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Blue Badges
Continuing my tradition of absolutely not seeing what was coming — I remember thinking that the word “blog” would never catch on and that nobody would put up with seeing ads in their Instagram feed — I am baffled to … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Salt & Fat’s Butter Tomato Sauce
The day ten years ago this recipe for tomato-butter sauce was posted on Salt & Fat was the day I started to cook. Until then I had prepared plenty of food and certainly thought that I had been cooking, but … Continue reading
Posted in Food
Missing Japanese Input Sources
I came across a weird bug that prevented me from being able to type in Japanese. After a few hours of fiddling I worked out how to fix it. Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Japanese
Not Quite My Own C64
My first computer was a Commodore 64. Way before I had my own though, I had access to one at the local public computer lab—aka, K-Mart. The local library had a few C64 magazines full of BASIC programs ready to … Continue reading
Exhalation
Ted Chiang’s Exhalation is one of my favourite short stories. Its centrepiece is a meticulous description of the protagonist’s self-dissection of his own brain. It’s a mechanical being (although the word mechanical seems too crude) so rather than blood and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Ted Chiang