Posts Tagged ‘sound’

Is it just me?

As I’ve men­tioned before I run SuSE Linux 9.0 Pro for my desk­top OS. My PC is one that I home-built with a bit of help from my local hard­ware guru (Eric). For my video card, I’ve got a BFG GeForce 5600 SE (or was did they call it an Ultra? *shrug*) with 256MB of […]

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Lima Beans

I was over Heather Arm­strong’s site catch­ing on the cur­rent wack­i­ness in her life and her post Of Lima Beans and Pickle Juice cracked me up. More to the point, it reminded me of my own family’s last encounter with the dreaded lima bean. This was prob­a­bly about six, maybe 7, years ago. I was having […]

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Japan Day 8

Home­s­tay Day 2 We slept fairly late and then R & M made us brunch. A mas­sive salad with toma­toes and onion, eggs, sausage, fatty ham pat­ties and fresh fruit. After we lazily ate break­fast, they took us to a nearby beach. M-san warned us first that the water was very dirty but we had […]

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Japan Day 6

Today, we went to see the ani­ma­tion exhibit at Museum of Con­tem­pary Art Tokyo (MOT). It was a good exhibit but our trans­la­tor was using a quiet voice while there were ani­mated bits blast­ing out their music and voices, mak­ing her hard to hear. The exhibit cov­ered Japan­ese ani­ma­tion from it’s very begin­nings1 to the […]

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Japan Day 2

It was obvi­ous that I hadn’t adjusted to Tokyo time yet, because while I didn’t have to be up and ready to go to class until 9:45am; I was awake by 5:30. My room-mate (L) and I got up and went out for a look around. Being really early, there weren’t many peo­ple around yet, […]

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