Monthly Archives: August 2011

Google chart tools rocks! (What I tweeted: Week ending August 28)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Sunday, August 28, 2011

Whoa. Google chart tools. Awesome. Pretty darn easy. Amazing stuff. Now it is easy to see that I am single-track minded. 100% baseball related tweets this week. I am batting 1.000, to use a baseball metaphor. My options are width:390, height:250, chartArea:{left:0,top:18,width:390,height:232}, colors:['#314836','#8bad93','#e0edd0'], is3D:true, title: ‘Breakdown of my tweets’} I been tweeting nonsense since May [...]

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Kpop meets Japanese granpas (Articles I liked: Friday, August 26, 2011)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Friday, August 26, 2011

Say it with me: “W.T.F.?” (Yay, my first responsive-web-design video. CSS elastic video trick is enabled by this blog post from webdesignerwall.com. Wish I picked a better video for it though. Every time I refresh to check to see it worked, it played and now that song is stuck in my head.) The video is [...]

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Yu Darvish and 2012 MLB Opener in Japan? What I tweeted: Week ending Aug. 21

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

MLB Opener in Japan 2012? I was there at 2008 games betweeb Red Sox and A’s and had a blast! Photo of Hideki Okajima facing off Nikkei-Sansei Kurt Suzuki I had a interesting back and forth with Mike Plugh of Matsuzaka Watch about Yu Darvish, who is the next big thing from Japan and tearing [...]

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Articles I liked: Saturday, August 20, 2011 (Posterous digest)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011
Now I am using Posterous.com

So, I have started posterous. I have been reading stuff on Google Reader and finding things that I liked on there. When I like something, I would, sometime tweet about it, or post it on my facebook wall, or bookmark it on delicious (yes it still exist, and I am only few people left that [...]

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Current MLB players from New England States

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Giants’ Brian Wilson and his epic beard, as well as Ray’s Sam Fuld are from New Hampshire.

Giants’ Brian Wilson and his epic beard, as well as Ray’s Sam Fuld are from New Hampshire. The Red Sox are in a rut. They lost three of the last four games, including two against A.L.-West-worst Seattle Mariners, whose winning percentage is .437. (To be fair, they are better than Kansas City .413, Baltimore .390, [...]

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MLB playing hardball (no-pun intended!) with NPBPA (What I tweeted: Week ending Aug 16)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Sunday, August 14, 2011
I absolutely love this photo. Ichiro Suzuki and Sadaharu Oh after Japan's first win of the WBC tournament in 2006. (Photo by Chris Carlson/AP)

I absolutely love this photo. Ichiro Suzuki and Sadaharu Oh after Japan’s first win of the WBC tournament in 2006. (Photo by Chris Carlson/AP) This week, I tweeted about Hideki Matsui’s pep talk on a bok by Ex-Yankees batboy (“Kick ass. Pop champagne. And get some ho’s.”), MLB playing hardball (no-pun intended!) with Nippon Professional [...]

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Turning old laptop into music machine (Spotify)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Saturday, August 13, 2011
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Three things that I have. I have a set of awesome speakers that I just HAD TO buy when I was young (made by company called mission). You could say I was a music snob in my youth. I don’t know when I bought it, but it must have been 10 years ago? Not sure. [...]

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Virgin mary in Kimono?

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Thursday, August 11, 2011
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Fascinating. One of my favorite blog 8Asian’s Koji Steven had a interesting write up titled “Was Jesus Asian?” And while he concludes that he probably wasn’t Asian (he was probably more like Arab people, which is also interesting) the links to images of Asian christianity art are really fascinating. I was baptized in my late [...]

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Google Street View of inside Hiroshima Peace Memorial (What I tweeted: Week ending August 7)

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Sunday, August 7, 2011

As always, most of my tweets are about baseball, and the Boston Red Sox. But a friend forwarded me this link: Google Street View of inside Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Two bombs were dropped in Japan near the end of World War II, first on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima and the second on August 9, [...]

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The reason it is fun to watch the Red Sox this year

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jacoby Ellsbury was mobbed by teammates after hist first walk-off RBI of his career. (Jim Davis / Boston Globe Staff)

Jacoby Ellsbury was mobbed by teammates after hist first walk-off RBI of his career. (Jim Davis / Boston Globe Staff via Boston.com) Ellsbury and Josh Beckett were heroes yesterday, and they seem to have different guy stepping up every game. But the reason I am so excited about this team this year is they have [...]

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