DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Mitama Matsuri at Yasukuni Jinjya
On Friday, I with some friends from work to the Mitama Matsuri at Yasukuni Jinjya. This is a very interesting trip all around, because it is a traditional Japanese Matsuri (festival) that takes place in a temple that honors those who have fallen during wartime (Yasukuni Temple.) The temple itself has been the center of, […]
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Decision making in the absence of information
Did I ever tell you the story of Eunice “The Cutey”? It is a favorite story of mine. Years ago, when I started the PhD program at Columbia, I met a guy in my Program Languages and Translators class that I thought was totally awesome. He was wearing a Hoagie Haven T-shirt (I liked that […]
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How to use Excel charts in LaTeX documents on Mac OSX
I use LaTeX to write most of my research-related papers. I really like LaTeX. I think it has a high learning curve, but it does give very nice results, makes formatting something you don’t have to think about, and is great with references and citations. I love how you can easily re-organize your paper’s structure, […]
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DyDo Blend Coffee
A blurry picture, but this is DyDo Blend coffee. It seemed unremarkable, but I would drink it again.
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Georgia Summer Cafe
In Japan there are often limited-time drinks and bentos for sale in the convenience stores. This is one of the limited-time canned coffees, the fairly nice “Summer Cafe”. Incidentaly, because it is summer, all of the coffee vending machines in the building only sell cold cans now, and quit selling the warm cans.
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Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture
This weekend I watched a movie, Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture that I had spotted quite a while ago, and thought might be interesting. A Go-con is certainly a formal institution in Japanese culture, although it isn’t really quite clear to me what role it plays, and how I personally should relate to the phenomena. It […]
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Moving to Oyamadai
Moving by bicycle On Friday, 2006-06-09, the movers came to move the furniture from the apartment in Fukuzawa to my new place in Oyamadai. Officially I was able to move in from June first, but I wanted to move as much as my stuff as possible before making the actual move. I also needed some […]
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Roots’ Mountain High
Another coffee from the Roots line of coffees. I really liked the previous Roots coffee I tried, and I like this one as well. The can still retains the distinctive shape, and the coffee itself was pretty good. It wasn’t as sweet as the other Roots coffee I tried, but was nice. I think the […]
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Traditional First Meal
As with any true Evans Family move, the first meal in my new apartment was an ice cream dinner. The Great Ice Cream Debacle of 1986 (?) is still legendary in my mind. The whole family was moving cross-country, from Los Angelos to Princeton, New Jersey, and had to stay temporarily in the Princeton Scanticon […]
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Georgia MAX Coffee
I somehow managed to forget to upload this coffee. A few weeks back my friend Mami brought this coffee all the way from Chiba, where she lives. You can’t tell in this shot, but the can is maybe 1.3 times the size of the normal coffee cans, hence the MAX I assume. It was a […]
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Happy Road Oyamadai
Happy Road Oyamadai. It is a super cute little town. This Baskin Robbins, a mere seconds from my apartment, could spell trouble for me. My living room, sans furniture. The bedroom is off to the left. Click on the picture for more apartment shots. In June 2006, I made the move to an apartment of […]
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Canned coffee backlog
This past week I’ve had four new coffees – I think. They were all quite good, a bit sweet, and enjoyable. I really think the Fire brand of coffees has been quite good overall, and I like Boss just about always. All of these pictures were also taken with the camera on my phone, which […]
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