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content: Food in Kobe Modernark All vegetarian, mostly vegan, but many non-vegan desserts and drinks. Well labelled on the menu. I went here twice, once with a fairly big group of carnivores who were reasonably impressed or at least polite about it. It's open late which is a plus, has a nice atmosphere, and free wifi (you have to ask for the password, when I was there it was 88888888). They also sell some organic groceries, vegan cookies, etc. Food was delicious and portion sizes were reasonable. I tried the vegetarian plate (a selection of things), teriyaka wrap (contains wheat gluten and salad), and a curry and rice bowl. All dishes come with salads and soups. I also had a vegan lassi which was an unusual (but delicious) raspberry flavour, and coconut 'tiramisu' cake, which wasn't really like tiramisu, but was delicious anyway. Pricey in general, but average for the area. Natural House Food Court Tried to go here twice. The first time, though HappyCow says it's open until 2000, they told me they close at 1600. The grocery store part is open later, just not the restaurant. The second time I got there at about 1430 and they told me they'd sold out of curry. Oh well. Picked up some snacks from the store instead, which is extensive and healthy organic produce, though not cheap. Pink Weed All vegan, and proud. Loved this place, but maybe by this point the lack of options in Kobe was wearing on me. It's frustrating that it's only open for lunchtime. There's no wifi, but comfy seating and graphic novels and books to read. I went twice anyway and got a different lunch set each time. The curry was excellent, and more filling than it looked. The sandwich was interesting, I'm not sure what was in it, but it did the job. Accompanying salads and soups were great. I tried cheesecake and poundcake, and chai and iced black tea. Again, pricey in general but normal for this kind of place. It's also about a 15 minute walk from Sannomiya station, which is handy. Follow the trainline west (mou…
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published: 2016-11-04T18:06:00+09:00
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content: Face swelling is even worse today. Dave says I looke like a hamster.
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published: 2016-11-06T12:13:00+09:00
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https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/11/583e238fceabe
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content: A solid effort this time, but Delta might want to revise their 'vegan' sides. Dairy butter is common in my flight experience so far, and dressing not uncommon, but like the regular meals didn't even come with a random piece of cheese. Special treatment.
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published: 2016-11-30T09:00:00+09:00
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published: 2016-11-10T14:03:50+00:00
summary: Amy added 'Transparent peer review one year on : Nature Communications' to Bookmarks
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published: 2016-11-17T12:16:12+00:00
summary: Amy added 'Benefits of Publishing Your Work Open Access: Debunking Myths' to Bookmarks
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published: 2016-11-27T10:34:30+00:00
summary: Amy added 'publications - Why are most scientific articles locked behind a paywall? - Academia Stack Exchange' to Bookmarks
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summary: Amy added 'Visual feedback tool for web professionals. Add sticky notes to any element on any webpage. | Juntoo' to Bookmarks
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published: 2016-11-08T13:01:36+00:00
summary: Amy added 'Welcome to Recogito' to Bookmarks
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published: 2016-11-22T14:43:58+00:00
summary: Amy added 'Discuto Home | Discuto' to Bookmarks
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content: Chocolate coconut cakes
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published: 2016-11-24T18:35:59-05:00
summary: Amy added 4 photos to https://i.amy.gy/madefood/
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anonymous-cowards
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content: How do I know the reviewers are experts? I don't know who they are. I know the context and background of my facebook friends, I can critically interpret their replies. The reviewers are anonymous. They're people who had some time, just barely, probably during a commute or on the toilet. Or who owed someone a favour. I've reviewed papers, usually having been asked to by the person who was supposed to be reviewing, about topics I barely know. I think: "it's okay, the other reviewers will swing it if I'm wrong." ...
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name: Why is three positive conference reviews more reassuring than one thousand facebook comments?
published: 2016-11-04T16:02:00+0900
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canaries
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content: @KKjernsmo Yes, with those canaries explicitly not being vulnerable minorities.
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published: 2016-11-21T14:39:00-05:00
summary: Amy wrote about decentralisation, & socialwg
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commune246
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content: Working from Commune246 today, a cute hippie food court nestled in what appears to be a pretty upscale neighbourhood in Omotesando. It has vegan food, coffee, wifi, power (courtesy of Wired) indoor and outdoor seating with lots of laptop/notebook space, and a much better playlist than most public places in Japan.
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published: 2016-11-08T13:42:00+09:00
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decentralisation-considered-harmful
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content: As I work - on writing standards, writing code, studying centralised and decentralised systems - and as I read the news and watch events unfold around me, bubbling away under the surface is always an unease. What if we're making it worse? We all have blind spots, limited experiences. And especially so since many of us working on decentralisting the Web are not amongst those who would benefit most from the purported advantages. Some of us have been working (or watching) in this space for years, decades, longer than the Web. But more of us, an only ever increasing number, have not. We are privileged, we are nerds, most of us don't have all that much experience, and we do not know best. We've jumped on this decentralisation thing as a solution to lots of global problems. Towards the end of last week, Tantek prompted me to actually articulate some of what were previously just subconscious discomfort. How are the decentralised technologies we're working on going to make people more vulnerable? Smaller attack surfaces: Large centralised systems have robust network architectures; lots of money and expertise to keep things running even if under attack (except when someone uses all of the Web-enabled kettles to DDOS them, but that aside). Many decentralised architectures imagine smaller 'pods' which federate. It's possible many of these servers will be run by volunteers, hobbyists, or small/poor organisations, and could be easily knocked over and kept down by malicious actors. Quieter takedowns: We want it to be easier for small communities, perhaps vulnerable minorities, to create safe spaces in their own corner of the Web, and to be able to keep out those who jeopardise that. If these communities are 'disappeared' (perhaps made easier by the previous point) the rest of the Web might not notice until it's too late. Illusion of control: We promote decentralisation as a way to control who has access to your personal/social data, and to be able to move it somewhere else if you…
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name: Decentralisation considered harmful
published: 2016-11-21T14:20:00-05:00
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updated: 2016-11-21T14:20:00-05:00

