If the past few weeks had a tag-cloud, the word “lunch” would be somewhere near the top.
Made a small breakthrough with a complicated but annoying framework problem, which banked me some serious JFDI energy.
Encountered the best machine mistranslation, maybe, of all time which had me laughing for hours.
What’s the news? At the weekend met TPC for some excellent chicken (and TBH even better pork) at a place with a mahoosive queue, followed by a spot visit to a very special HUB. There I was given a scratch card, which won a me game of rock-paper-scissors against the house, and a chance to win the "A+" prize. My scissors trumped our bartender’s paper. What did I win? A cute whiskey tumbler: Quite chuffed.
With Pioneer DJ’s rebrand to AlphaTheta, they’ve brought new design language and products which look phenomenal. The OmnisDuo is so close to the entry-level XDJ I’ve spent years wishing for, that every way it falls short feels disappointing. Resigned to getting a FLX4 at this point.
We begin the long quest to getting a fibre line fitted.
I’m noticing a trend of bigger club nights having door fees approaching London prices. That’s OK for me: they don’t a great crowd. But it does beg the question: Given the discrepancy in average salaries between Tokyo and London, who exactly are these club nights for?