Taking a short selfie break while hauling all our stuff over the second mountain pass of the day.
2024
Executing a highly coordinated multi-city international move during a heat dome while heavily jet lagged… do not recommend 🙅♂️
Nothing says “Back in Canada” like a late night root beer and poutine
Back 🇨🇦
Current status:
🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✅
Gonna hang here in Taiwan for a bit, then:
🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Current status: 🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Loaded up
For our last night in #Japan we went down to Nanba. Ate dinner at Kani Dōraku HQ and watched the crowds on Ebisu bridge taking photos of Glico Man. Then down Dotombori to a shrine where you pour water on completely mossed up Buddhist statues #Osaka #mosstodon #lichensubscribe
SÖT Roastery has been on my “to go” coffee list for a while ☕️
After a long hard move, time for some rest and relaxation at the onsen ♨️
Last night in Sakuranomiya. The shippers took our luggage to the airport. Tomorrow the junkers come to take away the rest of our stuff. We go to the hotel tomorrow. This was a great neighbourhood, and this apartment gave us a ton of epic sunsets. 😍 #Osaka #sunset
Okay here is a full album of pics from all over southern Osaka. Includes occultists, wishing shrines, pagodas, ripped devas, and cute 3 legged crows!
Couple more holy spots here in the Nanba area: Mitsudera has a hotel built OVERTOP of it. This wooden temple survived the WW2 bombings so they are protecting it. Then of course you have his worship the Glico Man and some excellent takoyaki signage 😉 #Japan #Osaka
Getting in a last temple visit: Horikoshi Jinja ⛩️ (where your 1 wish will be granted) and Shitenno-ji ☸️ which is Japan’s first temple originally constructed in 593 by Emperor Shotoku Taishi #Japan #Osaka #Buddhism
Currently reading: Buddhism by Dalai Lama 📚
Needed some easy, non-fiction reading that I can put on while packing and riding planes and the like over the next week.
Quizzing my daughter about football. The only thing she knows she learned from the Blue Lock anime, and she showing big attitude:
Me: “Explain the Offside Trap”
Her: “That’s the little cage at the side of the field, right?”
Me: 💀 💀 💀
#football #footie
“The world needs a community powered browser engine free of corporate interests and focussed on putting people first”
Announcement for the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a 501c3 building a new browser engine from scratch
Nice! All the vids are up for the #localfirst conf in #berlin in May!
Check the trailer:
open-internet-governance.org/letter
some proposals for the Global Digital Compact (GDC) can be read to mandate more centralized governance. … we believe it will be detrimental to not only the Internet and the Web, but also to the world’s economies and societies
RT ✊ #InternetGovernance
My final monthly personal note from Japan just went out.
#quote
Lovely final day in #Kyoto. Went to temple ☸️ visited the family grave 📿 got some new chopsticks in Gion 🥢 walked Shinkyogoku 🛍 and met with family for a last supper 🐎🍣
We moved away from Kyoto to Osaka last year, but it still feels sad to say goodbye … this time for real 👋 🥹
Today is Jiji’s 命日 so we came up for a ceremony and one last visit to the cemetery in Kyoto before going to Canada in a week 🙏 📿
Started listening to “Throne of Jade”by Naomi Novik 📚
Heard a podcast about Master & Commander which put me in the mood for Napoleonic wars… with dragons! 🐉
Been a while since I posted a #truelove quote 💁♂️
Her: “Ever since you cut your hair short you look like a pineapple face.”
Me: “Je ne suis pas un ananas”
Chinowa #Japan #Shrine ⛩️
Panelists from the Atlantic Council give a primer on #internetgovernance history, how things changed with the Snowden revelations, the recent push for multilateralism, and how China sees the Global Digital Compact as a way to gain more leverage.
Whoa! Slay 💅 #bloomScrolling
Other than last day of school, it’s last day of Spring & National Indigenous Peoples Day, but also the 3rd anniversary of my father’s death. So I’m looking back on my writing and reflecting:
Last day of school. 👩🎓
(No more lunch-making! 🙌 Daily fights about internet usage 😒)