Having found a fourth for our Vampire rendevous, we gathered on Wednesday night for a little beer drinking and character creation. Which is to say, the dorks have risen and are playing Vampire: The Requiem. What the hell is that, you ask? According to the site: “It is a Modern Gothic Storytelling game, a roleplaying [...]

One evening a couple months ago the doorbell rang, and being the ever intrepid gaijin I went to see what Japan had delivered to our doorstep. Usually the doorbell heralds one of three things; someone from the apartment downstairs in need of computer help, our landlord collecting the monthly neighborhood tax, or the delivery of [...]

So I finally got around to taking a few pictures of our bare but warmly lit apartment (click here for the set). All rooms are represented somewhat accurately, except for Auz’s room which is not represented at all, because, well, it is not warmly lit. Don’t be fooled by my mad optic skill(z), our apartment [...]

On Thursday kzi and I took a magical trip to the Kakegawa Kacho-en, a bird and flower park boasting several greenhouses filled with magnificent plants and birds. “Oh, like a zoo,” you think, but nay! Better than a zoo! From the website: “We feature a variety of birds and species which belong to owls, parakeets, [...]

A little over a month ago I made a quickie-post on my Free Speech blog that made brief mention of a wiki for direct action, and a torrent site curated specifically for the activist crowd. In this post I’d like to flesh out those ideas more in as non-technical a way as possible. Where specific [...]

The evenings are beginning to cool off, which means that Chapter One: pnts and kzi vs. Murphy’s Law and Japan[1] is drawing to a close. It was chapter of epic proportions in which we saw our heroes move halfway across the world, engage in mighty battles with the most formidable of bureaucratic systems, dodge deportation [...]

It’s been one year since kzi and I were married… Definitely not the best scan, but proof positive that I bought kzi for cheap. I think Colorado might be the cheapest (and easiest) state to get married in. Due to kzi’s work schedule we haven’t celebrated yet, though I did receive Silent Hill 4 simply [...]

It tastes like soap but the install is pretty simple…