Miyo’s Tsubuyaki

Once in a while, I open an old wine from my “wine cellar” which is just a wine rack laying down on the kitchen floor. I cannot open them for somebody’s special occasion because the humidity and temperature control doesn’t exist…

My brother got Alexa for our mother, who lives in a care facility, so that she can turn on and off the TV and light even when she’s not feeling well. When I saw her using it, I smiled and asked her if she liked it….

Looking back, I’ve come a long way. Much longer than a few years. I joined Toastmasters at the end of 2009 just to improve my English speaking skills. At that time, I didn’t value speech delivery all that much. I thought…

December is called Shiwasu (=師走) in the old Japanese language. The first character, 師, means teacher, monk, master. The second character, 走, means to run. In ancient Japan…

Sometimes people ask me if I’m a standup comedian. As you may know, most of my stories are entertaining, but my answer has been NO! But one day I wondered what people see in my stories..

Oh gosh! He thinks an alien is coming out of my body! That’s what I thought when I noticed an audience member’s gaze. He must know that something is wrong with me. I was on the stage of my solo show, “How To Be Japanese…

Last month, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated art titled Théâtre d’Opéra Spatial won the first prize in the annual Colorado State Fair’s digital arts competition. The image is a futuristic but also Renaissance…

Humans have unlimited wants. Recently, Nature Sustainability posted a research article about if the fundamental economic principal was true or not. Researchers conducted a survey of 8,000 people…

Can robots be sentient? Some of you may remember, about three years ago, I wrote “I and It: Where Are We Heading?” In my article, I talked about my concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI), explaining how Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2)…