decentralising-social-tokyo
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content: This is what I talked about at the W3C TAG developer summit in Tokyo tonight. 東京で2016年11月3日にて開催されたW3C TAGデベロッパー・サミットにて話した内容となります。 I am one of the staff contacts for the W3C Social Web WG. I also co-edit a couple of specs in the group, and procrastinate from finishing my PhD thesis by implementing the group's specs as part of my own website. まずは自己紹介から、 W3C Social Webワーキンググループのコンタクトを務めています。また、そのワーキンググループにていくつかの仕様についても共同編集者をしてたりもします。そのグループの仕様を自分のサイトへの実装がPhDの論文がなかなか終わらない理由だったりします。 I'm a strong believer in owning your online presence and social data on the Web. What this means (to me) is: making data accessible through a URL that you have authority over - either you own it and host it yourself, or someone you trust does. It also means having control and choice over how and when you express yourself; working against censorship and being free to share as much - or as little - about yourself as you want. This is particularly important when we think about a how social networking works today. Big systems like twitter and facebook - silos - are hoarding the data, and creative, expressive content, and livelihoods, of millions of people. And they're mining it and using it in ways that most people are completely unaware of. If twitter goes down tomorrow - and it could, they just shut down Vine - what happens to your history and interactions? We have this huge hoard of collective digital history that we, as societies, have aggregated over the last decade, and we just gave it right up. The culture of a generation is completely out of the hands of the people who created it, and who it's important to. This could disappear at the whim of an investor, or a glitch in a data center. 私は自分自身のオンラインにおけるプレゼンスとソーシャル・データを所有することについて、強い信念を持っています。(自分にとって)どういう意味を持つか、というと、自分がオーソリティを持っている(たとえば自分自身が所有しているか、あるいは自分が信頼する誰かが所有しているような)URLからデータをアクセス可能にすることを意味します。また同じく自分自身がどう表現させるかについて制御したり、選択したりできることも含んでいます。検閲から逃れたり、自分自身のことをどれだけでも多く、もちろん少なくでも自由に共有できることも大切です。 現在ソーシャルネットワークサービスを鑑みると、非常に重要なことだと考えています。TwitterやF…
generator: sloph
name: Decentralising the Social Web in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-02T19:28:00+09:00
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deep-fried-soy
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content: One of the things I've loved at vegan restaurants in Japan is deep fried soy meat. Most have it, and meat-eaters I've dined with have compared it favourably to fried chicken or other meat. It's crunchy and juicy and just really super satisfying. So naturally I decided to make my own. As usual, the following image sums up my cooking style: And as usual, I googled it a bit, skimmed a couple of articles or recipes, and then closed everything and jumped in working on Web-refreshed instincts. Well, first I went to Seiyu and bought soy meat (obviously) and katakuriko, a potato starch that I'd read was much better than using normal wheat flour. I found it by screenshotting a google image search result and searching the supermarket to match the kanji on packaging. In case you were interested. I marinated the soy meat in soy sauce, ginger paste, garlic paste, and sesame oil for about 20 minutes. I deep fried some potatoes in the mean time, because I read somewhere you are supposed to fry vegetables before using the oil for meat or something. Also because I love fried potato. Then I rolled the soy meat in the katakuriko until it had a thin coating. Then I deep fried it. Success! This was delicious. The chunks weren't as big as the ones I've had in restaurants, but that's all Seiyu have. It was so good I'd already eaten half before it even occurred to me to reach for the mayonnaiase. While I was at it, I did the same with some thin slices of konnyaku. Also successful, though not quiet as delicious. I think I should have probably made an effort to make a thick, consistent coating of flour.
generator: sloph
name: Deep fried soy meat
published: 2016-11-11T20:00:00+09:00
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dentist-tokyo
