DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Capote
I do not remember exactly when, but while programming over the weekend I had Caopte running in the background. It was a really interesting movie.
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Gallery Hopping in Tokyo
On Saturday I met up with my friend Fumie Hiratai and we went gallery hopping with another friend of hers. Fumie is a very good guide to the art scene in Tokyo. We met when she was working at NII, but she is an artist and was able to give up her job at NII […]
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Weatherman
Weatherman IMDB site Weatherman official site A Nicholas Cage vehicle, pretty slow-paced and fairly enjoyable. I didn’t like the Nicholas Cage character – Dave Spritz, I seem to notice a lot of Dave characters and people in the news getting bad publicity for our shared name (particularly the Duke LaCrosse player accused of rape recently) […]
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Movies on FuguTabetai.com
I’m starting a section for movies that I watch. I can’t really say that I am a movie buff, but I do enjoy movies. What I used to enjoy most about movies was going to see a movie with my movie buff friend Carl Sable at the Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem, New York. That […]
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Adventures in Cooking: Omurice
Japanese Omurice I haven’t had the time to cook since I got to Japan. While I was at IKEA the other day buying a new sofa, I also picked up a Skänka wok for about 2,500 yen. I thought it would be a good time to test it out. I’m big fan of Omurice. (Omelette […]
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Who killed the Electric car?
Who Killed the Electric Car?, official Sony Pictures site. Who Killed the Electric Car?, IMDB site. So I watched this interesting documentary today. I like the idea of Electric Cars. I think they suit the needs of maybe 80% of the commuters in America today. I’m really surprised that they were shut down so fiercly […]
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My new Fågelbo Couch
IKEA Fågelbo Couch I bought an IKEA sofa-bed. It is large and dominates my living room, but I love it because I can lay down on it, and it can transform into a bed as well. I was really impressed that the delivery company also assembled the thing. Many thanks also to my friend Andy […]
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Sumo Wrestling In Tokyo
Sumo Wrestling Photo Set on Flickr.com On Thursday, Andy and I went to the Sumo Tournament in Tokyo at the Kokugikaikan. We had box seats for two, and got there pretty early. While we watched the early matches of unranked (and lower-level ranked) Sumo wrestlers, there weren’t too many other spectators around. We did get […]
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Tokyo Disney Sea
Tokyo Disney Sea Pictures My friend Mayumi invited me to Tokyo Disney Sea a few weeks back. Monday the 18th is a national holiday in Japan (the respect the day of the elders holiday) so for the long weekend she was planning to go with a friend of hers to Disney Sea. I had never […]
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IPSJ in Shinjuku Day two
Wednesday was the final day of the IPSJ meeting. I’ve got more comments on the papers that I saw that day below. Yoshihisa Shinozawa – “Extended simple recurrent networks by using bigram” – Keio University I had a tough time understanding this paper: I don’t know much about word nets using perceptrons. I also had […]
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Information Processing Society of Japan Natural Language Meeting
Notes from the 2006-09-12 to 13 Information Processing Society of Japan meeting. The Information Processing Society of Japan Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing holds bi-monthly meetings all around Japan. Two months ago, the meeting was in Hakodate. This time, the meeting was in Shinjuku, very close to where I live, so I decided […]
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Somebody doesn’t like my bike…
So this morning when I went to grab my bike to go home from Jiyugaoka (why I was headed home early this morning is another story entirely) my front tire was entirely flat. This is actually the second time this has happened, and it was strange because the tire itself was not punctured, the air […]
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