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David bowie -Blackstar

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I like david bowie so I was shocked of his news of deat. But after hearing the new, I watched this video and couldn't finish watching. It's awful, genius songs for recent some years. It's full of death image and if I watched it before knowing his death news, I might have only been inpressed with strangeness of this music. I can't describe this music in a proper words but it show me that there are many possibility for music left and feel thriling for a future of music.

Japanese sake (iso zhiman)

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Recently I like japanese alchol(sake). Good tasted japanese sake tastes excellent with cold. I like my hometown's sake "i so-zhiman " which is mean to be prouding seashore. Before, sake at shizuoka is not famous but about decades ago, shizuoka yeast was invented and sake at shizuoka become to be famous aroud japan. I bought it when I went back to shizuoka this winter. It costs 1300 yen(about $10). The taste of it is like a wine.

New year's event

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This winter holiday is short period because 29 Dec. was Tuesday and 3 Jan. was Sunday  and from 4 Jan. job was started so 6 days winter holiday. we ate oden breakfast at hamamatsu SA, 500yen/person. lunch at shouan is ordinary event. price of sakyura shirimp ricebox was up. watched STAR WARS at shizuoka. his X'mas present at Osaka was baseball bat, glove, ball, so he bring back to shizuoka to play baseball with grandfather. there is large space alongside of abe-river so we went there. this is emergency helicopter harbor and we play there. It is short time but enjoyed.

Hatsumode

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Winter holiday has been passing away and today was last day of 1 week holiday. And we went to hatsumode at Narita shrine near our home. Going there is our routine work because we bought good luck charms and old charms was returned to the shrine and buy new charms.  At first, we made an offering of money. There are many people coming there. Throughing money to offertory box. Afterthat, we walked to kourien station and there are many street stalls along street. Tomorrow is first day of my job. Winter holiday has been over in a short time but enjoyed very much with my family. Hoping this year happy !

UNIQLO

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Today is 2 Jan. and yesterday & today are new year's bargain days of UNIQLO so we went to UNIQLO. This wear is ¥2980 which is ¥5980 at normal price. It is not feather type, polyester one but polyester strings are curled up and they can hold air so it can keep warm. Recently, we can get good things in a cheap prices.And UNIQLO's quality is very well so I like. But we can get wear at ¥2980 in such good quality, amazing.

Role of school

Today , I read the article  about secret of nada-highschool elite education system. The article itself is intersting, but I feel a little strange for it. I think education should be free for everybody, not special people. If they want to learn somethings, education system support them.It is true education, I think. Education should not be for a person who study hard. It should be equal to everyone if they want to becaome studying.  And second reason I feel strange is that this article said that this school teach student to think rather than learn. Of course, it is good thing and is true, but personally I didn't like it. I didn't want school to force something to me. In my highschool (shizuoka highschool), school is very liberal and allmost every student didn't expect school lecture. But most good thing is that there are many talented student gathering and that stimulate each other. Recently, we can learn everywhere using internet + basic usage of English

Cloud program using App Inventor

As writing  this , I tried App Inventor on chrome OS. I can program app very easily (about 30 min) and all needed are PC ( cheap one is ok ) Smart Phone Wifi accesibility ( in home ) gmail account Chrome OS works on browser but it is not neccesary to install linux app. Detail is here  but we can program my own app in app inventor's website and reflect programing instantly to my smartphone via home wifi network. I programed my first android program according to this article . Amazing, because when I tried Android studio on linux, android studio is very very heavy and furthermore it took sometimes to run app in my smartphone (plus needed usb-cable). This is very wonderful product so I want to teach my child(7 years old) this usage !

To erase anxiety

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Sometimes, we feel anxiety at work. And that makes my brain tired. For me, there are several ways to conquer. Sleep well: this is best way for me. When my brain was tired of many things, I slept and after waking up, in many case, my brain became simple Run: Sports is good way to refresh. When running, I can think of many situations and running makes my brain stimulated, so after running, my brain became refresh. knowing it not such a big issue .And for it, seeing things with wide rage of eyes can give me wisdom.  Especially no.3 is way of thinking and is like a zen. But my zen book which I liked said that 99% anxiety is "void" (I'm not sure it is collect word in english). It was made by themselves. At first, I can't understand it by heart but recently I think it is true things. And it also reduce my wasting time enormously because 99% of things are indeed "garbage" things. Thinking it is very important issue, I think.. Going back to the main t

Using Chrome OS and doing cloud programing

I'm using linux OS (ubuntu) for about 6 years, and I happend to find Cloudready, which might be easy to install Chrome OS, so I tried it. I've somehow installed it  and it works good. My netbook is not high performance model(CPU=N450) but it works smootly. Chrome OS is good way for old computer to be utilized. Today, I'm using cloudready and I liked it. It is browser based OS. It only works with browser but like android phone, many add-ons(chrome browser app) are available so it is not big problem. And I wanted to do android programing with Chrome OS so I searched and found good one. App Inventor . App inventor is cloud-based programing tool and we can use it by installing chrome browser app  to chronium browser. I happend to watch this BBC video  last week saying kids can learn programing. We can easily do programing in such a cheap computer, amazing. ---- appending: 2015.12.23 ------ At first I thought Chrome OS (Cloudready) is good, but using this OS , I change my opinio

Handling informations

Recently due to a progress of IT, we can easily gather and handle many informations at any time any place if they have a curiisity. My method is like this. 1. Getting informations, reading informations   I use RSS reader(Feedly) and mail magazine and those are good way to get informations efficiently, but most good method for me is by newspaper (real newspaper).  Newspaper is coverd with wide range of information so for me is the best resource. I always get up at early about 4:30 AM and have a coffee and read newspaper about 30 min. This is a best time for me. And after reading it and find some intersting articles, I take a picture by tablet and send it to my google drive. Before IT is not convinient like this, I scrap these by folders but storing in cloud is very convinient because I can aceess my own resources at any place at any time. And my most important information resources is books. I like books very very much from children. I spend about 2 or 3 times a week  at book shops when

Sports is good for health, especially for brain

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I'm interested in relationship between stress and brain function. Mechanism of brain is very intersting because brain is very accurate organism. When we feel about fear, stress, brain alart to amygdala in brain, then amygdala make signal to hypothalamus then hypothalamus makes singnal to hypophysis ,then hypophysis make signal to adrenal gland then adrenal gland release cortisol which is stress hormone.This route is called "HPA" . Cortisol is circuited via blood around our body then affected many organ including brain. Cortisol is good when emargence situation was happend, but when we continuously feel stress alltime, cortisol level is always high and it is bad for brain, especially for hippocampus which is important for memory. My favorite book " Method of usage of waking up early " said that 3 important issue for health is "sleep 7 hours", "good food" and "good exercise". The author kisou kubota has jogging 3 days