Week 4: Jan 24 - 31

Week in review:

• PianoBall's Birthday
  
• French Restaurant in Ginza
  
• iLife '05
  
• Birthday movie made on iMovie HD
  
• Black Epron
  
• Flower hand bag
  
• MTB Fest movie made on iMovie HD and iDVD
  
• Sickness all week
  
• I play w/ Garageband2
  
• Encoding PC at work died
  
• Yoshitsune - Taiga Drama on NHK
  
• Book: Complete reading 'Neanderthal'
  

What Mac mini is really for? - HD Video Player?

Great prediction of Apple's next move.
iTunes will soon be distributing HD format video (AVC H.264), and you can play it on Mac mini connected to HDTV.

Week 3: Jan 17 - 23

My week in review.

• Cold Epidemic in the work
  
• Filming for tire company in studio. Smoke generator and light.
  
• Computer in Akihabara (Pentium 4 3.2GHz, 800FSB, 1GB mem, 160GB HD, 13000Yen Case w/ 400W Power)
  
• Maid Cafe in Akihabara
  
• Bulk Beef Rice Bowl in Akihabara
  
• Bought snowboard carrier bag w/ 3 stoppers (in Alpen)
  
• Snowboarding w/ Eros River, Funny TV, Breast Grabber
  

Jimmy Chamberlin Complex Songs Available online

Jimmy Chamberlin's first solo album "Life Starts Again" will be released on 2005/01/25!

You can listen to some of his songs in their new album in full length in their website after you signup for the email news letter.
Billy Corgan sings for the song called "Lokicat". Very very nice song.
Check it out!

Trackback Functiionality Added! - haloscan.com

Finally, I added Trackback functionality to my blog.
I used haloscan.com's service as blogger.com suggest to use.

Quantum Informations Solution - id Quantique and MagiQ

Those two companies are first of two companies offering quantum cryptography solutions.
Probably the safest way to comunicate each other using these devices.
Especially id Quantique website is fun to look.

id Quantique
MagiQ

Great article about quantum cryptography on Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com).
Quantum cryptography has marched from theory to laboratory to real products

Creative Commons - Woman's Right Video

Motherhood by Choice is the video about woman's right and abortion. This story is told with the American history of woman's right. Quite long, but very important.

I think a woman should have the choice of her own body. People should have all the right except things affecting other's right to live or affecting their health.

The same answer to gay couple marriage, or the right to have almost the same living as straight marriage couples.

The answers seem so obvious to me.

I wonder why human make same mistakes. Is this because we care our history too little?, or we have limitations and need to wait for another evolution to happen? The time takes care of this our problems? Or our technology destroy us first?

We must really figure this out!

Bad Movies

Bad Movies is great place to find movies to entertain your friend.
There are reviews, images, and videos.

Early Mammal Ate Dinosaurs.

It was 130 million years ago, and mammals were relatively small at that time, but they managed to hunt dinosaur and eat them!

This means Dinosaurs had predetors other than dinosaurs. This is remarkable finding.

I wonder if someday we can really bring them alive again like in Jurassic Park. I wonder what the odd for this.

The article on Scientific American.

BCorgan.com - What Billy and others are doing right now.

BCorgan.com is great place to read about what Billy and other member of Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan are doing. This site recieve site feeds from other site such as JamesIha.org, MelissaAufDerMaur.org and DarcyWretzky.Org. Still http://www.billycorgan.com does not site feed. Too bad.

James Iha is in Japan singing in Karaoke room.
Jimmy is going to release his first solo album. I am very proud of you.
You can also see Billy Corgan singing christmas song on video.

Check all at BCorgan.com

The Sound of Titan

Download and listen to the sound of Hygen's recording while the descend to Titan.
Download Here

Next, I want to see Methane's river in Titan on video.

Coffee: Shade Grown Mexico (Starbucks)

My first MILD category coffee from Starbucks.
Its label says, "CRISP & REFRESHING".
I agree with the label very much, because it doesn't have unique aroma, and it is waterly.
But this label is not the same as mine. Mine does not have "DECAF". I could not find same label.

Starbucks has three categories of coffee; MILD, SMOOTH, BOLD.
MILD coffee has little aroma and body.
SMOOTH has aroma, but little body.
BOLD has rich aroma and strong body.

Shade Grown Mexico is a MILD one. I recommend drinking at night.
But if you want to enjoy more flavour, this is not the choice.

Coffee: Mocha Harrar (GIN-NO-MAME COFFEE)

I like it.
Its aroma is unique, not bitter and has weak acidity.
If I compare with Starbucks coffee, this is categorized SMOOTH.
I liked GUATEMALA ANTIGUA of Starbucks and I liked this too.
I must like SMOOTH category coffee.

