Need to do it all. Can't do it all.
My brain has been hurting a lot recently for a variety of reasons. Today I believe it hurts because I have an unshakable urge to want to...
One Anime Opening Crawl to Rule them All
DAICON was a series of sci-fi and animation conventions held in Osaka in the 80s. Here's the phenomenally weird opening of DAICON IV,...
I rode 宇宙戦艦ヤマト to get to this place
「宇宙戦艦ヤマト」isn't just some anime title. It is a phenomenon with a myriad of mantles. Transliterated, it is Uchuu Senkan Yamato. Roughly...
A Guitar happened to be there
Everyday at around lunch I take a 30-minute guitar break in the side/meeting/break room attached to our lab. Thank the gods, the old and...
Mathematical Rigor out of Byzantine Ways
According to Khan Academy's wonderful video tutorials on Linear Algebra: "If anything, in linear algebra, the gods of linear algebra are...
Dreaming in Apocalypse Again
I am grateful for most of my dreams, especially since they are a rarity these days for whatever reason. Last night I had a dream where I...
On game localization issues and context:
Blaster Master for the NES (known as "Chou Wakusei Senki: METAFIGHT" in Japan) is but one of many curious examples of a game where the...
On a difference of eras and Fatigue-inducing epics:
In junior high school (for me, 1993), I was playing Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES pretty obsessively. But when you get...
The Research Poster gets a better Color Scheme
Alright, so this is what happened. First, I made that blue poster and that was pretty damn depressing. So then I used the color scheme...
There are no such thing as Research Posters...
Today I'm working on a research poster for the open school event this Saturday. I've never done one of these before in undergrad, and I...
