DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Electric Sheep Beta playing nice with mplayer and xscreensaver on Fedora 8 Linux
I’ve been a fan of the Electric Sheep screensaver for a long time, but I haven’t been running it lately. It turns out that there is now a new linux version, so I thought I would try to install it on my home machine running Fedora 8. The source install went great, I already had […]
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Ebook review: Peter Watts’ Starfish
Peter Watts: Starfish This book is a 1999 first novel. It is set primarily deep in the sea, near the volcanic vents where there is strange sealife that glows in the dark and have made other adaptations to the crushing pressure. At first, I had a really hard time getting into this novel. I didn’t […]
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The value of old things
40 old shirts (T and collared) sold at Bingo’s Jiyugaoka shop. 30 old books (English and Japanese) sold at (of course) Jiyugaoka’s Book Off. Results: ~ 2000 yen. How depressing! My “stuff” is hardly worth anything! The books were the hardest to part with. In the end, I kept my totally awesome leatherbound Hitchhiker’s Guide […]
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Playing around with the OLPC / XO
OLPC in closed up mode OLPC in notebook mode Transform into ebook mode! OLPC in Ebook mode My family recently came to Japan to meet my wife and her family, and my dad gave me a great toy: an OLPC / XO laptop that he got through the Give one Get One program. I’m excited […]
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Ebook Reviews
Warning: I’ve got more Amazon links on the book covers. I like having little pictures to go with the words though, and this seems like a reasonable way to do it. If you buy stuff from the links maybe I get some money, but since I think that will go to my US address, it […]
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