Roast: City Roast (2/5)
Price: 380Yen (100g)

Week 2: Jan 10 - 16

What happened this week.

• Snowboard boots and binding


• Udon in Kanda


• African Bar in Shinjuku


• Affiliate Program by Google Adsense


• Amazon Affiliate Program


• Load of the Ring - Two Towers


• Al Green


• Star Constalation


• Chicken Curry Rice w/ too much tomato and spices


• iPod Shuffle and Mac mini


• Super Japanese Rock Climber on TV


• Tenth Aniversary of Hanshin Earth Quake and a Novelist and a Cameraman on TV

The talk about Hayao Miyazaki

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?050117on_onlineonly01

Margaret Talbot who writes about Hayao Miyazaki, the japanese animation creator and director of film such as Spirited Away, talks about him in this interview by New Yorker. Hayao Miyazaki doesn't usually do interviews, so this is very interesting to read.

After I read this, it made me want to go see his new film, "Howl, the Walking Castle", eventhough people's reaction is not very good.

Here is what I learned about Hayao Miyazaki.

• He's very worried about kids consuming too much media, and thinks that they should watch a movie like "Totoro" no more than once a year.


• He is perhaps a pessimistic person, but has great vitality and a great respect and fondness for children. He wants them to make their own judgments about the world. He doesn’t want to swamp them with premature cynicism.


• He is an intense workaholic. The early days of their studio, Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki would work from 9 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., and that in recent years he has mellowed somewhat and goes home at midnight.


• His idea of a vacation was a nap.


• He isn't a fan of computer animation. He really favors the (now) old-fashioned method of hand drawing.


• John Lasseter of Pixar is his friend.

Synrad Laser Video

Here [http://www.synrad.com/Applications/video_clips.htm] you can see the laser in action.
I have never seen moving picture of strong laser. Check it out.

Paper Robot Pro Wrestling - Kami Robo

http://www.kami-robo.com/index_en.html
Kami Robo is a paper made robots made by Tomohiro Yasui. His world of make-believe started when he was very young. He started to create paper robots when he was 10. Now in his 30's, he is still in his world of make-believe. Videos are in Japanese, but you should be able to experience the excitement.

Blog Software Breakdown

Blog Break Down shows most of blog software available today.

iTunes Essentials

If you have iTunes on your computer, go to iTunes Essentials to discover all the kind of music.
This is really a great place to widen your selections of favourite songs.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (Color Photograph 100 years ago)

This guy created color photo 100 years ago.
This color images are not colored b/w photo, but a composition of red, blue, and green color photo.

The Empire That Was Russia.

Coffee: Toraja Kalosi (GIN-NO-MAME COFFEE)

Mildly bitter.
Kind of strong aroma.
Acidity is very little, but you can taste it a second after a sip.
Matched with formed milk.

Roast: French Roast(4/5)
Price: 580Yen (100g)

Week 1: Jan 3 - 9

What happened this week.

• Bought many many books


• Ramen in Akihabara


• Strange street performer in Shimokita


• Neanderthal book


• Departure in Narita


• Tibet Cigarrett


• Indian bed cover


• Digital Camera


• Went to Tsukinowa Station to see houses

Starchild

Last year the bone of Flora man was found in Indonesia. Starchild is not a new new kind of species of human as Flora man, but hybrid of human and ailien.

Starchild Project is fascinating to read.
More on this in Japanese here.

Coffee: Guatemala Antigua (Starbucks)

"Elegant and intriguing." - Starbucks.
I think this line explained very well. Its aroma and the taste should match with the mood in tea time.
This coffee is the first coffe from starbucks' Smooth category. It is indeed very smooth!

Coffee: Papua New Guinea Sigri AA (GIN-NO-MAME COFFEE)

Oh, its acidity was very strong. I don't know if it is because of the roasting or it is really sour kind.
I did not like it, but I would like to try one with stronger roast.
This coffee bean is same as Blue Mountain No.1, but growed in Papua New Guinea.

update:
I tried it 2 days later, the acidity was weaker and tasted better.

Roast: City Roast (2/5)
Price: 620 Yen (100g)

Coffee: India Plantation (GIN-NO-MAME COFFEE)

It is same coffee bean as Blue Mountain No.1 but growed in India.
It has sweet flavour to it. I really liked it very much.
Roast: Full City Roast (3/5)
Price: 420 Yen (100g)

Week 0: Jan 1 - Jan 2

Happy New Year.