DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Esther M. Friesner’s The Sword of Mary: A Sequel
I posted earlier about the book Psalms of Herod, and generally didn’t come away from it with a good impression. The main detraction is that it is not a self-contained book. It just ends, abruptly. It was just by chance that I picked up the sequel, The Sword of Mary: A Sequel (at least the […]
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iPhoto 09’s Faces Feature
iPhoto’s list of faces it knows Naming people is easy I recently bought iLife 09 and have been using the Faces feature in iPhoto a lot. The Faces feature will look through all your pictures and identify people’s faces. Then you can put a name to the face, and gradually iPhoto learns to spot pictures […]
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OSX Password generator script
http://www.codepoetry.net/products/passwordassistant Found a nice script to open up the OSX password generator window. Might come in handy if you need to generate a bunch of passwords. I’m still looking for a good replacement password safe for OSX / linux / windows (preferably one that works on all three.) I have been using Keyring (an open […]
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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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