Massive Tai Po Building fire...

Glad for the rain, hopefully will help end the hill fire near Tsz Shan Monastery (took this morning of 4 Nov 2025).

Yes, we're happy to show you that faculty page, but it will cost you some cookies, some for essential uses, some for non-essential uses. You know, but for sure you're gonna love the page—and the 🍪

I expect to constantly need to login to @newyorker.com, but got seasick trying to read this (needed to export as PDF). Feels like a 1997 Geocities plugin is running the site...

Saw this button out in the world, wished Jonathan Sterne were still here so I could email it to him. Let there be music!

Seen in Hong Kong recently

Does a tablet emulating four phones count as one?

And away we go—I mean, here we cum.

1906: John Philip Sousa wrote a satirical takedown of a mechanical musical future filled with phonograph conservatories & children labelled musical prodigies for "playing" player pianos, where "automatic action proves the uselessness of eyes and hands and soul."

I've had all sorts of nicknames, this was new... autocorrect or AI or maybe a deep insight into my personality (by a student I have not yet met)?

Anyone looking to escape the US chaos for Hong Kong... new posting: Assistant Professor of mus tech/engineering, industry, etc. in the context of humanities, musicianship, and music education. (very high salary + expectations for publication)

@signal.org Seems the latest update (desktop) uses Chinese characters no matter the language selection? (in Hong Kong).

@tripperhead.bsky.social If you're giving tips on the Mainland Travel permit, I just went and was told that non-Chinese PR card holders must wear black or dark grey in their photo. He wrote "risk of photo" on my slip (was able to borrow a sweatshirt/retake, but it was inconvenient!).

You know I'm gen X—always keeping an eye out for band names.

Gotta be 80% money laundering... Just passed four storefronts in MongKok, 3 of which are claw machines. One mall near where I live is nearing 40% claw machines.