DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Naoko Ogigami’s “Glasses”
Or, an English review And the Japanese wikipedia entry So, R. and I watched two movies (three, but I am not counting “A Nightmare Before Christmas”, which we watched while I was working yesterday) this weekend. The first was Kamome Shokudo, directed and written by Naoko Ogigami. I enjoyed it. The second was “Glasses”, also […]
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梅はその日の何を逃す
Remember that. Similar to “An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away”, a Plum a Day wards you from the dangers of the day.
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Kagome Shokudo
In English: Kamome Shokudo Last night, R. and I sat down to a nice evening movie. We rented a few things at the start of the weekend, and I was actually pretty excited to watch a Japanese-only movie with her, one of her choosing. She chose Kamome Shokudo, a Japanese comedy set in Helsinki. The […]
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A relaxing evening on the balcony
Monorails! Yakata Bune The moon over the cranes of Tokyo Bay Looking towards Sumidagawa Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, the weather cooled down enough in the evening to go outside on our balcony. R. and I live in a small Tokyo condo in a large highrise. We are about halfway up […]
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Best wishes to Sasha and his family
I was shocked to hear today that my ex-officemate and friend, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, was hit by a falling tree branch in a freak accident in Central Park yesterday. I hope for a full recovery.
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Sigh… But hooray for rimuhosting.com’s backups!
So this morning Mail.app on my Mac started to do strange things, like say “Can’t delete message server does not allow operation (moving to folder “null”)” or something like that. I don’t really remember. Things looked strange too – for some reason my trash can icon for my main email account had turned into a […]
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