Category: News

Butterfly Effect

당연하겠지만 재미있는 현상이다..
해마다 겨울에 이동네에 비가 좀 심하다 싶을 정도로 내리면 몇일 있다가 중부나 동부는 폭설이 된다…

아마 북경에서 나비 한 마리가 팔랑거려 그러지 않았을까 싶다…

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/21/us/midwest-blizzard/index.html

2012.12

Seoul’s New Image?

Interesting article or perspective on Seoul’s image by British Airways megazine..

Really? Have things changed or is it a bit of “over-stating”? Just reading it, it might allude people to believe Seoul is all about crazy clubs, spending money on the street & shopping (BTW, the pictures of the streets and the people captured as a Seoulite didn’t look like it was taken from the luxurious shopping/gathering area at all.. 🙂 ), idols, and plastic surgerys…

Seoul?

For Mariners, pain of youth movement better than wondering what could have been | Jerry Brewer | The Seattle Times

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(Screen capture from Seattle Times)

For Mariners, pain of youth movement better than wondering what could have been | Jerry Brewer | The Seattle Times.

Another sad article on Mariners – ghost of Bill Bavasi

바바시의 유령은 몇년씩 가는구나… 욕먹어 마땅한 짓(?)을 엄청나게 했지만 한편 GM으로써 쉽지 않았겠다는 점도 얼핏 보인다..

Seattle Mariners Farm System에서 엄청 잘해도, 잘하는 선수를 Trade를 통해 데려와도 다들 투수말고는 Safeco Field에만 데려오면 바보되는 마당에 데려와 보지 않는 이상 유망주를 발굴하는건 참 어렵다는 생각이다…

지금 Season 타율 leader인 Ichiro (.262) Home에서 .217, Away .302: 멀쩡한 3할 타자 바보로 만들고 있고…

홈런 leader인 Justin Smoke (11) Home에서 3 Away에서 8…이 어린이 Seattle아니었으면 홈런타자로 대성했을게다…

요즘 나오는 말대로 펜스를 땡기던가… 🙂 trade를 해올거면 away 경기수가 많은 같은 division인 LAA, TEX, OAK에서 날라다니는 애들만 데려오던가 해야지 이거원….

2012.7

No kidding — Mariners sure have Yu Darvish’s number | Jerry Brewer | The Seattle Times

No kidding — Mariners sure have Yu Darvish’s number | Jerry Brewer | The Seattle Times.

Yesterday, the town was crowded with Rangers fan and Japanese tourists.. 🙂

As Darvish has phobia on Seattle, it won’t be a bad idea to bring him from Rangers…

(Data source: ESPN)

DATE OPPONENT RESULT IP H ER
16-May vs OAK W 4-1 7.66 4 1
11-May vs LAA W 10-3 5.33 3 3
6-May @ CLE L 4-2 6 6 3
30-Apr @ TOR W 4-1 7 4 1
24-Apr vs NYY W 2-0 8.33 7 0
19-Apr @ DET W 10-3 6.33 2 1
14-Apr @ MIN W 6-2 5.66 9 1
        ERA 1.943425
21-May @ SEA L 6-1 4 4 4
9-Apr vs SEA W 11-5 5.66 8 5
        ERA 8.385093

His ERA is now 4X higher with Seattle, so best way is not facing Mariners.. 🙂

Mariners | “Surprised” Hisashi Iwakuma left out of Mariners rotation; Blake Beavan in | Seattle Times Newspaper

Mariners | “Surprised” Hisashi Iwakuma left out of Mariners rotation; Blake Beavan in | Seattle Times Newspaper.

 

Kevin Millwood? What a classic name in here…. 🙂 anyhow Mariner’s pitching looks great this year even though they use Michael Pineda for trade…

Somebody please find a resolution for hitting….:(

 

Tears for LG: LG Makes Latest myTouch Devices

Recently there was a news on LG from the front page of company’s intranet site…

Saying, LG will deliver 2 myTouch devices -company franchise models- in this holiday.

Strangely enough my company, which is obvious no 4, runs a model of “franchise” devices – meaning service provider dictates every things on device design and “OEM” delivers..

don’t know how much the service provider can dictate as much in smartphone era as it used to do in past, but this was the way htc grew its US business and smartphone business without its brand… And I heard there has been increasing tensions from htc that they will not do this type of business any more without their brand..

As a little shareholder of LGE…this is such a sad news.. maybe LG can get some volumes? But in this way? The more sad piece is all the comments from employees saying “This is a horrible move for franchise device!” Relating all the bad experiences with LG devices..-.-

It’s tough days in Youido?
2011.10

iPhone 4S?

Sorry Apple but looks like you are running out of gas for innovation..

* Dual-core A5 chip: Dual core is already a standard on high end smartphones…
* Camera and optics: Sorry again…standard
* iOS5 and iCloud: Android is there and cloud is already available thru various applications
* Siri: ……and “There is a app for that” as well…

So other than the fact what it does as “Baseband chip” work both on GSM and CDMA, I don’t see anything hot in here.. (But if someone is already with GSM, what does having CDMA mean?)

Is this signaling Apple is running out of gas for innovation or something “quantum jump” is awaiting? (in junction with all the patent affairs….) or is this following the classic path of Apple II vs. IBM compatibles?.. These folks should have at least upgrade their look and feels (i.e. display size)

Sorry, I don’t feel anything special with iPhone, and feel happy around Samsung and HTC smartphones I have been using…and sad news for people who were holding their decisions with expectation of something big from this version and Sprint who put its future of its business with this iPhone release…

2011.10

Kindle Fire

Wow this has been the hottest news on this week. Interestingly enough, Amazon introduced its tablet as “Kindle Fire” 
and the most amazing thing is Amazon is starting its Tablet journey with their famous “Day 1 South” approach. Starting in red and collect back. First I thought this as a new Android based Tablet, and scratched my head to think what is the difference between this and 7 inch Galaxy Tab…
However, after some thoughts…I believe this is the most fearful approach ….not just because of its low price…bur rather because of these facts
* Amazon has almost full line up in cloud service and its related contents: eBooks, Videos, Music, Android applications, etc…
* Amazon’s buying power or negotiation power with contents providers or publishers are incredible. 
and most of all….
* Amazon has extremely loyal customers who pay $79 per year as Prime members- who does everything with Amazon because you paid $79 to company.
I guess this will raise tons of contents sales as Amazon said, and even increase in Prime subscription (Already Video stream is free for Prime customers..)
So, Netflix and even Google gotta be fearful of this….and I believe if this is successful, this will change the game to “access to contents” business as Apple already did a bit..