Category Archives: General

Everything else, or if I’m just too lazy to catagorize it in another category.

Watership Down subtitles, pt. 2

A couple of years ago I made a post about making Japanese subtitles for the the 1978 British cartoon Watership Down, based on the book by Richard Adams. Back then I had actually finished 3/4 of it when I made … Continue reading

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Fantastic Contraption

I ran across this flash game while I was killing some time during lunch. It’s quite addictive (and frustrating), and really appeals to the engineer in me. What I really like about it is the open-ended nature of it. There … Continue reading

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Hitler and Dragonball Z

I’ve been busy lately, haven’t had much time to post anything. Here is a quick post. I ran across this video the other day. It’s a clip from a German movie Downfall, a movie about the last few days of … Continue reading

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Trip to Burnet, pt. 2

I mentioned in my last post that there was one other interesting thing that I would mention. Among the various artifacts in the museum was an old desk. Looking at it, it had this sign on the front: Mormons? In … Continue reading

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Trip to Burnet

Last Saturday Ryoko wanted to get out of the house and go somewhere. This is actually harder than it seems. It being August in Texas, it’s 95 to 100 degrees every day, the only exception being if it happens to … Continue reading

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How to get 92 heads in a row, pt. 2

Two posts ago I showed how many coin flips it would take in order to have a 98% confidence of getting 92 heads in a row (à la Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead). The answer turns out to be \(3.874\times … Continue reading

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Documents revealed about Taishō Emperor

My wife pointed out a very interesting article to me this morning about the Taishō Emperor, who was the emperor of Japan from 1912 to 1926. Specifically, the Imperial Household Agency released some of the official records from his reign. … Continue reading

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This Sailor Moon thing is a little wierd

Since we speak mostly Japanese at home, most of the children’s books we have for our girls are also in Japanese. Recently we received some older children’s books from another Japanese family whose children are older and have grown out … Continue reading

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Taiwan Trip – part 2

This is out of chronological order, but I thought I would talk a little about my adventure in getting to the conference. I left on Jan. 11, and my itinerary was to fly to San Fransisco, then fly to Taipei, … Continue reading

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Hiatus

Well, it’s been about 3 months since I posted anything here. I had lost the password to log on, so I had to get my friend Mitch (who provides the webspace here for me and is the general administrator to … Continue reading

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