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Seven months in Japan; another review: As I predicted in my previous post I enjoyed an extensive downtime to recharge. :) No traveling, no big events, just lazy day-to-day life.

Six months in Japan; another review: More or less a month ago I had my last exams for the winter semester; and the summer semester won’t start until early April.

Five months in Japan; another review: Can to kindle be used intransitively?

Four months in Japan; another review: Turned out I hit the breaks early enough — no overload in terms of events. :) Lectures just started again after a short break around New Year, a friend visited for two weeks, and all in all things are good. :) I attend

Three months in Japan; another review: Japan: Join ALL the events!

Two months in Japan; another review: I feel like I’ve reached a solid base on which to build upon in a lot of aspects.

One month since I’ve arrived in Japan; short review: Fun with power plug adapters AC plugs and sockets used in Germany are IEC types F (“Schuko“) and C (“Europlug“), Japan uses types A and B — but actually almost excusively A.

Three to four years ago I gradually developed an interest in Japanese culture.

100 kanji, 420 words, 115 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

101 kanji, 231 words, 36 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

100 kanji, 261 words, 45 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

Pun intended.

99 kanji, 232 words, 35 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

I rebuilt the page with Python, Markdown, and Jinja2.

99 kanji, 240 words, 33 days; Anki stats[1], kanji so far.

99 kanji, 256 words, 36 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

101 kanji, 286 words, 34 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

98 kanji, 301 words, 34 days; Anki stats, kanji so far.

100 kanji, 285 words, 41 days.

100 kanji, 284 words — almost keeping pace with the last 100. 52 days this time.

100 kanji, 253 words — which took 50 days, meh.

100 kanji, 283 words — writing thesis, Anki on the train while commuting to and from work, not much time in the evening to add new vocab, a bit of reading and writing on LINE but no time for grammar, Lang-8, etc.

100 kanji and 270 words, again in one month and one day — we’ll see how that develops once I start writing my thesis in March.

Aaand again it’s been one month and one day — during which I somehow pumped 98 kanji and 317 words into my brain.

On and on it goes … 97 kanji and 253 words since the last post.

Soo … 37 days, 104 kanji and 291 words later: Not much to say about kanji learning itself.

God mode activated. :) Exactly one month ago I wrote 「漢字 — 200+」 and since then addded 280 new words using 100 new kanji to my Anki deck.

Strange thing about Amazon: Japanese books (offered on amazon.com and amazon.de) are not available for the standard Kindle although it’s perfectly capable of displaying Japanese content.

Whew … at last.

So, a mere 5% of Jōyō kanji made their way into my head — and it’s been fun so far, A LOT actually!

I started taking beginner level Japanese courses at uni.

Got some stuff that I could have mentioned … so: combo post!

A few weeks ago I noticed something strange about the ticket machines of Deutsche Bahn.

The renovation cat must have sent it’s friend. — I used the last two days to update the site a bit.

It is true.

Maybe not that interesting, but I felt like this had to appear here.

Before I begin with what this is actually about, some words for those who aren’t familiar with AniDB, MyAnimelist, XDCC-Bots or at least one of those: AniDB and MyAnimelist are both websites that let you create a list of anime titles.

A few days ago I read that the VZ Netzwerke (a group of dying social networks once popular in Germany) will be renamed to or restarted as idpool.

edit: modkey + o moves windows between displays — that pretty much solves the whole thing.

A few weeks ago I thought it would be nice to try out time-lapse photography.

Added a “scrolling” fuctionality to the grid in the photography section — should now be at least a bit more comfortable to browse through.

A few days ago I made a new acquaintance — interesting personality, joyful character; the kind of person you’re grateful to have met.

The first implementation of my movielist made use of IMDBPHP, a third party API thingy.

Whenever I wanted to terminate a program by force I used ps -A | grep PROGNAME, read the process id and then executed sudo kill PID.

On today’s schedule: light exercises in JavaScript, regular expressions and Vim.

Arch Linux!

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Since my last blog post several things happened that I could have mentioned here, but I somehow never got around doing so.

I always was that kind of guy who just has to jump over things, climb stuff and find physical challenges whenever being outside.