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Seeing Enka in a new light – or how I realized I had finally reached middle-age
This past New Years Eve my family and I were invited to the home of some Japanese friends of ours to watch Kouhaku Utagassen, a TV show that NHK broadcasts every New Years Eve where all the year’s most popular … Continue reading
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First Business Trip to Japan
Friday night I got back from a two-week trip to Japan, my first business trip for my new job. It was an interesting experience, I’ll do my best to blog about it without revealing too many details about specifics, since … Continue reading
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Star Wars Cinematic Trailer
Some of you might have seen this video last year as a promotional video for the up-coming star wars mmorpg, Star Wars: the Old Republic by Bioware. I have little to say about the game because I doubt that I … Continue reading
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Brontë Sisters
How is it I have never seen this before? This is totally awesome.
Pseudo-spam comments
My blog, since it has a posting frequency and readership in the single digits, doesn’t generate a lot of traffic or original viewers. But like any blog, comment spam is a continuous problem. I use the Akismet and WP-SpamFree plugins … Continue reading
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Trackmania: the Successor to Stunts
You may or may not recall the PC game Stunts back from the early 90’s. It was a fairly basic driving game, but the fun part was it had a track editor that allowed you to make your own tracks … Continue reading
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Internet Vigilantism
Cyber-bullying and such has recently come into the consciousness and lexicon of the internet-using west. Incidents like the Star Wars kid or more tragically Megan Meier have made us more aware and wary of what us and our children are … Continue reading
Approximation in Science and Engineering
One of the more interesting skills learned as an engineer or a scientist is the art/skill (it’s really both) of being able to make reasonable order-of-magnitude estimates. Using a combination of knowledge, common sense, reasoning, intuition, and some quick hand … Continue reading
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Looking up Ancient Japanese/Chinese Script
In my never ending quest to understand a little more of the Japanese language (and never succeeding because I never invest enough time in it), one thing that consistently frustrates me is old and ancient script. In the title wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese Language
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