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all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including a headstone supplier, that harken back to older times. Just […] Related posts: Miyanoyu: a 70-Year Old Tokyo Sento Renovated into an Art Gallery and …

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

Now that all electronic issues are resolved, it’s time to update the PCB for my expansion board that adds a W65C22S Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) to my Commodore 64....

Hat tip to my friend Keith (aka The Song Sommelier) for turning me onto this 2024 record a week or so ago. Between this album and the latest from Hinds I haven't been listening to much else these days.* Beach Day has captivated me like no other record has in recent memory. For me, it's the type of record that has required multiple listenings just to be able to wrap …

Today I read “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson for our discussion group. That Facebook group is reading one story every Sunday from Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 edited by Rich Horton. I got a big kick out of “The Cartesian Theater” and wanted to hear it on audio. But when I went looking for an audiobook that included it, I couldn’t find one. Bummer. My …

When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences, your users, etc. — there are undertones of something being said collectively. If you can hear it, write it …

We’re taking a dive into the bizarre world of sigma male affirmations and the disturbing but also very silly “sigma male industrial complex” on YouTube. From the origins of the dubious sigma male concept in the manosphere to its current online popularity, I examine an assortment of the often ludicrous sigma male affirmation videos on YouTube, their claims, and the psychology behind them. I argue that while affirmations can work, …

This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one. But that's ok, I guess.Officially, spring started today here at the Southern Hemisphere, even though the cold weather was long gone already. I gonna miss the winter, like I always do. Cold weather are so much better, for me.Anyways, this week I've been devouring a lot of information from the FZDSCHOOL YouTube channel.There are TONS of valuable material …

"The future fades away as unthinkable or unimaginable, while the past itself turns into dusty images and Hollywood-type pictures of actors in wigs and the like." - Fredric Jameson, 2015"The return to history everywhere remarked today… is not a return exactly, seeming rather to mean incorporating the 'raw material' of history and leaving its function out, a kind of flattening and appropriation"-- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of …

A horror anthology with five tales of terror taken from German and English languages sources, featuring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Anita Berber as the leads in chapters, plus a frame story. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. Chills, Five Ways There’s nothing quite like a good anthology film. Combining several shorter stories into one […]

Set operations on SAT problems Published 2024-09-22 I’ve figured out a neat trick recently that I’ve not seen before, although I don’t know if it’s actually novel. It’s a fairly general method for manipulating SAT problems in CNF form to perform arbitrary set options on their solution set, without adding additional variables to the problem.It’s somewhere between well-known and obvious that you can do it with adding additional variables, and …

📺 Presumed Innocent — A pretty fun whodunit ride with twists despite most of the people involved being pretty unlikable. I couldn’t shake the feeling that a lot of these people should be spending way more time and energy on figuring out who did it than worrying about establishing doubt. 🕹️ A Short Hike — 10/10 absolutely lovable fun little game. Played with 6-year old Ruby and we were able …

Welcome to door dot link (: This is 158, featuring: Automatic, Buffalo Daughter, Piana, Takako Minekawa, Yawning Portal, John Dwye, Ex Wiish, Hysterical love project, Tirzah, Yoshinori Sunahara, mus.hiba, Nabihah Iqbal

The Godfather is such a great movie. I can’t remember how many times I’ve seen it but every time I rewatch it I’m just totally sucked into the world.

The other day, I was walking up the road to collect Chaz from his last day of nursery, and I had forgotten it was his last day until five minutes prior and so I had gone into Sainsbury’s to pick up some Celebrations. And I was feeling kinda bad because what a shit mum for only getting a shitty box of shitty chocolates after my kids had gone to that …