Lucky Star English dubbed

Unboxed Cardboard box from UPS

Unboxed Eye-Fi Explore from Amazon.com via UPSI came home around 7pm looking forward to getting the new Eye-Fi Explore that has Wi-Fi geotagging and wayport HotSpot access. As usual the cardboard box was put in front of the door and the box was crunched like this photo. And it was so light.

After Dark

After Dark (Vintage International)Haruki MurakamiMurakami’s latest fiction is now out in English. I read the Japanese original like an year ago in a paperback and I love it.

I Survived a Japanese Game Show

I Survived a Japanese Game Show premieres June 24th on ABC 2YouTube なんかでくだらなくて話題になっているフレンドパークやらの日本のバラエティ番組をアメリカ人がやったらどうなるか的な番組。日本でロケしてるけど出てくる日本人風の客や司会は基本的に日系アメリカ人とかで、あくまで日本「風」。これは生ぬるく見守りたい番組。 This should be a pretty bad show. premiers on ABC tonight ;)

perfume - love the world

Perfume - LOVE THE WORLDHmm, it’s so early. Perfume’s latest single is out next week. And it’s so far as I listened to, the best song of theirs ever. Can’t believe Yasutaka Nakata delivers this great song, like almost every week with other artists like MEG and his own capsule. Wow. btw the intro (and outro) sounds a bit like the Ace Attorney BGM :) Update: Hmm, Tokuma Japan is taking down this videoclip as soon as they find it. Why should they do that when it is promotional? Something is wrong. Anyway, here’s the new one, and you can search on youtube once this one is deleted as well.┘♠┐○▀¢

Nico Nico Douga added VoxThis

SafariScreenSnapz001Nico Nico Douga the biggest video sharing site in Japan now added Vox This. this is good.

PLAY! is coming to SF

Dragon Warriors on Electronic Organ

For EURO 2008: Soccer bars/pubs in San Francisco

For those without Comcast subscription, or who wants to watch EURO 2008 games with crowds in San Francisco:- Mad Dog in the Fog- South Beach Cafe- Zeke’s Diamond Bar- Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub- O’Neill’s Irish Pub- (add your comment if you know more…)For the most days the 1st game will start on 9:00am and the 2nd on 11:45am on PDT.

ControllerMate

IMG_0399.JPGI’ve been using Cordless RumblePad 2 as a controller to manipulate my Mac mini from the couch by using GamePad Companion. It worked *okay *but the application apparently is not maintained anymore and there are some actions that I’d love to map but couldn’t.

Comcast or not

I want to watch EURO 2008 games in HD and the only choice I can do that at my apartment is to get subscribed to Comcast to watch ESPN2. Comcast website is just as retarded as they are and doesn’t allow me to figure out which channel is available on which plan (they have a table and the plan names don’t match with the actual plan. Lame) but it looks like the most basic Digital with HD option seems enough to watch ESPN 2.

Perfume in 8 bit

Indiana Jones played on Electronic Organ

Friday I'm in Love

Enjoyed this�trailer just�because of the tune. (Yeah, the aspect ratio of the embed is wrong. Get the HD version from here)

震度0

震度0 (朝日文庫 よ 15-1) (朝日文庫 よ 15-1)横山 秀夫NRT->SFO のフライトから読み始めて2/3 ぐらいまで読了。 １ページ目から警察の内部で反目し合うキャリア組・ノンキャリア組みたいな横山節全開で、読んでてつい笑ってしまうぐらい。 展開は面白いんだけどそういうディテールがくどくて若干おなかいっぱい気味。阪神大震災とからめているけどあんまりそれはどうでもいい感じで、不破課長失踪のあたりをどうまとめていくのかなぁ。。 ドラマ化したら面白そうとおもったら、やっぱりWOWOWでドラマ化、DVDにもなってるすね。

YAPC::Asia ending roll

The official, but unpublished YAPC::Asia ending movie is here. We planned to play this at the closing ceremony but we couldn’t because of Takesako-san’s hard drive trouble.創聖のアクエリオン ver高音質

Japan to consider Daylight Saving Time

asahi.com：首相、サマータイムに前向き　「やってない日本が異例」 - 政治http://www.asahi…. 　福田首相は２６日、夏季に時計の針を１時間進めるサマータイム（夏時間）制度の導入について、記者団に「やっていない日本が異例。我が国も制度を入れるべきだとの意見が強くなってきている。特に環境の問題があり、私もサマータイムをやってもいいのではないかと思っている」と述べ、前向きな姿勢を示した。 　首相は「かつて日本も戦後一時期（制度を導入）したことがあったが、やめてしまった。今は大体どの国もやっている。党の方でも検討をお願いしている」と語った。 　サマータイム制は、日中の明るい時間を有効活用し、エネルギー消費量を抑えるとされる。北海道洞爺湖サミットを控え、自民、民主、公明、国民新各党議員…Japanese PM wants to enable DST, starting as soon as 2009.

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Hakodate-nightThis time with the great night view in Hakodate. Original photo is on Flickr.

Relaxed in Hakodate

Was a bit cold (but not too cold) and had awesome 3 days with full of beer, sushi, ramen, crab, hotspring, soft ice cream, great night view and historical buildings. I really enjoyed it! The full set of photos are available on Flickr. IMG_2345IMG_2378IMG_2638IMG_2654IMG_2609IMG_2709IMG_2712IMG_2676IMG_2702IMG_2467IMG_2442IMG_2377IMG_2352

last sushi

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