DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Disneyland in December
Cars land at night Snow white’s castle Family Photo with Winnie the Pooh Family photo at the castle Family photo at the castle Family photo at Disney Christmas tree Santa Mater Cars Land With Santa Claus Chip and Dale! Stitch! Goofy’s Kitchen! Cars Land at night (taken by Disney photographers) Big Red! Lisa, Alan, and […]
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A quick review of the US Kindle Fire 8.9″ tablet
I bought myself a Kindle Fire a while back. I only got to see it recently; I live in Japan and we only have the Kindle Fire 7″ over there. I had it delivered to my sister’s place in California, and have been playing around with it for about a week while I’ve been here […]
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2012 November Osaka and Kyoto family trip
Alan and the Shinkansen Alan takes a nap at lunch Tanaka Family Seal Alan at the temple Kenshinin temple Kenshinin Priests Tanaka family graves Kyoto: temples and fall leaves Everyone loves Afro Buddha Nice Zen garden This November, Lisa’s father had a school reunion for the 50th anniversary of his school. Lisa’s grandmother and father […]
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“That traditional walk”
Starting the parade Very young oiran in training? Those are some big shoes Oiran That hair must have taken a while Another Oiran Oiran walking away A bit after lunch today, Lisa mentioned that there was a festival not too far from our house today and tomorrow. I asked her what the festival was for, […]
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What have we been up to recently?
Alan in his new chair Shinagawa Beer I did some programming Ebisu Beer Festival Ebisu Beer Festival Aki and Alan Aki, Kiyoko, and Alan This guy was walking around Ebisu Beer Museum Ebisu So, I’ve been neglecting my blog, but finally put some time in over the three day weekend (respect for the Elders day!) […]
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The Wedding of Jana Evans and Marco Rosichelli
The family dressed up The wedding venue Uncle Jon, Grandpa Kirk, Lisa, and Alan Lisa, Alan, Aunt Jane, and Dad Scout and papa Jana and Marco Jana and Marco Lots of family Dad, Jana, and Marco Grandpa and Jana Jana, Scout, and Alan Jana and Marco Polka dot cake by Laura Kirk First Dance The […]
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What I did over the summer
View Larger Map Lisa and Alan at Narita Airport Alan in the bassinet Alan and Dave at Ranger’s Stadium Dave, Alan, and Lisa at Ranger’s Stadium Helena tour with the family Great Northern Carousel Alan and Lisa meet Grandpa Kirk An American 4th of July Dad’s 1948 Hudson Hornet With cousin Scout in Omak Bessie’s […]
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Shinagawa Tennousai
Shinagawa Tennou Festival. You can see a bunch of stands along the river. Festival Stands More Festival Stands Alan enjoys a drink of tea Lisa enjoys a fish Some people carry a portable shrine around A larger portable shrine More Shrines Even more Shrines! Link to a short video on Facebook On Friday, the Shinagawa […]
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The Galactic Mage and “Book Trailers”
I recently read The Galactic Mage by John Daulton. I had never heard of him before. I had never heard of the book before. But Amazon recommended it to me, and the kindle version is only $3.99. It has good reviews, so I picked it up (months ago!) and only just now got around to […]
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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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