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Archive for January, 2010

31
Jan

Bouncing phone cover

I drop my phone a lot. It’s soft plastic cover has saved my phone many times.But what if, when you dropped the phone, it bounced back at you?  Like a ball?
Here I announce: The Bouncy Phone Cover!

Does anybody want to patent this and make it a reality?

30
Jan

Bad

Did you know that Michael Jackson’s song Bad starts with
“Your Butt is Mine”?
A friend told me, we all didn’t believe it.
Here’s how the song goes :
Your Butt Is Mine
Gonna Take You Right
Just Show Your Face
In Broad Daylight
I’m Telling You
On How I Feel
Gonna Hurt Your Mind
Don’t Shoot To Kill
Come On, Come On,
Lay It On Me All […]

28
Jan

Life and death

I don’t understand the magnitude of 100,000 deaths.
But a survivor carried out of the rubbles
exposes my senses to the magnitude of one life.

24
Jan

Sleep Cycle iPhone application

Crazy. Technology at the fingertips. Exponential possibilities!
After listening to my friends talk about it, I downloaded the application ($1) on my iPhone. It’s called Sleep Cycle.
You place the phone on your bedside while you sleep. It monitors your body movement to detect how deeply you are sleeping, creating a graph of your sleep cycle! Not […]

24
Jan

Change is in the air

Took a math test yesterday. A prerequisite for an online class I might take.
Took a boy to the beach, ran in the waves.
Took a breath, looked at the clouds.
What to do in the next few years?
A fresh sense of beginning, a tinge of fear.

Something’s in the air.

24
Jan

Bear Story

(Warning: not a happy story)
A friend three times removed grew up with a bear. She is from Hokkaido, the northern most island in Japan, where bears roam rampant. A cute little cub had found itself at her family’s back yard, lost, and so the family decided to raise it, making the cage bigger as the […]

22
Jan

US Supreme Court Ruling

The Supreme Court made a ruling yesterday that allows corporations and unions to contribute as much money as they want, to political campaigns. On a 5 against 4 ruling, they said limits on campaign contribution violates constitutional rights to freedom of speech.
What rhetoric. Freedom of speech? How can corporations be treated the same as people? […]

17
Jan

Oddities of the Japanese

Nowhere else would the topic of horses and whales naturally tie into a conversation revolving around food, other than with the Japanese, who, until I pointed it out, found it quite normal to think of them as something to eat.
I remember in elementary school we were often served whale meat, which were minced and fried. […]

15
Jan

Yesterday

Today I feel like writing nothing.
Tomorrow I might go somewhere.

12
Jan

Farm Tower

My dad casually suggested, why not build farm towers to save forest land, and feed a growing world population?
In my mind such a tower looks like a stack of green houses piled up high. High-tech glass windows monitor the intake of sun light. There’d be sprinkler and drainage systems. Plants that need more light are […]