DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Boss Rainbow Mountain Blend
At the local 7-11 I noticed that they had my favorite, Boss Rainbow Mountain Blend, in some sort of strange two pack. It comes with a Hokuto no ken something or other. No discount on the dual pack, still 2*120, but they do throw in the toy. This is the second toy I’ve got. A […]
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Fire Mocha 100%
Today’s coffee: Fire Mocha 100%. Man, this is a real man’s coffee, a strong bitter taste, not sweet at all. Like black coffee, of which I’m not a real fan. Still, wakes me up and does the job. Also, as with yesterday’s Fire brand coffee, this one came out of the machine cold.
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Daily Japanese Canned Coffee: “Blend of Fire”
At work, after lunch I drink a canned coffee to help keep me awake through the afternoon push. I really like Japanese Canned Coffee. Sometimes it is hot, sometimes it is cold. Sometimes bought in vending machines, sometimes bought in stores. I’ve decided to document each type of coffee that I drink. The goal is […]
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Hamarikyuu Park and Monjya-yaki
F. and I went for a walk in Tokyo on Saturday. We first went to Hamarikyuu Park, and looked at some of the cherry blossoms. They are just about in full bloom now. NHK was there filming, which we later saw on TV that night. Hamarikyuu Park has a pine tree that is 300 years […]
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細木和子 (Hosoki Kazuko) Japanese fortune-teller, and Japanese dramas
So I got home at about 8pm today, ate dinner and started flipping through channels on the TV. I came across a special for Hosoki Kazuko’s birthday, who is a well-known fortune teller. She has people on a show and then gives them (typically brutal) advice, from what I could tell. I really couldn’t believe […]
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Celebrating one week at work (in Japan)
So this weekend I am celebrating one week at work in Japan. Things are going well so far, although the commute is a bit crowded sometimes. I’ve settled on getting up at 6:30 to catch a 7:10 train or so, getting in to work at 8:15. Going home varies, but usually it isn’t as crowded […]
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Sightseeing in and around Tokyo
My friends Ron and Michelle stopped by Tokyo for four days to visit Eric and myself. They have been travelling around the world, Manilla and Hong Kong, while on Spring break. Ron is an excellent architect, so he had an entire itenerary of buildings lined up that he wanted to see. Since their time was […]
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Landed in Japan
I arrived in Japan yesterday. Filled out the forms for my foreigner registration card today, and got a new cell phone. I start work tomorrow, and am utterly exhausted right now (9:30pm local time.) Looks like if I can get a good night’s sleep tonight, jetlag might not be a problem.
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Ditching SpamAssassin, using GMail as a Spam Filter
So I run my own mailserver that serves http://FuguTabetai.com/, http://MangaTranslation.com/, http://SMUGeeks.com/, and http://JevansCeramics.com/. The problem is, even after adding some extra rules to SpamAssassin, it really hasn’t done a great job catching the spam, and worse it takes up a lot of RAM and CPU time on my virtual private server. The VPS is from […]
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Where in the world are the Evans kids?
My grandmother and mother have a problem. They don’t know where us Evans kids are. We travel around a lot, and don’t stay in one place for long. So I thought it would be a fun project to code up a PHP / MySQL web application that puts us on a Google Map. Of course, […]
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Added simple comment spam protection
I’ve added simple comment spam protection to my bblog. Hopefully it will keep the spam bots from getting comments in that I need to moderate. I’ll put installation instructions below. First, we have to determine if your system supports FreeType fonts in GD or not. Do do that, download http://FuguTabetai.com/phptest.txt and put that on the […]
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Installing mt-daapd to server iTunes music from Fedora Core 4 linux box
So I have a collection of music that I like to play using Amarok on my Fedora Core 4 linux laptop, and since I recently picked up a 15″ PowerBook, I thought it would be fun to install a daap server. I decided on mt-daapd (over daapd, but I can’t really say why.) There are […]
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