http://allrgb.com challenges hackers to create a 4096x4096 image, using every 2^24 color once and only once. There are many possible solutions, and I thought applying some optimization would produce interesting images. One choice is to mak…

The basic shape is similar to B2, so I could use the same design scheme.

インテイクが難しいUpdate: assembly test of nose & upper body. Hmm, not bad.

Never employ these assholes. They dumped tons of their Garbage at our apartment in Tokyo. We have to segregate their garbage, although we don't segregate these garbage people.To whom it may concern: Be sure that the applicant lived in west…

Mitsuhiro ItakuraDownload this B2 Sec. 1: Introduction Designing a developable surface is an interesting and challenging problem. Beside the obvious application for papermodels, it has industrial importance in the fields such as ship's hul…

Now ge to it!! Shigoto shiro! 【仕事しろぉおぉお】 The accent of Ando's boss is otherworldly! This "Shigoto shiro!" sounds just like Kabuki play LOLROTF. Ando (安藤) Every Japanese viewer had thought that Ando was his family name, but it t…

The space/time continuum can't take any more jikuukanrentai koreijou taerarenai (時空間連体、これ以上、耐えられない) Actually, the proper Japanese word for "continuum" is renzokutai(連続体), not rentai(連体) (trust me, I'm a physicist). Bu…

@#$%! dai pinchi! (大ピンチ！) The word "pinch" has been a common Japanese word. "dai" means big. The past isn't a very safe place koko tte kekkou yabai tokoro dana (ここって結構ヤバいところだな) "yabai" is a slangy word which means hot/ha…

I was either lying on bed or shitting liquid, all day long in a hotel room. How meaningfull day it was!

Iron Sunrise (Singularity)作者: Charles Stross出版社/メーカー: Ace発売日: 2005/06/01メディア: マスマーケットこの商品を含むブログ (2件) を見るQuite a fun reading! Now I'm through chapter 2 and 3, and they were hiralious! "Memetic pollution …

I'm in Boston, MA, to attend the annual MRS meeting. My laptop's display died, and it's now a dead weight. DAMNDAMNDAMN. Driving in Boston SUCKS! Few and small street signs which are barely readable in night! Lots of J-Walking pedestrians!…

Because I'm not paid by caltech but by my institute in Japan, neither ISS nor faculty record gave me a letter for the SSN, and faculty record personel gave me an application form for the Independent Taxpaier Identification Number (form W-7…

Tongari Kids "B-Dash" Lyrics, (incomplete) Tr. by M.Itakura (without permission) Maybe it's too fast (B-dash) Maybe y'll fall into a hole (B-dash) Maybe y'll crash into a tortoise (B-dash) Maybe the pipe leads to the underground (B-dash) M…

Tekken 5 for PS2 hit the shelves today, here in Japan. I'm gonna buy it, although I don't see much improvement in T5 from T4. I'll buy it to prevent myself from occasionally dropping in the arcade to kill time and spending some 100 yen coi…

I went to a holiday event held by a ham manufacturer at Saitama suburb, and watched hotdog eating contest. Participants competed how long he/she can eat an one-meter-long hotdog in five minutes. Among casual attendant daddies, a "professio…

Oops! Borland C++ doesn't support "case val1 ... val2:" syntax. It's not ANSI-standard? :-(

Extended 'C'haracter display command You can compact item letters via '=' command. Hitting space key after you choose an item letter moves the item letter to an empty slot whose letter is closes to 'a'. Incorpoorated Darshan's sound, stash…

EA Games' "Middle-earth: the third age" will be out in Japan soon. Video game magazines have began to feature it. One magazine had a list of legendary weapons in the game, such as Merry's dagger and Hadhafang(Arwen's sword, film original, …

Day 0 8 pm: My mother's mother died of cancer, age 85. She had been a farmer. I often visited her house when I was young, and there were many interesting things such as ponds, large stones, etc. which I enjoyed. Last month I went to the ho…

Yesterday I was lucky to stumble on a TV program, in which several old Anime-gimmicks were made real by Japan's cutting-edge technology. First, the Zantetsuken (tr. Iron-Cleaver) of Goemon, which can cut anything in half (imagine Morpheus'…

Are you a cop who are going to confront a telepathic murderer with galactic wealth? Then visit this site and memorize the tune; It will reverbrate endlessly in your head and prevent the telepath from reading your mind.

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1092672479 His voice act of Gollum in BBC dramatization impressed many Japanese LOTR fans, when the drama had been broadcasted online one episode a week, just before the release of the FOTR film in…

(This is a carbon copy of my post) Newsgroups: alt.books.roger-zelazny Subject: "Ilium" by Dan Simmons A while ago, someone quoted an article in Locus Magazine, in which Dan Simmons wrote that he had turned down an offer to write prequels …

Samurai is one of the most winnable classes in NetHack. The only drawback may be the Japanese item names, which are intentionally obscure. Is it that these are no drawback for Japanese players? The answer is No. STATIC_OVL struct Jitem Jap…

A while ago, The Onion reported that Klingon speakers outnumbered Navajo ones. Sometimes a fictitious language attracts certain kind of geeks and they go nuts over it. The most prominent nut ever is, doubtlessly, Prof. J.R.R.Tolkien. Now t…

I'm a big fan of Zelazny and Tolkien. What their works have in common is that a very lifesized, modern protagonist explores a mythical world. The out-of-place-ness and the presentday viewpoint of the heroes revives the myth itself and make…

This heavily anime-oriented book explains "how to protect your software from cracking", such as bypassing serial number check, etc. You know, the knowledge of locking also serves for unlocking. Obviously this book is for wives rather than …

I'm reading Charles Stross's novel "Singularity Sky". It's quite fun to read. Lots of scientific ideas such as EPR correlation, causality, anthropic principle, etc. If you add a lot of satirical humor to Greg Egan's Distress and Diaspora a…

(This is a cabon copy of my post to sci.physics.research) I attended a conference "Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and its Applications". (http://www.stat.phys.titech.ac.jp/SPDSA/) Various kind of interesting applications of stat…

Feanor さん経由、id:Feanor:20040611 ハーラン・エリスン、AOLと和解 http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0406/11/news022.html おー、タイムリーですね。 orkut 見たらちょうどエリスンのコミュニティ出来てたんで、通報しますた。USENET のalt.fan.h…