book
If "Disunited Nations" was my book of 2020 for my brain, "Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? [https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Merit-Whats-Become-Common/dp/0374289980/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tyranny+of+merit&qid=1609703215&sr=8-1] (Michael
book
During the last Thanksgiving break, I read "Disunited Nations, (Peter Zeihan / Harper Business)." On the verge of 2020, I think it is my (personal) book of the year. The central theme of the book is "geography shapes everything." I always had thought that geography is critical,
life
"Queen's Gambit" must be one of the most famous TV shows worldwide these days. I enjoyed it last Thanksgiving day, and I'm also the one fascinated by the show definitively. Spoiler alert: a little bit. At first, I cringed, as it was totally out
go
Two years ago, some engineers in my company had a study on the book "Hands-on Dependency Injection in Go." [https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Dependency-Injection-Go-maintain-ebook/dp/B07FSKBWVR/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=dependency+injection+in+go&qid=1606703396&sr=8-2] Overall, the book was
life
If I have to name one I hate most, I can give you a name without hesitation: Woo-Suk Hwang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk]. In 2005, he published in the journal of Science that he successfully cloned the human embryonic stem cell. He was called the "Pride
I love baseball. I’ve been a fan of SF Giants since 2008. I also got to love football (yes, American football) too last year. Last year, the 49ers made so many fantastic moments. I think those two have a similarity that “it ain’t over till it’s over.
life
Yesterday, I visited my dental clinic. It was a regular checkup, but I put off my appointments two times because I thought dental treatment could be the most dangerous activity in this pandemic era. I was still a bit afraid, but I thought the recent COVID-19 state is relatively stable
anime
Last week, there was a cool article from Vulture [https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html] about the history of the animation. In those 100 great moments, I believe I know the most from the Japanese anime. As I said before, watching animes has been a part of my life.
life
In late July, my daughter complained that her iPad - the first generation of 9.7 inch iPad Pro that I used before - was too slow. So... (you know) it was a perfect excuse for my upgrade. I turned my third-generation 2018 11 inch iPad Pro over to her
life
I love my AirPods Pro (who doesn't?), but there has been making rattling noises recently. It started several months ago. I heard a noise that something is trembling in my right side AirPod. It was not so severe then, but it has been getting worse. I found that
life
In the early 2010s, I used a service called Everpix. It was a cloud photo service that I could save my photos and view/manage them in any device. Nowadays, iCloud Photo or Google Photo is ubiquitous, but there was no one like that, and I loved the service.However,
game
The end of Ultima IVSo, I completed the Ultima IV last week. There is no pre-defined route in Ultima IV, but the requirement to enter the abyss - The Great Stygian Abyss - is as follows: * 1) Find all runes of 8 virtues. * 2) Get to know all mantras of
