A Japanese civet just ran behind our apartment making some loud noises.

Digital contact sheets #filmphotography

iPhone shot of the negatives #filmphotography

"The moment you put the controller down, your licence to use it will be revoked and you will need to purchase a new one" said Sony chaser.com.au/entertainmen...

Got this for the boys to play. www.ign.com/articles/201...

Another roll. #filmphotography #ilford

Wise words

Happy Wednesday

【7月のお勧め天文現象】 ▶7/5-9 宵に宇宙ステーションが見える ▶7/7 七夕 ▶7/11-12 明け方 細い月とすばる、火星、アルデバランが近づいて見える ▶7/17 細い月と金星、しし座のレグルスが近づいて見える ▶7/24-27 宵に宇宙ステーションが見える ▶7/29 満月 写真は以前撮影の織姫星と彦星です。

Just had to remove a bad battery from a joycon.

Majority of my international students said that they don’t hear much discussion about the dangers/drawbacks of AI. That is concerning.

昨夜、アンタレス（写真上方の赤い星）と月が近づいたようすを楽しんでいましたら、 その十三夜月の前を偶然飛行機が横切り、急いでシャッターを切りました。 （昨日、望遠鏡を使って撮影） 今日もお疲れさまでした。

As the number of tourists snowballed, so did instances of bad behavior, such as trying to feed or touch the monkeys.

That was something like a 3 and still felt strong. Can’t imagine what the epicenter was like.

Finished Demon Slayer now just waiting for the home release of the movie. And now we start One Piece. It’s annoying that the streaming release is cropped for widescreen.

Update for #kanto mates: The latest track forecast as of 5pm - Tropical storm '8' seems to make the closest approach to Kanto tomorrow morning, and '7' in the early evening. Virtually, rain all-day☔ Stormy on the coasts and part of inland.

Another rainy weekend

Played some video games in class for the English Project Workshop class.

Got Dolphin working. It was a bit of work to get it to recognize the GameCube controller, though. All set and my class will play Mario Party 7 later this week.

Developed a roll of film tonight. Another off my backlog. 5 more to go. #filmphotography

Didn’t realize the He-Man got a Japanese release.

This is new. So it’s actually installing now? #hackintosh #thinkpad

English practice. His first time to use a proper laptop and not an iPad.

Walking past the yakitori joint and hear a J-pop song I recognize but can’t remember. I remembered it was the song from Rurouni Kenshin, youtu.be/YvvlGma6COM?...

Fun find at Hard Off Shinjuku: a square-buttoned Famicom. The original units had these, but Nintendo quickly realized they were uncomfortable and prone to getting stuck, hence the round A and B buttons were born.

I’ve tried installing it and it goes through the process. However, it doesn’t boot. Let’s see if I can figure that out.

Looks like it may be a wet weekend and week next week. Sunday may clear up some in the afternoon.

New sign of the apocalypse spotted. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Whenever the international students tell me that they enjoy the class or that the class as a whole enjoys my class, it feels like they are trying to butter me up. 😂

Here's a breakdown of Nintendo Power's reviews, by system. • Game Boy Advance: 718 • Super NES: 699 • GameCube: 537 • Nintendo DS: 529 • Nintendo Entertainment System: 488 • Game Boy: 432 • Wii: 425 • Game Boy Color: 296 • Nintendo 64: 295 • Nintendo 3DS: 90 • Wii U: 18 • Virtual Boy: 14

Oh boy, that rumble. The toddler told me it wasn’t him shaking the apartment.

THE JAPANEESE HAVE DISCOVERED TEXAS ROADHOUSE BREAD

Took the boys out Sunday night to look for fireflies. We only saw a few.

Went out to see some hydrangeas #アジサイ#hydrangea #Tokyo #flowers

Looks like I can install macOS on this old ThinkPad. The problem is that there apps I need in Windows, mostly for my WiiU and 3DS mods.

There was a time when it seemed everyone in Japan at a cafe, restaurant, or bar was lighting up. In 1966, around 83% of men in Japan said they smoked. Those days are long gone. Today, only around a quarter of men smoke, and only around 8% of women take up the habit.

Walked into my classroom early this morning. When I turned on the lights there were many students sitting in the dark. Most of them not mine. However it reminded me of turning on lights and watching bugs scattering away.

Eww, this train is warm and humid on this cool rainy morning.

Hydrangea season is here. And they are pretty interesting!

The rain came earlier than expected so that changed our plans today.

Some more shots of the Milky Way from the other night.

Milky Way

Watched some Tanbo🌾 Rugby🏉 the other weekend #田んぼラグビー

Boys found a record in the river today

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been trying to avoid dairy. Let’s say it really has not been easy.

Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, both from Watanabe Shinichiro, never caught on in Japan the way they did in the West. Where Evangelion and Akira play as manifestos on revolution, Watanabe's anime read more like self-help guides for escaping exploitative power structures.

Meiji surveyed Japan on which snack reigns supreme: Kinoko no Yama (mushroom-shaped, 1975) or Takenoko no Sato (bamboo-shaped, 1979). Of 300,000 respondents, Takenoko won in nearly every prefecture. The lone outlier? Fukushima, where residents still chose Kinoko.

The zine from @somewherein.jp arrived the other day. I now have a moment to look through it.

JMA forecast 00z+12hr (9pm local time). The storm was caught by jet as expected on this chart, and is fast-moving toward Kanto/Tokyo. It seems to reach the region tomorrow morning. Heavy rain is expected there. #tokyo #kanto #japan