Happy Setsubun 👹
It’s that time of year to eat a big sushi roll 🍣 in the 西南西やや西 direction and watch preschool kids be traumatized! 😊
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.
So much #FOSDEM FOMO … just look at all those stickers!!
Home
We got the keys! 🔑 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.
What a day… what a week… time for a nice Ethiopian coffee break ☕️
4 o’clock in the morn… up making tea, hot compresses, and decongesting the kid who can’t sleep. 💤
Happy Lunar New Year! 🌕 🧧 🐍
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.
Very much enjoyed my time at UBC today. Just caught the sunset on the drive home. The edge of Canada!
Lovely sunny day at the University of British Columbia where I am touring the new Emerging Media Lab. I graduated from UBC in 2001 and things are quite different. I love the energy on campus! This is part of that ✨✌️#VancouverEnergy ✌️⚡️
🗣 “For the tech elite, politics offers what overtapped markets can no longer guarantee: new returns.”
🗣 “Rather than prognosticate, now is the time to prepare our collective response.”
Current status: up past midnight helping daughter study for math final
Oh this looks like some interesting reading from @zelf@sunbeam.city
(h/t @aynish@merveilles.town)
#OpenSource #P2P #LocalFirstSoftware
Not really a milestone, but a good round number 🧘 #meditation
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I’ll never reach it. So what’s the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
— Eduardo Galeano
#quotes
My lovely wife 💞 flew to Kelowna today for a Kelowna Japanese Language Society event. She sent some pics of the Rockies mountains 🏔️ and Okanagan Lake 🛶 for you all
Okay. Back home. Tucked in. It’s 2:30am. Time to go to sleep finally. 💤
After a weekend of hacking on LoFi software where we talked about EMRs and hospital applications, I now find myself in the ER with a sick child, experiencing our existing system. Everything’s under control, so I sit here and observe.
Welp, it’s been 5 days nursing a feverish teenager. Now it is time to go to the clinic and find out what is actually wrong.
After waiting around all day (9am to 5pm) we now know. Pneumonia.
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