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content: aka. The Tooth Hurts aka Visting a dentist as a foreigner in Tokyo, Japan, since I need a more SEO friendly header After minor face explosion due to wisdom teeth over the weekend, I eventually decided I should go see a dentist rather than try to wait it out until after my upcoming trip to the US. I am extremely thankful to Mike and Nao for taking me to their local dentist, and translating forms and conversation for me. It's nice to have W3C family all over the world :) We dropped by about 3.30 in the afternoon, without calling ahead, and I was seen within about five minutes, after filling in (or mostly, as it was all in Japanese, Nao filling in) a form. They estimated the prices upfront (without being asked) and to check that I was okay with it, promising for sure less than 10,000 JPY. This is about what I expected following extensive googling yesterday. First was an xray. The xray machine played like 8bit elevator music, and I had to stop myself from laughing. Then some waiting around, and then I was seated in a dentist chair. Then more waiting around. Everything seemed to happen at a very leisurely pace, but staff were friendly and smiley and chatty (in Japanese). The dentist talked to Nao for ages while I was in the chair, and Nao periodically gave me one-sentence summaries. I was reminded of the "moar... intensity" scene in Lost in Translation, and again had to stop myself from giggling. The xray was produced, and I got a detailed explanation of everything wrong with my wisdom teeth. My left side is infected right now, but the right side is just as at risk. The dentist noted that were she to be removing them, she'd take the top ones first. She showed me the best angle at which to clean the emerging tooth, and put some gel on it. She produced antibiotics and very strong painkillers. Yay! And if I'm still in pain on Thursday, I'm to go back. This came to 7,790 JPY - less than expected, though not something I had budgeted for. I'm going to see if I can claim any of…
generator: sloph
name: An Inconvenient Tooth
published: 2016-11-07T18:03:00+09:00
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tag: health
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every-single
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content: Every single church, school, town/village hall, community center, library, any public space you can think of, probably public toilets, are polling stations in the UK. I'd walk past ten on my way to the office. I guess the US is like really big and far apart and everything, but something just seems really badly organised.
generator: sloph
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published: 2016-11-07T10:26:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about life, & politics
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follow-the-song
type: Note
content: Follow the song, whither you will, yet force is wrong. Use none, or the song will bring you ill.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-30T12:51:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
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gyoza
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content: J taught me to make gyoza today. We even found soy meat in Seiyu (Walmart/Asda). The gyoza wrappers are on the top shelf in a fridge full of packaged meat. It never would have occurred to me to look for them there. The soy meat was not dry, but in a packet of liquid, and needed draining. All of the vegetables get finely chopped and mixed together, plus ginger paste, garlic paste, and sesame oil. Add filling to skin, wet around the edges, fold, squeeze, crimp. Ta da! And fry. And dip! In a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, and chilli oil. Delicious!
generator: sloph
name: Gyoza
published: 2016-11-05T22:31:00+09:00
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had-plan
type: Note
content: So I had this plan of going somewhere cheap and warm for the winter. Then I went to Japan for a month and after that Boston for two weeks. Both of those places are very expensive and fucking freezing. Must try harder. *shivers*
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-02T10:30:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about travel, & weather
tag: travel
tag: weather

