# parkour (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover parkour. Page: Feed: --- ## [Becoming a “Permanent Resident” in Japan](https://sirtetris.com/a/8f0b11cc) _2026-07-24 · sirtetris.com/blog_ After 759 days in Japan — 3,961 days since my first of many visits began — I was granted “permanent resident” status (PR). This concludes a process I committed to in late 2023, and formally initialized in mid 2024. enter Japan on an HSP visa with 80+ points (see this blog post for details) live in Japan and hold the 80+ points for one year apply for PR don’t mess anything up while under review get… ## [What was the best year for a saxophone lover to be listening to the Billboard Top 100?](https://jmablog.com/post/numberones/) _2026-02-26 · jmablog_ ( Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here .) I turned to my wife in the car the other day and said, out of nowhere: “You know, I love a bit of sax in a song.” She laughed. But I was deadly serious. Coincedentally, while looking through the Tidy Tuesday archives for some data to play around with… ## [In Japan - Growing Roots](https://sirtetris.com/a/61190843) _2026-01-10 · sirtetris.com/blog_ One and a half years since I started working in Japan ; eight months since the last post . Overall, life’s going smoothly. No major breakthrouhts or setbacks, just slow and steady progress here and there. Below a few bits and pieces that I feel like mentioning. Output Things I got done during my first year were predominantly organizational in nature. Setting up life so to say. Compared to that,… ## [Seit wann gibt es Stadt, Land, Fluss?](https://sirtetris.com/a/f4dd0cab) _2025-12-31 · sirtetris.com/blog_ (This blog post is written in German b/c it’s about the German game Stadt, Land, Fluss — an almost equivalent to categories .) Im September kam mir die Frage in den Sinn, seit wann es eigentlich Stadt, Land, Fluss gibt. In der Wikipedia waren keine Informationen zu finden, manuelles Suchen im Web lief ins Leere, und LLMs konnten auch nicht weiterhelfen. — LLM-Systeme mit Zugriff auf… ## [Taipei and the 開源人年會](https://sirtetris.com/a/d1b4101a) _2025-08-16 · sirtetris.com/blog_ After Japan and Singapore , Taiwan is now the third Asian country I visited — albeit only for a few days. It’s always been on my bucket list of travel destinations. What set things in motion now was a co-worker telling me about 2025 開源人年會 / COSCUP 2025 . The event was packet with talks right up my alley like Open Source for Open Science Wikidata: Wikimedia’s knowledge graph in a world of… ## [Einkommen­steuer­erklärung nach Auswanderung](https://sirtetris.com/a/8f14b9) _2025-08-02 · sirtetris.com/blog_ (This blog post will be in German b/c it’s about a particular situation of filing taxes in Germany.) Vor fünf Jahren hatte ich im Zuge meiner Einkommen­steuer­erklärung nach Master-Studium schon mal ein paar Erfahrungen und Tips geteilt. Meine jüngste Steuer­erklärung bietet nun wieder Anlass, dem Sammelsorium an Informationen im Internet zum Tehma ein paar Darstellungen aus eigener Perspektive… ## [In Japan - Creditworthy Binomial](https://sirtetris.com/a/b30c0b82) _2025-04-26 · sirtetris.com/blog_ It’s been half a year since my last update , and in total about nine months since I moved to Japan . While a lot of the early hustle and bustle of setting things up gave way to ordinary everyday life, there are still a few things here and there that I have not been able to check off the to-do list. Two that I now finally managed to get done are registering a legal alias and getting a credit card.… ## [In Japan - Setting up Camp ...](https://sirtetris.com/a/95da095d) _2024-08-30 · sirtetris.com/blog_ Two and a half months since I made my way to Japan — which my sense of time tells me is obviously wrong; there’s no way that much time has already passed. Two weeks of a “grace period” between immigrating and my first day at the job, and two months of trial-by-fire since then — here are some bits and pieces from along the way: In transit We start on the way from Germany to Japan. I noticed a neat…