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It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.

When I moved to Japan, I bought a 5-year journal. Throughout 2022, I documented the process of settling in and learning the "bunka" and progressing in にほんご、visiting new ところ like "京都" ya 東京, soshite gengo wo manabu koto no kata. 2023年日記(にっき)に 何数のかんじが 現れたね。手書きが 着々な 変えた。2022年に これを 見たとえば 読んだことが できないだったと思います。

Theater students from Hawaii are set to stage a rare English-language kabuki production in June at a classic playhouse in Gifu Prefecture. japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/ #culture #stage #kabuki #hawaii #gifu

The intensifying scrutiny of Nippon Steel's bid to acquire U.S. Steel has called attention to the secretive interagency panel that could be the ultimate arbiter of the merger. japantimes.co.jp/business/2024 #business #companies #nipponsteel #ussteel #acquisitions #us #steel #steelmaker

Air&Space雑誌を読んでいたと。。。こん奴に知り合いましたがありますよ! @badastro だ!
(Perusing our newly arrived Air&Space, and excited to see a familiar author! It's the Bad[ass] Astronomer!)

Great shot of Saturn 土星 to catch one's eye.

月曜日に日食を見ました。今度は皆既食帯にいませんでしたけど、楽しかったです。

Getting cloudy here, but even so the feel of the light is changing. Shadows got sharper. An owl is hooting! Almost at max coverage here in Virginia. This was taken at 5X using my phonecam and eclipse glasses.

Though it frequently punches above my vocabulary and comprehension speed, is a terrific palate cleanser Netflix show that also offers some 日本語 practice.

The movie (Code: White) wasn't half bad for date night, either!

A new language theory just drops, courtesy of @ZachWeinersmith .

I, for one, regret the days where sticks cost two rocks.

smbc-comics.com/comic/llm-2

Strange morning. I tossed two cups into the bathtub, and it was already 二杯 (ni hai).

I suspect 2023 will go down as the year an entire nation received Dodgers ballcaps for Christmas.

2023。あの年では国の全民にクリスマスでドージェルス応援の帽子をもらえましたと信じます。

パンデミックの以外の時に日本語の練習してに実験をしていました、東京ディズニーシーでライドを年の一度でしています。
2019:「たのしくてが雑音だけ。」
2022:「じゃ、それを少し分かりましたよ。」
2023:「全分のライドを経験しました。」 

Halloween's a-comin', so here's something really scary: An asteroid that wasn't discovered until *after* it had already passed us.

(But we're working on a way to find these...)

Bonus: a classic but hard-to-find scifi doomsday movie you can watch online.

badastronomy.substack.com/p/wa

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