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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Here’s a questionnaire from our local Board of Education. My answer is 0: 絶対に認めない！

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Here’s a page from said train schedule.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Otaki Eiichi is in the list of ‘Showa 100—50 Beautiful Japanese’ in the Nov, 2026 issue of Bungeishunshu.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The 2026 summer concert of Suginami Children’s Choir has a wonderfully diverse program.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Chindogu found in Shenzhen. Put your phone on the upper left corner of the table and pedal to charge. The thing is you have to pedal really hard as if you are on an exercise bike.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Hong Kong is not China, so what is it? One way to look at it is Qing Dynasty + Britain (I think the credit goes to Jia Zhangke and Ah Cheng). Well, here's a quaint punctuation mark on HK taxi: the colon dash (:—), ‘a mark that indicates a list, the contents […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I’m at SGC Hall Ariake in 江東区, 東京. But I’m not going in.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

I despise LLM as much as the next guy, but this is funny and contains quite a bit of truth.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

I guess I’m far from the only one to have mistaken Shang Shang Typhoon for an Okinawan band. None of the members is from Okinawa—a fact I actually learnt from this very book.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

手のひらを太陽に！（いずみたく）

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

This toilet in some of Japanese trains brings together the genius and absurdity in terms of affordance in one design: The door doesn’t have a lock because it doesn’t need one. On the other hand, who can hold the handle while taking a leak?

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

Is it really rocket science to make the label in Apple Music for Mac/iOS clickable, now that it is in Apple Music Classical?

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

Finally, there’s link to the record label in Apple Music Classical. Why it isn’t available in Apple Music is beyond me, and while being able to browse all of Biddulph’s releases is a godsend, you can’t copy the link. Also, ‘Universal Music’ isn’t helpful at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

「申し訳ございません。現代小説はあまり読まないので。」

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Kudos for adding Cantonese, Disk Union. diskunion.net/pdf/kaitori/2025/2025… Funny that Indie = 近年盤 (p. 14–15)

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

What was Hu Jintao promoting? Just read the chapters about Google and China in @stevenlevy’s In the Plex. Those things all happened under Hu’s reign.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

Elaine's father: ‘I don't need anybody to tell me it's gonna rain. All I have to do is stick my head out the window.’

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

空に憧れて空をかけてゆくあの子の命はひこうき雲

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

It was fixed in the Japanese edition in 1982.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

No matter how many times I look at this code, it just can’t be anything but a misprint. But is it possible? Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms is such an influential book published in 1980 by Basic Books, and it’s still not fixed in my 2020 copy (p. 123).

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Affordance (that’s legible to, like, no one).

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

これは都会の空気じゃねえ、田舎の空気だ。 yuuyunnn.com/hanakotoann48kai-43917

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Some titles from Otaki Eiichi's personal movie collection, currently on exhibit at New Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo. newgallery-tokyo.com/niagara50thody…

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Japan is famous for design. But conventional wisdom tells us a restaurant so amateurish design-wise must be good. (Zoom in to see the dog-like cow though.)

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

點解？大包整多兩籠唔怕滯喔。

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

It’s actually a screen. This makes me hate QR code ordering less.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Hanako: ‘Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.’ Teacher: そこまでで結構です。この先は割愛して次の章へ移ります。 Hayama Renko：「柔肌の熱き血潮に触れもみで悲しからずや道を説く君。」 Teacher: 英語の授業中になぜ短歌なんか？ Hayama Renko: なぜかしら…今のやりとりを聞いていたら、急にこの歌が頭に浮かびましたの。

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

Charlie typing it in. Of course, the numbers don’t really correspond to the actually melody.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

When I think of Brian Wilson, I think of that Good Vibrations lost studio footage on YouTube and this touching tribute in Lost.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

ChatGPT is always impressive in multilingual context.

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Lawrence @lawrencelry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

This is what we’ve been deprived of in the world of screens. Yes, there is infinite space outside the frame but it’s such a tiny frame.

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