I did my undergrad in Linguistics, but only speak 2 languages. People always ask: “What is the easiest/hardest language to learn?” The answer can be captured in a concept from Xerox PARC: Tesler’s Law. All languages are complex in their own way, it’s just about where they hide their complexity.
Two new physical 🙀 book purchases today! 📚
Lovely Saturday. 😎 We went to a neighborhood festival, I almost got on the nightly news (as an interviewee not for doing anything shocking! 🙈), then Japanese school with the kids, took a spin around Metrotown, and finally classic Crystal Mall dinner 🥟 🍜 🧋 🥡🥢
Excellent font. Great site. Stay to the end for the little game.
“instead of a personal computer, this is a communal computer”
Lovely to see Dynamicland in action
Finished Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie 📚
This is the final book in the First Law trilogy, which I can’t stop recommending to people. The way it all wraps up, coiled tightly like a spring in a watch, powering the most intricate hands round-and-round as it tells the story. Brilliant!
Day 2 of #craigsgymclass September challenge is done 💪
20s plank 🪵 25 squats 🏋️♀️ 2x6 pushups 🙇
I also went for a short jog and a walk.
#craigsgymclass begins! plank 🪵 squats 🏋️♀️ pushups 🙇
Now that I am back from summer holidays and things are settling here in my new home in Canada it is time to start taking care of my health for the first time in years. I have been walking lots, building back up to jogging, but I decided to kick off September with something I did a couple years ago: #craigsgymclass
Craig Atkinson, an active member of the Anglo-Japan-Twittersphere, inspired a bunch of us with a simple way to kickstartour way to healthier living. The rules are below. I am going to take this challenge again, and will post my progress at #craigsgymclass. Join me! Let’s get work up some support from the community! 💪 👏 🫂 😭 😊
C - Deception Island, Antarctica
H - São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil
A - Lake Guakhmaz, Azerbaijan
D - Akimiski Island, Canada
K - Golmund, China
O - Crater Lake, Oregon
H - Southwestern Kyrgyzstan
Check out the NASA site that spells out your name in Landsat images 🛰🗺 via @davidho@mastodon.world
10 days catching up with family & friends in the Okanagan. Luckily no fires! Weather was amazing! Saw a ton of people we haven’t seen since we left for Kyoto. But there are still more! We’ll be back soon. Just now got back to the coast, getting ready for school next week. Have a good weekend! 🥂
First day of the Armstrong Fair, the local annual carnival + agricultural sales event + cowboy cosplay convention
Enjoying some nice Okanagan wine wine 🥂 while watching the sunset over Okanagan Lake 🌅
Me tryna figure out how to type, mouse, and scroll on my friend’s Svalboard ergonomic keyboard. It is mind-blowing! 🤯 (I can’t even type my own damn name 😅 but it’s amazing how little movement you need to control this once you got used to it)
See more: svalboard.com
Doing a little holiday reading and writing here in the bright and dry Okanagan
Catching a water taxi over to Granville Island to meet a mate from the Osaka tech community visiting Vancouver! 🛥️
Sitting on the patio of a roastery called Kafka, looking over Rainbow Park with prominent indigenous flags, listening to an episode of Everyday Anarchism, next to a guy reading Marx in Spanish. #onbrand
Wearing my shark shirt to the Vancouver Aquarium today. During the show a diver swims with the black-tipped reef sharks 🦈
I have a /uses page. Thinking of adding a “will not use” page 🤔: a list of software/services (eg. Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Substack etc etc etc) that I avoid, maybe with an explanatory link or two. I think RSL has a list like this. What do you think? Too long? 😅
“[Users can] access a map showing the city’s 900-plus camera network, pick the nearest camera to them, pose for the image, and capture a memory. A little button on the app captures the snap for you, and you can keep it in your phone like a photo booth strip, or as a polaroid-style photo.”
My city of just a half-million people has a network of 596 cameras. 🤯 Next hackathon I am building this.