And a casual White Album reaction based on evaluating the popular internet claim that the Beatles made a "haunted" album thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/okay-the-b...

My review of a modern retro-style video game, and some thoughts on the golden age of 2D sprite-based video games and the difficulty of capturing that art form just right today thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/blast-from...

Folks, our definition of community is broken.

Haha that is funny. I've never used Apple Maps but Google does stuff like this occasionally too. Sometimes I can't get it to give me the same route if I restart. My dad said once with GPS you know where you're going but not where you are. I think about that sometimes

There’s a Japanese haiku that goes something like

For these few days
The Hills are bright
with cherry blossoms
Any longer
And we would not prize them so

... Our question is how would they determine who is a foreigner? Every visitor needs to bring a passport in their car to prove they're a citizen, and the poor guy at the ticket booth has to check? What if as in our case it's an American bringing foreign tourists?