshmallows* recipe the past two years, and there's one very normal Englishman who has replied "and the yanks dare to criticise our food!!" each time... Anyway, I hope he has a wonderful thanksgiving today!! (*not for me but that's ok!!)

Tfw you hate your boss bc all he does is make you carry around dragon bones and dwarven ingots, then makes you wait outside ruins/caves/etc., then fast travels home without you, and then half-assedly apologizes "sorry, I forgot where I 'parked' you"

Forgot how in the Skyrim you go from Magic College Freshman Orientation to Oops Now You're the Vice Provost for Institutional Advancement in like, less than one game hour

Really enjoying thievery in Skyrim!! My favorite silly thing is paying people to train me in other skills and then instantly pickpocketing all my money back... it's need-based financial aid... 😌

After roughly a decade of threatening to do so, I finally bought Skyrim for PC... 😎🎮 #gamermode #cozygames #arrowtotheknee

Saw ANGEL'S EGG, a movie about egg

Number theory brain poison means I will always shout when I see 163 or 691 out in the wild

Everyone is being weirdly confrontational in posts today! Let's have some good faith, and some good cheer!

I remembered that I am capable of imagining a better world, even if I'm not permitted to live in one

Why don't we talk about Olivia Colman instead, just my two cents...

Not much, just thinking about how... "Ego is the nemesis of self-improvement." (Anonymous)

I was having a terrible day yesterday but, then, I received personal correspondence from Bakool Ja Ja 👉👈

I should call him*... *The beam Demerzel uses to vaporize ascendant Brothers Darkness

Turns out Week 8 is when I have exhausted all patience and grace for students who call me "Mr." in emails

Oh looks like I'll be going to fanfest

Periodic reminder that our society would benefit greatly from exchanging "All Senate Democrats" for "one dozen (12) cans of Fancy Feast-brand cat food"

Grading Midterm 2 (of 3) in a weed-out course and baby you can call me da WHACKER

A student told me today, "you look like... the guy who won the mayor of New York election"

Lol, lmao

If I had a nickel for every time the Hachioji Yume Museum had an exhibition on Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo that (rudely) ends shortly before my next visit to Tokyo, I'd have two goddamn nickels 😔

Over on The Everything App a tech bro is praising Coca-Cola for being "like no other ingredient" and icymi (like that fucking guy), coke is just sparkling non-alcoholic red vermouth

Anyway, I'm an uncle now, and my department voted to promote me (pending several layers of external review), so things are actually very good for this old man, to-day. 🥰🌻

Mentally I am here (I might go look at this; it does work with my plans)

Making an authéntic bolognese (garlic and onion powders-based tomato/meat sauce)

Because we can't have anything nice in this country, the one public resource that has measurably improved recently in my daily life, Caltrain, has to start sucking in new (and decreasingly subtle) ways.

I found these funny felt dinosaurs yesterday (sold separately) and, adorably, they can't stand on their own... unless they're smooching. It makes you think...

The Halloween gays haven't been quite as aggressive in their posting this year and (we're just saying anything now) that's probably an economic indicator

Having that weird opposite-of-impostor syndrome today. Luckily, teaching is humblingly difficult (maybe impossible), so it won't last the day. 😌