Victory Manual

So I looked at the entrance requirements to a graduate school like Princeton (I’m not planning to apply for graduate school at Princeton, I was just curious about the process) and for East Asian Studies the pre-reqs are to be proficient in two foreign languages, meaning two languages besides your native tongue. They recommend [...]

It’s an undeniable fact that I’m the master of こいこい.
Our new-ish PC came with the computer version of こいこい, a Japanese card game. (Mini-fact: Nintendo made its claim to fame as the leading production company of the game cards, called hanafuda, used in this game)
The game is cake. Well, it used to [...]

For lack of anything really interesting to write about at the minute, I’ll write 8 factoids about myself since it has been demanded of me by Deas. I should warn you, though, that on the Japanese magnitude scale of “interesting” I register at “not very”. Most people don’t read these things, anyways.
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I’ve got a goal of going through a list of 6,500+ English vocabulary terms over 261 days (comes out to about 25 words per day). Of course, this project is running parallel with Japanese studies, so my head feels like a mashed-potato-filled beach ball. The English terms themselves are in the incipient stages [...]

The over-pious think that unbelievers are in the dark, and the over-skeptical think that believers are misguided. Neither is right.