Today we finally headed out from Tokyo. We hopped on a bus and headed towards the Fuji-Hokone-Izu region.   On the way, we took a trip to see the Great Buddha of Kamakura.   I have to say that it is a well named Buddha… it was huge!   After exploring the shrine at this location, we walked around Kamakura a good bit.   I finally had my first sushi in Japan, and it didn’t disappoint.   I would describe what I had, but I don’t know what it was&helli...

So, yesterday was spiritual, but today was techy.  We started the day at a place called Joypolis... which is basically an indoor theme part with lots of tech things.  The best ride was definitely the "Tokyo Halfpipe", which was where you got on a giant "skateboard" with a partner, strap in, and it rocks back and forth.  You have to time leaning the skateboard correctly to go higher and higher and eventually start it spinning.  We did that twice, back-to-back, and had the over...

Day 2 in Japan (still in Tokyo) started with a surprisingly awesome breakfast at our hotel.  I was expecting a normal "Here's some pastries and fruit" kind of thing you get at other places in the world, but this is just a huge buffet of awesomeness.  I would tell you what I had, but I know the names of none of it Our first destination was the Meiji Shinto Shrine where we prayed, and participated in a paper fortune tradition.  I had a bad one though, so, as I was instructed, I...

So, the flight went well... ~13 hours I think.  I was lucky that I was able to upgrade to an exit row, which makes a big difference for taller folks.  Like normal, I wasn't able to sleep much, and so I was going to write some code.  As it turns out, that's hard to do without internet access.  Other than the obvious Googlin' things, if I decide I need some random package, I'm SOL.  I ended up paying for wifi access, but it only lasted for ~30 minutes before breaking. ...

Just an FYI for those of you on Twitch.  My son is an artist and one of his clients is Goodman Games.  Below is what he wrote on FaceBook.   "Join me tonight for my last live show of the month on In The Studio. It's a fun time and your participation, suggestions and questions are appreciated. If you missed the previous episodes check them out here on Goodman Games Twitch channel. See you tonight at 7pm CDT!"

Looks like I'm isolating for a week. Better part of half a million people at the Grand Prix last week...[they claimed it was a world record - seems they forgot about Adelaide in 1995 ....when it WAS a World Record].... Bloody good odds I'd get Covid .... ...and I did...

Thought I'd share this here as a very useful video on matters other than what people might assume is just "straight" and "gay". Some people just don't have any interest at all in relationships and the various accutruments that come with it. Jaiden's video is both fun and informative for people who might not realise it's okay to just be happy by yourself.

If I were to make a graph of the amount of time I spent on Twitter, it would have started at the founding of that service, peeked in 2015, gradually declined until 2019 and then plumuted. As NASDAQ noted , Twitter isn't really profitable.  And how can it be? How can you base your business on something that might suspend your account based on the opinions of its far, far left employees?  Satire site, Babylon Bee, was recently banned for making a satirical post about public figu...

Hey guys.  You all are family.  I have been in this community long enough to feel like I can share real life stuff with you. A scant few of you know the story of where I have been and what I have been through. ( Not that I have had it so bad. ) I have been on the bottom. I have lost my spirit when I lost my entire family.  But I made it through.  I think you also know I am an avid fisherman.   I just wanted to share this, because I am religious man, and a human ...

Rest in peace, Michael K. Williams.   So sad....

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I am! Bring on the pumpkins!

Dark Matter: Is it possible that the objects in distant galaxies see more normal mass locally than we see in those galaxies from Earth due to special relativity? Or could extra mass come from the multiverse? The multiverse: Could all the universes exist in the same reality but each on a different frequency just like TV channels in a cable? Every time you change your speed you tune in to a different frequency and a different universe. What other ways could you tune in to a...

In the double slit experiment, the bar with the two slits is a lens. If you change the location of the lens it changes the focal point which changes the picture you see on the screen and the results  of the experiment. You can go a step further and put on the wrong prescription glasses when you view the results of the experiment, this will change the entire history of the experiment and change the results you observe.   On to entanglement. You have two entangled...