Jed Schmidt

watching half of my block hit the market.

hoping history doesn't rhyme this time. Us, 1776: No Kings! King George, 1777: No Kingston! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning...

55 years ago, mcdonalds japan decided call their mascot "donald", because they thought it would be easier to pronounce. starting this month he's dropping that name and rebranding as "ronald".

time traveling down crown street with google street view.

saying farewell to the finest annuity i've ever bought.

not apologizing for my dog; your peonies were asking for it.

discovering why my robot lawnmower keeps getting caught in holes around the yard. real datacenter backlash energy here.

rorschached by the barista: 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 vs 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻.

enjoying the new car wash minigame.

catching a glimpse of sakurajima every five hours.

into the mountains of kurama to escape the heat / crowds of gion matsuri.

counterpoint: too many of our dependencies are fetched from VCs. www.arp242.net/deps-vcs.html

paying respects at the mountain where this poor soul spent his last hours. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

back in kyoto, catching up with the neighbors.

up early to climb mt. uryu in the middle of a typhoon.

stayed at a new 9hours in tokyo. the capsules now have all sorts of sensors in them, and they send you a sleep report after you checkout.

definitely renowned for our friendliness.

so sad to see shibuya’s tokyu hands flagship go. truly the end of an era. www.tokyohive.com/article/2026...

pairing activity to artist.

at an airport dunkin’, where the $6 meal deal is $16.41. at least they honored the promotional digit.

experiencing phonehenge.

seeking recommendations for what to plant in the hole of this felled tree lead.

spotting counterfeit bun merch at fiVe BEL°W. support.fivebelow.com/hc/en-us/art...

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

Tickets are on sale for Brooklyn Web Workers on September 29th, featuring: Annabelle Adelaide on Forth @eligundry.dev on knowing where your money comes from Victoria Kirst on the wisdom of paper @demarko.org on Kickstarter United music by Corn Mo withfriends.events/event/dDagl3...

taking chatgpt up on its offer to show me how to load an IKEA SMÅSTAD bed in my RAV4.

grappling with the end of summer.

looking all over for where the soggy bottom boys bust out the chromatic mediant A major chord when i realized what had happened.

back at the kyoto aquarium for a morning out of the heat.

seeing BAR LIQUOR MUSEUM locations everywhere now, basically the IKINARI STEAK of alcohol.

forgetting the fact that EN readers are subject to 50% more rules (the last 3 EN rules are basically the last JA rule), interesting that they allow only JA readers to use the bath _before_ drinking.

not used to the overwhelming parallax of hiking in japanese cedar forests.

bummed to get a transfer rejected by my bank, but at least they seem prepared for my feedback.