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Bit Serenade
You all must have seen these “keyword” spam messages by now, right?: buttrick adapt courtyard imaginate fondle atlanta, archenemy glitter edible synoptic baghdad concocter, loyalty lied transmitter committeeman determinant, oviform atlantic arianism perpendicular lament annulled, schwartz wiry polymeric citation abel concessionaire, britannica kenton elizabethan hedge maudlin chomsky, caution ecumenic codomain streptococcus tenant quagmire, tumble china denver bradshaw crosslink hysterectomy, abolish papal addend thirsty alice interdict monogamous, disaccharide nearsighted varistor quirk mastermind perseus, historic lares sketchbook respond theology absolution zealot, duplicity kidde danbury inhomogeneous disaccharide, depressible yesteryear uphold catholic anything censure, crotchety matisse mongoose caryatid Some of these spammers are real poets. He gets bonus points for using the words varistor,…
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Cake
Today’s tip for lonely nerds: Forget the present, it is over by the time you think about it. Instead, relive the past and play a text-based adventure game. Like this: Welcome to Zork. This version created 11-MAR-91 (PHP mod 25-OCT-2001) There are 2 users playing Zork. You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. > open mailbox Opening the mailbox reveals: A leaflet. > read leaflet Taken. Welcome to Zork! Dungeon is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal…
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Apple IIc
I recall the scrolling text adventures from my childhood with much fondness. My dad bought an Apple IIc for us when I was ten or so (without the standard 8-inch monitor luckily) and I basically wore out the keys typing in-game commands like “go west”, “kill goblin”, and “get dagger of fire”. The key action, by the way, was used as a selling point by the egghead at the store, but more on this later. That IIc was way ahead of its time – I consider it the first truly portable Apple because of its relatively compact size for the time and the fact that it came with a padded…
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One Hundred Days of Solitude
It’s Monday. My girlfriend went back to Thailand yesterday to do research for her doctorate. She will come back in a month or so, so the “hundred years” I used in the title are just my props to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote the only book I have ever attempted to read in Spanish. (Huge digression alert!) I can only speak enough cholo to bum a cigarette from Mexican kids smoking in the school bathroom, but I kept the English version of the book next to me for reference. It worked, in a way, but forever convinced me that mandatory foreign language classes in public high schools are good for…
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KIX Quarantine
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Speaker Post
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Cubs
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Lantern
I went after photos of a matsuri at Miwa Jinja today. It turns out that I like the photos of the grounds more than the ones of the actual festivities. Recently I don’t like taking photos of people as much as I do taking photos of things. It’s interesting: On one hand I find myself wondering if this somehow has a deeper psychological meaning and on the other, I really don’t care if it does or not. I almost never feel guilty taking photos of random things, but human subjects sometimes cause me worry or even grief. This stems partly from the Japanization of my perception and values over the…
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Bonsai
I have determined that my Vaio U3’s screen is just too damn small for me too edit photos effectively when I’m drinking. I’m really curious as to how this photo will look when I’m sober, because it looks absolutely brilliant right now.
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Japanzine Award
Last week I received an e-mail from Ed Jacobs, the editor at Japanzine stating that this blog had been chosen for a “Best of the Web” award. Japanzine is a free magazine of high quality distributed all over Japan and I have been reading it since its past life as The Alien. Anyway, they have an online version of the zine as well and the “Japan Blogging Scene” article this blog was featured in can be seen at: http://www.japan-zine.com/0404/Feature1.htm (link updated 4/30/04) C. Buddha’s Hasty Musings is sandwiched between Antipixel and 35 Degrees, two of my favorite photo blogs (if I can be so forward as to term them such).…