how-to-be
type: Note
content: This is not the only way to be.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-04T14:30:00+0900
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: life

im
type: Note
content: Twitter DM is no longer an immediate way to reach me. Made space for Signal. Ping me on Telegram (rhiaro) or IRC (rhiaro on Freenode and imaginarynet.org.uk) for my mobile number.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-12T20:53:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about twitter, life, contact, & irc
tag: contact
tag: im
tag: irc
tag: life
tag: signal
tag: telegram
tag: twitter

just-getting
type: Note
content: I was just getting the hang of Japan, but now I have to leave :(
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-14T12:05:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about japan, & travel
tag: japan
tag: travel

living-vicariously
type: Note
content: Living vicariously through Google Streetview.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-07T13:13:13+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: travel

maybe-problems
type: Note
content: Maybe having all of the deeply ingrained social bullshit laid out in plain sight, rather than quietly affecting things from under the surface, will make it easier to deal with. or maybe we'll see the end of our species in our lifetime, who knows
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-09T23:59:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about politics, & life
tag: life
tag: politics

mute-elections
type: Note
content: Might just mute everyone who tweets about politics for a while. Or maybe just closing twitter would be less work..
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-12T20:29:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about twitter, & life
tag: life
tag: twitter

never-wait-vote
type: Note
content: I have never had to wait more than like five minutes to vote in a general election. This queuing for hours thing in the US is insane.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-07T10:12:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about life, & politics
tag: life
tag: politics
tag: voting

oh-app
type: Note
content: Overhearing a guy explaining his app/startup to some people... the pitch is that the more time people spend getting 'sucked in' to online interactions on social media the less they manage to do offline meetings and stuff, and people want more of that. SO GUESS WHAT. THEY SOLVED IT WITH AN APP. lol. Oh but ugh, the next thing he says (which sounds like the reason for this meeting) is that they want to start using all the information they are collecting on people for something. Oh I want so badly to sidle over and ask him about his ethics but I'm not going to. OH GOD his "primary mission" is to "get into political stuff" :'(
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-15T11:18:00-05:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: surveillence
tag: tech

opened-dreamhost
type: Note
content: I opened DreamHost's email newsletter to unsubscribe, but then I saw this: Well played.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-01T14:27:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about DreamHost, politics, & email
tag: dreamhost
tag: email
tag: politics

psa-pb
type: Note
content: Public Service Announcement: This is not peanut butter. Neither is Skippy. Get it together Japan.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-06T22:07:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about peanut butter, japan, & food
tag: food
tag: japan
tag: peanut+butter

publishing-all
type: Note
content: Current status:
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-02T12:31:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about current status, socialwg, & w3c
tag: current+status
tag: socialwg
tag: w3c

socialwg8-summary
type: Article
content: This post is my own opinion, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of the Social Web WG! We met at MIT in Cambridge, MA, on the 17th and 18th of November. See also day 1 minutes and day 2 minutes. tl;dr Everything is progressing. Naming things is hard. We need your implementations please or features may be dropped from some specs. We hope to extend by 6 months, not so we all make more work to do, but just so that the newest spec has time to make it to rec given process timing requirements. We're transitioning any other work into a CG. Community Group The Social Web Incubator Community Group, should be pronounced swi-kig, but by the end of the meeting everyone had taken to calling it swish. I think it was Evan's fault. Anyway it's live, and is where we'll continue to develop on top of the things we started in the WG, as well as think about how to tackle things we haven't got to yet. Aaron and Chris are chairing it, and plan for discussion to take place primarily on github and IRC, with mailing lists for broadcast only. You should join. The spec formally known as PubSubHubbub At the last face-to-face we renamed PubSubHubbub to PubSub. We subsequently realised this is too generic a term for quite a specific spec, and as a result is hard to search the Web for, and hard to find/name libraries and packages for. Renaming it again took the better part of a month. Heh. A few weeks ago we developed a fairly long shortlist on the wiki, listing pros and cons, and a few people voted and left their rationale. On day one of this face-to-face, we ruled out every single one of those suggestions, and came up with three new ones (WebSub, WebFollow and WebSubscribe). We slept on it, and just before lunch of day 2, voted between these three. WebSub won. I like it for its closeness to PubSub; WebFollow is a good name for a user-facing feature that implements the WebSub protocol. Then we proceeded to brainstorm more names in the google doc, progressively making the font smaller a…
generator: sloph
name: 8th Social WG F2F Summary
published: 2016-11-24T20:49:00-05:00
tag: http://csarven.ca/#i
tag: aaronpk.com
tag: dustycloud.org
tag: aaronpk
tag: activitypub
tag: activitystreams
tag: as2
tag: csarven
tag: cwebber
tag: evanpro
tag: julien
tag: ldn
tag: micropub
tag: phd
tag: pubsub
tag: pubsubhubbub
tag: sandro
tag: social+web+protocols
tag: social+web
tag: socialwg
tag: standards
tag: swicg
tag: tantek
tag: w3c
tag: websub

