Category Archives: Misc.
All Hail Japan – a go go
There is a new Podcast on the block for you Japan enthusiasts to listen to. I have teamed up with Jamipanese on a new podcast which is about Japan. We aren’t just focusing on one aspect, but a lot of different things. Here are a few of the things we will discuss. I was going [...]
1 Year Strong 1 Year Anniversary
It has been a year since this blog was started, and has been an exciting ride to say the least. Since the beginning of the blog and January 1 are so closed together I think I’ll just join the two post themes as they are pretty much the same thing.
Lets start with the top posts [...]
Technology December 2009 Blog Matsuri
It is that time again for the Blog Masturi. The last one was hosted by Sleepy Tako over Hamburgers in Japan.
For more detailed information on the blog Matsuri visit the Matsuri FAQ on the JapanSoc website.
Theme
Technology!!!
Rules/Guidelines
There are a couple of rules to follow:
No Cellphones (lets face it you could to a Matsuri on this alone)
No [...]
How to Make Your Own Camera Bag Cheaply
I want to get better at photography, but to do that I need to actually carry around a Camera with me. Currently I have a Point and Shoot camera that is a little pocket sized camera it is a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS. Solid camera for a quick photography, and the camera I used to [...]
Help Save a Dying Language
If you know of a dying language and you know people that speak it who are trying to save that language. You should point them to the Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program. I was poking around their site and noticed they have a program available to help save dying languages. This piqued my interest more [...]
Godzilla Fest Schedule
Here is the Schedule for Godzilla Fest. I just wanted to post it up so that others could see it. I am very excited. While I wont be able to participate fully because I am helping man a booth for a Japanese Language club. I am excited that we are having this in Tulsa to [...]
My Custom Made Desk
I have gone through several desks, but none have I ever truly liked completely because they never seemed to fulfill my needs fully. It seemed like all the desks would fulfill 1 or 2 things but never all of them. So finally I decided to make my own. While it isn’t pretty [...]
Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu
A while back my tablet died. However, I was getting by with my work laptop, but the thing is huge and long ago realized I liked how small my 12″ tablet was. One of the limiting factors to what I could get was cost. So i started looking and found that netbooks would probably fit [...]
A Primer on RSS
There are still a lot of people that have no idea what RSS is or why this little orange box image keeps showing up on most blogs.
This image: (or some variation of it)
What is RSS?
Essentially what most people really need to know is it is a “page” for people add to some reader so the [...]
To Love-Ru & Speed Grapher
I just got two packages today and it is amazing they both came in at the same time. First up is some untranslated manga of To Love-Ru. Am going to address more about where I got it in another post as this was a test of their service. I was able to get these [...]
