The sea by moonlight.

Seafood, sunset, and the sea.

Bit of this, and a bit of that.

Lock and loaded the annual flu jab and an anti-pneumonia jab at the same time. Had to be in separate arms, and I only have 2, so could not get a 3rd😉

Yeah - had a health check up and all seems ok.

Ok so the Taiwan gov has given me (and everyone else) $10,000 for being a citizen I am not sure I believe in UBI, and just handing out cash could be used for voter bribery IMO, UBI just resets where zero is, and after an inflation hike, everyone will be back where they started. Change my mind?

What is quiet posters? Just saw that tab.

Spent a year as a vegetarian, which was good, but I cannot remember why. Different life, different me.

Looks like we have Christmas decorations up in our lobby now. Didn’t expect that here in Taiwan, but there they are…

My Morning Arrrrrrghh..... Ah, feel better now.

Friday night plans: Go to pub, go directly to pub, do not pass Go, do not collect £200. Have a good one!

If you are in Taipei tonight and see a guy in a T-Shirt, say hello, that’s me. Seems everyone else is dressed for a polar vortex.

Got to confess, I am not really a bento fan.. Usually: 1 thing I like… 2 things I am non plussed about (yes you, cabbage)… Cold Rice (no, not cold pls) +1 thing I don't like (yes I am talking about you, thick cold ropey seaweed). Guess I’m a heretic.

“But who shall dare To measure loss and gain in this wise? Defeat may be victory in disguise; The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.” ~ Longfellow

I totally understand that most folks hate AI, and see it as a threat to their IP and job. Not much I can do about that. But I have taken a T-800 and reprogrammed it to fight for me 😉, and help me with the issues that I need to deal with. FWIW - here is an example:

Damn Just found out one of my ex-staff, worked for me in early 00’s in Japan, passed away due to accident in NZ 2023 at 52 Started an alpaca farm in NZ after fintech. Sweet, universally liked, guy Had drinks together in Tokyo few years ago. Said farming is so hard RIP Tim🙏

When it comes to current politics, IMO, a plague on everyone's house Governments have to provide 4 simple facilities to enable their population: 1) Access to markets 2) Access to workforce (inc. education) 3) Access to infrastructure (inc. security) 4) Access to capital Q.E.D.

I have to accept I am just blown by the winds of fate. id est - I have had to delay my return to 🎌 by 2 weeks. There will be knock on effects as to whether I get to spend Christmas with family in UK. 70/30 atm I guess, so still hope🎄

So I watched Shawshank again. Like many folks, my favourite film. A film about hope in a dark world - very timely. Every scene and word has weight. Watched so many times now, but I think that will be my last. Time to “get busy livin’”.

Don't (really) break the speed limit, but I hare around town at the limit, and I always arrive later than Google Maps estimated time - always. I submit, M’lord, no way anyone can get there in “Google time” unless they break the limit.

Oh man, well done Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, brilliant game in every way.

I wrote my 2nd ever bad review in Google maps yesterday Had my Toyota washed, and then the rear camera went funky So took it to the dealer, and they refused to diagnose, said the only option was to replace the camera, would not even look at it Wrote🖕in 🇯🇵🇹🇼🇬🇧語,try another

Yeah, X is down due to cloudflare. Oh, never mind.

Passing the National Theatre…

Got my 🇹🇼 National Health Card today. Compulsory after 6 months in 🇹🇼. As I understand it, used to be able to get it immediately, but 🇹🇼 expats would come back, have expensive procedures and then leave immediately, without making payments, so now they make folks wait 6 months.

Hey Mr Teppanyaki man, play a tune for me.

When driving in Taipei always remember, everyone on your left wants to be on your right, and everyone on your right wants to be on your left. Unless they actually achieve the crisscross , in which case they all would like to go back again.🤷‍♂️

I think my personal AI just told me to “get a life!”.

Jaaa, It‘s Friday, when most folks are slowing down, I like to pick up the pace, and go for it.🪓🪓🪓

Been working with AI (Gemini) all day. Maybe 50 discourses, and not a single right answer, none, all day. It cannot handle first order logic. Always wrong. I’m not that smart, but I’m smarter than Gemini, so the world is safe, cos AI is dumber than me.

🇯🇵Proverb: “Wait by the river long enough & the body of you enemy will float by” So I asked Gemini what it knew of me. It summarised “… he is a significant figure in the Japanese Finance Industry” Ok so..asked about those that had attacked/betrayed me:🦗🎶 I’ll take the win

Barring any last minute crises, I will be at home in the UK with this view from my window soon…

Oh there you are, again…good afternoon everyone, from the Grand Hotel Taipei.

I was livin’ in a box…but now I’m not...I was livin’ in a box…🙏🎶🎶🎶

I still believe a Prime Minister change should trigger an automatic general election within 6 months. It seems many parliamentary democracies now try to play bait-and-switch with leadership and policy. To get folks to elect on one, and then oust internally once elected, is just disingenuous.

Anonymity is the best superpower. It means, every once in a while, you can totally reinvent yourself. Shed your skin. If I had got stuck in one of my previous lives, accepting the limiting labels & lifestyles, I had put on myself then - I could not have evolved at all.

I have come to think 99.9% of life is journey, and only 0.01% is arrival, so you have to find peace-in-motion.

Cannot believe the queues that form at Costco for those little sample snacks.

I finally found a good thing to say about Donald Trump. When I watch smart folks on YouTube speak, like Matt O'Dowd, or Sean Carroll etc., makes me feel quite dumb. But when I watch DT mumble his ridiculous rubbish, I feel like a damn genius👍

Today was a red letter day for me. Market ready prototype working. Focus helped My asynchronous, neuro-symbolic, self-modifying, context-free, world-model, agentic AI - is awake and ..quite bolshie. A month before I head back to 🇬🇧 Last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off🤣

Folks think Elons package is about money, it's not It's about control I know a billionaire who spent a decade trying to unpick himself from a famous Private Equity group, they were always foisting their own exec picks on him When he met targets, he could show them the door

Had some chest pains this morning. I thought - oh, here it comes, like my Dad at my young age...knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door. Then I realized - huh? it was the right side of my chest... So maybe the chilli was just too spicy last night😁

For those that don't live in democracies That critisize them, yes, democracies are messy, seeing how the sausages are made. Having to tolerate opposing views. You are a spectator of ours But whereas we are participants in our governance, you are only a spectator in yours also

Found an old picture (my mum did) of me getting my degree at the Royal Albert Hall. At the time thats where London University had its ceremony. A few years later I would be in 🇯🇵, and not return for 16 years. If I could only whisper in that young lads ear 🤫

Making Chilli Con Carne today - had an urge for it.

So I watch a bunch of scientists, PhDs even Nobel laureates on youtube. And at the end of their videos on…quantum whatever, they all say “hey why not go to my merch store and buy a T-shirt?” Great, so now I need a phd to sell t-shirts?

Looking forward to being back in Tokyo soon, after 6 months away.

Applied for my national health card here in Taiwan today. Compulsory after 6months as resident 🇹🇼Costs about £20 per month 🇯🇵Japan about double that(ow!) 🇬🇧Uk obviously free Heath service in 🇹🇼 is excellent btw. Often rated best in world. Same day treatment

Spent life trying not to get pigeon-holed. Sales, Marketing, Delivery, Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, Support, Development, Corporate - managed 'em all. Defense, Manufacturing, Finance - worked in 'em all. 🇬🇧, 🇯🇵, 🇭🇰, 🇹🇼 lived in 'em all. And now I know nothing - success!😉