every bar in Japan has a name that’s just “bar _____”. if i ever opened a bar in Japan, i’d probably call it “bar kurinju”
our one and only interaction with the chef at lunch was during dessert (chiffon cake with whipped cream and strawberries) when he walked up to me with a big grin on his face and showed me a translation app on his phone to communicate to me: NICE GUY WITH BEARD CREAM
i swear there are even fewer trash bins in Japan than the last time i visited 🥴
i’m in Nara, where the main thing to do is Nara Park (you know, the one with the deer). i’m only here for today. the cherry blossoms aren’t blossoming and it’s gonna be rainy all day! let’s gooooo
a buncha go karts just blasted past me and their backs looked like torii all lit up with LED strips??? incredible
i even missed the japanese crows and their unsettlingly human-like caws
ok i found some. they weren’t the ones i wanted but that’s okay.
i have a contractor over to patch the ceiling in our kitchen and re-insulate it, and bro dropped his phone down into the wall 😬
i am so envious of this gnarled old cherry tree that lives a block away from me 😭 but wow, another great walk today. getting really excited about seeing these in Japan next week too!!!
the thing i miss most about Twitter might be Circles. i loved having people i could post more vulnerably with in the relative safety of a Cone of Silence
i am extremely aware that ChatGPT, Copilot, et al. produce gibberish and hallucinate constantly, so whyyy do i keep forgetting that they can’t do math???
got to write some small batch, handcrafted, artisanal, raw SQL today 😗🤌