Lunch at Dosanko on Friday.
Tsukemono, including some fiddleheads
Ramen salad with cold noodles and miso tofu crumble.
Japanese milk bread cheese toast
Koji description. I bought some more koji salt to have.
Had a lovely meal at The Pie Shoppe.
Pepperoni Supreme with ricotta & spicy honey
Morels & Goat with white wine cream sauce and asparagus.
And pies for dessert! Victoria sponge with rhubarb, salted honey cheesecake, and grapefruit & sweet vermouth.
I just finished an intro call with a community mesh networking project here in #Vancouver called #StolonMesh www.stolonmesh.ca/, being initiated through 221A.
I’m excited about supporting this with #DWebYVR after the first time we tried this back in 2006!
We were on Bowen Island for the long weekend and visited a couple of stores in Artisan Square.
We had a great time meeting Dana Lee Brown and her farm-to-hangar clothing, recently covered in Scout Magazine.
I got a picture of her examples of cotton & wool from raw to finished cloth.
On Thursday I went for an afternoon bike ride out to Burnaby Lake along the Central Valley Greenway.
Turns out this bench has public wifi access.
My RadRunner ebike with laptop. Basically a standing desk!
#Vancouver #Burnaby #biking
Evening walk on #BowenIsland down to the Causeway. View over the Lagoon, facing west. Next view facing east, the mainland mountains still lit by the sun.
Bluesky #ATProtocol uses domain names as user handles. Parker Higgins did a great write up that mostly focuses on the possibilities of what using domains can enable.
“Verification by HTML reflects a web-first mindset, verification by DNS reflects a net-first mindset.”
Yesterday was glorious sunshine & warmth in Vancouver. Today was gray and overcast in East Van, but still many excellent blossoms.
Japanese quince & then two excellent front yards filled with tulips.
A walk in the sunshine around East Van with blossoms everywhere.
Magnolias are shedding. Pink poofs are open. Street of pink blooms. Sweet smelling rhododendron with Rachael.
Rachael visits with a horse on #BowenIsland
And also a test of the #BlueSky posting support now live on #MicroDotBlog
June 1st, 2020
How it started, how it’s going. Me at 7 and 48.
My parents are scanning old photos so I’ll share a couple. And I got back from the barber yesterday ;)
Went for a walk around the new trail around Grafton Lake on #BowenIsland. So many different greens - ferns, moss, skunk cabbage. And massive stumps from the original old growth. Nice to have a new-to-me walk on the island!
My first computer, a TI-99/4A. This is me at home on #BowenIsland in 1985 at 10 years old.
It’s plugged into a black & white TV. I eventually got a cassette recorder and saved BASIC programs to it.
It was discontinued so bought on sale at Sears? Or Eaton’s?
Skipper Otto made a list of Metro #Vancouver area Community Supported Agriculture #CSA programs.
Skipper Otto is itself a Community Supported Fishery #CSF that I’m a member of.
Exit past the Water Cooler, a write up by Kharis O’Connell @rmtwrkr on the change of the pandemic for the future of work, and how Big Tech may now more closely resemble the old era of big corps. And the lie of innovation by water cooler talk :)
I bought all three Site Nonsite albums on #Bandcamp: Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Osaka. Described as electronica with “Japanese Ambient aesthetics”.
“Documenting connections to place. Site is the source, Nonsite is the personal response.”
WorldWideWeb is a new to me app by Iconfactory written in #Swift that runs a full web server on #MacOS #iPadOS #iOS.
Jay Graber wrote an update about the Bluesky Private Beta - a sample client to help flesh out the AT Protocol. It’s inspiring, with examples for devs & creators.
“open protocols are locked-open APIs” is a great phrase.
I did an exchange to Germany 32 years ago, & joined my host family for their vacation in France. Before leaving, I had my first epic French meal.
Turns out Restaurant Le Savoie still exists: in Margaux, north of Bordeaux.
#BorisEuropeExchange
Snowy weekend on #BowenIsland
- Last night, towards the Causeway
- This morning turning on to Melmore from Millers
- on the Causeway looking east towards the mainland
- my parents’ place in the snow
Where are we on the sigmoid curve of ChatGPT and related AI tech? Is this a 1999 Napster point in time? Or is it a PhotoShop-like productivity enhancer.
Tom Scott has a video titled “I tried using AI. It scared me”
Two Japanese places
I read two stories about tourism and Japanese villages. The first is The Morioka Experience by Craig Mod. Why Morioka? ...I had the best burrata I’ve ever eaten.
Half with a straccetti pasta with tomato mushroom parsley sauce, half with a baby arugula salad with agrodolce lemon dressing.
Full details on the #FoodWiki.
Chatter Net is a decentralized social protocol built out of #DID and #ActivityStreams.
The README on GitHub has a great overview. It has a sample social app you can try at conversely.social
via @erlend_sh
From today’s #Vancouver adventures along Main Street, stopped in at Balance Botanicals.
Bought some sweet paprika, Sichuan peppercorn, and the new-to-me black cumin. #FoodWiki
