I was measuring air pressure during Typhoon no. 12 this year and here is a graph of the air pressure change while the typhoon was passing Tokyo. It dropped from 993 hPa to 984 hPa. While not a huge drop, it's still notable for the rate of change.

Here the path. Tokyo is where the blue dot is. It's quite far away and we had not much wind.

https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9A043EF5DC61A9D5 is where my PGP public key can be found.

Why the sudden interest in PGP?

Basically it enables me to put my secret key on a Yubikey instead of a computer. They secret key is secured by a PIN which can only guessed x times (3 is default), then you have to use a PUK (3 times again), and then it's locked. Only a full reset will get it out of this and that will erase the private key too. That's way better than a passphrase secured private key file on a computer which can be cracked over time, though it might take a long time if the passphrase is a good one.

And the best: It works out-of-the-box with my Chromebook and the Secure Shell App via the Smart Card Connector! It also works on my Linux desktop with Chrome. Windows does not work though as the Smart Card Connector does not work as expected as the Chrome Smart Card Connector does not work on non-Linux.

The links to read (not in any particular order):

1. https://www.esev.com/blog/post/2015-01-pgp-ssh-key-on-yubikey-neo/
2. https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/HEAD/nassh/doc/hardware-keys.md
3. http://deferred.io/2017/08/03/yubikey4-gpg-ssh-u2f.html
4. http://www.engineerbetter.com/blog/yubikey-ssh/

While not trivial to set up, it's very rewarding to know to not have a private ssh key on an inherently insecure computer.

At Subway (the sandwich company) they got high speed ovens which toast bread in like 20 seconds. I always wondered what magic is inside to be that quick.Today I found out that you can even buy those ovens if you have a need for them. Like this one: https://www.turbochef.com/product/bullet/

And the magic they use: hot air as well as microwaves.

Before you think about buying one: it'll cost you about US$10k, and the Japanese version uses 200V and 30A (resp. 400V/16A for those in 230V countries).

OTC medicine is plenty available in Japan, but it's hard to match it to what you know in your home country. Reading Katakana helps a lot and having studied Chemistry too, but it would be so nice to get a nice English overview of various  Japanese OTC medicine.

Luckily someone did that: https://lifeabroad.jp/html/medical_health/otc.html

Of course do not take that web page as the definite truth and cross-check the ingredients and dosage.