some-questions
type: Article
content: How do we get people to mistrust the media? How do we get people to take context into account? Are food bloggers the bane of professional chefs? How do I prove I know what I'm talking about? How do I know I know what I'm talking about? Why would anyone care what I think? Should I publish it anyway? Why is three positive conference reviews more reassuring than one thousand facebook comments? What will I do when the Web runs out? What comes after? Where can I hide?
generator: sloph
name: Some questions
published: 2016-11-04T15:53:00+0900
tag: existentialism
tag: life
tag: politics
tag: publishing
tag: web

the-virtue-of-paywalls
type: Article
content: Gatekeepers are required in academic publishing to enforce quality, coherance and to lend authority. When anyone can publish anything, as is the case on the Web today, lies and misinformation spread much faster than the truth. People publish opinions as facts, distorted interpretations of data, make general statements based on samples and take things out of context. Academia is better than this. We value scientific rigour. We value evidence for claims, and repeatability of experiments. Nothing is more important to us than seeking the truth, whole and unbiased. Except tenure or grant funding. People all over the world write about their experiences, but these are anecdotal. If I want to understand a topic, I read about it in an established journal or conference proceedings. I can tell it's reliable because I have to log in from behind my institution's IP address to access it. It's great that the taxpayers generously cover the cost for me to access material that most of them can't. Not that they want to. The general public, and even our world leaders, are skeptical of 'experts'. Despite the fact that we have devoted our lives to specialising in one topic so we can understand it to its fullest, so that others don't have to. They deried us as 'out of touch'. Meanwhile continuing to proliferate their gut feelings on social media, spreading nonsense, missing nuance. It's a good job we can rely on our trusty paywalls to keep the real knowledge separate from all of that.
generator: sloph
name: The Virtue of Paywalls
published: 2016-11-04T16:37:00+09:00
tag: academia
tag: linked+research
tag: open+access
tag: paywalls
tag: publishing

til-buckwheat
type: Note
content: Today I learned buckwheat is nothing to do with wheat (via being told soba is not made from wheat).
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-12T10:03:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about japan, food, & noodles
tag: food
tag: japan
tag: noodles

vegan-in-tokyo
type: Article
content: Being vegan in Japan is this emotional rollercoaster, being stuck between the two extremes of hunger-weighted frustration that there's nothing to eat, and wallet-weighted frustration that there are too many good things all in one place all at the same time, which are all really expensive. Groceries A lot of Japanese food is vegan by default, including loads of desserts made from rice (mochi!), tofu, or agar agar. A lot is mostly vegan. In the latter case, restaurants either can't or won't substitute ingredients upon request, if they understand what you're asking. Plus things that look vegan probably have secret fish in. Similarly, grocery shopping is fine; buying staples is easy. But there are loads of super interesting looking unfamiliar things that I want to eat but I don't know what they are... they're probably soy, or vegetable, or seaweed, or bean... but I can't be sure. I carried around a list of all the kanji I needed to look for to read ingredients lists, but this is exhausting enough in English. First I googled the problem, and found pictures of things that the internet said are definitely vegan, and hunted some of those down. This includes this brand of soy milk, and these azduki bean ice creams: // Todo photos Then I obtained the services of my brother's Japanese girlfriend, J, and took her grocery shopping so I could point at things and ask what they are. I got all sorts of treats (descriptions on hover): <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161101_144158.jpg" alt="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." title="Flavoured savoury silken tofu. This one is mushroom and pine. I also tried edamame. I tried spreading it on bread, but J told me it is to be eaten with a spoon, with soy sauce." /> <img class="w1of2" src="https://i.amy.gy/2016tokyo/IMG_20161105_123040.jpg" alt="Soy meat. In Seiyu, it comes in…
generator: sloph
name: Vegan in Tokyo
published: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/fujisawa
tag: ain+soph
tag: cafe6bt
tag: food
tag: happycow
tag: japan
tag: justgo
tag: kamakura
tag: kerela+bhuvan
tag: tokyo
tag: vegan
tag: veganic
updated: 2016-11-20T14:28:00+09:00

