Yojinbo

It’s a popular children’s song in Japan, and it’s all about breasts. Here’s the music video and lyrics with translation.

『おっぱいがいっぱい』
（a lot of chests）

ぼくがのんで　いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

ちっちゃくならない　ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest that doesn’t become small

おふろのなかで　さわらせてもらったら
I was going to touch it in the bath.

空気たりない　ゴムマリみたい
It’s by not sufficing of air like the rubber ball.

ぼくがのんで　いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない　ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

あまかったのか　思い出せない
It was sweet or is not possible to recall it.

たくさんのんだはずなのに　へんね
It is strange though should have drunk a lot.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

うれしいな　さわりたい
I am glad, and wanna touch woman’s chest.
ぼくがのんで　いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

おっきなままだね　ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest doesn’t change like being big.

ひとさしゆびで　ちょこんとおしたら
It was lightly pushed by the forefinger.

びっくりするほど　やわらかだった
It was very soft surprisingly.

ぼくがのんで　いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない　ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

もひとり赤ちゃん　生れるときは
Is another baby born

また出るようになるのかな　ふしぎ
and does milk go out? So, wonder!!

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな　だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.
おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが　いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな　だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.

Alone in Tokyo HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

There’s a good 1-cup sake blog that I follow: bq69 collectibles.  It’s in Japanese so I don’t understand what it says until I translate it using Google Translate, but it’s a great blog.  He rates cup sake from all over Japan and takes detailed pictures of each cup that he reviews.  Here’s how he takes pictures of the cups:

He’s recently attended the a sake cup tasting in Japan and bloged about it (english)

Take a bunch of pictures of something (a fountain for example) with people walking by and load the snapshots in to Photoshop.  Photoshop can look at the differences in your pictures and remove the people from your pics, leaving an unubstructed view of the fountain.  This is really cool, I had no idea Photoshop could do this.

Here’s the short video that shows how to do this.

Two weirdos from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia perform a tribute

I didn’t know they had AM:PM stores in Isreal, but the CEO was just fired for letting Jewish people there work on Yom Kippur.  Is this the same convenience store chain that’s all over Japan, or is it a different chain with the same name?

via Ynetnews

Charlie Day is the funniest character on the TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  Here’s a short he did a while back that I found on YouTube where he tries to quit smoking.

Maglev trains, as the name suggests, levitate on powerful magnetic fields above the tracks. The lack of friction means they can reach extremely high speeds.

Rather astonishingly for anyone used to most Western trains, the Japanese technology has been in the pipeline since the 1960s, with a major publically viewable 20km test track to the west of Tokyo since 1997.

The top speed reached so far at the Yamanashi test facility is 581kph (361mph). If that’s hard to picture, imagine a commercial jet aircraft flying past at full throttle at ground level – that’s in the same ballpark.

via Digital World Tokyo

Obama says he’s going to introduce a cabinet-level CTO who will make decisions on how the U.S. uses technology in government, building out broadband in rural areas, and creating hi-tech jobs.  Who will that person be?  Will that person come from a commercial or academic background?

According to this article in Business Week the shortlist includes the following people.

Vint Cerf

He works for Google.  People call him the father of the Internet.  He has a cool beard.

Ed Felton

From Princeton University, apparently a smart guy.  In 2006 he hacked a Diebold voting machine to prove it could be done.

Jeff Bezos

He started Amazon. He knows technology and he knows business.

Steve Balmer

He is responsible for Windows Vista.  And he’s a Dick.

Obama has so far shown that he’s an intelligent person with sound judgement.  Therefore I think that it’s safe to say that Steve Balmer’s job is safe at Microsoft.  I’d like to see Vint Cerf in the Whitehouse.  I like that beard.