It’s bao time at Crystal Mall! πŸ˜‹

A big bite of veggie bao filled full of vermicelli, green onions, egg and spices. In the background are three more bao

I know it’s just a number, but it’s a pretty BIG number #2k #meditation

(I should be better at this πŸ˜… Especially considering I haven’t been using this app the whole time)

Screencap from Insight timer showing 2000 total days of meditation

New kit!

Boox Go 10.3

Got this for reading papers which is a focus for 2025.

A large format e-ink display sits on the box. Visible in the frame is a keyboard and other desktop paraphernalia

Oh this is interesting! They built a system to keep track of citizens assemblies:

www.mysociety.org/2024/11/1…

I must post this from @unseenjapan.com since I lived for 4 years in Nagoya and really enjoyed my time there. I’d also recommend the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium and the Antarctic survey ship Fuji. Lots of shopping and good food too!

unseen-japan.com/nagoya-po…

Lovely bright moon behind clouds lit by the setting sun πŸŒ– ☁️ 🌞

Panorama of the sky with billowing clouds bright with sunlight on the left, and the moon a bright point against the blue sky on the right

Thanks for the mench Neverpost! πŸ‘‹ Traffic Camera Selfies

Got a shoutout on one of my fav podcasts: I hit up producer Hans Buetow on Bsky about this ep of Neverpost (section 2) where he tries to figure out how many cameras are in the world. Wild. And not a bad pronunciation of my last name! As you know, I back Neverpost and rate them highly. For other mentions on podcasts also see: Chad on Chapper’s and The time I was outed as the reincarnation of L.

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New table from Coast Contra!! #HipHop #bars πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

Started reading: The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager πŸ“š #amReading #booksky

Wow! Talk about lifelong learning πŸ’ͺπŸ‘΄πŸ»πŸ‘

an online course registration form showing the age restriction as 13-150!

Happy Setsubun πŸ‘Ή

It’s that time of year to eat a big sushi roll 🍣 in the θ₯Ώε—θ₯Ώγ‚„γ‚„θ₯Ώ direction and watch preschool kids be traumatized! 😊

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Plate of various items to put into sushi: kamaboko, egg, natto, raw tuna, etc

All the different bilinguals in my home

There is no one way to raise bilingual kids. Every family is different, and the context where they learn language can change. Previously I wrote about bilingualism expectations (and plurilingualism) in the context of raising our kids. If you think about bilingualism in terms of time, there are generally two categories: sequential bilingualism and simultaneous bilingualism. In the first case, one learns a first language and then later learns a second language.

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So much #FOSDEM FOMO … just look at all those stickers!!

Home

We got the keys! πŸ”‘ For the first time, we have a home of our own. 🏑 A few months ago we found a place and had our offer accepted. Earlier this week we finalized the documents. But now we have the keys to our very own townhouse. After many years of bouncing back and forth between Japan and Canada, and even moving within each country, the family are now settled down and committed to living in Surrey, BC for the foreseeable future.

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What a day… what a week… time for a nice Ethiopian coffee break β˜•οΈ

Small double walled glass tumbler with a glass Hario serving pot in the background, both vessels full of the clear brown liquid bean juice, sitting atop of a wooden tray. It is meditation time!

4 o’clock in the morn… up making tea, hot compresses, and decongesting the kid who can’t sleep. πŸ’€

Happy Lunar New Year! πŸŒ• 🧧 🐍

A box of Taiwanese rice cake with Asian pears in the background Pot of Taiwanese tea, slices of Asian pear, and a slice of fried rice cake

stuck deep in the walled gardens of our various web apps, none of which talk to each other. We have to log into things twenty times a day. Everything is a subscription, or selling our data for ads. Nothing “just works”.

@ruperts.world from Unternet has an idea of where we go from here.

Organizing Community Thriving

It has been six months since we moved to Surrey from Osaka. In that time we have explored our neighbourhood, the kids have gotten used to school, and I have re-connected with friends and family, and made a ton of new connections. We lived in Kelowna for 8 years, which is plenty of time to build up our community network, including things like Digital Okanagan, Okanagan Developers Group, Kelowna Japanese Language Society, and Okanagan Asian Heritage Month committee, among others.

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Very much enjoyed my time at UBC today. Just caught the sunset on the drive home. The edge of Canada!

Dusk. From a high cliff the shallow waters of the ocean. In the far distance is Vancouver Island, above which the sky is orange from sunset. Above the sky turns dark blue of evening