[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":289},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish":3,"recent-posts-english":28},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":17,"extension":20,"meta":21,"navigation":23,"path":24,"seo":25,"stem":26,"__hash__":27},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish.md","English",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":16},"minimark",[9,13],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"english",[14,15],"post-list",{"language":12},{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":19},"",2,[],"md",{"show":22},false,true,"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish",{"title":5,"description":17},"3.posts\u002Fenglish","4WztaAo5rbU-oKys06uTdMnHrpa5OoX_t77NGPNhFrk",[29,59,79,117,181],{"id":30,"title":31,"body":32,"description":37,"extension":20,"meta":46,"navigation":23,"path":55,"seo":56,"stem":57,"__hash__":58},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fkeeping-fingers-moving.md","Trying to keep those fingers moving",{"type":7,"value":33,"toc":44},[34,38,41],[35,36,37],"p",{},"I am finding myself inventing reasons to not write things on this site, which\nis crazy given that I spend a decent chunk of money keeping the thing on the\nInternet, and then recently put a bunch of systems to make it easier to release\nchanges and mind dump the usual level of stupid thoughts on this damn page.",[35,39,40],{},"I do, though, find it somewhat relieving to have this as my release valve. In\na world where someone is only willing to give you something if you will open\nyourself to exploitation, it is really nice to just have something simple and\npure, in my own little section of the universe, where all I need to worry about\nis my inability to come up with something interesting to talk about. As I\nconstruct sentence after sentence, I can feel that this can be whatever I make it,\nand that the only barrier to my writing is me is, initially, a burden but,\nultimately, is what helps make this process feel so useful to me.",[35,42,43],{},"I can't wait to spend significantly more time away from home so that I feel\nlike I have some experiences and insight that are more worthy of my words\nthan I have now. There are only so many interesting things to talk about at\nhome, and most of them are board games. Maybe I can bring myself to talk at\nlength about the games I have played and my thoughts on them one day, but\nI get so much enjoyment out of doing it and much less enjoyment about talking\nabout them, so let's see how we go.",{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":45},[],{"author":47,"date":49,"lastmod":50,"tags":51,"categories":53,"type":54,"draft":22},[48],"Jarrod Moore","2021-09-23T23:31:00+10:00","2021-09-23T23:32:21+10:00",[52],"personal",[12],"post","\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fkeeping-fingers-moving",{"title":31,"description":37},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fkeeping-fingers-moving","RGJkTbz6f3s9cvybVY6fYTIDZflRf7sz9y11Tiq8-I8",{"id":60,"title":61,"body":62,"description":66,"extension":20,"meta":69,"navigation":23,"path":75,"seo":76,"stem":77,"__hash__":78},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fworld-domination.md","Another step towards world domination",{"type":7,"value":63,"toc":67},[64],[35,65,66],{},"After a solid billion years of considering having this site be automatically deployed,\nI have finally put the minimum amount of effort in and have now got site updates to\nautomatically roll out through CI\u002FCD. Of course, the actual hard part of updating\nthis site is actually writing content and gathering motivation to actually mind dump\nsomething of value to the org file in which all of my articles are written, but at\nleast I can safely say that a lack of updates certainly won't be because I have to\nrun a make target to actually push the changes out!",{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":68},[],{"author":70,"date":71,"lastmod":72,"tags":73,"categories":74,"type":54,"draft":22},[48],"2021-09-22T00:26:00+10:00","2021-09-22T00:41:07+10:00",[52],[12],"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fworld-domination",{"title":61,"description":66},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fworld-domination","NYXiwF7ZMjdQzYHW8-jc_esKjtyX9lm2MCAsyobXHvY",{"id":80,"title":81,"body":82,"description":86,"extension":20,"meta":107,"navigation":23,"path":113,"seo":114,"stem":115,"__hash__":116},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fthe-enemy-of-perfect-is-good.md","The enemy of perfect is good",{"type":7,"value":83,"toc":105},[84,87,90,93,96,99,102],[35,85,86],{},"A few years ago I put this site together and had this dream that, when I have everything\nset up just right, I can just open up Emacs and type some stuff into a window and hit a button\nand everything would just work. It was a time when I imagined that I would spend a small fortune\nhaving a DigitalOcean Kubernetes setup because why not and everything would be just like I would\nif it was a setup for work.",[35,88,89],{},"What actually happened is that I did nothing with the site for a few years and then I had to\nspend hours yesterday remembering exactly how I had everything put together.",[35,91,92],{},"Admittedly, the setup actually worked fine for the most part and a lot of my confusion was due\nto me being too lazy to clean the previous Octopress-based setup from my blog repo (now this is\nrunning Hugo generated from org-mode). Barring that, now that I shook off those cobwebs, I can\nactually update this with a refreshing level of ease.",[35,94,95],{},"I often fear chatting with old friends, not because I fear them in any way, but the average person\nthese days is completely incapable of carrying a conversation, and the situation of meeting someone\nyou haven't seen for ages just so easily leads someone who is asked \"So how have you been?