Finished Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚
Whoever thought Napoleon crushing Europe could be described as “light” and “fun”? 🙃 Well, there are dragons and this isn’t Malazan.
Anyways, I am 22/20 for my 2025 Reading Goal. Was shooting for more papers but can’t quite help myself. #books #reading
Started listening to Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚 in the car on my drive to Kelowna and back. Got 71% the way in over the weekend. Fun to be with these characters again, and a nice light break from Malazan.
Back through the mountains 🏔️ to the coast 🌊
It’s that time of year where I visit my pal Nathan and check out his new keyboard with custom printed angled keycaps. #keebs
Last year’s edition: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Driving up into the mountains for the weekend
The new GAIIN (The Global AI Initiatives Navigator) released by the OECD is a pretty amazing resource for tracking #AI policy and investment country by country. Here is the profile for #Canada: oecd.ai/en/dashbo…
Got my latest enjoylunacoffee.com order ☕️
Looking forward to some lovely Ethiopian beans
Catching up on this year’s Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. Looks so hot! 🥵
Bloedel Conservatory
Date night in Olympic Village. Lovely view of Science World.
We are setting up our #meshtastic devices together @z-space.ca and just added a ton of new nodes in Vancouver! I can see nodes all the way to Seattle!
Started Empire of AI by Karen Hao today 📚
Already 20% in. Very readable!
Did I just have the perfect evening? 😻 #ra-men #archery #ra-rchery
Unboxing my new Starter Set of The One Ring. (Now some very personal blogging that will only interest a few of you) Last week I wrote about the fantasy hole I have been in. Contributing to this is the fact that we are also in a Table Top Role Playing Game hole as well. I have been playing TTRPGs with the same group since 2013. We started together after a big Board Game Night where we organized two simultaneous sessions of The Red Box to introduce people to tabletop gaming.
I love taking people into our nearby forest and walking around the bend and saying “Hey look over there 👉 “
Dentist in the morning. Haircut in the afternoon (sat there with a frozen jaw 😬). Now it is evening and I am kicking back with a gold drink and a good book #amreading
Spent the evening at the Richmond Night Market 🍡🍧🧋🥡🍢🌮
Checking in to the Vegetarian Festival at Thrangu Monastery
As former remote island residents ourselves, we’ve been keeping an eye on the ongoing earthquake activity and evacuations in the Tokara Island chain centered on Akusekijima 悪石島 or “Evil Rock Island” 😳 #japan #earthquake
Moonrise on #ikijima 2023 #memories
Those lights are Fukuoka on the mainland, but there might be one or two squid boats too
