DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Credit Crisis Visualized
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. A really nice video visualizing the credit crisis. This American Life has also done three really great podcasts on the credit crisis with the guys from NPR’s Planet Money . Crazy stuff going on out there. Great little explanation in the video though.
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Goro’s Diner: a Shibuya burger joint
Goro’s Diner Goro Burger Cakes! Last night I met three friends for dinner at Shibuya. I had heard about Goro’s diner over on tabelog and it looked interesting. An English search turned up
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A good thing to know…
Here is something useful for me to know: At home, if I run the stove in toaster mode, the microwave, the heater, the rice cooker, the usual complement of computers, the other usual appliances, and I hit the “bidet” button on the toilet, I can blow the circuit breaker. And it gets *very* dark…
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Review of David Gemmell’s King Beyond the Gate
I’ve read three of David Gemmell’s books now, all in the Drenai series. I’ve really enjoyed all three, but so far the first one has been the most impressive. As a debut novel it takes a different look at traditional fantasy (or at least, a new one to me) and is a fun read. The […]
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Jeff Bezos and Kindle 2 on The Daily Show
Let’s see the clip. Oh, this isn’t a movie? $79 dollars a year for free shipping? That isn’t free, it’s $79 A YEAR! What is this thing? And that is the last time Jeff will see that kindle… I’m a big fan of The Daily Show. Imagine my surprise when I came home to watch […]
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A trip Hirosaki in the Winter
Map from Tokyo to Hirosaki Map from Hachinohe to Hirosaki I’m always complaing about how I am busy and don’t have any time. It is true that I am busy, but time is one of those strange things that you can definitely find more of if you have a good reason. Last weekend I took […]
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Video cards and linux … again!
I know I’ve written about this before but video cards and linux are annoying. Actually, I think video cards are just annoying, this doesn’t have much to do with linux at all. They are confusing and hard to get working right. I actually have two video cards floating around here, an NVidia GeForce (uh, let […]
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Review of Charles Stross’ Halting State
A while back I read my first Charlie Stross book, Accelerando. I really liked it, so much so that I bought a few more Charlie Stross books. This is the second one that I read. I was hopeful, because the title refers to a classic decision problem that basically asks you to determine whether a […]
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Amazon’s Kindle 2
Not that I’m breaking any news here at all, but Amazon has announced the second version of their ebook reading, the Kindle. It is a nice looking piece of hardware. I actually tested a version of this a few months back when I was in Palo Alto. I really would like to get one of […]
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