ctf changelog ( Read more... )

Recently got back from climbing Fuji. To say the least, it's a big mountain. The trail was long and steep (at least compared to what I am used to) and I gained about 12000 feet of elevation withing a few hours (including the bus ride there) so even just sitting around at the top i felt out of breath. The weather was nice most of the time. When we ( Read more... )

Today I accidentally left one of Nagi's dogs in my room, with a few Hershey's kisses on the floor. Her mom entered the room a little while later to find that the dog ate all of them! Apparently, many dogs die every year from eating Chocolate (I researched it afterwards), but the dog so far has been a little hyper but not sick, perhaps because we ( Read more... )

So lately, I went to Chiba to see some of Nagisas relatives. It was fun, lots of Japanese practice, and I ate lots of food. Mostly various parts of various sea creatures that I don't know and don't want to know ( Read more... )

Im in chiba right for the next few days, which is considerably closer to tokyo then i usually am. I dont know if ill have any free time in the next few days but if so parhaps ill come to tokyo again (galen/addy/sam: did yall get back to tokyo yet? brian did you go to osaka yet?)

Today a building blew up in Shibuya. It was a small "onsen" (bathing house) that blew up from gas buildup, and 3 people died. Thats all the info i could get from watching the news in japanese. Pretty nuts though ( Read more... )

I will do near daily updates on progress with Phobic Engine. I'm porting to Cocoa, after watching several debates on the internet about what apple's future plans are with Carbon, after announcing at WWDC that Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard ( Read more... )

Part of learning new words is looking for similarities to words you know already. The Japanese word for name is strikingly similar to english: "namae", and it's one word I never had to worry about forgetting on an oral test, but the written form reveals that the similarity to English is purely coincidence. The "na" is written with the chinese ( Read more... )

The following text is excerpts from emails I've sent since I got to Japan that I should have been posting here as well. Hopefully an interesting and perhaps even informative read for you guys ( Read more... )

To People ( Read more... )