Catholic tastes

Who is Tatsuya?

I'm 3/4 English, 1/4 Hungarian and I speak fluent Japanese. Tatsuya is part of a pun on my real name transliterated into Japanese, but don't worry, most Japanese people don't get it either.

I used to teach Japanese for a living, until I realised that "teaching" and "making a living" don't really have much to do with each other, so now I'm a computer programmer, living in the darkest depths of rural Japan at the end of an ADSL connection.

If you need a Japanese angle for an entry, I'd be happy to help out. Drop me a line.

Catholic?

That's catholic, not Catholic, but the first word in a title looks better capitalised, doesn't it?

Someone I was interviewing once had an entry saying "catholic taste in music" on their CV. I liked both the phrase and the sentiment.

Vegetables

Finding I have a large patch of empty land to look after, and not wanting to have my mother-in-law just spray the whole thing with weed-killer for a second year running, I have been attempting some gardening. Darkest rural Northern Japan has a short growing season, so things are only just starting, but so far, I have planted:

• Legumes: Peas, Broad Beans.
• Brassicas: Cabbages, Broccoli, Komatsuna, Mizuna, Shirona, Pak Choi.
• Roots: Parsnips, Carrots, Potatoes.
• Other: Onions, Garland Chrysanthemums, Cucumbers.

Things I am (able to remember being) into

Apart from vegetables, in no particular order.

• H2G2 (still)
• Ekawa Tatsuya¹'s manga version of the Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) with the full original text, marginal notes, and loads of explicit sex (example Genji page at Allman).
• Inoue Takehiko's brilliant manga version of Yoshikawa Eiji's fictional biography of Miyamoto Musashi, Vagabond.
• Wasan, traditional Japanese mathematics (see this old Sci Am article on temple geometry puzzles).
• Zillions of Games, a demoware generic board-game engine with a rule scripting language for defining new games, network play, and a library of 600+ games and variants already implemented.
• Kensington, the best recently-invented board-game on the planet, (which Zillions can't play at present).
• Tehon-dori, and other traditional Japanese games, particularly the ones everyone Japanese has forgotten like the various Shogi variants.
• The not-so-mellow guitar rock of Hotei Tomoyasu (particularly his performance of Micahel Kamen's guitar concerto) and Himuro Kyosuke (both formerly of Boøwy) and Matsumoto Takahiro of the B'z.

Things I was (able to remember being) into (before)

List the second

Metallica S&M on DVD, Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight [URL removed by moderator²], Eros Ramazzotti, Enthusiasm, Cinefex, Quid.

List the first

Patricia Kaas, Spike Milligan, CIPE, Miss Wyoming, Lola Rennt, _penter, Umizuru [URL removed by moderator³], nokiagame, Clangers, POP 2000.

Field research station

I have a field research station at geocities.co.jp.

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