Category: Fun and Games
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Something about Heroes annoys me
I have been watching the NBC show Heroes lately. It is a great show. I really love Hiro, he’s a great character. In general, I really like this show. There is one thing that really bothers me on the show. There are a few people in the show that speak Japanese. The main ones so […]
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A quick trip to the Setagaya Art Museum
Art Museum This Way Aesthetic Eyes of Aoyama Jiro A friend of mine, Mie, who I met at the wonderful Saraba bar in Jiyugaoka, works at the Setagaya Art Museum. The other day she told Lisa that they were having a fun exhibit at the museum. A guy who writes children’s books would do a […]
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A Quick Trip to the MoMA
I came to New York for a few days for a friends wedding, and while here I stopped by for a brief visit at the Museum of Modern Art. I really enjoy the MoMA, and have visited there often. For the wedding of my friends Ron and Michelle my sisters and I got them a […]
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Kwik-E-Mart store front Chief Wiggum likes the donuts Lots of Buzz Cola Buzz Cola and Donuts As part of the promotion for the Simpsons Movie, about 12 7-11 stores have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts, the mythical convenience store from the show. Since there is one in New York City, and I happen to be there […]
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Books: Ian M. Banks’ Excession
I generally have a few English books on my shelves that I am saving for transcontinental flights to pass the time. On this past trip to Italy, before getting on the plane on an impulse I purchased SAGA Jun’ichi’s Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld (translated by John Bester.) It was a […]
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Emulating Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on the GP2X
Not too long ago, I wrote about my old-school CRPG party-based gaming obsession. Randomly coming across a version of Wizardry I-III for cell phones in Japan rekindled my interest, but sadly my cell phone “terminal” （端末） is not compatible so I can’t play it. It was very aggravating, because I know that there is a […]
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Bitten by the CRPG Bug, memories of hex-editing savegames
A long time ago, back in the days when the big fight was whether an Apple //e or a Commodore 64 was a better machine (the answer is Apple //e, but I might accept Atari ST as well) I used to play a lot of Computer Role Playing Games (CRPGs.) Click the link to read […]
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Babylon 5
In the past few months, I’ve been watching Babylon 5. I noticed the first season available for rent at Tsutaya, and since I really enjoyed the series when I watched it on TV back in the 90s, I decided to rent it. Of course, after watching the first season, I had no choice but to […]