DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Virtual Game Developer’s Conference via blogs
Just a heads up to a series of great posts over at http://www.sirlin.net/ about the Game Developer’s Conference. So far I’ve read Sirlin’s report on the pre-GDC day, day one, and day two. I follow Sirlin’s posts on his blog. He’s a game designer that knows street fighter in-depth (worked on balancing Super Street Fighter […]
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Japanese that Japanese people don’t know
The other day I bought the book 日本人の知らない日本語, “Japanese that Japanese people don’t know”. It is a cute little book with comics, lots and lots and lots of ruby (furigana readings over the Kanji) written by a Japanese language teacher who primarily teaches foreign students. The idea is that foreigners have lots of crazy questions […]
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Cocoa Programming
I’ve been doing some Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX lately. I’ve been using Aaron Hillegass’ “Cocoa Programming For Mac OSX” and have really had an easy time following along with the book. Before ordering the book, I tried to dive into OSX programming using online material, and while I was able to get some things […]
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BigShot Camera: a camera for kids and education
Coverage from Columbia University’s “The Record” Coverage from Wired Magazine Computer Science Professor Shree Nayar at Columbia University has a pretty cool project in the BigShot Camera. It is a digital camera designed to teach kids about optics and electricity and all sorts of other things. I think it looks really fun. They include a […]
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Thexder Neo (A.K.A. Jon is cool)
Back when I was young (hard for me to remember that far back, but I’ll try) I had moved to New Jersey. Now, don’t get me wrong, I really like New Jersey. Now. But then again, I also have a fond spot in my heart for Texas, and we all know what they say about […]
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The further adventures of Flat Everett
Flat Everett visits Tokyo Disneyland Tokyo Disneyland New Year’s decorations Flat Everett Visits Meiji Temple Flat Everett in front of the Sake (This post is very late, please forgive the tardiness.) In my previous post about Flat Everett we met our flat friend, and took him around Tokyo. Over the New Year’s break we took […]
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Review of Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Unwilling Warlord”
So a few days ago I finished reading the second book in the Ethshar series by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It took a bit of time for it to get going, but I liked it in the end. The third book, The Unwilling Warlord, was quicker to get started. What I have really enjoyed about the Ethshar […]
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Stuff I’ve been (cooking and) eating lately
Honey Glazed Ham Buffalo Wings Big American Texas Poster Big American Texas Burger Big American Texas Burger Last night R. and I invited our friends A. and D. over for dinner. R. was working, and I had the day off so I spent the morning and afternoon in the kitchen cooking up dinner. A few […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans “With a Single Spell”
Fictionwise.com With a Single Spell A few days ago I started reading Lawrence-Watt Evans’ “With a Single Spell”. At first, I didn’t like it. It took a while to get into the book. I didn’t like the protagonist. He was a lazy, entitled, selfish boy. I had a really hard time empathizing with him. I […]
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Movie Reviews: Up and Avatar
Avatar: a nice sci-fi movie Avatar Na’vi Amazing CGI for humans The annoying floating mountains Grandpa Carl’s flying (in the sky) house A bit before the new year, R. and I went to see the latest Pixar movie, カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家. Simply “Up” in America, and “Grandpa Carl’s flying house” in Japanese. I’ve noticed this trend before […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Misenchanted Sword”
Note that I actually purchased the ebook from fictionwise.com. And it was cheap: about $2 when I got it, but now it is back up to $6 it looks like. Huh. I found this book through Joseph Mallozzi’s blog / book club. It sounded interesting, and I liked that the author took the time to […]
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