i felt like i couldn’t go through a flight with wireless available and not using it. so i paid the nominal fee of 9.99US for 1 hour access.

i’m flying and surfing at the same time!

@11hours to perth. lan soon :)

Pinging psrv.ath.cx [150.101.171.205] with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 150.101.171.205: bytes=32 time=818ms TTL=38
Reply from 150.101.171.205: bytes=32 time=808ms TTL=38
Reply from 150.101.171.205: bytes=32 time=809ms TTL=38
Reply from 150.101.171.205: bytes=32 time=809ms TTL=38

Ping statistics for 150.101.171.205:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 808ms, Maximum = 818ms, Average = 811ms

Tracing route to psrv.ath.cx [150.101.171.205]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms 172.16.64.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms cbb-cds-psn.by.boeing [172.16.0.18]
3 4 ms 1 ms 2 ms sbs.by.boeing [172.31.0.1]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 579 ms 580 ms 581 ms vbc02d13-d.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.52.13]
6 578 ms 583 ms 968 ms vbc02r03-v25.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.52.2]
7 695 ms 860 ms 1163 ms vbc02r04-v15.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.50.3]
8 1227 ms 683 ms 997 ms vbc02r24-f0-1.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.48.41]
9 562 ms 554 ms 562 ms vbc02r22-f2-9.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.48.49]
10 611 ms 581 ms 559 ms vbc02r01-v20.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.48.130]
11 573 ms 581 ms 580 ms vbc02r02-v20.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.48.131]
12 596 ms 886 ms 692 ms Vlan101.msfc1.LCN-LakeCowichan.teleglobe.net [216.6.83.1]
13 1026 ms 1217 ms 1274 ms if-5-0.core1.LCN-LakeCowichan.Teleglobe.net [64.86.83.33]
14 792 ms 579 ms 561 ms if-1-1.core1.VCW-Vancouver.teleglobe.net [216.6.58.6]
15 569 ms 560 ms 559 ms if-10-0.core1.SEP-Seattle.Teleglobe.net [207.45.196.53]
16 560 ms 580 ms 562 ms ix-3-0.core1.SEP-Seattle.Teleglobe.net [207.45.196.34]
17 940 ms 970 ms 718 ms p64-1-3-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.43]
18 1188 ms 632 ms 778 ms xe-1-1.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.29]
19 774 ms 914 ms 608 ms gig0-2.bdr1.sjc2.internode.on.net [129.250.11.98]
20 812 ms 797 ms 803 ms pos3-0.bdr1.syd7.agile.on.net [203.16.213.42]
21 829 ms * 831 ms pos2-1.bdr2.adl5.internode.on.net [203.16.212.177]
22 847 ms 830 ms 831 ms pos3-0.cor1.per1.agile.on.net [203.16.212.169]
23 849 ms 1292 ms 829 ms fa0-0-3.lns1.per1.internode.on.net [150.101.0.178]
24 824 ms 913 ms 998 ms ppp171-205.lns1.per1.internode.on.net [150.101.171.205]

Trace complete.

i guess its finally nearing the end of my stay in japan…

today was quite a fun yet tiring day.  first of all, i caught the overnight bus from himeji to shinjuku, leaving at 2130 and arriving at 0630.  that was quite a fun ride, but i didn’t get much sleep .

then i stepped off the bus, and faced the problem of getting my suitcase halfway across tokyo in the fucking 26c humid stickiness at 7am…  that took quite a few trains and busses.

then i went to meet tencho!  it turns out he’s quite a long way away from where i am based, and as i absent-mindedly caught a local (stops every stop (客亭)), it took over 3 hours to get there.

we did some work together, and i was his assistant for the day lol.  then ate probably the last decent meal i will eat in japan, and trashed the streets and office buildings on atsugi.

i guess i didn’t mention that i forgot to eat anything from before i boarded the bus, until i ate dinner with tencho. oops.

i doubt ill make another entry before i hit sg to bye for now~

i found this book in the book store the other day. it made me laugh ^^. not only do the botters have blogs entailing their experiences, they have actually found a publisher willing to make a book about it?!

as i’m finally reaching the end of my comparatively long trip to japan, i guess there are a few uncertainties :p. i definitely have a bus booked from himeji -> shinjuku, but what happens in the 47 hours from when i arrive until my plane is ready for boarding is very fumei. i guess that could be fun?!

anyway if anyone’s after my reason for catching a bus rather than a shinkansenn… its because i felt like i’ve already been on the shinkansenn x+5 times and i want to experience one of the overnight coach buses in japan! question is: will i find NSMB at a buyable price before my bus trip .

its nice to be able to take pictures in low light situations. this was taken using my dv camera, along with a lot of nice video of fireworks . i sent my firewire transfer cable home in a box a few weeks ago, so the video won’t surface anywhere around here for at least a month. but look forward to it i guess?

@3tests (though i really cbf anymore..) @3days of uni @6days in japan D:

i feel like i have waay too many screenshots piling up that i need to do something with. just from games i’ve been playing lately. the ro hax i’ve always used to take screenshots works in any program, and is just so handy that i end up with thousands of shots from whatever i’m doing..

playing lylat wars/starfox64 brings back a lot of very good memories. i’ve never actually played past the 2nd lvl on an emulator before, due to how hard it is to control an arwing with the keyboard. but now i have my xbox360 controller, so that is no excuse!. i got up to venom in one shot, only losing 2 lives (damn starwolf on the second encounter…) but haven’t had the time to pass it yet.

the actual gameplay is just as good as i remember it being… there are so many different paths you can take throughout the game – both inside and outside the levels. i wasn’t able to stay on the uber path for the world map thing.. but i definitely want to try again! the underwater mission with the landmaster is really quite fun if you can get to it.

as for ro, i made a trip to the biolabs last week after tencho gave me a 1day pass (thanks ). the 2nd floor is quite soloable with HL, but i’m really not sure how much exp it is worth. my dex felt soooo much higher than i remember it being!

doddler did warn me to put on me dokebi armour… lv30 JT hurts quite badly :s

ijou~. i have some other games but i’ll add them on later!

oh in case anyone noticed, psrv was down for a couple of hours (more if you include the period i couldn’t ssh in), but is back in full working condition now.  much thanks to p00ya for haxing it from its physical location :p. r0×0r