DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Pizza: A comarison between Italian, New York, and Japanese perspectives
Japanese Pizza Italian Prosciutto Pizza New York (Koronet) Pizza On my recent trip to Italy, New York, and Dallas, I ate some good food. Great seafood in Italy, and excellent steak and BBQ in Dallas. In New York, one of the things that I most wanted to eat was good old-fashioned New York style Pizza […]
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It’s good to be back (home) in Japan
Returning from a two-week long trip to Italy for a conference, and then later New York for my friend Carl’s wedding, and then Dallas to visit with family. Italy was great, and I plan to write a blog entry about that soon if I can find the time. Carl’s wedding in New York was great, […]
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A Quick Trip to the MoMA
I came to New York for a few days for a friends wedding, and while here I stopped by for a brief visit at the Museum of Modern Art. I really enjoy the MoMA, and have visited there often. For the wedding of my friends Ron and Michelle my sisters and I got them a […]
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Kwik-E-Mart store front Chief Wiggum likes the donuts Lots of Buzz Cola Buzz Cola and Donuts As part of the promotion for the Simpsons Movie, about 12 7-11 stores have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts, the mythical convenience store from the show. Since there is one in New York City, and I happen to be there […]
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Books: Ian M. Banks’ Excession
I generally have a few English books on my shelves that I am saving for transcontinental flights to pass the time. On this past trip to Italy, before getting on the plane on an impulse I purchased SAGA Jun’ichi’s Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld (translated by John Bester.) It was a […]
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Sable-Koo Wedding
Sable-Koo Wedding Photos On Sunday, July 15th, 2007 my good friend Carl Sable married the beautiful Cha-Eun Koo in New Jersey. While I was a grad students at Columbia University, one of my first and best friends I made there was Carl Sable. I think the story about how we met is completely indicative of […]
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Unlikely food combinations: What are you thinking, Japan!?
This is a post that started from a Mixi post I made about unusual donuts (in Japanese) and then purely by coincidence the next day I stumbled upon some other unusual foodstuffs. First, on with the donuts. Don’t make donuts out of that Ham and Cheese Donuts Maccha and Azuki Donuts On the way home […]
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Catching up on movies
Over the past week or so, I’ve watched a few movies. I thought I would comment on them here, since that is what I said I would do when I started the “Movies” section. First up is Children of Men. I didn’t know anything about this movie other than that it is in the Science […]
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Installing the Perl Technorati API implementation WebService::Technorati on OSX via CPAN
This will be yet another entertaining dive into installing software on OSX. For today’s task, I want to install the Perl WebService::Technorati API interface to the Technorati blog search / aggregation site. Usually, I do something like $ perl -MCPAN -e shell to get a CPAN shell, and then install WebService::Technorati and hit “yes” when […]
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Chungking Express
ミクシィでの日本語版 On Saturday (a week ago), I invited from friends over to watch a movie. My absolute favorite movie of all time, Chungking Express. I don’t really have anything insightful to say other than Chungking Express is a great movie. I was happy that the local Tsutaya had the movie in stock. They don’t seem […]
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Added SPF support to fugutabetai.com mailserver
Using the Postfix and SPF howto over on howtoforge.com I added SPF support to the Fugutabetai.com mail servers. It looks like that is working well, so after a few weeks go by, I’ll try to remember to look at the logs and see if SPF has been useful at all at rejecting spam from known […]
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A trip to faraway Yokohama for Gyoza
日本語で Last Sunday I headed out to Yokohama with my friend after a relaxing weekend. About a year ago, a researcher I met while at Columbia University who grew up in Yokohama took me to a Gyoza shop in Sakuragicho, Yokohama that he said has some of the best Gyoza in Japan. For reference, that […]
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