ピクニック、山菜、幸せ
春になると山菜の季節に入る。今年も福井県の友人と大野市の牧場へ行ってきた。目的が２つあった：ピクニックと山菜。その後自宅で豪華な山菜夕食を食べて、いっぱいの美味しいお酒を飲みながら遅くまで喋った。幸せな時間だ。
TeX Live 2017 pretest started
Preparations for the release of TeX Live 2017 have started a few days ago with the freeze of updates in TeX Live 2016 and the announcement of the official start of the pretest period....
Gaming: Firewatch
A nice little game, Firewatch, puts you into a fire watch tower in Wyoming, with only a walkie-talkie connecting him to his supervisor Delilah. A so called “first person mystery adventure” with very nice...
Systemd again (or how to obliterate your system)
Ok, I have been silent about systemd and its being forced onto us in Debian like force-feeding Foie gras gooses. I have complained about systemd a few times (here and here), but what I...
Calibre on Debian
Calibre is the prime open source e-book management program, but the Debian releases often lag behind the official releases. Furthermore, the Debian packages remove support for rar packed e-books, which means that several comic...
Stella Stejskal – Im Mezzanin
A book about being woman, mother in a modern but still traditional society. About happiness and fulfillment, love and sex, responsibility and dependency, about life: Stella Stejskal‘s Im Mezzanin (in German). Written by a...
Planet Earth I – From Pole to Pole
In preparation for watching the new Planet Earth II (BBC page, Wiki) by David Attenborough, I re-watched the original 2006 BBC Planet Earth, episode one, From Pole to Pole, fortunately it is now available...
Gaming: Quern – Undying Thoughts
I have been an addict of Myst like games since the very beginning. Solving mind boggling riddles by logical means (instead of weapons) was always my preferred gaming. And it seems 2016 had a...
Ryu Murakami – Tokyo Decadence
The other Murakami, Ryu Murakami (村上 龍), is hard to compare to the more famous Haruki. His collection of stories reflects the dark sides of Tokyo, far removed from the happy world of AKB48...
Debian/TeX Live January 2017
As the freeze of the next release is closing in, I have updated a bunch of packages around TeX: All of the TeX Live packages (binaries and arch independent ones) and tex-common. I might...
Cornelia Travnicek – Junge Hunde
A novel on late adolescence and self-finding, set on a mixture of stages ranging from Vienna, its Hinterland, to China. The recent book of the Viennese young writer Cornelia Travnicek (official page, WikiPedia) tells...
コスモス：時空と宇宙
2年前このテレビ番組を発券して、感動した。昔のカール・セーガン（Carl Sagan）が作った番組に基づいて、現在の科学と技術にあわせて、コスモス:時空と宇宙（Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey）である。
I. J. Parker – The Dragon Scroll
Very enthralling and entertaining criminal story set in the 11th century Japan, the starting point of a series of novels around Sugawara Akitada (菅原 顕忠), a fictional official/scholar in the Heian period who solves...
Debian/TeX Live 2016.20161130-1
As we are moving closer to the Debian release freeze, I am shipping out a new set of packages. Nothing spectacular here, just the regular updates and a security fix that was only reported...
Debian/TeX Live 2016.20161103-1
This month’s update falls onto a national holiday in Japan. My recent start as a normal company employee in Japan doesn’t leave me enough time during normal days to work on Debian, so things...
John Oliver and news in Japan
Yesterday evening I was enjoying several features by John Oliver, mostly about the upcoming election in the US (Scandals), but also one of the best features I have heard from him on Guantánamo. It...