\" to respond\nwith \"I've been fine\" and just walk away. So when you wonder what I have been doing for the past three\nyears, let's just skip the question entirely and acknowledge that everyone has had a dreadful\n2020 and 2021.",[35,97,98],{},"Let's all agree that everyone has been busy and wished that they could have been out living their\nbest life and that the conversations as we all start meeting up again will be boring and tiring. No, I\nwill not talk about your children that I don't care about - I still don't care about them now just like\nI didn't before because they still aren't mine - and I won't spend hours talking about the virus either\nbecause, quite frankly, I am sick of talking about it.",[35,100,101],{},"So let's be the sort of people that cool people want to talk with. No, not \"cool\" like getting trolleyed\non a Saturday. I mean cool like people who read interesting literature or someone who picked up a new\nhobby. Tell me about that woodworking project or how you reimplemented an Apple II using a pipe cleaner\nand an orange peel.",[35,103,104],{},"Let's be cool.",{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":106},[],{"author":108,"date":109,"lastmod":110,"tags":111,"categories":112,"type":54,"draft":22},[48],"2021-06-16T23:53:00+10:00","2021-06-17T10:20:27+10:00",[52],[12],"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fthe-enemy-of-perfect-is-good",{"title":81,"description":86},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fthe-enemy-of-perfect-is-good","F5XdEUAQgYbepePKSY6PXjMqhHplXD5-nC2r_H3mRuY",{"id":118,"title":119,"body":120,"description":124,"extension":20,"meta":170,"navigation":23,"path":177,"seo":178,"stem":179,"__hash__":180},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fone-country-down-one-to-go.md","One country down, one to go",{"type":7,"value":121,"toc":165},[122,125,130,133,136,139,142,146,149,152,155,158,162],[35,123,124],{},"As I write this, I am in a cafe in Japan having a cheeky French press coffee in a swanky cafe in Tokyo. I\nfeel like I am not in place without a flat cap and loafers, but I'm enjoying relaxing here and thought its\nwould be a good time to reflect and appreciate the wonderful time that I had in Korea. In my last post, I\ncovered my time in Incheon and Seoul. I went to two more cities, and looking back on the trip I had a really\ngreat time in Korea. There were difficulties and the trip was very different to my usual trips as most of it\nwas unplanned and ad hoc, but I went to Korea with the aim of meeting up with my three close Korean friends,\nand I was able to do that, so the trip for me was a resounding success.",[126,127,129],"h2",{"id":128},"suwon-suwon","Suwon {#suwon}",[35,131,132],{},"After leaving Seoul, the next stop on my journey was Suwon. This was actually an unplanned stay since I was\nexpecting to stay at a friend's house at that time, but the friend's unexpected sickness caused my plans to\ngo out the window. All is well now, but there was a hectic time trying to put together a few days of my\nholiday on short notice. A bit like golf, though, it doesn't matter so much what path I took to having a good\ntime but more important that I was just having fun, and Suwon was a refreshing change from the big city life\nin Seoul.",[35,134,135],{},"Cherry blossoms in Japan had already come into bloom while I was in Korea, so I was a bit worried that I\nwould not be able to see during my trip.. While walking around Suwon, though, I found a place jam packed with\ncherry blossom trees, and so this crisis was completely averted. Booyah!",[35,137,138],{},"I also met someone in Suwon who was a bit of an interesting character. Apparently she eats donuts 10 at a time\nand can have 6 meals a day, and yet she is so skinny! Oh, life did feel so unfair, but it was nice to meet\nsomeone nice and fun to talk with, and it made me feel like most of the people that I talk with online are surely\nnice people, but not really fun for me to talk with. I had always had this feeling of guilt that maybe I was\ntoo picky when it came to choosing who to converse with, but as I get older and have more experiences like\nthis, I feel like maybe I am actually not picky enough.",[35,140,141],{},"I also made sure to stick to Korean food in Suwon, and had more than a few experiences where I would see\nsome dishes on a restaurant window that I knew and felt comfortable that I would not die of spice overload,\nbut