the latter providing an amazing sashimi dinner.

…and half for the ocean.

back in yakushima. half for the forest…

catching a glimpse of sakurajima every five hours.

into the mountains of kurama to escape the heat / crowds of gion matsuri.

watching the color drain from the calbee aisle one brand at a time.

clicking through to a headline letdown.

zooming down mount hiei this afternoon.

hiking up mount hiei this morning.

spotting in the wild: monochrome calbee “economy packaging” due to naphtha shortages caused by “epic fury”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

paying respects at the mountain where this poor soul spent his last hours. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

back in kyoto, catching up with the neighbors.

up early to climb mt. uryu in the middle of a typhoon.

stayed at a new 9hours in tokyo. the capsules now have all sorts of sensors in them, and they send you a sleep report after you checkout.

definitely renowned for our friendliness.

pairing activity to artist.

at an airport dunkin’, where the $6 meal deal is $16.41. at least they honored the promotional digit.

experiencing phonehenge.

seeking recommendations for what to plant in the hole of this felled tree lead.

spotting counterfeit bun merch at fiVe BEL°W. support.fivebelow.com/hc/en-us/art...

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.

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.

in the same way, DO took the cloud silo (ie, network, compute, and storage split into API Gateway, Lambda/EC2, and DynamoDB/S3) and turned it on its side; each object has a bit of all three. this is more natural and also drops ton of config (IAM, et al). i think this innovation is under-appreciated.

like, before react became popular, there was a lot of overwrought dogma about separation of concerns; it was gauche not to co-locate your scripts, styles, and markup in separate silos. react turned this on its side, prioritizing co-location by component, which always made more sense to me.

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.