Today is Mercy and my one-year anniversary. We’re about to celebrate it with a nice Italian dinner in Aoyama. I know we’ll have a great time! yum, italian!

The Voyetra 8 extender board is finally done, hip hip hooray. Now I can start diagnosing what’s wrong with the fool thing…

Lots of research I have to do at work…busy busy busy.

Paperwork on the immigration bit is piling up, making the end seem farther away than it really is. Must keep going.

Thanks …

The best New Beetle car modification ever.

And this just in: Florida school bans non-ear piercings. This is absolutely insane. America is turning into a bunch of fascists.

Probably you’ve seen it already, but if not, eStudio.com did one of the best music parodies I’ve seen in recent years, complete with an excellent Flash-based music video. :)

OK, Nickelodeon does the right thing again by having a special on gay parenting. Screw Falwell, this doesn’t “promote” bad family values. It’s helping children in that situation deal with problems they have at school. Way to go!

The Onion strikes again. As long as they don’t change it before I get in, I don’t care. :)

P.S. Thanks !

American television has gone too far.

Not that Japanese television didn’t do it first. Nasubi-chan is the worst example. Be prepared to be afraid. Very afraid.

Sometimes, someone posts something useful, not paranoic, on slashdot. Here’s one such example. We are doomed to repeat ourselves…and the cycles of repetition are getting shorter and shorter.

Over on the forum, there are some interesting people. Check it out.

This may well be my last post before we start our vacation — NO COMPUTERS on the trip (unless you count the embedded computer in the digital camera) so you’ll all just have to wait for updates! IF you want postcards sent to you from Italy, please send me an email with your address, or post it here. We’ll be sure to send you one!

Last night (well, this morning at 5AM) I finished the xmame-0.60.1 port to the PS2. I have to say the SDL support is terrible compared to the X11 framebuffer…perhaps I’ve just overlooked something, but running in a window under X has far better performance than blitting directly to the gscon via SDL. Hopefully someone will investigate this while I’m gone…if not, I’ll do it when I return, along with porting the rest of the 0.60 input enhancements to the xmame source.

I wore a suit to work today, not because I had to, but because I don’t want to get anything dirty that I’m bringing with me to Italy. It’s a grey pants-suit, somewhat stretchy material, from Express, and I’m wearing this cute, sort of see-through silver tank top underneath it. While going to work, I walked by a tatami customization shop, and this Middle Eastern guy was sitting on the ground smoking. (Never seen him before, but I suspect he works there.) As I approached, he said “Hello,” followed quickly by “Very beautiful.” I was shocked…it’s been ages since I’ve been complemented on how I look, and I figured I had just reached that age where beauty doesn’t really shine anymore, nor are you old enough to command respect. Thank goodness I was wrong. :)

In any case, I’m off — take care everyone!