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Soooo. Lets start with pachinko… I went to a real pachinko parlour the other night. Not the “Game” house that featured pachinko like last time.. And sat down with my 2000 yen to play. While playing though I aparently won something big.. I didn’t know what it was.. But the machine started beeping and flashing, and playing a music video.. It was really cool, the guys even walked up and put a flag on my machine because I was A WINNER.. The problem was, I turned to cho-san and asked him.. What is this.. And he said “Its a popular song”.. So me, being gaijin I thought when music was over it would spit out a shit load of balls.. Well, 5 minutes into the song with me and cho-san watching it someone finally explained that I had to play through the music video to win big….. WTF??????? 7 minute music video and you tell me this after I sat here watching for 5 minutes? So I start playing and the balls just pour out of the machine.. I must have doubled or trippled my money in just those 2 minutes of playing.. Imagine what I would have if I had played through the whole song instead of being a LOOOOOSSSSEEEERRRR and watching the music video.. Le Sigh…

Second thing that makes me a looser.. I installed Hardy Heron — Ubuntu, in a virtual machine.. But get this.. The japanese archive servers for ubuntu are sooooo bad that 50 percent of the time I get 404 errors when running apt-get update.. And you know, installing SDL libraries? Impossible.. How can Ubuntu not keep the japanese mirrors in sync with the US mirrors?