Your Daily Dose of Fun and Fascination!
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Why Faces Get Bigger
‘If you look closely, the eyes, nose, and mouth don’t change much. It’s the edges of the face that expand. At first glance, you might think the features are becoming more central, but really, it’s the outer area that’s growing.’
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A Fleeting Goodbye
Released in 2001, ‘A Fleeting Goodbye’ by Lee Soo-young was penned by Yoon Jong-shin and composed by Park Yong-chan, a high school friend of Yoon Jong-shin. He also created classics like Sung Si-kyung’s ‘Hijae’ and Leeds’ ‘You Must Be Happy.’
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A Certain Couple: The Mom Duo
With wide eyes, she stares at him. Silence. He turns his head slightly, clears his throat, and continues his reasoning, but his voice lacks confidence and isn’t very convincing.
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Diary 2024-4-15
In this digital age, holding a pen feels awkward since we rarely write on paper. Suddenly, I worried about fountain pen and notebook factories going out of business due to digital dominance. But then I thought, “There are still people like me wasting ink and paper, so it’ll be fine.” 🖋️
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No More Encore Requests
A song like an object forgotten in a shared club locker, Broccoli, Etc.’s ‘No More Encore Requests’.
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A Nostalgic Sip of Spring with a Cup of Coffee
GET coffee… On the paper cup, it read ‘Purchasing this coffee helps protect the environment and agricultural communities.’ The frog mascot was pretty cute. The machine was surrounded by text boasting a complexity unlike any coffee I’d had before.
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The Rise of Members-Only Restaurants and Lost Values
A while back, I stumbled upon an article titled ‘Why New York Restaurants Are Going Members-Only’ on The New Yorker site. It shined a light on the rise of so-called ‘members-only’ restaurants in New York, which are notoriously hard for the general public to book.
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Diary 2024-3-9
Have you heard about the ‘Climate Companion Card’? At first, I thought it was some promotional credit card. What’s up with that name? Anyway, this card allows unlimited use of subways and buses during the recharge period – though only within Seoul.
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Thoughts on the Evolution of AI Claude3
While the quality of Claude 3 model is impressive, what really sparked interest was a feed by Alex, an Anthropic prompt engineer, posted on X. According to this feed, engineers tested Claude 3’s memory by inserting a random sentence in a lengthy document and asking it to find it.
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Life’s Rollercoaster of Ups and Downs
Yesterday, I lay in bed all day. I could bear the cough and a runny nose, but the headache was too much. Not being used to headaches, when I get one, I can’t do anything.
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