Monday, October 09, 2006
Another day, another mountain.
Today I did some hiking up Maruyama (Round Mountain) just to the west side of Sapporo. I took plenty of photos and chatted with some old man the best I could.
As it turns out, I will be posting more images afterall. It dawned on me last night that GIMP didn't install because I didn't install GTK+ first. (The error message was in Japanese and I didn't quite get the meaning.) Today I tried again just for kicks, and lo and behold, I now have GIMP. Of course, my camera cable is still in the hotel, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow. (I came to the internet cafe straight from the mountain.)
It's rather odd, however, that the internet cafe doesn't prevent people from installing programs. Maybe there's no way to stop this from happening in WinXP...?
Last night everything on TV pretty much exclusively involved discussing North Korea's nuke test. Let's just say that action was very unpopular in Japan. Other news items included images of typhoon damage on Hokkaido's east coast. I originally wanted to travel to that area, but I changed my mind for obvious reasons. It looks pretty messy out there.
Oh, and there was special showing the top 100 TV Anime programs of all time as voted by a bunch of Japanese television personalities, one of whom was "Hard Gay." If you don't know who he is, just search You Tube. At any rate, number one was Lupin the 3rd! I didn't realize the TV series began way back in 1971. Wow. (For Lloyd residents not in the know, I have a couple of DVDs and one manga anthology in my apartment. You may borrow if you wish.)
Until tomorrow...
As it turns out, I will be posting more images afterall. It dawned on me last night that GIMP didn't install because I didn't install GTK+ first. (The error message was in Japanese and I didn't quite get the meaning.) Today I tried again just for kicks, and lo and behold, I now have GIMP. Of course, my camera cable is still in the hotel, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow. (I came to the internet cafe straight from the mountain.)
It's rather odd, however, that the internet cafe doesn't prevent people from installing programs. Maybe there's no way to stop this from happening in WinXP...?
Last night everything on TV pretty much exclusively involved discussing North Korea's nuke test. Let's just say that action was very unpopular in Japan. Other news items included images of typhoon damage on Hokkaido's east coast. I originally wanted to travel to that area, but I changed my mind for obvious reasons. It looks pretty messy out there.
Oh, and there was special showing the top 100 TV Anime programs of all time as voted by a bunch of Japanese television personalities, one of whom was "Hard Gay." If you don't know who he is, just search You Tube. At any rate, number one was Lupin the 3rd! I didn't realize the TV series began way back in 1971. Wow. (For Lloyd residents not in the know, I have a couple of DVDs and one manga anthology in my apartment. You may borrow if you wish.)
Until tomorrow...
# posted by thom @ 11:52 PM 
