areiser seemed alarmed by my absense on LJ of late. Well folks, I'm not lost. Heck, I haven't even stopped blogging. My main blog has changed though. I joined 1up's blog community and have one here. I'll still be posting here, but much less frequently than there. Check it out.

Politics, ho boy politics.

Everyone's weighing in their opinions, and I don't talk politics very often, so I'm going to take this opportunity to put in my two cents.

This is sort of intended as a sister post to areiser's latest, so go take a look, and if you're bongo, vin, billy, or kev, you may have a chuckle at the not-so-covert inside joke ( Read more... )

The weekend was quite good ( Read more... )

Turns out the good folks at my faculty got me quite drunk!

Yee ha! Now I just have to try to get back to my dorm without killing myself... yee ha again!

Well, it's friday, and that means it's time for my weekly attempt to fool the people in my adopted faculty here at hokudai into thinking that I understand shit one about anything they talk about. At least today I read a basic outline for 'the Inductive Learning Method for Natural Language Processing", so my involvement with these folks is slightly ( Read more... )

Well folks, I suppose I should be updating more with all this out-o-country business. I'm not even going to attempt to bring everything up to date, because there's too damn much, and well, I doubt it would be terribly interesting ( Read more... )

If you like bishonen guys, you're a lesbian. End of story ( Read more... )

Wow. I'm in Japan. Now that I'm here, I still don't believe I'm here. The trip was long, and I got to the dorm around 11PM friday, Japan time. They gave us (two other new ryuugakusei and myself) a tour, had us sign some 'i promise not to break any rules' nonsense, and introduced us to a couple of folks that had been here for a few months ( Read more... )

God, I had a fucked up dream last night. The only part I can remember, I wasn't even in. So, it was basically the watcher in the water scene from Fellowship of the Ring... except Brit Foo was frodo. So, everyone does their 'save the day' shit, and when he gets down, they all look at him kinda angrily. He just shrugs his shoulders and goes, " ( Read more... )

"too bad for holman brit foo's in japan... I'm a pitcher now ( Read more... )