Coffee: Kenya AA (GIN-NO-MAME)

• Type: Kenya AA


• Roast: Full City Roast (3/5)


• Aroma: Fruity. Calm.


• Acidity: Strong


• Body: Light, easy


• Flavor: Morning, yellow


• Price:


• Note: Great coffee. I was told that this coffee would be very sour with weak roast cause this is one of the strongest in acidity. I found I am liking sourness of coffee.

Week 7: Feb 15 - Feb 21

Week in Review;
This week was a week of Speaker and Sound.
Listening in the car and at home with harman / kardon speaker system is bliss.

• stenographic records. (writing down in shorthand.)
  
• two kinds of spagetti. Natto Spagetti, Gorgonzola Spagetti.
  
• Morning with morning songs.
  
• Contact lens
  
• Rust prevent stainless work on our entrance door.
  
• Learning new language.
  
• Bikkuri Donki Humberg
  

iTunes Music Store - Cat Stevens, Louis Armstrong, Living Language

This weekend I purchased three.
Two songs are really great for listening in the morning.
Another one is for learning Chinese.

Morning Has Broken
What a Wonderful World (single)
In-Flight Mandarin Chinese: Learn Before You Land

I am really glad I boght Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken". So wonderful piece of music! I think I am gonna wake up every Sunday moring with this song!

I am going to bed and listen to "In-Flight Mandarin Chinese" tonight.

Goodnite!

Oldest Homo Sapiens is from Ethiopia, Africa.

190,000 years ago in Ethiopia, our ancestor was born. Probably it looked very much like us, had brain as big as ours'.
So we then splead to all the places, and killed off another Homo Sapiens, Neanderthal and possibly more apes, which are extinct now. Anthropology is fun, cause it let us imagine things that really happened.

The article on Nature.

This skull, called Omo II, is from the earliest known member of our species.
© Michael Day
Two Ethiopian fossils have been crowned as the oldest known members of our species. An estimated 195,000 years old, the pair were witness to the earliest days of Homo sapiens.

The discovery adds yet more weight to the argument that Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, was the birthplace of humans. The dating sits well with genetic analyses of modern populations, which suggest that H. sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago.

Rent CDs - John Mayer, Alicia Keys

Rented two CDs from Tsutaya

Heavier Things - John Mayer
the diary of alicia keys - Alicia Keys

Listening pleasure for coming weekend.

Week 6: Feb 7 - Feb 14

Week in Review:
This week was about iTunes Music Store.
Bought total of 9 songs.
It was an exciting week, because now I can buy a song, not whole album!

• PianoBall's two trips.
  
• TalkativeSnow went to see marathon.
  
• Bad decisiion on buying sub woofer.
  
• Home Alone
  
• Alone in Nagasaki Chanpon
  
• Sleep too much
  
• Billy Corgan's Poem - Blinking with Fists - from Amazon
  
• Jimmy Chamberlin's first album - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - from Amazon
  

Global Consciousness - Random generators placed in many places of the world can detects the future events.

Article and Global Consciousness Project Website

The article is so interesting. Time may flow both foward and backward, and we are capable of detecting the future event.
If this finding is true, it can explain de ja vu. Even more, it can change our understandings the law of our Universe and physics.

More on this story as I investigated.

My thought in Japanese is here.

My first iTunes Music Store's iMix - yasutMix01

yasutMix01 is just been released from yasut! It is available for 1 year.

They are my first 9 songs I purchased from iTunes Music Store. Last 3 songs are for you to sleep. Over 80 minutes of songs for only $9.69!

iTunes Music Store Purchases

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones & Quincy Jones & His Orchestra

Both are heard in Japanese TV programs, and they sound very familiar.

iTunes Music Store - Darwin Chamber

I bought a song? of Darwin Chamber.
3D Thunderstorm Environment 30 minutes in length, and it is only $0.99!

I hope it isn't just a normal environment sound. Actually I don't really like thinderstorm...

Purchases from iTunes Music Store

Today I pick myself three songs.
They are:

• Don't Blow It (a song from motion picture "Solaris") - Cliff Martinez
  
• Only Time - Enya
  
• Guided meditation for Sleep - Simonette Vaja
  

"Solaris" is such a great film. Worth buying DVD and Soundtrack. Composer, "Cliff Martinez" is in my Great Composer list.
I am going to listen to Guided meditation for Sleep now. It is 30 min in length, and still cost only $0.99! What a deal!

I bought songs from iTunes Music Store for the first time!

I bought gift certificate from ipodfactory and bought songs from iTunes for the first time. It was such an excitement!
My mom and I picked these three, and it was worth it! It was so much fun buying.

• Impromptu No. 5, Op. 102 - Pierr-Alain Volondat (composed by Faure)


• Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye


• Leaving On a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary

Otolog (Japanese) - Music Log - Automatically logs what you listen on your iTunes

This is Japanese invention.
Create account, Installing OtologController (Mac/Win), then listen to iTune music.
Otolog logs songs you listen automatically!
I added Otolog to my English and Japanese site.
Otolog is Japanese only, but you can still see what I listened by the album cover, which is automatically pulled from Amazon.com. Cool!

See the navigation bar on the right. You see what I listen right now!

http://otolog.jp/

Very Funny Pepsi-iTunes Super Bowl XXXIX commercial

You can watch it first and second commercial.

Very funny and very good TV commercial.

My first composed song called Neanderthal1

I am beginner in composing music.
This is my first one using Apple's Garageband2.

Download it here

Licenced under Creative Commons' Public Domain Licence.
Free to distribute, modify, and sell, as long as credit me (Yasu).

Y!Q - Yahoo! 's new search technology. Let's try it here.

Yahoo! have introduced new way to search related website about articles on your website. It is called Y!Q.
Is this be the next big thing? I am sure similar service will be coming from Google and MSN very soon.
More about it in here.

Photo: Guinea Pig, Strawberry

I am trying to upload as much beautiful pictures as possible.
Today I have added these below.





And all picture I upload is under the Creative Common's Public Domain Licence, meaning you can use them in any form; use in your art, modify it to totally different form, and sell them as long as you credit me (Yasu).

Check the licence.

Week 5: Jan 31 - Feb 6

Another week passed.
This week was a week of photograph, music, and digital life.

Week in review:

• Roland Edirol UM-1 and Casio LK-57 connected
  
• Composed a song called Neanderthal1
  
• EPSON PM-A870 (Printer and scanner together)
  
• Flickr.com and uploaded a picture
  
• Exchange MIDI cable in Akihabara
  
• Photoshop 7.0 in Akihabara
  
• Final Cut Pro 3.0
  
• Found old pictures of Nyanta in backup cd from year 2000.
  
• Chinese restaurant in Shinjuku 3-cho-me
  
• Drinking milk
  
• How to take away time and space restriction using photos.
  
• Anthropology
  

My Photo in Flickr.com

I created an account in Flickr.com.
Here is my Photo collection.
Right now there aren't much pictures, but come back later, access from side navigation menu.

RSS Feed for My Photo

Flickr.com - My New Toy

Flickr.com is very fun site.
This photo sharing site let you share your photo for people to see.
You can tag your photo, so people can search.
URL below are links to particular kind of photos for viewing in slideshow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/iPod%20Shuffle/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mac%20mini/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/japan/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/vancouver/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dog/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cat/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/beauty/show/

or anything you want to see.

Another cool feature from Flickr.com is RSS feed! Add them to your favourite News Reader.
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=iPod%20Shuffle&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=mac%20mini&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=japan&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=vancouver&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=dog&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=cat&format=rss_200
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=beauty&format=rss_200

Have fun.