April, 2009
I’ve read many Neal Stephenson books, but I think Snow Crash, the last one I read is the best Neal Stephenson book ever. I think it is much better than Cryptonomicon, even though it is not so well known. It is a SF book published in 1992, and what it is interesting is that in [...]
I met Asimo five years ago and he became my favorite robot. Asimo is not new, what is new is an BMI (Brain Machine Interface) made by Honda and Shimazu Corporation that allows humans to control the robots movements just by thinking about it. Vídeo que muestra el sistema en funcionamiento. BMI (Brain Machine Interface) [...]
Yesterday I went with my friends Ignacio and Take to the Kanamara traditional festival near Kawasaki. The wikipedia translates it as the Festival of the Steel Phallus. It is Shinto fertility festival dedicated to the penis celebrated every year at Kawasakidaishi. It was so fun, estrange and surrealistic… I don’t know how to explain it [...]
I’m not an expert on what I’m going to talk about, so if you find some stupidity please correct me in the comments, thanks! When the housing bubble crashed in the United States the chain reaction started to affect other countries, specially those that had their own local property bubble, like Spain or Great Britain. [...]
Moving Oden restaurants on the streets are pretty common in Japan. I found this one pretty funny, all of them with black suits and a suitcases. Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan and Asia (Subscribe) dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe – Japan news and entertainment (Subscribe)
Last year Danny and me, after lots of thought we decided to move from the old Internet business and start licensing our mascot character Mirai-chan creating an eroge videogame. It was a great decision, Miracle Mirai sales have been doing quite well during this last fiscal year and we are reinvesting that money into expanding [...]
Hanami means in Japanese “to see flowers”, “to enjoy flower viewing”. It is a very important tradition celebrated when trees blossom. The most important hanami of the year starts this week in Tokyo with the blossom of sakura trees (Japanese cherry trees). The first time I saw sakura blossomed trees it was four years ago [...]
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