DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester
It is about time that I’ve gotten around to reading some Alfred Bester. I’ve known about him for a long time, probably when I first saw the character “Bester” on Babylon 5 and looked up that history. I’ve never gotten around to reading anything by Bester though. Last week I dug up some Bester stuff, […]
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What I had for dinner
Pasta with white sauce Chicken Fried Rice I made it home an hour earlier than R. today, so I figured I would cook. I do that sometimes. I don’t really know what I’m doing; I just look up whatever it is that I want to eat. Or some close approximation. A few weeks back I […]
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A week of biking to and from work
A good friend of mine, we’ll call him DS for now, has been biking to work in Tokyo for the past few years. He has a very nice bike. His bike costs more than most cars that my family has bought (this though, is a terrible bar to measure cost by – most of the […]
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Summer Comic Market 78 in Tokyo
Comic Market Catalog Waiting in the parking lot for the Comic Market to open A crowded Tokyo Big Site Comic Cure Sports Drink Captain Jack Sparrow Saint Oniisan: Jesus and Buddha Some Giant Robot Ginrei from Giant Robo Usavitch Rabbits Xbox Man On Saturday, I decided to take a trip out to Tokyo Big Sight […]
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Royce Chocolate Potato Chips
Royce Chocolate Potato Chips For the past few months, we’ve had a mysterious box in our refrigerator. It was labeled “Royce Potato Chip Chocolate”, which mystified me. It looked like it was chocolate. But it said something in there about potato chips. I had a hard time consolidating those two concepts. I was almost convinced […]
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More books: Paolo Bacigalupi
While at Fuji Rock, I read two ebooks, both by a new author (to me), Paolo Bacigalupi. I thought they were great. First up: Pump Six and Other Stories (link is to the Baen Webscriptions.net ebook version, which is an amazing $6.) This is a collection of short stories and a great place to start. […]
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2010 Summer Music Festivals
Day 2 Day 3 While on days 1 and 2 we took the full day, on day 3 we got a later start (exhausted?) and only started in the afternoon with the band to which I was most looking forward. Usually R. and I are Summer Sonic attendees. This year though, we got three day […]
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Dave’s Delicious Restaurant
Dave Cooking Ratatouille, corn soup, and steak Chocolate Fondant and Strawberry Ice Cream In Japan, the pixar movie “Ratatouille” was called “Remi’s Delicious Restaurant” (レミの美味しいレストラン). I have a whole spiel about how Japanese movie titles are basically the entire movie plot in a single sentence (like, The Sixth Sense would be titled “A kid sees […]
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What’s for dinner?
Some variation of this was. It was pretty good too. I think R. might have snapped a shot before we ate, but I didn’t. We don’t have a real camera anymore either, just cell phone cameras now.
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Enable SATA AHCI on Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H motherboard with Western Digital 1.5 TB drives
I’ve had a few posts before about my desktop computer, mainly that first one about putting it together, and an entry about replacing the power supply when that blew up. Well, two days ago I decided to do a system update (Ubuntu kept complaining at me for a week or more) and on reboot, there […]
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A small bar in Ikebukuro
Last Friday, R. and I went to a small bar in Ikebukuro. Our aim was to find the small bar Afiya, run by a friend of a friend. It is a really small wine bar that has a focus on food from Senegal. The place has maybe room for 8, so a very cozy atmosphere. […]
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Musical Robots, Chocolate, and Alice in Wonderland
Le Chocolat De H chocolate and coffee Tea and Cake Skate Park Art Musical Robots Musical Robots Musical Robots Musical Robot video The other day, R. and I had a rare day off together, so we headed to the Mori Museum of Art for the Roppongi Art Crossing 2010 “Can there be art?” exhibit. Before […]
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