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My summer was like…

Kenji — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:34:00 +0000

Summer break is about to end. Fall semester is almost there. To be honest, my summer was lazy, but it was fun. I enjoyed summer in LA. I started surfing. I went surfing twice, and will go surfing every sunday, hopefully. Once summer break ends, I can’t be lazy. will be automatically productive. During summer, I did

find a apartment and moved
scored for a short film
got a job at music department office and started working
->got SSN -> change cell phone plan to cheaper one
taught music
started surfing
some parties, met new people
practiced piano

Maybe I feel like to do one more thing. something. like, going out of LA. I’ve never been to out of LA since I came here LA.

BTW, does anyone have wet suit and surf board for me?

Nexus One’s Earphone is SO GOOD

Kenji — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:43:35 +0000

It is way late to write a review about Nexus One. People don’t need reviews of it at this time. You can find lots of reviews. What I want to let people know is that an earphone attached to Nexus One is so good. I had been using an Audio-technica’s almost $100 earphone. It’s not cheap nor very expensive. It satisfied my minimum demand as a musician, for iPod. Recently I lost it. That’s the reason I started using Nexus One’s earphone at this late timing. I judged the earphone must not be good because it is just an earphone attached to a cellphone. I didn’t even open it. I was totally wrong. Nexus One’s earphone is so good. I like this more than former one I lost. It is worth $100 for me. I bought Nexus one for $580, but now I kinda feel that I bought cellphone for $480 and earphone for $100, on which cute Android character is

Chinese Sushi Place

Kenji — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:21:09 +0000

I went to sushi place in Pasadena today. What funny was that all the chefs and servers were chinese. Even the ladies sitting next to me at a counter were also chinese. I originally was a chinese. No Japanese ppl in sushi place. lol It was kinda funny I think more than half of sushi places in LA are owned by Korean or Chinese ppl, not Japanese ppl. haha. Sushi here in LA is very different than Japanese one. The place was very good, I enjoyed it anyway.

One of my friends in LA, who is American, told me that he had not known the difference between Japanese and Chinese till he went to high school. To say correctly, he thought there was no difference. Almost all the asian countries were the same culture-wise, he thought. surprisingly this may be not uncommon, but no wonder once you go to “chinese sushi restaurant”

June is passing away

Kenji — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:40:00 +0000

Wow, it’s been a week since the last post. Yes, I am 三日坊主. Anyway, I’m doing good. I’m keeping practicing piano Monday to Thursday. I’m not 三日坊主 at this point so far. But I have not composed any music during summer break. I know I should. I will… I can’t believe June is passing away in half hour…
最後の投稿から1週間も経過…。はい、三日坊主です。とにかく、元気にやってます。今のところ月ー木でピアノの練習はちゃんとやってるし、その点では三日坊主ではないです。ただ、夏休みのあいだまったく作曲をしていません。やらないといけないとは分かってるんですが…。やります。それにしても、あと30分で6月も終わってしまうとは信じられん。

Self-Weight Training

Kenji — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:53:48 +0000

It is easy to work out at your place for people like us, gymnasts. We use our own weight instead of dumbbells or something. Gymnasts must be better at doing self-weight training. My main list for upper body of recent days is like:

straddle handstanding 5*3
hands stand push up 10*3
chinning exercise with backpack filled with books 10*4(concentrate on triceps*2, on broadest muscle of back *2)
dips with the same backpack

I think it is more natural to train using your weight than using weights like dumbbells, you’ll get more useful muscles, don’t you think? Muscles trained by weight, machines or something like that tend to be showy but worthless. maybe… maybe. Additionally, some times you find people working out with dumbbells and machines look unnaturally built, don’t you?

I said that it’s easy to do self-weight training for gymnasts, but I didn’t say that it’s too difficult for not-gymnasts people really. Anybody can try that also. I wish everybody who wants to be in good shape will get natural healthy body. Summer is almost there!

You can easily find how to do self-weight training. google it!

