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  • Installing Retexturizer plugin for Gimp on OSX

    Resynthesizer is an amazing plugin for the Gimp, an amazing open-source photo editing program. Since I usually run OSX, I like to use Gimp.app, but it does not include the Resynthesizer plugin. Gimpshop, a version of Gimp modified to be more like photoshop, is supposed to include Resynthesizer, but the version that I downloaded did […]

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Thursday night Risa and I had tickets to see Kaiser Chiefs. The crowd was again very lively, and pretty packed. As with most of the concerts I’ve gone to in Japan, the crowd for English and American bands was 60% female, maybe a bit more. The keyboardist for the group, “Peanut”, really reminded me of […]

  • Review of Wataya Risa’s “Keritai Senaka” / 綿矢リサの「蹴りたい背中」

    Winner of 2003 Akutagawa Prize Wikipedia page on Wataya Risa Excerpt of translation by Morgan G. A few weeks ago, I finished reading Wataya Risa’s second novel, 『蹴りたい背中』 (“The back I wanna kick”). For me, it was a minor milestone: it was the first Japanese novel that I have read in Japanese. I’ve studied the […]

  • A Scanner Darkly

    I watched A Scanner Darkly this weekend. I really liked the rotoscoped-style look of the movie. I’m a big fan of Philip K. Dick, but I haven’t read all of his stuff. I’ve never read A Scanner Darkly, so I was quite confused up until near the end of the movie, and then predictably, as […]

  • Maid Cafés in Japan

    Pinafore Maid Cafe The witch bar unattico-sttrega January 15th 社会研究調査 As part of a societal cultural research learning field trip, Benkei and I went with a friend of his to the Pinafore Maid Cafe. We went on a Wednesday evening, in the rain. This actually turned out to be pretty important, but more on that […]

  • IO Data LCD-TV241XBR LCD monitor with linux

    Ever since I came to Japan a year ago, I’ve wanted to get some sort of display device that was HD-capable and larger-format than the 15″ display on my ThinkPad A31p. Generally, I only watch a little bit of TV, some NHK news in the morning and evening, but I watch a lot of TV […]

  • Updated referrer tracking code

    This is an update to a previous post on simple referrer tracking. The original code is from justinsomnia.org. I was playing around with the referrer tracking code I use here over the past few days, and made some minor adjustments: I use a DHTML slider to set the range of days over which to track, […]

  • A somewhat embarrasing great achievement

    (Japanese version is here.) For the first time in my life, I have actually read an entire Japanese novel. I personally feel that it is something that I should celebrate, but I have to say that I am a bit embarrassed to say that it has taken me about a year to actually read this […]

  • Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo came to Tokyo, and I wasn’t going to miss that for anything. They’re touring in support of their new album, I m not afraid of you and I will beat your ass. I really like this album, and encourage you to pick it up. They played at Shibuya’s O-East, a fairly large […]

  • Nationalism / Isolationalism in Japan and perception of foreign crime

    I read a few blogs, and an interesting post over on What Japan Thinks about a survey on crime in Japan (and how foreigners are a large contributing factor) pointed me to another very interesting post over on Debito.org on a Japanese magazine about foreigner crime. It is definitely worth taking a look at both […]

  • Happy Cheap Chocolate Day!!

    Today is one of my favorite days of the year. The day after Valentine’s Day. Cheap Chocolate Day. When I stopped into 7-eleven this morning for my morning yogurt and bottle of lemon water, they were running 50% off of their Valentine’s Day Chocolate. Valentine’s Day is pretty big here in Japan, even more so […]

  • Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles

    I’ve been quite busy lately, but yesterday I threw on “Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles” while I did some work at home. I was a big fan of Robotech as a kid, I watched all three series, and of course didn’t realize that it was a mish-mash of three different anime brought over from Japan. I […]

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