Started listening to The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera 📚

Good morning all! 🙏 🙇‍♂️

Affirmation Calendar for the 15th: 私はご縁でできている

Just watched Wim Wenders 1977 film The American Friend. Beautifully shot and I admire the young Bruno Ganz’s moustache… but this film is MESSED UP 😳 I need to watch it again and make note of all the connections between the scenes.

Neverpost, a show about the internet

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This story is lovely. And from it I found out about silentbook.club so tempted to start a chapter! 📚

A story from Reddit: I accidentally started a 'Silent Book Club' at my local coffee shop&10;So, here's a funny little story about how I unintentionally created a new social group in my town.A few weeks ago, I was at my favorite coffee shop, deeply engrossed in a novel.&10;An older gentleman approached me and asked what I was reading. We had a brief but lovely chat about books. The next week, I was there again with a different book. The same man showed up, this time with his own book. We nodded at each other, smiled, and went back to our reading. Week three: I arrive to find the man already there. He's brought a friend. They're both reading silently. I join them at their table, and we all read in comfortable silence for an hour. Fast forward to yesterday. I walk into the coffee shop, and there are TWELVE people scattered around, all silently reading books.&10;The barista grins at me and says, "Your club is getting pretty popular!" Apparently, word had spread about the "Silent Book Club" that meets every Wednesday at 4 PM. People just show up, read whatever they want, and occasionally chat during coffee refill breaks.I've accidentally created the most introvert-friendly book club ever, and I'm happy about it.Has anyone else ever started something unintentionally that took on a life of its own?

Saturday night, so eating homemade tanghulu and watching BlueLock with my daughter

A plate of skewered grapes and strawberries covered in sugar syrup

Renunciation and technology

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Rainy Friday night dinner date with my wife in Gastown (I forgot to take photos of the food! Sorry!)

Corner table at Water St Cafe with a view of the rainy street. To the left across the street is the Steam ClockWide angle shot of Chad sitting at a low lit dining table. In front of him are large windows opening onto a well lit rainy street

Cindy Mochizuki, director of BETWEEN PICTURES: THE LENS OF TAMIO WAKAYAMA takes questions at the Vancouver Asian Film Fest. Tamio travelled to the US south in 1963 to join and photograph SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement. Later, back in Canada, he photographed the Powell Street Festival.

#vaff

A Japanese Canadian woman stands on stage below a screen showing information about the special presentation of the film. A spotlight is on her as she speaks into a mic to the MC who stands just to her left

Went to Amazon.ca to check on something and this was on my For You page

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Prime Video: Recommended for you Civil War

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the Captain its wednesday meme all scribbly and incoherent

After months of waiting, my wife’s new Permanent Resident Card arrived! 🎉

Now we can leave the country 😜

Just found out about the passing of Kei Kamanishi, the last surviving member of the legendary Asahi baseball team made up of Japanese-Canadians disbanded during the WW2 internment. He was 102 years old. I never met him in person, just on a virtual call. 南無阿弥陀🙏📿

Screencap of an article in Japanese magazine FRASER about the passing of Kei Kamanishi

I can hear the fireworks 🎆 Happy Diwali everyone! 🪔

Our IETF Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (DIN RG) will be in Los Angeles in Dec 9th at ACM featuring speakers like Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr and @martin.kleppmann.com

Check out the schedule

#dweb

conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2…

CITED is back and taking on "economics"

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This Gulabjamun cheesecake is 😋

A slice of cheese cake with two small gulabjamun balls on top. The base of the cake is made from large quartered gulabjamun

Just been sitting ant home tonight watching the #bcelxn results come in. Still too close to call! 😬 #cdnpoli

Gawd I really need to get out and do a photo walk soon… I really like our new neighbourhood, but I sure miss living in downtown Kyoto/Osaka

Setting the table for a special dinner tonight #IYKYK

On a table with a garish pumpkin tablecloth sits a multistory plastic waterslide looking contraption. Yes, it is nagashi-somen time!