Sunday, March 28, 2010
We Work 5 Days-a-Week In Japan's Imperial Navy
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Life's Happiest Moment
Friday, March 26, 2010
Hard Landing
Top 5 Thoughts On Democracy
Form 1040A
Blues Road
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Curves
The 10 Best Quotes From Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
God does not play dice.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Winter Rain In Newport
Monday, March 22, 2010
Cherry Blossom Time
A Japanese song from the era of the "Great Pacific War"... It's the season of blooming cherry blossoms around Japan, which are beautiful for about two weeks, before the flower petals fall in the wind, like a pink blizzard. The song uses this image.
-- DO-KI NO SAKURA
KISAMA TO ORE TO WA, DO-KI NO SAKURA,
ONAJI HEI-GAKKO NO, NIWA NI SAKU.
SAITA HANA NARA, CHIRU NO WA KAKUGO,
MIGOTO CHIRI-MASHO, KUNI NO TAME.
We are cherry blossoms from the same class,
And bloom in the garden of the same naval academy.
We accept that sakura blooms must also fall,
So lets fall spectacularly, for our country.
KISAMA TO ORE TO WA, DO-KI NO SAKURA,
ONAJI HEI-GAKKO NO, NIWA NI SAKU.
CHI-NIKU WAKE-TARU NAKA DEWA NAI GA,
NAZE KA KI GA AU TE, HANARE-NARE-NU.
We are cherry blossoms from the same class,
And bloom in the garden of the same naval academy.
Although we have no blood relationship,
We get along well without knowing why, and can't be divided.
KISAMA TO ORE TO WA, DO-KI NO SAKURA,
ONAJI KO-KU-TAI NO, NIWA NI SAKU.
AO-IDA YU-YAKE, MINAMI NO SORA NI,
IMADA KAERA-NU, ICHI-BAN KI.
We are cherry blossoms from the same class,
And bloom in the garden of the same fighter squadron.
We gaze at the evening glow of the southern sky,
And yet the first plane has still not returned.
KISAMA TO ORE TO WA, DO-KI NO SAKURA,
HANARE-BANARE NI, CHI-RO-U TOMO.
HANA NO MIYAKO NO, YASUKUNI JINJA.
HARU NO KOZUE NI, SAITE AU-O-O.
We are cherry blossoms, from the same class,
And we will fall in separate distant places.
But Yasukuni Shrine is the capitol city of blossoms.
So let's meet and bloom there, in the springtime tree-tops.