Japan Day 1: 行って来ます
Japan in T-minus 14 hours. My great plan is to have already shifted my day by 6 hours (thanks Diablo III) leaving only another 6 hours of jet lag. We arrive in Tokyo at 11 pm local time so I can just go to sleep “normally” when we arrive. Of…
Unexpected Schwag
A package of Mini schwag unexpectedly arrived today. The coolest part is the shipping container which becomes a reusable bag when turned inside-out
Bread baking level up
On Monday I succeeded in leveling up my bread baking. I diverged from my usual recipe that I felt was too cake like. This one is soft and delicious.
Age of Aquarius…or something
The moon, Jupiter, and Venus are in alignment tonight. The picture is wholly misrepresentative.
Japanese Tube Papercraft
This robot samurai and dog, named Rokusuke and Hachi, were found for me at the MoMA gift shop. It’s a pack of paper tubes and bilingual instructions. All you need to assemble them are a pair of scissors. Check out piperoid.jp/en/index.html .
A Natural Progression
In Europe more so than the US, men’s restrooms utilize troughs instead of urinals. Depite the reduced privacy, these are a good idea for bars and such where good aim is in short supply. I have always thought that as a natural extension of this the entire floor should be…
Delicious Snowballs
He slumped down into a plastic, vacant rail station seat across from me, pausing for a moment as if to contemplate the enormity of the task he was about to undertake. His right hand held a European citrus soda while a package of six snowballs dangled from his right. Go…
Yavin 4 = Tikal
This morning while watching Star Wars, Episode 4, I noticed the skyline of Yavin 4 – the rebel base from which was launched the final attack on the Death Star – was familiar. It is a view from the top of one of the stepped pyramids at Tikal in Guatemala….
Fear begets subjection
In Dune Frank Herbert wrote, “fear is the mind killer.” Humans are designed to fear; it is a good evolutionary trait that kept us alive and away from velociraptors. However, it is reactionary and comes with the cost of loss of prescience. I would go so far at to surmise…
What I learned today
When typing in a bash shell, one can fix typos on a previous line with the ^ symbol. For example, “^wong^wang” will replace “wong” with “wang” in the last command and re-execute it. That’s amazing! http://lifehacker.com/5698494/quickly-fix-command-line-mistakes-with-the–symbol heh…wang.