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21 Years of Steam
If that’s not a cringey Steam profile, I don’t know what is. I’d like to say I registered for Steam on dial-up, but looking back on posts from 2003 just…
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Would you like that with or without endocrine disruptors?
The saddest cooking news I’ve heard in a long time: Black plastic products including spatulas are likely being made from recycled electronic waste like computers and televisions, many of which…
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PP Pedestal
This is in the refurbished (!) restroom of one of my favorite restaurants in town. After careful observation, I have determined that it’s a MacGyvered pressure plate flushing mechanism that…
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AMD Software window annoyance
On Windows, if your AMD Software window is always popping up after reboot or waking from sleep, you might be able to fix it with the following:
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WordPress — undefined constant error
I try to follow cardinal rules of data management that were drilled into me since I got into computers at university by (#1) taking backups often and (#2) keeping stuff…
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Sushiro End Stack
I remember using QR codes for product tracking (with Keyence printers and scanners) as a salaryman around Y2K at an electronics factory on monster island. The only other place I’d…
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So this is fun
I’m having intermittent problems with a keyboard that I bought a year ago and it’s driving me crazy. It skips or lags on certain key presses only sometimes, so it’s…
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425,000
Is the approx. number of media files I have stored locally on my main hard drive backup. The digital photos go back to 1998 or so. I have them mostly…
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DTAC International Roaming
If you are planning to visit Japan from Thailand and haven’t been suckered into buying an eSIM yet, I highly recommend buying a roaming package from DTAC/TRUE (AIS also has…
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Mina’s new Warbirds
We picked up an incomplete set of Callaway Warbirds for Mina at the Tsuruya Golf (Japan’s golf Mecca) main branch in Honmachi. It was exactly the kind of deal I…
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My new buddy is so smart
“Based on the response you shared from ChatGPT, it does seem that ChatGPT currently has more capability than me when it comes to directly processing information in Thai and Japanese…
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Sky vs Light
Having played with many of the first AI video generation sites, I am ready to subscribe to either: Sora vs. Lumiere As a side note, Claude has replaced ChatGPT for…