And over in the UK, "Jamie" has applied for a job, I hope the #MisdirectedEmail will not prove detrimental to the process.

And I am still getting #MisdirectedEmail for Michael, he of the USD 200,000 neurosurgery hospital bill. I spy a contact email in this one, will follow up to see if they can do something about it.

#MisdirectedEmail coming in thick and fast today. Apparently I purchased a purple jellyfish umbrella from Etsy? It does sound like a cool thing to own, but unless I was out of it more last night than I recall, I don't think I ordered one. I have of course let Amy know.

I found Rachel's email address and she promised to remove my email, yet here I have Sandra's car's service estimate, complete with Sandra's address, phone number and the car registration. #MisdirectedEmail

Huh, I don't own any kind of fractional horse. #MisdirectedEmail

Can You Name This New Tokyo Skyscraper? (No prizes apart from everlasting fame on an obscure corner of an obscure social media network.)

Huh, just seen a "Waymo" pseudo-autonomous taxi drive past twice (or two different ones) here in the Gotanda area. Big chunky vehicle, just the thing to improve the transport situation on Tokyo's generously wide and spacious streets, I guess.

I wish.

Does anyone know what "Add zero mind!" is supposed to mean? For context, sentences written by a native speaker of Japanese.

Just thinking, if I go to the supermarket now and buy an excessive amount of bottled water and toilet paper, maybe I can start a mass panic?

The first tendrils of 雨geddon are upon us.

Breaking: Sandra, who has the same family name as myself, has booked a service appointment for her 2022 Toyota Highlander. No idea whether she's related to Michael, who owes a hospital upwards of USD 200,000 for his recent neurosurgery.

Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

Big spiky Sonic the Hedgehog energy. Source: news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/cc0...

Good opportunity to check the backup power, for limited values thereof. I doubt we'll need it, but you never know. #TyphoonNumber6

I hope they are good at recognising the symptoms of heat stroke. (Seen on Facebook today).

So the Romans invented the cordless mouse?

We got two at least, my wife was selected by Hitler Cat.

Who wouldn't want a ニャンコ証明写真?

It is old enough that JFK could have ridden on it, had he not been distracted by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This train is almost old enough that it can start claiming its pension.

Untouched Chiba, Land of Peanuts.

Off on a trip to destinations exotic...

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

A follow-up email. Apparently "medical bills can be stressful".

The AI revolution continues apace.

Well, the climate might be broken, but at least we live in a corporate panopticon.

The "U.S. Soybean Export Council" is advertising their primary product on the Yamanote Line screens. Did they lose a major export market recently or something?

We are just a few months shy of the 20th anniversary of the release of the movie "Idiocracy".

"Michael" is one of the people whose emails I occasionally receive because no-one does email verification any more, and judging by the flurry this morning he has just left hospital, and this is the bill, and wow.

“Every accusation is a confession.” www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2...

Just one of the many many benefits of widely-available low-cost LLM technology. /s

Not now, meteor-volcano.

My wife, randomly from another room: "Do you know クアラルンプール町?" Me: "????" My wife: "Do you know コアラのマーチ?"

When Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, billionaire friends rushed to say they’d throw money into the deal. Larry Ellison offered “a billion… or whatever you recommend.” Marc Andreessen offered $250 million: SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy

Interestingly, for the first time ever, there are a pair of security guards wandering around (relatively young, not some elderly illuminated baton waver types).

Final elementary school 運動会 for The Child (blurred for プライバシー).

Phew, Annual Navigation of the Government Website (Not Japan) successfully completed, after the obligatory juggling of apps and passwords and PINs and SMS codes and all that jive.

In full-on 断捨離 mode this weekend, so grab them while they're not yet "donated" to Bookoff...

New Lana del Rey single just dropped.

The lights are on, but is anyone home?

I am getting rid of stuff and I have these Golang-related publications from ca. 2020, both in excellent condition, one with a cute animal on the cover, which I would be happy to chakubarai to anyone in Japan who can give them a loving home.

jfc this AI stuff is everywhere. Fortunately not installed by default and I only noticed due to pressing the wrong key combination and getting slightly cryptic popup.

Inflation is getting out of hand these days.

I am getting rid of stuff and I have these Golang-related publications from ca. 2020, both in excellent condition, one with a cute animal on the cover, which I would be happy to chakubarai to anyone in Japan who can give them a loving home.

Oh feck off, Firefox, I am literate, thank you. @mozilla.org

Have to admit, "Philly Cheese Steak" is one of these concepts I've encountered occasionally over the years in print, but never in real life, and assigned a vague mental placeholder along the lines "some kind of actual steak with some kind of cheese on it", so now I will have to mentally recalibrate.

PSA for cat owners in Japan: the police have put out this handy brochure about the recent changes in the law which may affect your cycling felines.

Well now there's a surprise. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...