Just a little torture

I stumbled upon an article on Guardian about Yanagiya, a restaurant in Gifu that apparently might just be the best restaurant on the planet. Of course I’d love to go, but I fear that even calling on the combined web of all my social networks, I might still not get an invitation. But it’s definitely worth giving a try, seeing all these accolades. I’ll still have to find someone to go with, but I doubt that’d be an issue.

And why is that torture? Because I’ve had the worst lunch today in… a very long time. My coworkers were singing tales about the cafeteria of the nearby Senshu university, so we went to give it a try. It was simply horrible. I had no idea miso soup could taste bad, but now I know. It feels like my stomach is giving extra care to that trash because 10 hours later I still don’t feel like eating anything.


Grand Kirin IPA

It’s been ages since I last had any alcohol at home (though I still have a bottle of Jura in progress). Tonight I went to the supermarket to pick up some snacks and on the way I spotted Kirin’s IPA. I’ve tried Kirin craft attempts before, so I wondered what this one is like.


Shit manners

This is about the title in most possible interpretations. For the years now I’ve been working in Japan, I noticed certain (really annoying) things about shit. This wasn’t much of a problem during university when most I’ve seen my Japanese fellows was when we were getting drunk together, but actually working at a company means I have to endure actual people around me most of the day. And their various smells.

I’ve got a sensitive nose, apparently. I can smell what the family in the next house are having for dinner with my window closed. There is one smell that I could never really pick up, and that is alcohol. Sadly, shit is not one such.


沖縄で一週間

けっこう何年も前に沖縄行ったことはあった。何も計画も予定も、泊まる所すら決めず完全自由バックパッカーとして行った。当時日本語もまだ通じるか通じないかレベルやったし、よくやったなと振り返って思ったりする。

今回はちょっと違う感じだった。まず行くの決めたのはまったくその瞬間の勢いで、ロックインからの帰り道のバスだった。その次の週は会社が3日間ほぼ皆夏休みとってたのでオフィス誰もいない見込み。そしてどうせ人いないならリモート、リモートするなら部屋に引きこもらなくてもいい、夏ならやっぱ海だぁ、ということで一週間沖縄でリモート作業してた。


Rails counter_cacheの罠

counter_cacheはいいぞ。 #いいぞ

counter_cacheって?

アプリの大きさや目的に関わらず結構早い段階からいろんなものを数えたくなる。ユーザー何人?記事についてるタグ何個?


Rock in Japan 2017

Nyári fesztiválon még egyetemista koromban jártam utoljára – azt hiszem, a 2011-es Summer Sonicon (az se volt semmi felhozatal, az biztos). Persze nem-nyári fesztiválokra mentem azóta is. Írni nem feltétlenül írtam mindről, de az utóbbi pár évben minden Loud Parkon ott voltam, és akkor a két Knotfestről és Ozzfestről ne is beszéljünk.

Idén viszont, hogy már állást is váltottam, végre tényleg hosszúak a hosszú hétvégéim, végre bekerült a “szabadság” a szótáramba, és még a lelki erő is megvan. Így “hirtelen” (nem volt hirtelen) elhatározásból egy jó barátommal elmentünk a Rock in Japan első felére augusztus elején.


Yoshida Hiroshi exhibition

There was a Yoshida Hiroshi exhibition in the Sonpo museum in Shinjuku. I had no idea who the painter was, but I saw the ads during my commute and I liked the style of the art, so I decided to go. I must admit that this all was the last weekend of July, I was just too lazy to write about it so far.

It’s been a while since I last went to see an exhibit (years, even). Recently I rather spend my free days more actively – in the sense of doing creative stuff (or wasting my day playing games). I don’t regret braking that habit though.

The Yoshida exhibition was just plain fabulous. The different styles of art, from Japanese-style woodblock paintings and hanging scrolls and expressionism to a more realistic depiction of war and suffering were an exciting trip. It’s interesting to see the quiet scenery of a snow-covered farm next to the sight from the cockpit of a dive-bomber.


マック?マクド?正しくは毒

マクドナルドの大阪対東京(マクドvsマック)広告みたら、いつもよりはましにみえて食ってみた。後悔した。

もの自体はまぁ悪くない。対決というなら明らかに大阪の勝ちだけど。東京のロースバーガーけっこう期待してたけど、小さかったし、パンもモロかったし、味も薄かった。それに比べてカツはちゃんと味も量もあった。


Android and Unicode ID3 tags

For a while now I’ve been noticing that certain songs’ ID3 tags are broken when played on my Android phone. I use Black Player which in turn uses the built in Android music libraries – but I’ve checked in a number of other players too just in case and the problem persists.

My music library is extremely multilingual (and most of those languages I don’t even speak), so it’s full of UTF characters. Some of them seem to break Android’s encoding recognition. Sadly some of these triggers are pretty common, resulting in borked last.fm scrobbles. (And of course last.fm can’t be expected to be so smart as to fix all those automatically.)


ルビーのパパ

昨日またルビーイベント参加してきた。今回はルビーの作者マッツさんの話が聞けるという訳で楽しみだった。実際に気になっていたことや、ここから半年で気になるだろう的なこともいっぱい聞けてよかった。