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taking chatgpt up on its offer to show me how to load an IKEA SMÅSTAD bed in my RAV4.

grappling with the end of summer.

looking all over for where the soggy bottom boys bust out the chromatic mediant A major chord when i realized what had happened.

back at the kyoto aquarium for a morning out of the heat.

seeing BAR LIQUOR MUSEUM locations everywhere now, basically the IKINARI STEAK of alcohol.

forgetting the fact that EN readers are subject to 50% more rules (the last 3 EN rules are basically the last JA rule), interesting that they allow only JA readers to use the bath _before_ drinking.

not used to the overwhelming parallax of hiking in japanese cedar forests.

had a good time meeting local devs and chatting about building where.durableobjects.live a few years ago, at kyoto's inaugural workers tech talk. thanks for the invite, @yusukebe! x.com/yusukebe/sta...

bummed to get a transfer rejected by my bank, but at least they seem prepared for my feedback.

seeing a lot of these "japanese first" (not "japan first", mind you) campaign posters. interesting that sanseito reached right-wing/anti-vax product market fit years before MAGA/MAHA did.

back from a challenge i've long wanted to try: walking the entire kyoto trail in a long weekend. kyoto-trail.net/trail_home.html

paying respects at the local 31-story pagoda.

in herndon, virginia to see about a bench. ten years ago BrooklynJS bought this bench to honor the folks who inspired us to create the best little community i’ve ever been a part of, and i finally made the trip to see it.

catching kishibashi in bearsville again.

following @simonwillison's lead, watching ChatGPT's o3 absolutely nail the locations of these (screenshotted!) photos.

happy to see the ripples of BrooklynJS still lapping up on distant shores. good luck, @gr2m.bsky.social! https://github.com/jsla/lunch.js/discussions/438

like an inverse betteridge's law of headlines for marketing email subjects.

distilling french cognac (ooh), finishing in japanese oak (ahh), and then… branding it like a bad kanji tattoo?

seeing an uncomfortable metaphor in the state of this flag.

amazed this place ever existed, i went there last august and had a great time.

up the frozen hudson to see the ice boats.

the first customer in and the last customer out. thank you KBB for bringing such a good vibe uptown.

surviving a challenging branding environment, perhaps second only to #corona.

rounding up all the bagels sold in town for a taste test.

having trouble understanding why the new pie shop in town closes at 2:00 and 4:00 when 3:14 is RIGHT THERE.

paving the cow path for customers who want 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑜𝑡𝑠𝑢 ramen but ask for 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑢 ramen.

in the shadow of the rheinturm.

in germany for the holidays, catching up with the proliferation of umlauts.

learning christmas carols on the ukulele, finally i've found a instrumental outlet as uncool yet satisfying as barbershop.

surprised how custom element upgrades work... what would you assume?

warming up a bit and now our innocent snowman is olaf in FROZEN: UNCUT.

not a logician, but this definition seems untenable.

derailing claude by asking for a list of ISO country codes... is nepal triggering its content filtering policy?

officially a sojourner truth influencer? (my historical marker from 2022, county’s marker from last week)

writing a Tidbyt app to display what's for lunch tomorrow at school, via the MealViewer API. https://github.com/tidbyt/community/pull/2884

slowly untweeting my way back to 2007. i'm incredibly sad; this was basically my diary for almost 15 years.

seeing these two doors across the street from each other… is the latter throwing halloween decoration shade at the former?

A memoriam at chinatownjs for BoroJS while encouraging the audience to go out and create their own communities. 🫡

on the back of my chase sapphire visa, a niche guitar joke.

not atop the list of norms i'll miss, but at least where i live the political parties have traditionally fed election workers at the polls (donuts, coffee, pizza, etc). this is the first year in my tenure that neither party brought anything, feels like a sign of the times.

catching a ben folds show, first time since ‘96. what an absolute talent.

election inspecting, twelve hours down, five to go. turnout is lighter than expected, mostly thanks to early voting.

dropping a roll of these off at Rough Draft Bar & Books, get yours after hitting the polls! https://www.roughdraftny.com/

always kinda nervous when i read stuff like this: "In other words, places like Kingston could become boom towns.” https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2Ff2dbafcf-bf17-50d3-8702-e23c87cf2476

peeping the hasbrouck.house at the local museum.

going full devonian, fossil hunting and cavern spelunking.

deeper upstate for a few.

foraging for morels but finding only oysters.

ready for Noodle Flume, 2023 Summer Release.