And with that, #IETF120 is over! So many new insights and friends. I have a lot to digest and follow up on. Tomorrow: OurNetworks.ca
What a day talking about interoperable instant messaging protocols, deep space networking, and a bunch of other amazing things! #IETF120 has been super stimulating. So many interesting people here. Looking forward to tomorrow morning’s Decentralization of the Internet Research Group (dinrg)
Good morning #IETF120! Today is the first day of the official meeting week. My first session is with GAIA, the Global Access to the Internet for All working group, chaired by Jane Coffin who I had the pleasure of meeting at the IGF last year.
Downtown Vancouver is hoppin’! We got #IETF120 hackathon, the fireworks, and a Caps match at BC Place ⚽️
At the #IETF120 #hackathon
Utterly wiped… Walked around the neighborhood to check the distances to the schools. Sat in the park for a bit. Coffee in a local cafe. I think after all the stress of the last two weeks, my body has finally released all that tension. We are here, it is over, we are settled. 💤
When I was just a wee lad of 12, my uncle took me here to White Rock to see the ocean for my very first time. 🌊 It has been nearly 35 years and I have returned. Fish & chips 🐟🍟 got more expensive, but the sunset’s still free 🌅
[Me about to propose a new office/livingroom/dining room layout for the new condo]
💁♂️: Dear Wife, come into my Mind Palace
👸🏻: [walks away]
💁♂️: Where are you going!?
👸🏻: To the bathroom… aka your Mind Palace 🔥
💁♂️: 💀💀💀
#truelove
Okay, so we were able to successfully sleep on beds last night, the first night in our new condo. I was totally wiped after dealing with hauling, installing, then returning a bum aircon. But got the new one in this morning so we won’t die of heat as we continue unpacking. Next up: Office.
I have traded sunsets of buildings with sunsets of forests and mountains
Taking a short selfie break while hauling all our stuff over the second mountain pass of the day.
Executing a highly coordinated multi-city international move during a heat dome while heavily jet lagged… do not recommend 🙅♂️
Nothing says “Back in Canada” like a late night root beer and poutine
Back 🇨🇦
Current status:
🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✅
Gonna hang here in Taiwan for a bit, then:
🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Current status: 🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Loaded up
For our last night in #Japan we went down to Nanba. Ate dinner at Kani Dōraku HQ and watched the crowds on Ebisu bridge taking photos of Glico Man. Then down Dotombori to a shrine where you pour water on completely mossed up Buddhist statues #Osaka #mosstodon #lichensubscribe
SÖT Roastery has been on my “to go” coffee list for a while ☕️
@chadkoh Got a massage after this. The masseur came out and looked like a young Bolo Yeung! Huge forearms and vintage 1988 Bloodsport mullet! But he was gentle, and didn’t knock me off the platform once 💆♂️ #RelaxationKumite
After a long hard move, time for some rest and relaxation at the onsen ♨️
Last night in Sakuranomiya. The shippers took our luggage to the airport. Tomorrow the junkers come to take away the rest of our stuff. We go to the hotel tomorrow. This was a great neighbourhood, and this apartment gave us a ton of epic sunsets. 😍 #Osaka #sunset
Okay here is a full album of pics from all over southern Osaka. Includes occultists, wishing shrines, pagodas, ripped devas, and cute 3 legged crows!
Couple more holy spots here in the Nanba area: Mitsudera has a hotel built OVERTOP of it. This wooden temple survived the WW2 bombings so they are protecting it. Then of course you have his worship the Glico Man and some excellent takoyaki signage 😉 #Japan #Osaka
Getting in a last temple visit: Horikoshi Jinja ⛩️ (where your 1 wish will be granted) and Shitenno-ji ☸️ which is Japan’s first temple originally constructed in 593 by Emperor Shotoku Taishi #Japan #Osaka #Buddhism
Currently reading: Buddhism by Dalai Lama 📚
Needed some easy, non-fiction reading that I can put on while packing and riding planes and the like over the next week.
@SimonWoods Thanks for the commiserations. 3 of those 18 are the Hinasama set my wife received when she was little and wanted to keep for future generations in Canada: flic.kr/p/2oifgwP
@cygnoir I am also considering mailbox.org which has some good reviews from people I know. Infomaniak is the other for more heavy usage (like cloud infra and the like)
@rickcogley 🍻 👔
@val This time we hope it to be a long one. There is no family left for us in Japan. We would like to stay in one place for a good long while, see the kids off the uni… get a dog… stay still. My kids deserve some stability, and I’m nearing 50! Once they are out then I will be on my bike again! 😉
@val We took a while to do all the stuff that needs to get done: sold the apartment, filed final taxes, etc. We decided to wait out the school year which ends this week. So now we go back to Canada, to a suburb of Vancouver, to start the next chapter.
@pratik definitely in my top 5 fav films of all time! And brilliant soundtrack too.
@val Wow, that is lovely. I remember the Pamirs had a similar stark look to them.
How long are you there for?
@DaveyCraney The alley was super narrow. I was leaning against a cinderblock wall across the the stall while I filmed that! Serendipity!
@chadkoh (Fun fact: one of my very first jobs was working as a program assistant at the The University of British Columbia Centre Intercultural Communication. That summer we worked with members of Korea Telecom's leadership team on management skills for a global workforce. That was more than 25 years ago!)
@val Thank you! I have many more on my Flickr, since you are the adventurous type 😉
Trip reports here: chadkohalyk.com/category/...
@crossingthethreshold I think of the guides I had... and what their life might be like now. They were really honest with us once we were out in the desert, away from prying eyes.
@crossingthethreshold That sounds amazing. There is probably a historical project out there that we could submit our photos and slides to in order to preserve the past. If you find one please let me know!
@chrisaldrich Just listened to the ep. Some good points brought up, especially about constantly re-inventing the wheel. It is a common trope in computer science for us to go back and browse the libraries of the 1970s (or earlier!) and dust things of to try and re-implement in a modern context. So many great ideas in the past, it is worth having a walk and a listen to get inspired!