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Rant: Website almost online!
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Articles on doing things better. Hey everybody, thought I was dead? Well you're wrong. I've got Wordpress installed on my server and have everything up and running. I even have a killer URL, but I haven't registered it, so I can't tell you guys. I've been messing with Wordpress, and it is so much better than Blogspot. I'll have the site name registered soon, get the URL to point to the site, tweak everything a little, and bam! It'll be done by Tuesday. At the latest, so if not you can bug me. The path to...
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Rant: I believe in Khatzumoto
http://alyks-rant.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-believe-in-khatzumoto.html
Articles on doing things better. I believe in Khatzumoto. No matter what the guy does, he just can't get a break. Khatzumoto posts in very good Japanese on his site, and people doubt him. He posts a. Of himself, and yet people still give him shit. He gets comments like this. That Japanese is learned when you're deep in a story, from experience. I, along with Khatzumoto, advocate a method of enjoyment over learning the rules of grammar. And yet, they. And I won't have it. It's obvious that my method must ...
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Rant: Adventure games anyone?
http://alyks-rant.blogspot.com/2009/03/adventure-games-anyone.html
Articles on doing things better. I "acquired" Final Fantasy 7 last week. It's so much fun, going on big adventures and fighting against the evil Sephiroth, among other things. Do you know how many useful verbs are used in a game like FF7? It's one thing to read a sentence and look up all the verbs to get an idea, but it's an entirely different thing when the sentence is from a strategy guide: "岩が転がってくる通路では、岩の隙間に入れるように進む。" and then you actually make your character. What it says here. What the words mean?
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Rant: 3月 2009
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Articles on doing things better. Why are you learning Japanese? You have to know this question. A large part of the reason people get so. And off point, is because they look at Japanese learning as a goal unto itself. If you want to get past your hump, to do more than the minimum everyday, to step up from mediocrity, you really need to get your goals in order. Many of us follow. There are enough people who say 24/h listening to Japanese isn't that effective, and not a lot of evidence to say it is. This m...
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Rant: How to make really good miso soup from scratch!
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Articles on doing things better. How to make really good miso soup from scratch! The article is available, at the new site:. Http:/ www.alexelkholy.com. Or for the article directly: http:/ alexelkholy.com/2009/05/08/miso-soup-from-scratch/. The 'killer url' I was going to use was "touchofalex.com", but I ultimately decided against it, for obvious reasons. I ended up going with hostingrails. It cost me a total of 50 dollars to put it all up. And give me feedback on the theme, what I can do to improve it.
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Rant: Coming soon to a computer near you
http://alyks-rant.blogspot.com/2009/04/coming-soon-to-computer-near-you.html
Articles on doing things better. Coming soon to a computer near you. So I've been trying to put together something recently. I'm going to be turning. Into its very own standalone website. Right now I have the webserver lined up, and a basic outline of the site put together. It's just a matter of staying sober for long enough to finish the stupid thing. Updates to follow. Very cool. What webserver is it? I actually have a server here at home all setup that I can host it on. I can dig it. がんばって! Yellow Exp...
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Rant: Suggestions for a domain name?
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Articles on doing things better. Suggestions for a domain name? So 'rant.com' and 'ranting.com' are taken, and I don't want to use something stupid like .net. Anybody got any suggestions? Entirely random question about the movie method here. Do you think it could be used by someone who already knows for sure on-yomi readings around a 1200 or so kanji. Exclude those kanji and work on the readings of the other 1000 or so that they haven't memorized yet? Anyways, good luck with it. :). What more do you need?
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Rant: 12月 2008
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Articles on doing things better. Time - Reading log 3. I have to wonder, do the sentences really matter? Maybe the real skill is learned not from the amount of study and sentences, but in the amount of time spent. Maybe our brains need to have a large amount of time spent actively parsing Japanese for it to "click". Lately all of my free time as been devoted to reading. I digest. When I do lay down in bed, sleep doesn't come easy. I lay there for hours, and I can't stop thinking. I'm still wonder...It's ...
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Rant: 2月 2009
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Articles on doing things better. So you slipped up. How long as it been since you last read or heard Japanese? Have you been watching the non-Japanese TV in gratuitous amounts? Work catching up to you? Had to take care of life? So what you lost a couple days. Big deal. Everybody screws up. I did. Between my studying, school, finishing my recent favorite manga series and getting accidentally hooked on Boston Legal, I've totally blown off Japanese for the past six days total for the first time. Forum - I'v...
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Rant: Rant: I don't work well with others
http://alyks-rant.blogspot.com/2009/03/rant-i-dont-work-well-with-others.html
Articles on doing things better. Rant: I don't work well with others. Here's the very first "Rant" article. It's about time, too. Basically, I'm not trying to help anybody, give advice, or even be rational. I'm not even going for a central theme. Just a pure, maddox-style, good old fashioned rant. Before I go any further, I'm just going to put some things out for the world to see:. I tend to think "learning styles" and "personal preferences" are just hippie things to say when you're a wimp. You've gotten...
