Recently finished: The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin. Great stuff, as is just about everything she writes . . . There’s an artistic concept called 間 (ma, or “empty space”) that’s used in many Japanese art forms–the blank space around the ink in a picture, the quiet moment in a Miyazaki movie when you see [...]
Archive for October, 2006
A successful update
Now running this thing on Movable Type 3.33. This makes this blog (and the other one I run off of this same installation) officially 0.13 better than it was just this afternoon! I’m sure you can see the quality shining through your monitor. And with that, I’m going home. Enough FTP madness for one day.
Word watch
This Japan.internet.com piece uses a couple words I hadn’t seen before today, although I understood them right away from context. The title: ネトゲのプレイコストはオフゲより格安？ “Net [online] games” and “offline games” in easily digested katakana. And “play cost” for good measure. The folks at the National Institute for Japanese Language would go into conniptions looking at this. [...]
Rescued post 2006/10/6
Taken from another blog I’m shutting down, and stuck in here for posterity, or something. Yeah baby. Drinking beer and making interesting combinations of leftovers right now. In some farming areas (including my sort of out-of-the-way part of Tokyo) people stick their crops in plastic bags, nail up a can, and post a sign telling [...]
Sorry Adam!
I was betraying my brother’s employer and having a look at these Google Gadgets For Your Webpage. This one looked fun; here’s an attempt to embed the thing in this page. I downloaded this game to play on the new iPod the other day. Not bad, although sometimes I tap the scroll wheel a bit [...]
