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I know enough about home cinema audiovisual to know there's a lot I don't know. It's conscious incompetence, if you like, which is different to the unconscious incompetence most people have on the topic. That's not to sound derogatory...
“たまゆらを愛してくれた全てのみなさまへありがとうございました” After the Shokei-no-Michi Festival ends, Fū returns to Hinomaru’s shop to pick up her Rollei 35S. Hinomaru indicates that while he was able to repair it, he cannot guarantee that the camera will be...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK The sandals of my life, I guess, have met the hot summer asphalt of adulthood… all warm and gunky, trapping my shoes, leaving me either stuck there in my melting sandals... or running out and burning the pads off...
An old friend, just months older than me, is taking longevity hard. We’re not that old – he just turned seventy-four, I’m still seventy-three – but he frets about decrepitude, pain and death. I remind him there’s an alternative to a long...
In another life, I should have studied comparative religions. There is an amazing (and short) book by Kosuke Koyama called Three Mile an Hour God. He touches on materialism a lot, and as it relates to whatever religion you are—God,...
Specifically, while I am seeing constant, if incremental improvements (incisions continuing to heal, puffiness around the big one reduced substantially) I am leaning more toward it taking additional weeks to return to normal…if that...
Did all the servicing make a difference? There was only one way to find out. A dryish Thursday evening saw me at the L&WMRS outdoor track with a box full of gas and water. First out, the Lady Anne. She fired straight up, was soon in...
Recently, we lined up for 45 minutes to try some pastries from a bakery in the Yanesen area, very simply named Think. Only 3 people are allowed in the store at a time, so as you get closer and closer, you are left to stare hungrily at...
My interview with Dr. Paul Bartha on The Blue Hour is now available as a podcast. In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Paul Bartha, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, about precautionary reasoning and...
Say you're made of lego and you want to have sex. How do you do it? Let's let a randomiser decide for us. Grab two lego figures and toss them on the table, Pass-the-Pigs-style. [Image of Pass the Pigs] In whatever orientation they land...
Inside the latest 2000 AD, Prog 2487, the second Bumper Prog of the year, you can see Warwick Fraser-Coombe’s latest multimedia exploration of the iconic characters from the history of the Galaxy’s Greatest. It’s a rather stunning...
Dusty sunbeams streak through the window while you lay on the couch in a blissful half-asleep cocoon. Sometimes during this hazy daze a little voice in your brain politely asks that the TV be turned down or shut right off. In moments...
In Montreal, a city blessed with so very many works of public art, the Monument aux Patriotes stands as one of the most poignant. It was unveiled one hundred years ago today by nonagenarian Marion Cardinal-Marion, revealing a bronze...
The retreat didn't actually have a name. I call it the Yuhang retreat simply because it was organised by Yuhang. This was a private event of a group of boardgamers in Kuala Lumpur coming together for 3 days of gaming, staying at an...