DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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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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Emulating Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on the GP2X
Not too long ago, I wrote about my old-school CRPG party-based gaming obsession. Randomly coming across a version of Wizardry I-III for cell phones in Japan rekindled my interest, but sadly my cell phone “terminal” （端末） is not compatible so I can’t play it. It was very aggravating, because I know that there is a […]
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Bitten by the CRPG Bug, memories of hex-editing savegames
A long time ago, back in the days when the big fight was whether an Apple //e or a Commodore 64 was a better machine (the answer is Apple //e, but I might accept Atari ST as well) I used to play a lot of Computer Role Playing Games (CRPGs.) Click the link to read […]
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Babylon 5
In the past few months, I’ve been watching Babylon 5. I noticed the first season available for rent at Tsutaya, and since I really enjoyed the series when I watched it on TV back in the 90s, I decided to rent it. Of course, after watching the first season, I had no choice but to […]
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