I felt so out-of-date and dumb when I found out that everyone else already knows this song and they all love it before I fell in love with this song. Pink has been writing such good songs for the last few years. Her lyrics are so honest and direct. Her songs’ melody is quite catchy also. That brings people’s enthusiasm, and makes people fall in love with her songs. Plus, she also shows her personality alot in her music video too, and makes me laugh when I am watching it. It would be kinda cool to have a grandma like her.
Even though I’ve been more like a public transit rider than a city walker, walkability is still the important factor when I decide a place to live. This website, Walkscore.com tells you the walkability score of your neighborhoods by just inserting the address you want to search. The degree of walkability, “walkscore” is measured in the scale of 100. The higher the number you get, the more walkability in the neighborhood. However, some flaws in Walkscore.com is that the “quality” of the neighborhood isn’t into consideration. Walkscore primary depends on ”quantity;” how many stores, parks, restaurants, in the neighborhood. Apparently, 24 hours grocery stores are preffered to stores that close at 7pm.
Also, Walkscore.com provides ranking of cities in the United States in terms of walkability. Thankfully San Francisco has been ranked in the highest. However, although I believe that San Francisco has been one of the most walkable cities in naiton, I am highly suspicious about the result. San Francisco’s public transportation system, Muni has been said the worst metropolitan transit system in the United States. Some parts between in the neighborhoods are actually very far or dangerous to walk by yourself. Compared to New York and other cities, steep hills in San Francisco force you to wear walking shoes and sneakers unless you drive a car.
If they put these quality issues into consideration, I think this website would be very useful. I love the idea of walkable city. And I would like them to keep on promoting that. It may possibly lower the crime rate, improve public transit (=less car dependency), and solve obesidy.
I have to say they did such a great job. It’s even funnier, if you understand Japanese. Too bad, they didn’t put captions. Also, I wanted them to show more real weird things in Japanese office. For example, in summer, people at company office in Japan set the room temperature at exactly 28 celsius degree, which is 82.4 degree in farenhight because the temperature is considered “healthy.” Of course, in Japanese humid and hot weather, 28 degree is simply “warm” rather than comfortable. I think everybody knows it, but nobody complain saying “Shikataganai” meaning “Nothing we can do about it.” So, sometimes in Japan, convenience stores like 7Eleven can be more comfortable environment than company office…
For all this time, shamefully, I had thouhgt Jason Mraz was kinda shaky artist. Don’t get me wrong. I knew he was a very talented artist since the very first time I listened to his song, Remedy about half a decade ago. But for all this time, in my perception of him, Jason Mraz was like John Mayer with a skater boy atitude. After I heard this song, I soon became a fan of new Jason Mraz. This type of song is more suitable for him, I think. I hope he keeps this chill attitude (after all, he’s 31 now.)
This is going to be a great summer tune this year as well as Leavin’ by Jesse McCartney. I already listened like a million times, and keep humming when I’m not listening. Very relaxed, and I’m not sure the location that he went on a trip to in this music video, but it looks great. It makes me even more want to go back to Hawaii again… I’m yours!
ThinkFree.com has been my most favorite online service to manage my documents over the internet for the last few years. Basically after you sign up for an account, which is free (yay!), you can store many types of documents (such as MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF and etc…) for up to 1GB. You can also rearrange your documents if you install software from ThinkFree, but if you have Microsoft office tools on your computer, you can also just download the documents you like and rearrange it in a traditional way. The primary difference from Google Docs is that you can download the file from your account on the website and upload them again.
It’s very useful as online document storage, and you have an access from anywhere and any computers in the world as long as you have internet available. No need to worry about losing memory of your documents by your computer’s crash, loss of your flash memories you put the documents in, or simply forgetting where you saved. I also like their sophisticated interface looks. And it’s very simple to use.
As well as Google Docs does, ThinkFree.com provides documents sharing service, ThinkFree Docs, which I don’t use quite often. The major difference here is also that in Google Docs, people can only view the shared documents, but in ThinkFree Docs, you can download the documents onto your computer. There are so many online sharing tools today. Flickr and Picasa let you share photos. In Youtube and Crunchyroll, people share videos. iMeem and eSnaps allow you to share music and etc. And finally Google Docs and ThinkFree Docs let you share documents.This might be a nice tool for people who write long stories and books, or people who like to share arts of writing. But, for people who do not want to share your documents, you have options not to publish them.
Overall, ThinkFree.com is very useful (and free!) tool.
