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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2009-02-28

花粉予報によると、花粉がすくないそうだけど、どうして目や鼻がめちゃ痒い? #
I’m not enough of a film geek to have seen any French new wave cinema. Yet I am geeky enough to be ashamed of that. “renting” 400 blows #
Eagerly awaiting the onion avclub’s new cult classic write-up of Heavenly Creatures. That and the new episode Lost. #
winding down my last day at school [...]

Best Clock Ever

Uniglo, a Japanese clothing store, has this strange clock up on their website. Pretty girls doing odd dancing in somewhat stylish and affordable clothes with a handy clock. What’s not to like?

Best Show on Television

Admittedly, I generally don’t watch shows on TV, since I prefer to binge on entire seasons all at once on DVD or BitTorrent, but I was thinking which I liked better:  Lost or Battlestar Galactica.  And the winner for me would have to be BSG.
Lost is a very good show, but so far I’ve been [...]

Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2009-02-21

8 more classes to go! #
Going to eat free yakiniku tonight. #
on the train! choo choo! #
trying a new Indian restaurant in Moriya #
…contemplating doing dishes. #

It begins…and other odds and ends

My seasonal allergies, the dreaded 花粉症 (kafunshou), have started up. My nose isn’t running too much, but my nose and eyes are super itchy, and I may just claw my eyes out. I never had allergies in America; I wonder if I’ve just developed allergies as I’ve gotten older, or if I’m [...]

JLPT Results

The results for the JLPT came in the mail yesterday.  I passed 2kyuu!
My score was 258 out of 400  (240 is passing). I just barely passed, but I’ll take it.
My scores were:
Vocab/Kanji – 74/100
Listening –  56 / 200
Reading/Grammar – 128 / 200 
My overall score is about what I was expecting based on all the  practice [...]

Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2009-02-14

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. #
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. #
My lessons are gonna be simple today…just cram a little vocab into their brains. Little kids = play sports. 6th grade = jobs #
@yulzopolis Does 40 [...]

Far Cry 2

Lately, I’ve been playing Far Cry 2.  The game is fun, but it is far from perfect.
Right now, I’m about 60% done with the game.  Some of the good things:

Graphics — The graphics are pretty good.  Although, I’m probably rating them a little higher than they deserve since this is the first game that I’ve [...]

Cleaning up my Inbox

I just tidied up my Gmail inbox. Up until now, I have just been using the “keep everything in the inbox” method, which actually worked really well for me. I’ve never had any trouble finding messages, and I have a lot of filters setup so that most mail automatically gets labeled.
But I decided to [...]

The Revolution will be Twittered.

John Dickerson, in addition to writing his excellent columns for Slate, is a master twitterer (is that a word?). He is definitely worth following.
His twitter feed directed me to this story in the NYT. One can only hope the revolution comes soon, comrades.

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