After Dinner Walk
A stunningly beautiful city to walk through. Feels simultaneously artistic and hard to even remotely capture well in photos.
Hong Kong by Night
A somewhat rare sight of a central street with no people. This city is absolutely packed usually.
Slice of Life, Hong Kong
Slowly climbing up through Central Hong Kong. The vertical architecture is amazing - and this road struck out at me as photogenic.
Kaleidoscope Christmas Tree
Christmas in Japan seemed muted this year until I stumbled on this massive thing. One of the coolest takes on a Christmas tree that I’ve ever seen.
Fuji Speedway, Day 2
Was not blessed with sunshine and dry track today - but it’s been an incredible experience nonetheless. Had all of Fuji to myself in wet weather, hard to imagine ever having that opportunity again!
Fuji Speedway
Managed to sneak in one final event for 2025. This time it’s another legendary track! In sims I’m never as fast as I want to be here so I’m really interested to see how it feels in real life.
Cornbread Stuffing Recipe (ish)
One or two days before you need it, make cornbread recipe of your choice. Let it sit for a day, then cube it up and make breadcrumbs in the oven so they're dried out. IME this is actually good enough to hold up to liquid you'll add later without dissolving into mush. (Rainbow Plant Life's recipe is a good starter if you want a satiating cornbread, but I would cut the sugar for this use case - it's already high calorie/fat enough. Don't need the maple syrup and don't need even the true amount of sugar she uses, but you do you, it's holidays after all) Night before or morning of holiday, make stuffing with it. I typically use the same base approach I've used for years: carrots/celery/onion, pepper, herbs of choice, crushed up toasted nut of some kind, and then periodically ladle in a broth for it all to soak up as it bakes. I usually avoid adding salt early on since I use a chicken-less broth to mimic the flavors I remember, but it carries a higher sodium content. When it's done cooking, let it cool in the fridge and reheat it before serving - flavor's always improve for whatever reason. (Also randomly picked up a bunch of Jack & Annie's maple breakfast sausages last year and added them in chopped up, which worked really well) Keeps for a few days, acts as a fantastic binder for everything you could slop on a plate, and tastes great with cranberry sauce. It is hands down the only recipe/approach I've tried that gets close to what I remember eating growing up. Served it to multiple groups now and everyone just assumes it's "regular food".
Jack O’ Laterns 2025
Been a minute since I’d bothered to do this. Forgot how much fun it is! Very happy with how my more traditional one came out, very… demonic.
v.Granz at Suzuka
No comment on how all our faces look, haha. Getting to drive this thing around Suzuka for 40 or so laps was one of the most fun experiences of my life. Thanks to Circuit Orange Racing for hooking it up - and thanks to my buddy Tomo for helping out with crew last minute!
Windy LSPR roads
Big thanks to MeLe Media for the photo! Pretty sure this was on day 2 where we started remembering how to go fast. Just gotta dial it in for 2026...
Get on the line you idiot
True pain is looking at this photo and knowing you could've had a better line. Thanks to MeLe Media for the photo!
A Lexus IS250, mid-slide
Day 2 of Lake Superior Performance Rally 2025. Day 1... wasn't so great, but we had identified a few spots where there was low hanging fruit to clean up. By now we were at least starting to move clean again!