Sea. Dragons. Temples. Music.
Sunset Freedom Party @ Enoshima
6 interesting & strange-tasting small items…
… was the official menu header for this dish.
And interesting & strange-tasting they were. Some might even say foul.
Morning After
Little bro, post-night at Womb.
Japanese Fetish
Who could resist the lure of a cheap Don Qixote ‘Stitch’ overall. According to my brother: “the perfect outfit to sit on a sofa in front of the telly with a beer”…
Yes, my brother is a dork. But we love him all the same.
Krispy Kreme
How to get a free doughnut in 3 easy steps:
1. Stand in line in front of Tokyo’s most overrated store of the year.
2. Receive free “Service” doughnut, fresh from the oven, served as tokens of appeasement to would-be customers in an attempt to convince them that a 15 minutes wait for chain store novelty doughnuts at 11pm is a worthy use of their time.
3. Leave with your free doughnut.
Nekophobe
While taking a walk in the neighbourhood on Sunday, we ran into this house, literally decked in water bottles. Pictures fail at conveying the utter craziness of the arrangement: thousands bottles covering every inch of fence (not to mention seashells and pieces of aluminum foil)… All makes my own half-hearted cat-fighting efforts, back in the days, seem pretty tame by comparison.
地下足袋
Got a new pair to replace the ones I left in Paris…
This model ups the coolness factor a notch by having an air bubble in their sole (so not kidding). Yes, I am wearing the Japanese Edo era equivalent of Air Jordans…
The debate is still up as to whether wearing them in the street makes me a complete tool, given that:
1) I do not work as a rickshaw runner.
2) I am a pale-skinned gaijin.
(current consensus seems to be that points 1 and 2 cancel each other and it’s OK for me to wear them, possibly even cool… but seriously, who cares: they are super-comfy and funky-looking… good enough for me)
象ご注意
Another major problem in Tokyo’s Shinjuku area: hordes of wild elephants roaming the streets and littering.
タヌキご注意
This Summer, Tokyo Metro is tackling a major issue throughout its network: rampant tanuki infestation…
Helpful signs spread through stations and trains help you spot and identify the cheeky critters. Here seen engaging in such antisocial activities as: biting hands, chasing human preys and staging unauthorized protests…
Let’s hope authorities quickly regain control of the situation. In the meantime please be careful of marauding hordes of tanuki when boarding cars, especially late at night.
Spam Karma goes GPL
Geek news warning: sane people and anybody for whom such acronyms as PHP or GPL merely evocate some brand new drugs the kids might be into these days: you are probably better off skipping this one.
I’ll try to keep it short.
Spam Karma 2 is now released as GPL v.2. This essentially means you can do anything you want to it, except claim you made it (copyright and attribution notice must remain there). You should also note that any attempt at deriving some ill-deserved profit from it through harebrained web marketing schemes will earn you both my long-standing scorn and a nut-shriveling decrease to your actual karma.
I suppose another angle to that post’s title could be:
Officially discontinuing Spam Karma’s development: so long and thanks for all the fish
as this is what this truly is about.
But, such a title would be slightly misleading (and no doubt heavily quoted out of context): Indeed, I am hereby officially announcing that I will no longer support, maintain or further develop Spam Karma (beside some very occasional, very limited poking, until the transition to a self-maintained project is completed). However, thanks to the magic of free software, all the unsung heroes of the Open Source world will soon rise to take over and bring you a stronger, better, more closely supported version of Spam Karma!
Okay, what’s more likely to happen is that nobody will really bother taking over, except perhaps a handful well-intentioned but utterly clueless beginner coders who will quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the task and next be seen running away screaming at the top of their lungs. Hey, I’m not blaming anybody: I wouldn’t waste my time on a non-paying, open-source community project either…
But on the off-chance that you would (and trust me it won’t do anything to help you get laid either), I have set up a Google Code repository, which could become the jumping point to some magnificent community-based development effort (or not). If you are interested in participating in any way, contact me (mail or contact form) with a *brief* description of who you are, what you can do and what you wanna do. I don’t need a resume (I am not hiring), just a very quick idea of what level of responsibility you’d be willing to take on the project. I’ll put in the first couple people that seem to know what they are doing (and do not sound like they’ll be selling everything to Russian mafia-owned spam sites) as administrators of the project, and hopefully from there on, things will work by themselves…
If you think you’d like to tackle any aspect of SK2 development (including possibly porting it to other platforms), here is your chance. Speak now or go back to more fruitful and life-rewarding endeavours forever.
Oh, and as for the “reasons”, well, here they are: