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Favorite Fight Scene From a Martial Arts Movie
Back in our younger days, my younger brother and I were quite the aficionados for low-budget martial arts movies. We’re not talking Jackie Chan movies here, those movies are grade-A top quality compared to some of the stuff we regularly … Continue reading
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Light Reflection in the Rain
Take a look at all these photos of city streets in the rain. I found them all on google image search and I am shamelessly hotlinking them: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I was driving home … Continue reading
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Fear of Uncomfortable or Embarrassing Scenes in Books/Movies/TV, etc.
With my wife and kids in Japan, I have been spending a lot more time reading, watching movies and TV shows, etc. Although reading books is usually a personal experience, watching TV or movies is often a social experience. But … Continue reading
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Extremely Amateur Digital Recovery
Since I’m all by myself for the next few weeks with the wife and the girls in Japan, I’ve been finding projects and such to do that I normally never find the time to get around to. Today I tackled … Continue reading
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Pirates vs. Ninjas vs. Power Rangers?
We all know about the Pirates vs. Ninjas meme, but what happens when the ninjas are pirates? That’s what happened with last year’s incarnation of the Super Sentai, Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger (Pirate Warriors Goukaiger). So the Super Sentai are the … Continue reading
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Back in Austin
I just got back from 3 months working in Japan on an assignment. It was a very interesting experience, but I’m glad to be back with my family. One thing I noticed that I had never seen before: looking to … Continue reading
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My Erdős–Bacon number
Most people have heard of the Bacon number, the number of degrees of separation an actor has from Kevin Bacon, based of the Six Degrees of Separation idea. Well, this concept of looking up and assigning numbers based on the … Continue reading
Short Trip to Korea, pt. 3
My flight from Seoul back to Fukuoka was at 6:30 pm, so that meant I had until about 2:30 to 3:00 to do something on Saturday morning. At one of my friend’s suggestion, I decided to go on a guided … Continue reading
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Short trip to Korea, pt. 2
June 1st, 1:00 pm: So I finally made my way to Yongsan station. I had a general map of the area that I had printed out from google maps, but I had difficulty orienting myself inside the station, so I … Continue reading
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Short trip to Korea, pt. 1
And by short, I mean short. I’ve been in in Kumamoto, Japan on an extended business trip for most of the summer (since mid-May, in fact), working on a project here. In fact the trip is so long that I … Continue reading
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