w3c-keio
type: Note
content: Today I'm working from the W3C office at Keio University.
generator: sloph
location: Keio University
published: 2016-11-10T11:27:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about Tokyo, Japan, phd, & w3c
tag: keio
tag: phd
tag: tokyo
tag: w3c

week-in-review-1
type: Article
content: Copypasted results from #ownYourData paper into thesis chapter 3, and edited and added to other bits already in chapter 3. Helped transition LDN to CR and Webmention to PR. Published two WD updates to Social Web Protocols. Went to an Onsen. Learnt to count to ten in Japanese whilst waiting for the bus. Only the basic numbers though. There are whole different sets of words if you're counting something specific like people or things. Obviously. Gave a lightning talk at the W3C TAG Developer Meetup about some of the work the Social Web WG is doing. Fixed my homepage AS2 output (it's still not perfect, but it had disappeared completely for a while). Learnt to make gyoza.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 31 Oct - 6 Nov
published: 2016-11-06T23:59:00+09:00
tag: japan
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Went to a Japanese dentist Outlined chapter 5 of thesis Started to make chapter 1 (intro) make more sense. Fixed more sloph bugs. Went to Kamakura to see temples and statues and stuff. Existed through the potential beginning of the end of the western world as we know it. Worked from the W3C office at Keio University Added ActivityPub terms to the AS2 namespace and made the human readable version. Went to Kawagoe with Dave and J, ate lots of sweet-potato based foods.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 7 - 13 Nov
published: 2016-11-13T23:59:59+09:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel
tag: japan
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: socialwg
tag: w3c
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Went back to Boston. Bummed around feeling generally unhappy about being the US. Hung around at the very small pre-SocialWG IWC. Caught up on blog posts and logs, didn't actually code anything. Social WG 8th face-to-face. Saw Arrival. Subsisted almost entirely on leftovers from the working group meeting. Went looking for a coffeeshop to work from, and accidentally ended up touring the USS Constitution.
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 14 - 20 Nov
published: 2016-11-20T23:59:59-05:00
tag: boston
tag: mit
tag: socialwg
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Continued to bum around feeling unhappy. Even though there are lots of wonderful people here whom I will miss enormously, I'm still itching to leave. I dropped in on a DIG meeting. Afterwards, talked to Timbl about decentralisation and the future (or not?) of the Web; and listened to an interesting chat between Sandro and David Karger. I had dinner at the new Cornish Pasty Co place with Liz and Beth. I skipped out on the final W3C lunch because I was feeling crappy, but wish I hadn't. I did manage to run into Amy vdH, Wendy, Philippe, Dmitri, DanF, Nicola, and others, before the end of the week (which came early due to Thanksgiving) though. I joined Ilaria's PhD student research group meeting, and ate Ilaria's delicious homemade risotto. I had my PhD review meeting. Could have been better. I need a better idea of what my final conclusion is, and how to evaluate it. I had dinner and very interesting conversation with John Klensin at Zhu. Watched rather a lot of Voyager, Scandal, and Black Mirror. Hiked in the Blue Hills Reservation. Saw Doctor Strange Read some papers..
generator: sloph
name: Week in review: 21 - 27 Nov
published: 2016-11-27T11:59:59-05:00
tag: boston
tag: klensin
tag: phd
tag: w3c
tag: week+in+review

wisdom-teeth
type: Note
content: My wisdom teeth are going all 2016 on me. My face is swollen.
generator: sloph
published: 2016-11-05T22:05:00+09:00
summary: Amy wrote about something
tag: life
tag: pain