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Originally established in February 1933 as Baiko-sha (拔子社) at the foot of Langtoushan (狼頭山), just north of present-day Fuyuan Elementary School in Ruisui, Hualien. It was renamed Shirakawa-jinja (白川神社) in 1937 under a the colonial era...
Notes about where this blog is headed and what's going to change in these parts
Gather round the campfire, photo scouts. I’ll tell you a story. It’s about things that you’ve probably wondered about in your sleeping bags late at night. You all spend a lot of time with numbers. Shutter speeds, apertures, film speeds,...
After having had this site existing for half a year, I take a look back at it and at my experience of having this site hosted on Bearblog
This post is from Bob. I’ve been planning for at least a couple years to generate a case study around Galielo’s use of an inclined plane instrumented with water clocks to estimate the terrestrial gravitational constant. Here are some...
15cm x 20cm (6"x8"), oil on board
Thoughts 🌡️ Heatwaves in UK just hit differently than the heatwaves I grew up with in Kansas.
I had a natter with David Meyer about the past fortnight in UK tech policy drama. We did this deliberately as a casual chat, as opposed to a techlaw deep dive, so don’t expect anything too heavy. (I had in fact planned to switch off my...
It's one of those things, sometimes you think of something amusing (even if only to you), and then forget it and can't get it back. When I was preparing these posts (there were originally four), and I settled on the silent k-for-n gag...
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one...
Today marks my 25th anniversary of full-time work in tech. June 18, 2001 – My third “New Employee Orientation” at Microsoft, starting my full-time employment after University. September 29, 2012 – I resigned from Microsoft to move to...