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Japanese X-men

Any geek that grew up in the 80’s or 90’s probably remembers the X-men cartoon that was on during the 90’s. The animation wasn’t all that great, but it was still entertaining for this teenager at the time. The intro … Continue reading

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L. B. Rayne

Sometimes you see something on the interblags that is so awesome you have to share it, even though everyone has probably already seen it before you. This is one of those things. Yesterday I discovered the music videos of L. … Continue reading

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Fractal Fun

A couple of years ago I wrote a post where I talked about taking the imaginary number i to it’s own power an infinite amount of times, essentially \(\LARGE{i^{i^{i^{i^{.^{.^.}}}}}}\). I showed numerically at least that it converges upon a single … Continue reading

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Tower of Hanoi

I was chatting with my brother Porter the other day and he told me how he made a Tower of Hanoi game for his children to play with. It’s a fairly simple game with a well-known binary sequence to solving … Continue reading

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RSS feeds

Overall, I consider myself to be fairly tech-savvy. I program in multiple languages for my research (right now: python and MATLAB, though I have used C++), I use both windows and linux systems (though I’m still not entirely comfortable in … Continue reading

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Japanese Light Novels

One of the things that I enjoy about going back to Japan for a few weeks each summer is that it allows me go to to the bookstore and purchase some new reading material in Japanese. Now my Japanese is … Continue reading

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Translation Party

As a speaker of Japanese and English, I find this hilarious. Translation Party is a site that uses the Google automatic translation to hilarious effect. Now the basis is nothing new. Ever since Babelfish came out, people have been using … Continue reading

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Satogaeri to Imazu, Part 2: The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

Except for my quest to find an internet connection, the first few days here in Imazu were pretty uneventful. Usually we’re too jet-lagged to do much anyway, so it’s fine with us. Yesterday though, we took a trip to Fukui … Continue reading

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Satogaeri to Imazu Part. 1

Satogaeri (里帰り) means ‘returning to your hometown’, and is used for when you go back to your hometown to visit your family. Ryoko is from a small town of Imazu on the northeast shore of Lake Biwa, about an hour … Continue reading

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Anime Recommendations

Ryoko and I have recently just finished watching an anime series, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s called Seirei no Moribito, which translates as Guardian of the Sacred Spirit. It takes place in a fantasy world that is strikingly … Continue reading

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