Sakura and Ohanami: Japanese Cherry Trees and Picnics

Japan is very famous for it’s cherry trees, called sakura in Japan. Prior to them blooming, I had heard a few things about the different traditions that people do here when hundreds of cherry trees flower with huge amounts of white petals.

The number one thing that I heard was that ohanami (flower viewing), was simply an excuse for the Japanese to sit around, not work and drink. Continue reading

My 2011 Fantasy Baseball Draft Results

Another year, another awesome day.  Draft day has to be placed right up there with Christmas and Birthdays, for a lot of reasons.  In some ways it’s even better, there is way more anticipation that builds as websites and periodicals begin to be released prior to the season.  Later I will do a round by round analysis of our FIJI league Baseball Draft results, a la ESPN style, but for now I’ll simply post my teams and my thoughts on my individual picks.   All my thoughts on my picks will be after the photos.   Here is the slideshow below: Continue reading

Matt Has a Game on the Android Store!

My friend Matt is pretty brilliant with lots of things, namely music and computers.  His major was computer science I believe and has been working with computers for a very long time.  His company, SuperChop games, just released its’ first game:  Brutal Farmer for the Android App Store.

Now I would love to give this game a glowing endorsement, however Matt apparently doesn’t like Steve Jobs and hasn’t released it for the iOS App Store.  He has said that his next game will be for the iOS store, probably because he realizes how much cooler it is.  That has to be the reason.  Check out the video after the page break… Continue reading