I live in Tokyo. I'm from Sydney. I speak in declarative sentences. Sometimes.
As regular readers will have realised, I often try to start these with some comment on the news du jour but I don’t really have much to say at the moment. Last week the U.S. intervened (or implied they would intervene) to prop up the yen which I guess… thanks? ( ABC News ) I’m not looking forward to discovering the starting price of the upcoming iPhones 18 and anything Scott Bessent wants to do to…
I used Claude and Codex to get to a working version of Persimmon , my technically-in-development-but-really-just-abandoned C library for persistent immutable data structures.
Somehow it is August already. They made an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. I had hoped to watch it with all three children but Emma said she wasn’t that interested and, truth be told, Rowan’s enthusiasm was at least 90% due to the popcorn I had opened into a bowl. I thought the film itself was fine. It was fun to see the characters again but I admit that it’s been less than a week and I’m…
I got Claude to set itself up so that when it wants my attention for anything, it causes Ghostty’s Dock icon to jump and make the background of the label of the relevant tmux window a tasteful yellow. I assume this is what it felt like in prior generations to make a spice rack.
I feel bad about how little attention I’ve been paying to the Iran War. What is happening with it? Do you know? I think it’s off again but maybe at the time you read this, that won’t be the case. Eri took Emma and John to see the Chiikawa movie, Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island on Sunday ( Tokyo Weekender ). I’d been able to nab a car again to drive us all around (we were worried…
So demonstrating that I am well and truly in my 40s, I report to you that Ninajirachi’s album, I Love My Computer, is very good.
On Saturday, Eri took Emma to an open day at Bunka Gakuen University Junior and Senior High School, which unfortunately was limited in capacity so wasn’t something we could all attend. I wasn’t expecting to find any Times Car car-sharing cars available (I am aware how many times I just wrote the word ‘car’), but lo and behold there was one available on short notice so I booked it and then took…
Toy Story 5 is good.
Emma, John and Rowan finished school for the term which of course means we’re now in Hell. I plan to switch to working from home two days a week rather than three but I’m not sure what we’re going to do to keep them occupied. Oh, and the summer heat is oppressive enough that I think we might actually be in Hell. Rowan wanted to go out on a shinkansen and so I made a deal that if we did that, we…
Crossmate is in the App Store! If you like crosswords, you might be curious to check it out. It’s my new crossword app for iPhone and iPad that supports 1-3 players.