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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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Wilco at Zepp Tokyo
Last night R. and I went to see Wilco at Zepp Tokyo. Zepp is pretty large, but has a really good and clear sound system. We did a lot of waiting, and ended up with sore feet, but it was a good concert. They played for over two hours, which was great, but I realized […]
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Fafhd and the Gray Mouser: finally getting around to a classic
On my last trip to the US, I decided to finally sit down and read a classic in the fantasy genre, Fritz Leiber’s Lahnkmar series with Fafhd and the Gray Mouser. I picked up the first volume, a compilation of sorts I think, and gave it a read. Overall it took a while for me […]
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Pizza!
Pizza dough Pizza ready to go Delicious Pizza Broken hearts Risa asked me to make dinner tonight. I’ve wanted to make Pizza for a long time, so I did some scouting on the web (found a few good looking pizza recipes but none of them were for convection ovens) so in the end I checked […]
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Tokyo Anime Fair and Hanami
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 Sakura in Ueno Park Sakura at Ueno Park Last weeked, R. and I had tickets to go to the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Why did we have tickets to go? That’s a good question. It turns out that the President of Mushi Productions is a […]
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(Real) Taco Night
Taco night Dave eating a taco Last night I cooked dinner. I’ve decided to try to come home a bit earlier and cook at least once a week. And also run. But that is a different post. Anyway, I’ve wanted to make tacos for a while, so that is what I did last night. The […]
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Chicken Cordon Blargh
Tonight I decided to go for broke and I cooked up some chicken cordon bleu. I have always liked the idea: ham and cheese wrapped up in chicken with breading and cheese. I can’t really find a problem with that. It sounds delicious. So I went shopping and armed myself with a random recipe from […]
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