A Funkaoshi Production

Interesting piece from Steven Zhou about what’s going on in Markham.

This guy is somehow a bigger dirt bag than his dirt bag brother.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs Recalls Memories of Her Famous Father. This might be a really good book. This excerpt is great.

A set of dice that have the following properties: 1) There will never be ties. 2) Each possible ordering of the players (determined by highest result, next highest result, etc) has a mathematically equal chance of occurring. 3) The above conditions hold for every subset of the whole set.

Quite the headline.

Disgusting behaviour. Unsurprising, sadly.

“In recent years, American culture has increasingly been following a playbook made in Japan.”

Over the weekend I saw a tweet, “Donald Glover is doing what Kanye thinks he’s doing.” Glover is really operating at a whole other level.

“Kanye West, a god in this time, awakened, recently, from a long public slumber to embrace Donald Trump.” Ta-Neshi Coates on Kanye’s return to the lime-light.

Six months ago, a parks official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades. Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City’s five boroughs late in the summer of 1978. No one had looked at them for 40 years.

I sometimes daydream about what it must be like to move around frictionless in this society. The closest I come to it is when I am abroad. But it must be amazing—so amazing that white people will call the National Guard to protect it at all costs.

This whole article is so quotable I don’t know where to start.

I picked up a switch before our trip to Australia to play on the plane. (Well, that was my excuse anyway.) When they announced this “game” I picked it up in the hopes I can use it to teach Mythilli programming. Let’s see!

I feel bad for people in stressful situations, but it’s also hard to sympathize with people stressed about buying million dollar houses in Oakville.

This is incredible.

Perhaps one of the most unexpected tags was during Mike’s father’s funeral. During the service, he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to find Joe mouthing, “You’re it.” Afterwards, he said his father would have approved, because he found our game hilarious.

What!

Easily my biggest inspiration when building this site. The site has really peaked again over the last year or two. If you’ve stopped reading you should check it out once again.

I tried to relax. I thought of the upcoming festival. I thought of how you can spend your whole life wanting something, just to freeze up when you finally get it. On this island, I was an obvious outsider; I clearly didn’t belong. Every (heavenly) bowl of ramen burnt the hell out of my throat. But I could ask a cop for directions and I knew he wouldn’t blow me away.

This article is amazing, and not what I expected it to be at all. A Black gay American writes about his travels in Japan.