Quality trolling
The best rick roll I’ve seen yet – from Star Trek’s Inner Light episode.
The Queen’s Ball: Bridgerton Experience
Are you a fan of Bridgerton? Would you like a fancy dress-up night in 1800’s garb? Well! The Queen’s Ball Bridgerton Experience might be for you.
The Queen herself invites you to a once-in-a-lifetime evening of music and dance complete with acrobatic performances, interactive experiences, a stunning dance show, and plenty of surprises.
As guests at this delightful soirée, you will be transported to 1813 London to take part in the most coveted ball of the season. Prepare to mingle with other members of the Ton as you immerse yourself in an evening unlike any you have ever experienced before.
Enjoy a beautiful ballroom decorated in the Regency-era style, interact with actors dressed in exquisite period costumes, savor delicious cocktails, and listen to live music inspired by the iconic Bridgerton soundtrack.
Even more interesting, when you buy your ticket, you get a discount to local costume and clothing providers like Rent the Runway and Ponton costumes so you can fully dress the part.
Well done Zelda
Best Sushi in Tsukiji
When visiting Tokyo Tsukiji fish market, you should definitely try some of the freshest sushi in the world. But which spots should you check out?
- Maguroya Kurogin – amazing tuna bowls
- Yoshizawa – lots of great little tidbits to buy and eat – especially the Katsu and Wagyu Katsu.
This list from Savor Japan had 2 of my favorites, and the others seem like good recommendations too.
- Sushi Dai
- Tsukiji Itadori Uni Tora Naka-dori Branch
- Tsukiji Itadori Bekkan
- Tsukiji Tsunao
- Edomae Sushi Takewaka Annex
- Daiwa Sushi – The one is my hands-down favorite despite some saying Sushi Dai being slightly better since it was first of the two. It used to be right next door to Sushi Dai. Believe the two are father/son pairs with almost identical experience.
- Tsukiji Kiyomura Sushi Zanmai Main Branch
- Sushi Kuni
- Sushi Zanmai Bekkan
- Tsukiji Itadori Uogashi Senryo
- Tsukiji Sushicho Main Branch
- Tsukiji Itadori Ura Branch
- Tsukiji Kagura Sushi
- Tsukiji Sushi Sen 6-chome Jogai Shijo Branch
- Sushi Zanmai Honjin
teamLab Borderless walkthrough
One of the best 4k walkthroughs of the Tokyo installation from Feb 2022. It’s even more mind blowing in person if that seems possible.
Dark Matter
DARK MATTER is an artistic group that does some fascinating and high quality artistic motion and lighting installations.
Oregon Summer Fun
Fun stuff for this summer!
- Music on Main – starting on July 13th, Portland5 offers free outdoor concerts are held on Main Street next to Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall—between Southwest Broadway and Park Avenue in downtown Portland—and feature popular local musicians playing a diverse collection of music.
- Tigard Balloon festival – all agest/family friendly hot air balloon displays, crafts/vendors, and family friendly music.
- Portland Parks and Recreation Summer Free For All – family friendly concerts, movies, and events in the parks
- HareFest – Music festival that features tribute bans. From AC/DC to Tom Petty to Beastie Boys to Heart.
Art residencies and grants
It looks like ThisIsColossal regularly covers residencies, contests, and grants for creative and artistic creations.
Maybe you can even apply for a residency from Adobe.
Random number generators vs noise generators
Squirrel Eiserloh compares random number generators and noise functions. He does a great job summarizing the pros/cons of each and then shows how the noise functions can replace random number generators and then provide many other benefits (unordered access, better reseeding, record/playback, network loss tolerance, lock-free parallelization, etc) while often being smaller and faster than traditional random number generation.
Logarithmic Map of the Observable Universe
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I remember being blown as a kid when I learned that the further away you look in space – the further back in TIME you look. The furthest objects we have seen were actually objects that existed just a few million years after the big bang. We can actually see the history of our universe by simplying zooming further and further away.
So drink in this amazing look at our universe where distance is looking back in time.
