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

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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!

Lovely walk and talk in the forest with a friend this afternoon. We talked travel, politics, games, and the joys of back-end infrastructure… all while surrounded by GREEN

#mosstodon #lichensubscribe

tree trunks and boughs covered in moss

I… AM… CANADIAN! 🇨🇦 🦫 🍁

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I blazed through the book, and have a lot more thinking to do, but am glad I could spend some more time processing by listening to this excellent conversation:

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Signboard: ADULTHOOD IS SAYING "BUT AFTER THIS WEEK THINGS WILL SLOW DOWN A BIT" OVER & OVER UNTIL YOU DIE.

Coffee time ☕️

Last night I started The Armageddon Protocol by @danmoren.com 📚

This is the final book of his Galactic Cold War series. Congrats to Dan who I have listened to for years on The Incomparable. 👏👏👏