DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Jordan Mechner’s The Making of Prince of Persia
The online version of the book GDC 2011 Classic Game Postmortem Price of Persia GDC 2011 Vault Search for Classic Game Postmortem, there are a whole bunch of good ones! Prince of Persia on the Glorius Apple //! A long time ago, when I was still a young kid, my dad bought an Apple //e […]
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Eclipse, Subversion, and Moneydance CSV Importers on OSX
I use Moneydance to track my personal finances. Recently Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ bank decided to drop support for downloading transactions in Microsoft Money format and switched to a CSV format. That is kind of annoying because I like to download my transactions from the bank and jam them into Moneydance. It means I don’t have […]
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Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law Trilogy
Another post about books. I heard about The Blade Itself a while back, probably from one of the author blogs that I follow. I don’t know which one; it could very well be any one of John Scalzi’s blog, Joseph Mallozzi’s blog, or Patrick Rothfuss. Or possibly even tor.com. I don’t know; I just heard […]
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Ginza and Kamakura with Alan
Dave and Alan taking a nap Lisa, Alan, and I enjoyed a break at the local cafe, Cafe Les Cinq Épices Japan is great for little cakes Lisa’s friend Julie came for a visit Geisha in Ginza Gelatto in Ginza Lisa and Alan on the roof garden at Mitsukoshi in Ginza Dave and Alan in […]
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Computer failures all over the place
Where did I put that Time Capsule? About a month back, Lisa’s MacBook Air (2008 vintage) gave up the ghost. It just wouldn’t boot anymore. I bought the machine back in 2008 so four years running, that isn’t too bad. It is the second generation MacBook Air, and still has a 1.8″ hard drive, no […]
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Golden Week 2012
Alan at his first Sushi Shop Today’s special: milk I want dinner too! Sashimi Delicious stuffed mushrooms Satsuma-age Bamboo Lisa’s friends come to visit Lisa’s friends come to visit Roofside park Parkside brige Canal-side park Alan plans to be ambidexterous Last week was “Golden Week” in Japan. That is a run of 3-4 holidays that […]
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Alan’s first play date, trip to Tokyo Disneyland, and visit with the family in Chiba
Alan and Taishi Lisa and Alan go to Tokyo Disneyland and meet Mickey Mouse and Tigger and Piglet and Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore and Responsible Rabbit Over the past few days Alan and Lisa have been busy! One of Lisa’s friends, Kaori Nishi, had her first son Taishi about a month after Alan was […]
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Books by Shamus Young
Free Radical I’ve linked to Shamus Young’s Twenty Sided blog before. He puts a lot of time into his blog and what he writes there, often explaining technical concepts in plain, easy-to-understand language. He has run a great series on procedurally generating a nighttime city and a 3d terrain engine. I was happy to hear […]
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Cherry blossoms and Saitama Shrines over the weekend
A whole bunch of Cherry Blossoms Papa and Alan Mama and Alan Lisa, David, and Alan at Hikawa Shrine Hikawa Shrine Gate Hikawa Shrine and friends Last week I was in the US after a business trip and had a day to visit with family. Due to the international dateline, coming back to Japan you […]
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A visit to the limited-time Koyama Sweets shop
A bunch of Americans visit the Koyama sweets shop My friend Akihiro Oyama’s family has run the Koyama Western Sweets shop in Kessennuma for 120 years. His older brother is the 5th Oyama to run the Koyama sweets shop. Last year in the March 11th Earthquake and Tsunami, their town and shop was completely wiped […]
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Professional Family photos
Dave, Alana, and Gary with their Marathon Medals Dave, Alana, and Gary with their Marathon Medals Pooh Bear Alana Yoshiyuki Pooh Bear Alan Yoshiyuki Alan Yoshiyuki in his great-grandfather’s baby kimono Alana and Scout David, Alana, Alan, and Scout Scout and Balloons Gary, Alana, and Scout David, Alana, Lisa, Alan, Gary, and Scout Lisa, David, […]
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A trip to Hakone with the family
Alan in his cute Yukata Alana, Dave, and Scout at dinner The Hakone Group at the Onsen We took a cable car up the mountain The top of sulfur mountain Black Eggs and Mt. Fuji Ropeway ride down to the lake Pirate ships on Ashinoko (Lake Ashi) After running the Tokyo Marathon, I was a […]
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