22 Days in Japan, Day 18: Exploring Togakushi
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| Featured | February 12, 2012 |
22 Days in Japan, Day 18: Exploring Togakushi
It’s a dark, cloudy day. The sun is nowhere to be found in Nagano.
Since the ryokan (Japanese inn) that I’m currently staying in isn’t close to Togura station (about a 25 minute walk), Tyler the innkeeper gives me a lift, getting there just as the train is coming in.
Gaming Amazon EC2 to get more web hosting for lessLike countless others, my web sites are running under Amazon EC2, the cloud-based web service. It has been, at least for anything above the free “micro” tier, rock solid. But the costs are certainly not the cheapest cloud hosting around. How do you get around that? |
The Fidelity Investment Rewards Credit Card Gives You 2% on All Purchases. The EndThe world of 2% cash back credit cards is pretty small. The king of the hill used to be the Charles Schwab Invest First Visa, which offered a 2% cash back reward automatically deposited into a brokerage account. Unfortunately, late last year that card went the way of the dinosaurs. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 14: Kyoto, Kiyomizu, and KeshaThe day starts out like any other day, with me eating the same orange juice and pastry combo that I’ve been having since Day One (minus that one day I accidentally bought a curry donut). But it ends on a much higher note. |
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11 Years Later: A Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review11 years. Not 11 years of development, but 11 long years nonetheless, for a sequel to one of the most groundbreaking 2D fighting game in the history of fighting games. |
The Art of the Arbitrage (or, selling stuff for more than you paid for it)One month before the Playstation 3 was released, I was lying on a blanket, camped out in front of a Toys ‘R Us. Excluding bathroom breaks, I’d be in the same spot for the next eighteen hours. But those eighteen hours would also net me more than 1500 dollars in profit. It was the start of my six-month stint as a full-time game console arbitrageur. |
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Things to Remember When Migrating a WebsiteAfter undergoing a multi-site migration only to watch things crash and burn, I’ve come up with a checklist of what to remember when migrating a website. |
Blast From the Past: 10 Must-Play PC Games From the ’90sThe roaring ’90s. Or was that the roaring twenties? Doesn’t matter. The last decade of the 20th century might have brought Hanson, Pokemon, and The Internet, but it also brought about the biggest gaming revolution in history. Also, Rush Hour, the best movie ever. |
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22 Days in Japan, Day 13: Den-den TownIt’s a crap day, rainy and nasty. I wake up at 10 am, and trudge out into the downpour sometime around 11. Yep, another late start. Today I’m headed to Temma, home of another super long 2.4 km mall (sort of like the Shinsaibashi Shopping area) and the Tenmangu shrine. |
How to Type Faster (with three fun games)I have a theory. My theory is Most People Suck At Typing. I lump that in with my other theories Most People Are Bad Drivers and Most People Are Lazy And Stupid. But those are posts for another day. Today’s post is about typing faster. |
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The Last Airbender just might be the worst movie this yearI finally got around to watching M. Night Shyamalan’s epic The Last Airbender. It is, quite honestly, a ridiculous piece of crap. It is also my pick for worst movie of the year. |
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