Current obsessions
ANA flights for YAPC and OSDC.tw: will call the customer support and see if abandoing the return flight of cheap economy ticket is “okay” or not. I’ll book the flight today anyway.
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Snow in Tokyo today!
Japan has the warmest winter ever, by having no snow day in the winter in this 120 years. But today, which is already Spring by definition, it had the first snow in Tokyo. This is the latest first snow ever after 1876, when they started recording the snow dates.
Embed is the new gadget
follow miyagawa at http://twitter.comHey I’m twittering here!
Interview
E2_2I’m on the coverage of “Japanese tech people working in the Valley” special issue of Recruit Japan web magazine.
ToTD: kitsch
kitsch: As an art movement, lifestyle, or literature and film genre, kitsch is pleasingly distasteful. It’s melodramatic, overdone, gaudy and tacky or sentimental and folksy. It’s so bad that it’s cool. Your cat might attack it, but it’s hot.
Nikko Cordial kept listed. WTF
Japan: Nikko Cordial is kept listed regardless of their huge account fraud, maybe because they have a strong connection with the Tokyo Stock market organizer.
El Classico in HD
I just finished watching the 1st half of El Classico (F.C. Barcelona v. Real Madrid) in 720p HD. The video is 720p High Def quality and the audio is “intenational feed” which means there’s no commentaries. This makes you feel like you’re in the stadium. Superb!
Hello DST
Is this 3:00 AM already?
Japanese homogeneity
Today I woke up 6am in the morning, took the BART to SFO and then caught the shuttle going down to the valley to Mountain View Hilton Garden Inn, to attend as a panelist for JTPA Sillicon Valley tour.
ITVN?
I’ve been always looking for the way to watch football games in San Francisco, and yesterday I found the other alternative: Satanta Sports on ITVN.
Which CPU/RAM is required to playback 720p/1080p movie?
When I try to playback the 720p/1080p HD quality video (avi, wmv or mkv) files downloaded from easynews/bittorrent using my laptop, I see lots of gaps in the video.
UEFA Champions League in Autopia
IMG_0968You might have noticed that Sekimura-san and I were watching UEFA Champions League soccer games in Autopia. The video was streamed live from the internet, somewhere in Asia but the quality was not so bad.
"Comcast are retarded monkeys"
I cancelled their HS-I service two weeks after I subscribed, since I found the other service (VVD).
You'll Never Walk Alone
So F.C. Barcelona, the champion of the last year UEFA CL lost against Liverpool.
HATE security office
Today at lunch I got a phone call from my landlord (who is a good guy) saying that he’s charged an extra $100 because “I didn’t call the security office when I did the move-in in January.”
Sorry we're not Chinese ... but we love Dim Sum!
IMG_0964IMG_0966IMG_0962Now that Sekimura-san and Satoshi are settled in San Francisco (well, I guess they’re not settled yet … but moved here anyway), I had a lunch with them and their families in Canton Dim Sum restaurant. This is the first time for me to see the restaurant being full! (When I get a food to go there, it’s almost empty…)
B.A.D. girls
IMG_0935IMG_0946IMG_0960Saturday: Woke up really late (2pm or so), watched Barcelona - Sevilla liga espanola game, which was exciting but a disappointing result. Went to the downtown for a Japanese food and watched Chinese New Year Parade on the market street. Crazy amount of people there!
Vox Hunt: Best Beach
Show us the best beach you have visited. Submitted by Marko.
Cell phone tracker
Link: ITmediaモバイル：携帯でインターネットラジオ～タフの試み.
Tokyo, 1935
1935年（昭和10年）東京 カラー映像A color video of Tokyo, 1935. Totally amazing. It was more western-tasted and much more slick, before the bomb attacks in WW2 have burnt everything.