国立情報学研究所〔四〕

Month four — one thrid left; review:

Anki ok. Sport insufficient. Here’s the interesting stuff:

• general
  • 餃子 and stuff from オリジン found their way into my food routine
  • helped a crying little boy out in the street find his mum
  • witnessed the following manifestation of cuteness:
    3 small kids, two of them in bear costumes, waiting for the train with their mum
    announcement for the next train to come in a few minutes: 「…。この電車は10両です。」
    kids: 「10秒？10！9！8！…」
    but there was no train when they reached 0. :’D
  • was stopped by police for riding my bike at night without a light (mount is loose, I support it w/ rubber bands, that day the bands ripped on my way to work so I put they light in my bag); they were extremely nice — had a good chat
  • got the Dogen approved verification that my Japanese it about as good as that of a native first grader — was asked 「長いんですか？日本は」 by abovementioned policemen and the next day when getting my hair cut :3
  • saw a performance of the 東京都立青梅総合高等学校 和太鼓部 which was awesome
  • spent almost a week in Kyōto and two nights in Nagoya
  • the local sentō had a “chocolate bath” (cacao butter mixed into the water) around valentine’s day which was geat ^_^
  • saw a few people from Matsuyama again while they were in Tōkyō
  • a bug I found* in Pokemon GO got some coverage by blogs/YouTube channels
    following how the story spread from a dedicated subreddit to more and more general sites was quite interesting — especially low effort “news posts” that got things wrong were amusing
    (*to be precise I found something that works on some devices and a fellow redditor found a variation that works on all devices)
• at the institute
  • the conceptual stuff I mentioned last time is finally done and got some good feedback
  • was able to integrate learning a few neat new Flask related things into my work
  • stumbled upon a PhD thesis titled The Presentation of Self on a Decentralised Web — can I please take a week off from life and explore this?
  • got into and am getting back out of eating dinner somewhere close to work to then head back and work some more
  • the elevators say 「おはようございます」 at 8:26 a.m. — so maybe the interval is from 8 to 9?

Good times. More.

On to the next month!