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Sakuracon 2009
By pure chance our hotel was next to the Seattle Convention Center. The week before was the big comic book convention, ComiCon. The day we left Seattle was the first day of the Sakura-con, an anime-themed convention in Seattle. Apparently. R. and I had a few minutes before leaving, so we popped into the convention […]
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Psalms of Herod and Architects of Emortality
Psalms of Herod This flight out I didn’t read many books. I only started one, Esther Freisner’s “Psalms of Herod”, but I didn’t even finish it on the plane. I ended up finishing it on the road sometime. I didn’t really like the book. It is set in some unspecified point of time in the […]
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From SFO to Seattle
R. and I were in Seattle. Click “read more” to see a bunch of pictures and words about it. Seattle Space Needle Seattle Public Library, one of my favorite buildings in the city Monorail! I heard it put Ogdenville on the map! You can just make out the bus tunnel out the front […]
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Bishop Allen at the Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco
I am a huge Bishop Allen fan. I’ve liked them for years now, and saw one of their first shows in New York probably 6 years ago. Any chance I get, I try to see these guys play live. They are huge fun. On Saturday (four or five days ago) I flew into San Francisco […]
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Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen’s Wheelers
This is a book that I picked up on my last trip out (from Half-price books I think) and I finally got a chance to read it on the flight from Tokyo to San Francisco. It was a good book, I enjoyed it. It was a nice departure from the science fiction that I have […]
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A visit to the National Art Center in Tokyo
National Art Center Tokyo National Art Center Tokyo Sign National Art Center Tokyo with plates in trees National Art Center Tokyo interior Right before hopping on a plane to go to America for business, there was a day off and R. and I went to the National Art Center Tokyo (but I thought it was […]
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Emacs, Japanese, Putty, Windows, and text entry
I don’t know why but I have had to set this up a few times now. If you try writing Japanese via Putty into Emacs, and things do not work for you (instead it looks like Emacs is interpreting things as control characters in some way) then the following magic incantation might help you: ;; […]
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Apple’s FrontRow
Front Row Main Menu Front Row TV Menu On this trip to the US, I brought two machines with me: my work laptop (older, small Dell running WinXP, ugh) and a bigger, middle-aged MacBook Pro 15″ laptop running OSX. OSX is really great. I can not praise the automated backup facility it comes with enough. […]
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Back in the USA
I’m back in the USA for three weeks. I flew in yesterday (Saturday) from Tokyo to San Francisco. It was a quick flight, 9 hours. That seems quick to me because usually I fly to New York, which is closer to 14 hours. Anyway, the flight was nice. What was really great is that this […]
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Review of Charlie Stross’ Atrocity Archives and Glasshouse
I’ve finished two more Charlie Stross novels recently. The first is Glasshouse. I highly recommend it. A far-future sci-fi novel, instant transfer wormhole gates, personality downloads, backups, and editing. The main hook is: in a society where mass memory editing has taken place, how can you track down things that might have been completely erased […]
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Dwarf Fortress tutorial
Dwarf Fortress is a game that I would like to play. I haven’t had time to look into it though, and it looks hard to to learn. When I get a chance, I should check out these Dwarf Fortress tutorials. And set up some machine that can play it. I hope it runs under WINE.
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Gnu Screen, Emacs, Terminals, and Japanese
I spent a while today at work getting things to work in Gnu Screen, Emacs, and Japanese. What I want to be able to do is type japanese in the native environment IME over a terminal connected to a Gnu Screen session in Emacs. This has proved to be pretty difficult. For a long time […]
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