The other day I went to the convenience store and I noticed something new among the beers. Kirin apparently released a limited edition beer called Galaxy Hop, I guess as the first stage of their attempt to go craft.
仕事ワイワイ
最近仕事が忙しい。複数のところも担当になったことで、自由な時間というか、ほとんど何の休憩もなく毎日朝から深夜まで。イェーイ。
まぁ別にやることが嫌いなわけでもないし、最近もうとあるお気難しい関係者からも爆弾がこっちに降ってこなくなったのは救い。
毎日の16時間稼働はちょっとしんどい。けど、しろばこのみゃーもりのとある台詞で乗りきってます：「小さいことからこつこつ。」今のところそれができる以上、微小ながら自分的な進歩もできる。
前向きな嘘をご提供させていただきました。
Android smartphones
I’ve been using Sony Xperia VLs ever since I switched to a smartphone, and so far I haven’t found anything that’d perform better. Most devices fail my very first test: don’t be fucking huge. With the VL’s 4.3″ display, I can barely just reach the top left corner of the screen with my right thumb – anything bigger counts as inconvenient.
検診
俺は健康診断が嫌い。会社には法律で受けさせる義務があるとはわかるけど、その法律は個人的にばかばかしいと思う。大人を自分の健康管理できる大人として扱ってやらない法律なんて、笑えない。
Suntory Craft Select Pale Ale
I’m happy that the major Japanese breweries are taking a hint from the ever-growing craft beer scene, and try to add styles other than the usual lager to their lineups. Asahi rolled out a pale ale that’s definitely not terrible, and Kirin announced that they’d buy Yo-Ho, the craft brewery behind the Yona Yona ale among others.
Understandably, when I saw a Suntory labeled pale ale at the nearby convenience store, I couldn’t resist picking up a can. Last words first: I shouldn’t have.
Sankt Gallen Imperial Chocolate Stout
I’m not a big fan of sweet things, and stouts usually fall in that category for me. But I got this bottle exactly for that reason: a late night dessert instead of munching cookies. It kinda works out.
パズル
最近けっこう本格的にパズドラやるようになった。当初に運よくいろいろな神引けたので、以外と安定したパーティーも作れる。当然300ランカーのスキル・覚醒何もかも考慮して作ったものまではいけてないが、地獄級の降臨はある程度安定して回せる。
そういう役目で主に使ってるのは、ハトホルパで、毎ターン最低限4色プラス回復のコンボが最低限必須。まだまだ完全に安定はしてないけど、ソティスの地獄級の程度の降臨はもうツール使わずに回せるくらいはできるようになってきた。
それで関心したのは、今日ようやく覚醒バステトができて、試に無限回路行ってみたら、ほぼ問題なくヘラまでいけたこと。現状ヘラ越えたことないが、あんだけコンボ数に依存してるバステトパでもそこまでいけるのが以外だった。そしてけっこうヘラ前の神々でスキル使い切っちゃったので、もしかしてスキル温存できてあいつら抜けれるなら、ヘラも突破できるかな、と。まぁそのうち。
KanColle Indian Ocean event
This year’s spring event we had to conquer the Indian ocean. The devs announced beforehand that it’d be a relatively large-scale event, so I made sure I had enough resources this time.
Line on Linux
Naver’s LINE is basically the mobile communication platform in Japan at this point. Teens aren’t sharing email addresses anymore, it’s their LINE usernames. Just a while ago, we had new recruits coming to the studio for training, and they’d all write down their names, phone numbers and LINE names.
Obviously I use it too. Thing is, it’s not so obvious how to use it on a computer. There is an official client for Windows that works, but there’s none for Linux. I hate writing long messages on my phone, so the effort of having to compile a Pidgin plugin for the LINE protocol is worth the effort.
It was quite an effort too, since I purged my system a while back, and I had no dev packages, or even git installed. Needless to say, it took almost an hour to get everything up and running. Most time taken by the Apache Thrift install, that would keep failing with C++ when using the 0.9.1 tarball, no matter what I did.
Luckily the git latest worked fine, and the plugin seems to work okay too at this point.
Using people
I might’ve just read too many crime novels, or maybe it’s just that it was stated loud and clear in Hyouka, but when someone tells me that they are counting on me, or that they trust me, I can’t not feel that they’re (just) trying to manipulate me.
I can’t really put my finger on what feels so off about it. Especially since it’s usually people I know and have worked with for a long time telling me so, it could as well be a totally innocent, honest expression of their trust. Yet, it feels so wrong.
Why?
