DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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The Mystery Jets and The Kooks
Last Thursday, R. and I went to see The Mystery Jets. We’ve seen them maybe two or three times now. I like them; they have good rhythms, nice hooks, and are pretty clean. They aren’t one of my favorite bands, but they are good and I enjoy listening to their stuff. Of course, they are […]
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Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crayon Physics Deluxe Menu The level select GUI is cool too Pivots! They are part of Physics! Make your own pivots! I recently bought a new game, Crayon Physics Deluxe. In the past three or four years, I’ve bought maybe three or four games: the Orange Box (for Portal mainly – I haven’t gotten anywhere […]
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Let’s Talk about Bathtubs
My bathtub is a lot smarter than I expected. It has a nice little spout thing that doesn’t get in your way. The spout can shoot water out to the left or to the right. There is a control panel where you can set the temperature of the water, and the bathtub will re-circulate water […]
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Review of David Gemmel’s Legend
While I was busy reading and buying the Caine series of books by Michael Stover Amazon recommended that I read David Gemmell’s Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 1), so I added that to my cart to await an opening in my reading schedule. A few weeks back I started reading Legend, and really enjoyed it. I […]
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Another brief roundup: cheap ebooks, cool indy games, and a neat graphics library
This is another post mostly for myself so I don’t lose track of some interesting looking things. First up, cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit. It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered. I’m seriously […]
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Time Capsule Finally Working
So I have had a 500GB Time Capsule for a while. I am really impressed with it as an automated back-up device for Macs. I run two Macs at home, a three-year-old (and a bit) Mac PowerBook G4, a year and a bit old MacBook Pro (Intel, but not the latest all from aluminum one) […]
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Getting Tomoe to recognize Japanese characters in English on Fedora 10
I recently set up Fedora 10 on a ThinkPad X60 laptop, which has worked very well. I’ll write about that a bit later I think. There are still some issues with the wireless connecting to a WPA2 network, and the Intel 945GM video drivers are apparently pretty crappy right now due to changes in the […]
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Our Hatsumode Plan
One thing people like to do in Japan around the New Year is their first shrine visit, the Hatsumode (初詣). I think generally people in Japan visit a temple probably on average 1.8 times a year (this is a wild guess.) Generally, people go to a shrine right after the new year. Then they probably […]
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MAME Frontends in Ubuntu
I have been interested in getting MAME running on my desktop again. I never got SDLMAME working on Fedora 8 because performance was terrible. For some reason, under Ubuntu with my Intel GMA3100 onboard video things work well enough to play pacman at least (and probably others, SFA2 seemed to work well, but as always […]
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Spinning down external USB hard drives on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Reference links External Drive Standby for Ubuntu This thread (read towards the end) Spin down external drives with sdparm (note tested) So I recently switched to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex from Fedora 8 for no real good reason. Anyway, I have two external 500GB drives that I use for backup, accessing about once a day or […]
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Wedding Rings
Wedding Rings R’s Ring Dave’s Ring R’s friend Mibe Atsushi makes jewelry for a living. Months ago we commissioned him to make our wedding rings. We aren’t quite doing things traditionally: I proposed with a necklace because R. can’t wear rings at work, but could get away with a necklace. Sometimes. Instead of a traditional […]
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Two Christmas Dinners
Dinner Spread The Turkey Jam Cake Dinner with the in-laws The 23rd was a national holiday in Japan for the Emperor’s Birthday. It was also coming up on Christmas, so we got together with the in-laws for dinner. We usually get together once a week for a weekly dinner, so this isn’t an unusual occurrence, […]
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