I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate with GemRB lately. I have found it to be pretty unstable on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9″, so I want to try to run it under a debugger and see where it crashes. My first step is to try to get the code locally and build it. I’ll need GIT […]

I spent a while today at work getting things to work in Gnu Screen, Emacs, and Japanese. What I want to be able to do is type japanese in the native environment IME over a terminal connected to a Gnu Screen session in Emacs. This has proved to be pretty difficult. For a long time […]

Last Thursday, R. and I went to see The Mystery Jets. We’ve seen them maybe two or three times now. I like them; they have good rhythms, nice hooks, and are pretty clean. They aren’t one of my favorite bands, but they are good and I enjoy listening to their stuff. Of course, they are […]

I was shocked awake at 5am this morning when I got a massive cramp in my right calf. It has been about a year since that happened. It seems like once a year, one of my calves decides to deliver a massive cramp to me, just to keep me on my toes. Ouch! Two hours […]

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.