DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Summer Sonic 2008 Tokyo Music Festival: Day 2
Beach Stage Entrance L. And I grabbed a quick bite to eat then went our separate ways. I really want to see Vampire Weekend so I went out to Marine stage. Since I’m almost out of money, I tried to use an ATM here but it said: can’t complete transaction because it is outside of […]
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Summer Sonic 2008 Tokyo Music Festival: Day 1
I went to Summer Sonic today with L. It was great, but as I wrote last time, extremely tiring. I’m both looking forward to, and dreading, going back tomorrow. For those that are interested, here is a link to the Summer Sonic 2008 timetable. You can play along at home by choosing the bands that […]
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Moving out / Moving in
Empty bedroom moving out of the old place All my old stuff (it didn’t make the move) The new place is a mess! Dear blog, I know I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been busy. I know, it isn’t a good excuse. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again. (I hope.) Last week, on […]
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Fuji Rock Festival 2008
A brief post to update you on what I’ve been doing lately. Things are incredibly busy right now — I’m moving to my new apartment tomorrow and am currently packing — so I am a bit overdue for an update. L. is a big fan of The Cribs, an indie rock trio from England. They […]
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Tor.com has gone live, all ebooks from their giveaway made available for a week
This is just a really short post to point out the blog entry on the now-live Tor.com that has a collection of links to all the free ebooks they released and all the desktop wallpapers. I think they are only leaving those links live for a week, so you should check it out soon. It […]
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Things I never expected to actually say:
Maybe he broke my wookie? I broke my wookie! So actually I broke my wookie. He was in my bag, which is apparently a wookie-hostile environment, and when I pulled him out today he was broken. I never expected to say I broke my wookie! but it was the first that that popped into my […]
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Ebook review: Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End
So in my continuing line of ebook reviews, I present Vernon Vinge’s Rainbows End. Actually, this won’t be much of a review. It is freely available (at the link above, but I also have an Amazon.com link for the pretty cover) on his website and I highly recommend that you read it. This is a […]
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Moving Estimation is a lot harder than I expected
So I’m in the process of moving. I’ve talked about it before. One of the things that I have to do is get an estimate of how much it will cost to move stuff from the apartment I’m living in now to the new one. Click the “read more” link to keep reading about me […]
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A BBQ down by the Tamagawa River
Lots of people were having BBQs on Sunday down by the Tamagawa River BBQs make lots of garbage A surprisingly large number of men got naked and ran around Fundoshi and … tattoos On Sunday, I went down to the Tamagawa River for a BBQ with my friends Watanabe and Tokuda. I’ve been to maybe […]
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