家トレは我々体操選手にとっては容易いことです。ダンベルとかを使う代わりに自分の体の重みを利用します。体操選手は自重トレーニングが普通の人より得意に違いありません。最近の自分の上半身メニューはこんな感じ：

伸肘倒立 5*3
倒立腕立て 10*3
本詰め込んだリュックを背負って懸垂 10*4 (三頭筋メイン*2, 広背筋メイン*2)
ディッピング（同じリュック背負って）

自重を使ってのトレーニングはダンベルとか使ったトレーニングよりも自然だし、”使える”筋肉がつくと思いませんか？ウェイトやマシーンで鍛えられた筋肉は見掛け倒しになりがち。多分。しかも、そういうふうに鍛えた人たちが見た目不自然だったりするのときどき見かけるでしょ？

体操選手にとって自重トレーニングは簡単と書きましたが、そうじゃない人にとって難しすぎるとは言ってません。誰にでもできると思います。in good shapeな体を得たいと思っているすべての人が、自然で健康的な体を得られる事を祈っています。夏はすぐそこです

自重トレーニングの仕方は簡単に見つけられるよ。ググって！

（＊）日本語がだいぶ変です。機械翻訳みたいになってる。

Straight A

Kenji — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:56:22 +0000

最近の日本の大学はどうなんだろう。自分が京教にいた頃はネットで成績確認とか出来なかったと思うんですが、もう出来たりするのかな？今通っているLos Angeles City Collegeでは授業の登録も支払いも成績の確認もネットでできて大変便利。さて、春セメスターのFinalが終わって10日ほど経過した今日、ようやく全てのクラスの成績が出揃いました。予想通りではありますが、オールAです。ｱﾋｬ。自慢ですみませんね

留学最初のセメスター、色々ありました。生まれて初めて舞台でのピアノ演奏やら、ソルフェージュの授業やら。ちゃんと音楽の基本的な訓練してこなかったので、とても有意義でした。あとは、初年度の学生のみが対象で一度しかチャンスの無いAlpert Scholarshipを一位で獲得したのは本当に嬉しい出来事でした。LACC Music Departmentで由緒ある奨学金です。1年間掲示板に貼られます（笑

まだ写真はありませんが、でかでかと写真が貼られるっぽい。

夏休みは2ヶ月半。日本には帰りません。有意義に過ごしたいものです。

I don’t know about recent situation of colleges in Japan, but you couldn’t check your grade via online when I was a student at Kyoto University of Education. Can you, now? At LACC, I’m going to, you can register classes, pay tuition and check your grades via online. very convenient.

Well, it’s been ten days since spring semester final exams ended, then all my grades have been presented. As I expected, I got A for all classes I took. haha. sorry for bragging

It was my first semester since I came here. I went through a lot of new things. It was very first time to play piano at recital. First-time solfege training… etc. Since I had never trained music fundamental, it was really beneficial. I was so delighted to win the first place of Alpert Scholarship, which is venerable scholarship for first-semester students, means that you have only one chance to get it. It is put up on the bulletin in front of the music department office for a year. lol

Summer break is two and half months. I won’t go back to Japan this summer. I want to spend this summer meaningfully.

iDefrag, problem and excellent support

Kenji — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:49:44 +0000

Apple says that Mac OS doesn’t need defragmentation unlike Windows machine. Partially, it is true, but not always, some articles say. According to the articles I found, OS X’s file system does take care of fragmentation, but it covers limitedly and fragmentation progresses eventually, then it makes your OS X loads go up. So I tried iDefrag 2. The bottom line is that I tired but I couldn’t use it and keep trying.

what I did and what happened :
1. Run iDefrag from Boot DVD
2. Verify disk (in iDefrag menu)
3. detect no error
4. “Go”
5. message pop up
“Unable to defragment
Your volume appears to be inconsistent.
Please check your volume for errors”
6. Verify disk (in iDefrag menu)
7. detect error
8. Repair
9. “Go”
10. same message.
11. “GO” anyway
12. slightly different message pop up
“Unable to read file extents.
Unable to read file extents; failure reason was:
File system inconsistencies detected when trying to read extents for file 16. Please repair your disk”

iDefrag uses fsck command when you execute “Verify” and “Repair” in iDefrag menu. Even while fsck doesn’t detect errors, why iDefrag detects errors? What weird is that fsck detects errors after trying to defragment with iDefrag even while it detected no error befor trying to defragment with iDefrag. It seems like that iDefrag makes inconsistence?

Anyway, it’s in progress. I’d like to emphasize that their support is very good. kind and quick response. I wish the problem will be resolved so that I can report on this blog. Thank you Chris@coriolis-systems!!

