DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Nick Harkaway’s “The Gone-Away World” and Bich Mihn Nguyen’s “Short Girls”
Nick Harkaway’s “The Gone-Away World” I picked up this book a while back, and once I started reading it I had a hard time putting it down. This was my first time reading anything by Nick Harkaway, and I found his writing style to be a bit verbose, but very refreshing. The setting is interesting; […]
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Very interesting Stardock Annual Report
I like Stardock a lot. They started out as a windows accessory developer, and then branched out into games. Now they are running an online distribution network for games and other stuff called Impulse. Their president, Brad Wardell, seems like a great guy. I bought Galactic Civilizations 2 from them and really enjoy it. (Man, […]
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Happy 35th!
Just a quick note (since I have completely been busy with work and more importantly, Fallout 3) that I turn 35 today. It has been 3 years since my 2^5 birthday party in Shibuya (which was lots of fun) and lots has changed since then: – I got married! – I bought a house! – […]
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Setting up Postfix to forward mail to gmail and keep a local copy with LDAP
Harder than it sounds. I think due to the setup I currently have (which I have not really changed since 2006) this isn’t possible to do without changing my LDAP schema. That sounds like a lot of work, so I think I will just have to set up an alias and ditch the “keep a […]
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Yum! Grandma coffee
Grandma’s Coffee Bean Grinder Friday night we had dinner at R.’s grandma’s house because this weekend is our niece’s birthday. She is 2 years old. At dinner, I remembered that I had forgotten to buy more coffee grounds that day, and probably only had enough for only one more day. Well, it isn’t a huge […]
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Home Owners Association and Fire Walking
Today was an interesting day. I started the morning off with a 6km jog by the canal, and then got back in time for toast and coffee. It was very rushed though, because from 10:00am today was our first Homeowner’s association meeting. This was the first major meeting of the elected body of representatives in […]
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Dinner at TY Harbor
Last night R. and I went to the TY Harbor Brewery at Tennouzu Isle near Shinagawa. I like that place; it has a nice view on the canal, good food, and they brew their own beer. As a bonus, it is only one station away from where we live. So we met with two friends, […]
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A visit to the family grave
Tanaka family grave (on left) Tanaka family grave Nezumi Kouzou’s Grave Sumo power grave We are currently in a three-day off period in Japan. That means people are busy going to their ancestral homes and whatnot. R.’s family invited me along with them to go to the family grave at the Eko-in temple in Ryokoku. […]
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Busy lately, but weather is looking up
I have been pretty busy lately. I haven’t had much time for reading, or the blog, or translating, or extra-curricular programming. I’ve been getting up at 6am and running most days, and the weather is really great for it now. As long as you avoid the typhoons, it is a bit cool and usually sunny. […]
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Added a book list on the right
Added a book list running down the right-hand side of the blog. It is provided by Library Thing but I have also been playing around with Amazon.com’s Reading application. It doesn’t yet seem to provide a nice badge of books that I’ve read recently though. (Neither does Library Thing, I can only order it by […]
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Mister James, McDonald’s and MOS Buger
An interesting article on the McDonald’s “Mister James” kerfuffle. Nice video with an alternative view pushing people to Mos Burger. http://thedailyyoji.blogspot.com/2009/09/mr-james-madness.html
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Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians”
Visit Brakebills College for Magic Last week, I finished Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians”. I have a few things to confess. Well, more than a few, but we will limit things to only relevant confessions for this post. First, I’ve never read any Harry Potter books (wait, what kind of page is that Amazon? I appreciate […]
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