Mastodawn

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

I love the contrast in views from the train between the city and the countryside here.

📷 #Leica #M10, #Voigtländer #ULTRON Vintage Line 35mm F2 Aspherical
📍 #Tokyo / #Tochigi
© CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

#photography

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

Everybody loves that video of director Miyazaki Hayao feeding his employees instant Ramen for a late-night dinner at the studio, but nobody asks why he's making his employees work at the studio late at night.

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

I've been putting it off for years, but I should probably get around to moving off this instance at some point.

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

Stop That Feb 24

I was actually fine until 1200, at which point it felt like I’d suddenly hit a brick wall and could only get the gist of it (some parts were still clear, though). 1100, I couldn’t even get the gist of it, and only understood a few words.

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

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Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

The stamps at Gōtokuji station are surprisingly popular amongst tourists: I was fifth in line at 10 am! They're large, but relatively poor quality 'X-Stamper' self-inking stamps. I'm taking my M10, with a 35 mm lens, today.

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 24

Good morning! Today I'm visiting Iwafune station on the Ryōmō line in Tochigi prefecture, which was featured as a location in director Shinkai Makoto's 5 Centimeters per Second. I'll be taking the same route the protagonist does, riding from Gōtokuji on the Odakyū line, and passing through Shinjuku, Ōmiya and Oyama on JR's lines. The present-day route is faster, and requires fewer transfers, thanks to the introduction of the Shōnan–Shinjuku line service.

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 23

kottke.org Feb 23

The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple and have built a new weather app: Acme Weather. “We missed those days as a small scrappy shop. So let’s try this again…” https://acmeweather.com/blog/introducing-acme-weather

Acme Weather

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 23

gosha Feb 21

Had to get it out of my system. Will probably turn it into a proper project over the next few visits, maybe do some medium format portraits of the vehicles + owners or something. For now this will do: https://gosha.net/2026/delica #得利卡

My Delica obsession → Gosha Tcherednitchenko

I’ve been collecting variants of this vehicle all over Taiwan

Gosha Tcherednitchenko

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 23

I've never been as disinterested in fixing my spelling and grammar mistakes as I do now, with so much text on the Web being LLM-generated slop.

Alastair M. D. Touw Feb 22

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Web site	http://alastair.touw.me.uk
Time zone	Asia/Tokyo
Computing interests	Lisp, Emacs, Smalltalk, LaTeX, the Web
Cameras	Leica M10, Voigtländer Bessa R2M