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📍 Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau Yokohama District Immigration Office (東京入国管理局 横浜支局) Extending the period of validity on my resident cardLocation: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanComment by email
This weekend I visited the Manistique Community Treehouse Center for a summer afternoon of fun creative activities including a native plant swap. Located in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood on the east side of Detroit, Michigan, the...
Table of Contents Installing the RC ORM: new default eager loading strategy ORM: transaction commit callbacks finally fire correctly ORM: stricter entity class checks Catch it at static-analysis time too ORM: type-safe unhydrated reads...
At first I didn’t really do much setup. I just kind of started to use it. Here are the setup a few week in Before the first lifter I have an index page telling what I have in each of the organizers After the lifter and before all the...
I will read anything danah boyd writes, but this piece is especially good. You should (as I say too often I guess) read the whole thing—it’s about how social media has changed from interacting with friends to a one-sided marketplace of...
Retroarch gets installed to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch I had to disable the PS5 button support in mac to get it to work inside retroarch Retroarch also picked up my controller as #2 instead of #1, and...
The review was supposed to go up on the 26th. It is the 28th. I would like to formally blame my ADHD, the World Cup, Pride, and the fact that I read the entire book again instead of writing about it — which, honestly, tells you most of...
We propose Gaussian point splatting, a stochastic method to render Gaussian splats that scales extremely well to scenes with many Gaussians. Our core idea is to sample pixel-sized, opaque points from the Gaussians and to splat them to a...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Fighting Fear With Fear. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is...
I first saw THE BIG COMBO (1955) in 2012, as part of a special "noir" evening at the historic Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.I was relatively new to film noir then, and THE BIG COMBO initially baffled me a bit, but before...
Someone invented human.json. A file for humans, about humans, to make the web more human. In JSON. Braces, quotes, colons, commas. Needs a parser to read it. Meanwhile Google shipped Open Knowledge Format for AI agents. Markdown files....
A Certain Ratio / Lucinda / Mute A Certain Ratio recorded their 3rd long-player, “Sextet” in 1981. To celebrate its 45th birthday, rather than do a straight reissue, the band have handed the masters over to friend and collaborator Andy...
this past week was a test for how bad i really want to be off my phone, and the answer is very bad. it's a tough habit to kick though, requiring intentional moves like deleting apps and logging off of web pages, keeping the phone further...
Fuchsia I think this is still my favourite flower. If you’re ever in Kerry at this time of the year you can drive down country lanes where the hedgerows appear to consist of little else. Quote of the Day ”If Watergate happened tomorrow,...
I’ve been reading Om Malik’s writing and looking at his photographs for as long as I can remember. Although he always offered thoughtful insights into technology, what I most admired were his soulful photographs and his commitment to the...