DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Review of Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife
John Scalzi’s “Big Idea” on Matthew Stover’s Caine series Matthew Stover’s blog A while back I subscribed to John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog and I saw his Big Idea column on Matthew Stover’s new Caine Black Knife book. I read the first bit of the column, but then quit because it sounded interesting and I didn’t […]
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Switching to Ubuntu from Fedora
So last week I broke my Fedora 8 box. It was a shame really, there was no reason for my machine to break. There was one problem with the video card, a kernel panic and reboot. That was the first time since I replaced the power supply that went bad that the machine had any […]
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I need to back up data more often
Friday night my desktop linux machine crashed. That is pretty unusual: it usually runs 24×7 for months at a time. I have had one or two crashes recently due to the video drivers (I guess) because basically the video goes out, but I can still ssh in from another machine and the desktop is still […]
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A busy day – another typical blog post
13.1km loop 13.1km loop detail Shrimp Gratan Doughnut This is another really typical blog post. Nothing interesting here. I had a lot to do today, and didn’t get enough done. In the morning I got up at a reasonable time for the weekend – 9:30am, and called the family back home. It is hard to […]
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What I had for lunch and other misc
Breakfast: Mega McMuffin Lunch: Bento Dinner: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Yeah, I know, the stereotypical “What I had for lunch” blog post. Well, you have to put up with these sometimes. This is a recent food post and a few other random notes. First up: food. Breakfast The other day I stopped by McDonald’s for […]
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Marketing in Japan
Aomori Marketing Mascot? Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters The other day while walking around my local supermarket, there was a stage set up. I thought this was a bit odd, but no stranger than anything else I have seen around Tokyo. On the way out, things had started […]
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Mini Manga Reviews 2: Crossfire and Yotsuba volume 2
Continuing in my series of mini-manga reviews, we have Miyuki Miyabe’s “Crossfire” and the second volume of “Yotsuba to”. Crossfire is a pretty nice and easy read. There were two words that I learned, basically accelerant (促進) and pyrogenesis (I think that is the English for it – someone that can cause fires with their […]
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Those guys over at 2-d Boys are really cool: buy World of Goo
World of Goo I like the idea of independent and fun games. I don’t really have much time to play games, and I am horrible at 3-d things. I get lost in the real world, and I don’t want to emulate that within a sandboxed virtual 3-d environment. With monsters running after me. Trying to […]
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Fall leaves in Koishikawa Park
R. and Dave at Koishikawa Park Nice lake and leaves reflection Two women in Kimono A Bunraku show All photos from Koishikawa Park Yesterday, R. and I went to Koishikawa Park (小石川後楽園) in the middle of Tokyo, near Tokyo Dome, for an afternoon picnic. It was a holiday weekend, so the place was packed. Actually, […]
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A Surprising Birthday
Birthday Cake Friends Friends Friends Two weeks ago, I turned 34. I actually thought I was turning 35, but a bit of addition convinced me that I am indeed now 34, and I have another year to go before I hit 35. I was very busy two weeks ago with work: there was a big […]
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Fukuya open house and Fukutoushin subway line pictures
A narrow house Reading Stairs Retail Space On Google maps (the building isn’t there though!) Last weekend (I can’t believe a week has already passed and I didn’t have time to write up something quick about this!) I went to an open house that my friend Tomoki Fukuya did the interior design for. I was […]
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Review of Charles Stross’ Accelerando
Charles Stross’ Website Free ebook download of Accelerando Continuing my string of book reviews (or more likely, just bragging that I read a book) is Charles Stross’ “Aceelerando”. The book was published in 2006 (I think) and is a very interesting read in the Science Fiction “Singularity” genre. I have written a bit about the […]
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