when I actually got in the restaurant would not be able to find the dishes on the menu. Things quickly\ndevolved to choosing whatever wasn't red, which was a bit of a shame but also a good chance to ensure\nthat I was experiencing new things.",[126,143,145],{"id":144},"yongin-yongin","Yongin {#yongin}",[35,147,148],{},"I remember almost 10 years ago, about the time that I started studying Japanese, that I had a very close\nJapanese friend who I did Skype video chats with on a very regular basis. In fact, I did video chats with\nboth her and her boyfriend, and it was really wonderful. When I went to Japan on holiday, I stayed at\ntheir house. I felt like this experience was so valuable because it was a chance to see what\nreal Japanese life was like. I thought that it was so interesting to see what things like grocery shopping\nand mundane things like that were like to see how these things differed to how they are done in Australia.\nI have lost touch with these friends, and while it is a great source of sadness that we lost touch, I always\nlook back on that time as very important in solidifying my interest in Japan and Japanese culture.",[35,150,151],{},"So the next stop on the journey was Yongin, and it was here that I stayed at my close friend's house. I was\nso looking forward to this part of the trip because to me it wasn't just a chance to see my great friend,\nbut it also represented a chance to really get to understand what Korean life is like. While I expected\nthat Korean houses would have some high-tech elements in them, I have to say that I was amazed by some\nof what I saw, even if they do seem somewhat straightforward in hindsight.",[35,153,154],{},"The apartment building has an underground parking area, and when you drive to the entrance the boom gate\nwill detect whether the car belongs to a tenant or not, and will only let people living in the building\ninto the parking lot. We have places in Australia that do metered parking by reading the car's registration\ninfo from the car, but I have never seen it used to regulate entry into a private parking lot before. You\nalso don't have any key lock on your front door - you type a PIN into a number pad on the front door to\nunlock the front door. I found that pretty crazy, but apparently it is quite common over there.",[35,156,157],{},"We went out to a traditional Korean folk village area and to an old Buddhist temple, which was not too far\naway and was really nice to see. The surprising highlight of my stay in Yongin was the lime juice served\nin an army soup restaurant about 10 minutes walk from the apartment. I ended up drinking two jugs of it and\ngave myself a bit of a stomach ache in the process, but the lime juice was seriously amazing. It probably\nsounds like just normal juice but it so good. I also realised that drinking Korean rice wine and beer\ntogether is not the best idea if you want to have a comfortable time the next day. Ah well, you live\nand learn.",[126,159,161],{"id":160},"japan-time-japan-time","Japan time {#japan-time}",[35,163,164],{},"I got to Japan yesterday evening after a pretty rough trip to the airport. I am also not really good at\nhandling turbulence and it seems like every time I fly into Tokyo I have to put up with five minutes of\ncocktail glass-like shaking. Anyway, it was worth it in the end because I went out on the town yesterday\nand got my Japanese drinking on. I'll touch base again when I have more time but it's going to be a fun\nweek ahead. In particular, I'm really looking forward to my stay in Sendai in a few days! Can't wait!",{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":166},[167,168,169],{"id":128,"depth":18,"text":129},{"id":144,"depth":18,"text":145},{"id":160,"depth":18,"text":161},{"author":171,"date":172,"lastmod":173,"tags":174,"categories":176,"type":54,"draft":22},[48],"2018-04-08T13:37:00+10:00","2021-06-17T00:04:41+10:00",[175],"travel",[12],"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fone-country-down-one-to-go",{"title":119,"description":124},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fone-country-down-one-to-go","rc--sEebPr2G1t0--OxmC1ehmwf6RJhiuCo57MQ2Kx4",{"id":182,"title":183,"body":184,"description":17,"extension":20,"meta":279,"navigation":23,"path":285,"seo":286,"stem":287,"__hash__":288},"content\u002F3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far.md","Having a great trip so far",{"type":7,"value":185,"toc":272},[186,190,193,196,200,203,209,212,216,219,238,241,244,248,251,254,265,269],[126,187,189],{"id":188},"korea-trip-without-a-plan-korea-trip-without-a-plan","Korea trip without a plan {#korea-trip-without-a-plan}",[35,191,192],{},"I am almost one week into my 5 (!!) week holiday and so far I am having an absolute blast.