Eduardo Gonzalez

I got Valentine’s day Chocolate from my Girlfriend!  I’m so happy.   It’s a box from Kobe Morozoff.  The company that brought Valentine’s Day to Japan. I need to work double hard now to work off the calories.  f^_^;

The EM D01NE is a (I think) HSDPA PCMCIA card. The driver for the modem comes with Ubuntu 7.04 (Maybe before). I get about 2Mbps from it (max is 3.8). Getting this setup in Ubuntu is easier than getting it setup with Windows. The only gotcha is that you have to install Gnome-PPP first, since [...]

For the benefit of the Internet, the key combination Control+Shift+Hiragana_Katakana puts the keyboard to and from the qwerty layout. Unfortunately the story doesn’t end there. Control+Shift+Hiragana_Katakana actually alternates between half-width katakana layout and qwerty layout modes. If you are unlucky enough to accidentally press that key combination while in full-width character mode (Like I did) [...]

Well, it’s been a really long time since I’ve written an entry but I’ll try to get everyone up to speed about what I’ve been up to in the last few months. The biggest news is that I’ve been accepted to do an internship at Matsushita (The parent company of Panasonic) for 6 months. It [...]

Today I made myself a chicken curry rice so good I nearly had a Yakitate Japan style reaction!

This post is all in Japanese this time. 今日ミス ユーニバスというビューティ パーゲント行われた。今度のMiss Japan （知花くらら）がめっちゃ美人です。 結果はMiss Puerto Rico（Zuleyka Rivera)が勝って、二番目が知花さんでした。日本の方がもっときれいで、頭よくて（スペイン語、フランス語，英語も話せる）、ドレスも素敵だと思い ます。 何点でPuerto Ricoが勝ったか分からない。（＞＿＜） でわ春菜からのバトン行きます。英語の言葉使います！ 【Ｑ１】自転車のことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Bike 【Ｑ２】マクドナルドのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ McDonalds (also sometimes Micky Ds) 【Ｑ３】パソコンのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Laptop, PC 【Ｑ４】お父さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Papa 【Ｑ５】お母さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Mama 【Ｑ６】合同コンパのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ ごこん。。。 【Ｑ７】セブンイレブンのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ (The) Seven Eleven 【Ｑ８】ファミリーマートのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Family Mart 【Ｑ９】自分しか使わないであろう、呼び方を教えてください Ａ＞ [...]

Today I went to the mall for lunch because I can only stand Subway for so long.  The mall in Carolina had a Little Tokyo restaurant in it.  The signs showed a really good looking Chicken Katsu and Sukiyaki combo, but when I went to order all they had was Chicken Teriyaki and other staple [...]

Well, since I’ve finally found some free time I’ve decided to post some results (of one of those personality tests) that I stumbled upon when I was reading Haruna’s blog. You can take it at Love type check! Here are my results: Apollon(アポロン)　英語名：Apollo(アポロ) です。 ■神話 太陽神として知られる、音楽と医療の神。 神話の中では明るく陽気な性格で竪琴を奏でる色男として登場します。 神々の中でも2枚目として通っていた彼ですが、女性には振られまくっています。 美形でも軽い男は女性には好かれないようです。 ■性質 あなたは愛想がよく、女性男性問わずに周りから好かれるタイプ しかも失敗を恐れずにいろいろなことにもチャレンジします。 大きなことにチャレンジして、一発当てることができるのもアポロンの特徴です。 楽天的なところがあるので、あまり沈みこまないところも良いところです。 いつも明るいおかげで、周りも明るくなり、みんな安心してあなたと付き合うことができます。 [...]

It’s no secret that people compliment your misrable attempts to speak their language all the time. Usually these compliments are straight forward, like “お上手ですね” (“Your Japanese is really good!”), which usually means more like “Hang in there!”. There’s also the surprise comment where you are better at their language than they expected these are usually [...]

Last night was looking light it was going to be another boring Saturday night. Extreme boredom calls for extreme measures so I e-mailed the Kobe ESS mailing list asking if anyone was doing something. Turns out my friend Jose from Argentina was going clubbing that night so I was saved. I read the e-mail at [...]