Color Switcher
My websites
A bilingual websites dedicated to bring you the information on Major League Baseball players from Japan.
Japanese language blog about Boston Red Sox.
My work as graphic designer/web designer.
Personal blog that I've been keeping since 2002.
I like to eat. And taking photo of it.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Japan’s knuckleball princess
Japan’s 18-year-old knuckleball princess, Eri Yoshida, is participating in instructional Arizona Winter League. And now I read that she is named a starter for the Opening Day game. Yoshida to Start Friday The Arizona Winter League (AWL) announced Japanese RHP Eri Yoshida, the 18-year old female knuckleball phenom from Japan, will start on Opening Night [...]
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Different look to Google Reader and Google Calender
I’ve been using Google Reader to track my news and using Google App’s calender, which sync to my iPhone. Just found out using following user scripts, I can make them look nice too. Very cool. Helvetireader for Reader Helvetical for Calender Very nice. Update: I guess Google released a redesign of Google Reader, causing “Mark [...]
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Departures
I saw a very good movie, an academy award winning Japanese film (2009 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year), Departures, or Okuribito as it is called in Japan. It is very good, I highly recommend it. First, it would be amiss to not mention the main character’s name is Daigo. I used to tell [...]
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Twitter for 2010-01-24
SABR meeting was great, and that was about it for this week.
I like to eat!
A friend of mine Gil Asakawa always randomly tweeted his yummy food description with hashtag #twEATs. I loved it. I take lots of photos of food I eat. It is on my flickr pages like here, here, here and here. Lately, I got an iPhone and started using foursquare, a going out log, which is [...]
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Daisuke, Okajima Twitter for Jan. 17, 2010
This week’s twitter digest include Daisuke Matsuzaka groin injury (which I translated “inner thigh injury), Okajima’s 1 year deal and others.
Catch the Bus iPhone application (and MBTA Bus 70)
Little disappointed in the “Catch the Bus” iPhone application. I paid $0.99 thinking it will at least provide me with MBTA Bus schedule, but it only supports 5 lines (as of today, Jan. 16., 2010). Bus lines 39, 111, 114, 116, and 117. It doesn’t say that on the application page when you buy it. [...]
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Japanese pitchers and uniform number 18
Blog called Mets by the numbers had a kind of interesting post about significance of uniform numbers in Japanese culture: Why Igarashi Was Issued No. 18, following the news that Mets’ new reliever, Ryota Igarashi, picked the uniform number of 18 this year. Of course, our man Daisuke Matsuzaka wears number 18 for the Boston [...]
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Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard.
Whoa. I thought, by translating Daisuke Matsuzaka interview on the Magazine Friday, I was passing on a good news (Matsuzaka admits his wrong doing last year and will come back in 2010 with something to prove). But it turns out that it was first time the club lerned about the injury (yikes), and he may [...]
Another ranting and nonsense on Twitter (for 2010-01-31)