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  • And We’re Back

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    Apologies for the site’s downtime — the server migration had a few hiccups involved moving over my SQL databases, and it took a few days to resolve everything. But it looks like it’s all good now, and all of my sites seem to be back up and running. Expect regular blogging to resume all over,…

  • PauseTalk Next Week

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    Following a summer break, PauseTalk is back this coming Monday (September 5) at Cafe Pause for a 53rd edition. The official session will start at 20:00, as always, but feel free to come earlier — I usually get there around 19:30 or so. I will be creating a Facebook event page — here is the PauseTalk…

  • PK Event on Wednesday

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    Just like I usually put PauseTalk on hold during August because of the summer slowdown (people tend to go awway on holidays), so does our regular PechaKucha Night series, but on the PK side of things, we are having something just as good this Wednesday (August 24) in the form of a special Heineken-sponsored PK…

  • Codex 37

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    The first episode of the Codex (37) I record in a month (since my data loss) is now up. It’s mostly songs I needed to get back, and then a couple of tracks from that great Nevermind cover album that SPIN magazine released to mark the 20th anniversary of the album.

  • I’m So Over This Summer Thing

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    So how’s your summer going? Is it hot enough for you? I can assure you that here in Tokyo we have had our fair share of hot weather, and it’s in no hurry to stop: A quick look at my weather widget shows a pretty steady mid-thirties for the rest of the week. Enough of…

  • Moving Servers

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    Just a heads-up about the relative silence here, as well as the offline status of a few of my sub-sites (like Codex and PauseTalk). I’m going to be moving over all of my sites to a new server (same host, but it appears that the server I’m on is quite old and slowly dying, and…

  • A Car Drives By

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    I’m not much of a car guy — although I have come to realize in recent years that the racing game in indeed my favorite genre (along with RPGs) — but I did quite like the looks of what you see pictured above, which drove past me as I was having a coffee at the…

  • Beers in the Park, Hitachino Edition

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    I’ve often described how I enjoy drinking beers while out and about — street beers, yo — and since the closure of the Minami-Ikebukuro Park a few years ago, my main outlet in the ‘Bukes has been Ikebukuro West Gate Park. It’s more of a gathering place than a park, but it’s fun in part…

  • No Burritos, No Life

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    Let me say something about burritos. Having grown up in Eastern Canada, I did NOT have access to any quality Mexican food — or basically ANY Mexican food — and it was only after I left my hometown that it was introduced to a few restaurants (of the chain variety). Now I’m not trying to…

  • Kirimomi

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    My good friend Ian Lynam recently created a typeface family called Kirimomi for Onitsuka Tiger, based on the company’s history, and available as free downloads. It appears that there have already been over 10,000 downloads of the fonts, and in celebration I’ve decided to change the logo on this site to what you see now,…