\nSince I usually spend my time worrying about the future and trying to come up with plans\nto ward off potential crises, with this trip I have decided to change things up and go\noverseas with no plan and just let things happen naturally.",[35,194,195],{},"I was expecting that things would go terribly, or at least far worse than they have been going. In reality,\nwhile there has been some dead time, I have found that planning my time on the day has allowed\nme to stop worrying about everything in my life.",[126,197,199],{"id":198},"the-preparation-the-preparation","The preparation {#the-preparation}",[35,201,202],{},"The very first thing I do when I go to Korea is jump for joy at the thought of not having\nto use Sydney's Opal card for public transport. Unlike Opal, T-money cards actually\nwork properly and aren't held by idiots who think that bludgeoning a scanner with the card\nwill make the station gates open any more quickly.",[35,204,205],{},[206,207],"binding",{"value":208},"\u003C figure src=\"\u002Fimages\u002Ft-money.jpg\" >",[35,210,211],{},"It doesn't hurt that the designs on the T-money cards are absolutely boss!",[126,213,215],{"id":214},"seoul-the-legend-continues-seoul-the-legend-continues","Seoul - The Legend Continues {#seoul-the-legend-continues}",[35,217,218],{},"When I got to Seoul, I really had one main aim in mind. Well, actually more like three aims. I have\nthree close friends in Korea, and they all live near Seoul, so the main aim for my trip was to see\nthem and spend as much time with them as humanly possible. For the rest of the trip, I really just\nwanted to make sure that I enjoyed my time and didn't focus too much on trying to make efficient\nor special use of my time in Korea. I had met some people online and was looking forward to meeting\nsome of them in person, but I knew that it was important to not worry about things happening or not\nhappening. I just wanted to let life happen, and that's what I did.",[35,220,221,225,226,229,225,232,235],{},[222,223],"img",{"alt":17,"src":224},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-1.jpg"," ",[222,227],{"alt":17,"src":228},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-2.jpg",[222,230],{"alt":17,"src":231},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-3.jpg",[222,233],{"alt":17,"src":234},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-4.jpg",[222,236],{"alt":17,"src":237},"\u002Fimages\u002Fseoul-5.jpg",[35,239,240],{},"I had quite a lot of downtime in Seoul and went to probably every decent cafe in the city. When I wasn't\ndoing language study, I was spending time doing things like fixing up this blog and making it easy to add\nposts like this one. I felt a great sense of satisfaction from doing something on my computer that was\nto make my real life more fulfilling and enjoyable, so even in my downtime I felt like I was doing something\ngood for me.",[35,242,243],{},"I spent a good week or so in Seoul, and I met a few really nice people during my time here. I do not think\nthat I would spend so long here if I was travelling on my own next time as quite a lot of interesting Korean\ncuisine is best enjoyed in groups, and I hate drinking alone, but I still was really able to enjoy my time.\nNo regrets!",[126,245,247],{"id":246},"incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable-incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable","Incheon - Surprisingly Enjoyable {#incheon-surprisingly-enjoyable}",[35,249,250],{},"When I went to Incheon, I was expecting it to be like Seoul but more rubbish, but I actually really enjoyed\nmy time here. I found one really nice cafe here, and made a new friend that I hope to stay in touch with for\na long time, so it was a massive win to go to Incheon.",[35,252,253],{},"I went with my friend to Chinatown, and I have to say that Chinatown itself was very average to say the least,\nbut some of the shops there were so funny that I almost died of laughter. It was fun in its most pure form\nand it made me realise the value of having a friend with you to enjoy what would otherwise be a collection\nof buildings and streets.",[35,255,256,225,259,262],{},[222,257],{"alt":17,"src":258},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-1.jpg",[222,260],{"alt":17,"src":261},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-2.jpg",[222,263],{"alt":17,"src":264},"\u002Fimages\u002Fincheon-3.jpg",[126,266,268],{"id":267},"not-done-yet-not-done-yet","Not done yet {#not-done-yet}",[35,270,271],{},"At the time of writing this post, I actually have one leg left to go south of Seoul before I head off to Japan.\nI feel, though, at this point in the trip that I have done everything in Seoul and Incheon that I set out to do\nbefore I left Australia. It has been a wonderful week and a great way to completely blank my mind of all of the\nstress and anxiety that had built up before my holiday. I hope the next 4 weeks are just as theraputic as this\nfirst week of my holiday has been!",{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":273},[274,275,276,277,278],{"id":188,"depth":18,"text":189},{"id":198,"depth":18,"text":199},{"id":214,"depth":18,"text":215},{"id":246,"depth":18,"text":247},{"id":267,"depth":18,"text":268},{"author":280,"date":281,"lastmod":282,"tags":283,"categories":284,"type":54,"draft":22},[48],"2018-04-01T23:43:00+10:00","2021-06-17T00:04:40+10:00",[175],[12],"\u002Fposts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far",{"title":183,"description":17},"3.posts\u002Fenglish\u002Fgreat-trip-so-far","aYJxzi3mqjiHn-XywKhP_SSfMUm_U_YDp1tAqyTGCrQ",1779660265158]