Practice room during summer

Kenji — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:26:37 +0000

A week ago, we finished 2010 spring semester at LACC. Music Department Office had been closed for a week from that. They resumed from today, and offer practice rooms. I went to school with gusto and practiced till noon. I’m planning to go to school everyday as possible and practice till noon, during summer.
1週間前にLACCの春セメスターが終了しました。音楽学部のオフィスもそれから1週間閉まってたけど、今日から再開。練習室が使えるようになりました。嬉々と学校に行って昼間で練習しておりました。夏の間できるだけ毎日午前中は学校でピアノの練習をしようかなぁと思ったりしています。

Extensions for safari 5

Kenji — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:31:26 +0000

I found this tumblr account “Safari extensions” just after the release of Safari 5. You can see that a lot of new extensions for safari 5 are being released. Some issue I had have been already resolved by them. What I needed the most was a function to restore the last session when Safari runs, and you can find a extension for that function. Still safari 5 + its extensions are missing very important function for me, which chrome + its extensions have, but it’s just a matter of time. It is somewhat easy to develop extensions for safari 5. and it seems to be similar to chrome extensions, so once Apple opens official gallery, it would be get up steam and much more number of extensions would be released.

Safari extensionsというTumblrアカウントを見つけたのはSafari 5リリース直後だ。かなりの数のエクステンションが新しくリリースされ続けている。Safari 5で困っていたいくつかの問題は既に解消した。最たるものは「終了時セッションを起動時に復元する」という機能。それを実現するエクステンションも既にリリースされている。Chrome+エクステンションでは実現出来ていた重要な機能が、まだSafari 5とそのエクステンションだけでは、欠けていたりするけれど、その解決ももはや時間の問題だろう。Safari 5向けのエクステンションを開発するのはある程度容易だし、仕組みはChromeのものと似ているっぽいし。アップルが公式ギャラリーをオープンしたら更に勢い良く数が増えるだろう。

Safari 5

Kenji — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:42:42 +0000

Just started using Safari 5. There were so many reasons I want to use safari, or I don’t want to use safari. I used to use Opera, Safari, Firefox, Safari again, Chrome…. but I just decided that I’m gonna use Safari 5 as primary browser. It is really fast. Recently, chrome’s kept getting slow and use much more RAM. Somehow, load gets so high when I play flash video. Sometime, a process of a tab opening Gmail gets high load weirdly. Using safari 5, much much less load while playing youtube(what makes difference?) or anything, run quickly, no wait, much much less RAM use, benefit of Cocoa like “look up in Dictionary”. I know there are less extension for Safari, but you can find enough. you can use most Greasemonkey script, using GreaseKit. Good thing was you can use LastPass. so I don’t need to care about password thing because I was using it on Chrome also. Anyway, you should try Safari 5. You’ll be impressed about its speed. I hope a lot of good extensions for Safari will be released.

Most of SIMBL plugin works with Safari 4 seem to be compatible with safari 5, but some SIMBL plugin sometimes make safari 5 crash. I stopped using SafariTabConfig, SafariTabMemento. Also Glims behaves suspiciously, so cut. I want browser to re-open the last session when it runs, do you know the way to do that without Glims? I want a pin function like Chrome on Safari also…

Safari 5、さっそく使い始めました。使う理由、使わない理由ともに沢山あります。今までOpera, Safari, Firefox, Safari 再び, Chromeと色んなブラウザをふらふらと使いまくってきました…が、Safari 5をメインブラウザとして使っていくことを決めました！本当に早い。最近Chromeがどんどん遅くなってメモリも消費するようになってたし、なぜかFlashビデオの再生で負荷がめっちゃ上がるし、Gmailのタブのプロセスの負荷も変に上がるし。Safari 5、ビデオ再生の負荷も低いし（なんで違う？）、すべてにおいて負荷低いです。起動も早いし、メモリ使用量も低い。ココアである利点もある。例えば「辞書で調べる」とか。拡張機能はまだ少ないけど、充分。GreaseKitを使えば殆どのGreasemonkeyスクリプトが動く。良かったのはLastPassが動くこと。Chromeでも使ってたので、移行も超スムーズ。とにかく、Safari 5試してみるべきですよ。この速さには感動です。いい拡張機能がこれから沢山リリースされるのに期待。

Safari 4で動く殆どのSIMBLプラグインはSafari 5でも正常に動作してます。ただ、いくつかのSIMBLプラグインでたまにクラッシュしたので、SafariTabConfigとSafariTabMementoの使用をstopしました。Glimsも挙動が怪しいしカット。起動時に最後のセッションを復活して欲しいんだけど、Glims以外の方法知ってたら教えてください。あと、Chromeのピン機能みたいなのがあったらいいのに…