David LaSpina (@dbooster) - The BBH Project

David LaSpina

Japan

David is an Italian-American expat lost in Japan. A photographer, father, lover of haiku, and eater of natto. Here, there, and everywhere.

about 7 hours ago

Upvoting Comments @galenkp sometimes gives us some thoughts on his comment upvoting strategy and recently he had some musing about a new voting test. (

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1 day ago

Orange You Glad? Apple’s New iPhone Color Stop me if you've heard this one: A: Knock Knock B: Who's there? A: Banana B: Banana who? Person A then starts over with a fresh “Knock knock” and the loop repeats until…

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2 days ago

Blockchain Poets

An Autumn Moon Above Edo: Bashō at Thirty-Three As the guest in a linked-verse gathering in Iga, a young Bashō gave the following opening haiku: 詠むるや江戸には稀な山の月 nagamuru ya Edo niha marena yama no tsuki gazing up— the…

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3 days ago

Why Did Japanese Women Blacken Their Teeth? ~ Japanese Culture When you look at old portraits of Japanese noblewomen—or ukiyo-e prints, you may sometimes notice something strange: pitch-black teeth. It’s quite shocking the first time you see it

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4 days ago

YouTube Killed the Gatekeepers: 3 Great Covers Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post. As always, thanks to @a

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5 days ago

My Hive Goals for 8 September 2025 Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoals

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6 days ago

Breathe A few days ago, I wrote a post talking about the Zen in John Lennon’s old line, “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans”. If you missed it, go read it here.

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7 days ago

Rant, Complain, Talk

Why Won’t My CSS Work?! The Trials of Website Design As many of you know by now, I have my own website. It is kind of a master copy of all my work. Things I post to Hive, things I post t

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8 days ago

The Email You Opened Is Watching You Just a reminder… you are being tracked. I’ve said it before (

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9 days ago

Sherlock Holmes vs Columbo In my teaching, I find myself pulling examples from pop culture a surprising number of times. The other day it was a famous detective that came to mind — which leads to this…

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