Translations of some recent posts from Kazuya Minekura's blog.

Minekura's blog is a lot harder to read (for me, anyway) than Kaoru Mori's - Minekura loves her run-on sentences, and any word that can be written in kanji, the woman is darn well going to write in kanji.

Also, Minekura's blog is clearly part of a conversation with her fans to a greater extent than Mori's is - there are references in there that I think assume more context than I have. So, I'm sure I'm missing stuff in here. Sections I had to guess about are in gray.

( World is MINE )

A thought.

Last year Google was tracking flu outbreaks using the locations of people doing flu-related searches. They could probably track earthquakes over a certain magnitude the same way. Then they could cross-index those searches against actual geological data to figure out where secret missile tests are being conducted.

Pretty much every thought I ever have ends up leading me in the direction of trouble with the FBI.

(I thought of this because I just felt a rumble. The USGS says nothing happened, so maybe the neighbors dropped something really heavy.)

I had actually intended to get some coding done today.

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