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Book and Backlog
I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane. I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I’ve been ridiculously busy so I haven’t gotten around to it. I’m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff. Space Opera I read the first […]
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I cast my vote
I returned home to Tokyo two days ago, Sunday evening. The plane landed at about 4:30pm, and I made it home by about 7:30pm. I was exhausted, but I managed to drag myself over to my parent-in-law’s place for the usual Sunday evening dinner with Grandma-in-law and the family, and L. even showed up (straight […]
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San Francisco Roundup
Mom and Dave Mom and Dad It has been a while since my last post. Since then, L. has gone back to Japan, and I’ve been working. On the weekends, I take a quick trip out to visit some family, and then get back to my hotel late Sunday night, and back to work on […]
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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Some of my faves are on the soundtrack!
Just saw a commercial for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and was super excited to hear a Bishop Allen song in the commercial. I did a search, and the soundtrack looks awesome: my favorites, Bishop Allen, also my favorites, We Are Scientists, Vampire Weekend (great set a Summer Sonic 2008!), Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, […]
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Napa Valley Trip
Trefethen Barrel Room Heating up a balloon Ballooning in Napa Valley Folding up the balloons Last week I packed up a bag, and flew from Tokyo to San Francisco. I’ll be here in CA for about a month for training at my new job. It is really nice to be back in the US after […]
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How the free ebook “Old Man’s War” sold a bunch of other John Scalzi books
A while back, I wrote about reading Ebooks on the OLPC. I am really interested in getting myself a Kindle, but until there is a Japanese release I don’t see the point of buying one: the wireless portion won’t work in Japan, and that is a very attractive feature that I would rather not neuter. […]
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My computer smells funny
I really don’t like funny smells that come from computer equipment. Read on if you want to hear about power supplies and funny smells. This morning, I woke up and started working on email in preparation for a long day of weekend work. Instead, after a little while, my desktop computer, a new […]
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The trials of installing a video card under linux
For a long time I have been running my home linux machine (Fedora 8) on the built-in video chipset, an Intel GMA3100 that is on the Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H. It actually has an HDMI connection, which is interesting, but the video capabilities of the part just aren’t that great. I guess the performance is OK, but […]
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The Crabbing Boat
I heard about this book sometime last week I think. I’m not sure where, but probably from one of the blogs that I follow. It is a very interesting and curious phenomena: a book written in 1929 becomes suddenly very popular. I’m curious, and thinking about getting a copy. Anyway, first up: an excellent introduction […]
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Changing Jobs
NII Group Shot After two and a half years, last week was my last week at the National Institute of Informatics. As of this week, I am starting a new job working on Japanese search at Amazon.co.jp. You might have noticed that I have been using a lot of Amazon.com affiliate links lately and this […]
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Our new “Mansion”
Living Room Kitchen Computer Desk I never thought that I would be able to say it, but “I own a Mansion.” Of course, this is a Japanese style mansion, so it really means “steel-reinforced concrete apartment”, but still. L. and I bought a two bedroom apartment, a 2LDK in Japanese parlance (2 bedrooms, a livingroom […]
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Ebook reviews: Peter Watts’ Maelstrom and Behemoth
In the past I read and wrote up Peter Watts’ Starfish. The review comes off a bit negative I think, which isn’t quite right because immediately after Starfish, I found the other two novels online and started reading them (sequentially, not in parallel.) Maelstrom has a different focus than Starfish, and went into more detail […]
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