DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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The Hollywood Writer’s Strike
I have to admit that the Hollywood Writer’s Strike has had almost zero impact on me, seeing as how I live in Japan and don’t have access to American TV. There has been one thing that I miss though: new episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report (with Steven Colbert?) […]
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A pro (sometimes) basketball player that is funny, writes well, and has great taste in music?
I’ve enjoyed Paul Shirley’s blog entries written for ESPN, and now he has written a “Best albums of 2007” entry. This isn’t really something you would expect from a pro basketball player, but I think he’s got some real gems in that list. Color me impressed. I also highly recommend reading Paul Shirely’s stuff if […]
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The Enemy Concert in Ebisu’s Liquid Room
My girlfriend likes the the UK Band The Enemy, whom she saw at Summer Sonic (I was off seeing other bands at the time.) She picked up a pair of tickets to their show on Monday the 10th at Ebisu’s Liquid Room and we went together. I have their album “We’ll live and die in […]
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Praise for Portal
About two weeks ago, I decided to buy Valve’s Portal. Now, generally I don’t play many games, but I have been reading two blogs that focus on games which have both been giving high praise for Portal. The first, Shamus Young’s Twenty Sided has a lot of gaming (both pen-and-paper RPG and computer type) information, […]
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The 2007 Japanese New Word / Buzzword / Hot Phrase Prize
I woke up this morning and was surprised to see on the news that there is a yearly Japanese new word / hot phrase prize awarded. It looks like this prize is sponsored by a publishing company, and has been awarded annually since 1984. You can check their yearly archive to see who won the […]
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Bad Omens
Today started off with a bad omen: I slept in for an entire hour. Usually I’m very good about getting up on time, but I was up a bit late last night. Even though I went home early (home by about 7:45pm) I logged on to some machines at work, and (slowly, while watching House) […]
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Fedora Core / RHEL don’t seem to come with up-to-date versions of Scalar::Util
I ran into this problem once before on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine, and now I am having the same problem on my Fedora Core (7 I think) machine. The problem is that CPAN is unable to install various things, in particular Bundle::CPAN, because: You don’t have the XS version of Scalar::Util I have […]
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SELinux Problems, solutions
In general, I really like the idea of SELinux. It conceptually allows you to specify users, roles, and types for files and then checks against those conditions when something tries to access the files. It will only allow users that match the user condition, roles that match the role condition, and types that match the […]
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Using the Gimp to automate “cleaning” of scanned B&W images
Sometimes I play around with translating manga for fun. It doesn’t really seem to get me much of anything except for lots of requests from punks to translate their favorite naruto doujinshi, but it is fun and relaxing with the bonus that I learn some cool casual Japanese. I like to translate with a program […]
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Spectating the New York Marathon
Las Diablas, with sign Larry the Lighthouse Lots of runners By a surprising coincidence I was in New York at the same time my twin sister ran the New York Marathon. This really wasn’t planned, and just happened: I am in the US to attend the TREC conference in Washington DC and before the conference […]
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
(Beware, spoilers may follow.) Since I came to Japan I have not been reading too many English books. I really enjoy trying to read novels in Japanese, and am currently (slowly) fighting my way through Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka by the Sea.” I leave English books, which I devour, as fodder for passing time on the […]
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Overheard at the bar
When she said priori probability, I think she meant a-priori probability … Of course, I have to admit that this bar is the one in the hotel where many attendees of the TREC conference are staying, but still, I think it is a very funny bit of overheard conversation. I kind of like the idea […]
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