Category: Fun and Games
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Review of the BBC Series Survivors (2008)
I recently watched the BBC Series “Survivors”, which is apparently a remake of a 1975 – 1978 British TV show. It came out in 2008 an concerns a virulent flu outbreak that kills off all but about 1% of the population. Put this on the TV and see if you can convince people that it […]
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My first, and last, Kart Racing Experience
Dave on the Kart Wait, I what now? I’m a winnar! They were the real winners though So last Sunday the guys at work set up a Kart racing outing. If you drive from Tokyo to Chiba, about an hour and a half from where R. and live, out in the boondocks, you can find […]
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Sakuracon 2009
By pure chance our hotel was next to the Seattle Convention Center. The week before was the big comic book convention, ComiCon. The day we left Seattle was the first day of the Sakura-con, an anime-themed convention in Seattle. Apparently. R. and I had a few minutes before leaving, so we popped into the convention […]
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From SFO to Seattle
R. and I were in Seattle. Click “read more” to see a bunch of pictures and words about it. Seattle Space Needle Seattle Public Library, one of my favorite buildings in the city Monorail! I heard it put Ogdenville on the map! You can just make out the bus tunnel out the front […]
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Dwarf Fortress tutorial
Dwarf Fortress is a game that I would like to play. I haven’t had time to look into it though, and it looks hard to to learn. When I get a chance, I should check out these Dwarf Fortress tutorials. And set up some machine that can play it. I hope it runs under WINE.
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Jeff Bezos and Kindle 2 on The Daily Show
Let’s see the clip. Oh, this isn’t a movie? $79 dollars a year for free shipping? That isn’t free, it’s $79 A YEAR! What is this thing? And that is the last time Jeff will see that kindle… I’m a big fan of The Daily Show. Imagine my surprise when I came home to watch […]
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Amazon’s Kindle 2
Not that I’m breaking any news here at all, but Amazon has announced the second version of their ebook reading, the Kindle. It is a nice looking piece of hardware. I actually tested a version of this a few months back when I was in Palo Alto. I really would like to get one of […]
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Game Center CX: So totally nerdy, it has to be Japanese
Arino-san Arino-san up close. He’s afraid of “the concept of (a) time (limit)!” Game screen shots with little explanations of the game characteristics. In this case, rappelling action is the key to the strategy. A while back I heard about Game Center CX (and an English Wikipedia link also.) It is a TV show that […]
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Things I’ve been watching on TV
These are things I’ve been watching on TV. I didn’t know much about “How I met your mother”, but I really like Neil Patrick Harris. So I started watching because he’s in it. I have no idea where I started watching from, but I really enjoy the series. Neil Patrick Harris’ character Barney is an […]
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Cool Amazon Robot Party
Large Danboard Robot (peeking over my cube wall) Mini Danboard Robot Danboard and mini Danboard hanging out together I envision that the start of the human-robot wars will look something like this A Danboard is a “robot” that showed up in volume 5 (I think – I’m only up to 3) of the Yotsubato! manga. […]