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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….:(

 

Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol

Cannot even recall when I saw the movie at theater, but this one was hard to pass.. IMAX!

Tom Cruise was still great but at the same time, I felt pitty he cannot win over the times..
불쌍한 톰쿠르즈 아저씨 예전 부루스 윌리스가 란닝구 차림으로 뛰어다니던 식으로 죽도록 삽질하고 얻어터지며 뛰었다…


Sunny

얼마전 본 영화…한동안 센세이션이었는 듯싶은데..
뭐 잘만든 영화인듯 싶긴하다…내용도 복고에 여성층을 공략하고 지극히 한국적인 정서에 잘 타게팅한 소재인듯 싶은데…
가끔 보인 필요 이상의 과장과 약간의 억지 줄거리와 감동과 웃음을 다 주려고 하다 약간 오버한 것 같긴한데…그래도 영화가 사실과 같아야만 한다는 필요가 없다는 점과 판타지란 누구나 상상할 수 있다는 걸 생각한다면 나름 근래에 보기 드문 잘만든 영화인듯싶다…유행(조폭이야기, 복수 시리즈, 잔인 시리즈)안타고 나름 독자 창의적인 소재 개척에 배우들도 좋았고 아주 좋은 점수를 드리고 싶다…
2011.11

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..

Chaser!

넷플릭스덕분에 추격자를 이제서야 봤다
..(한류에 기여한겐가?) 두 배우의 숨막히는 호연과 내용 전개에 경악(원래 이런 영화 너무 싫은데… 난 아직도 권선징악. 및 꿈과 희망을 주는 소재가 좋다…) 및 몸을 떨며 다보고 커피한잔 마시려했는데 부엌 카운터에 망치가 있다…으…



2011.9

Days of Being Wild: 阿飛正傳(아비정전)

Another jewel found out of Netflix….

Great director Kar-Wai Wong(왕가위) (story and arts) with great actors… Leslie Cheung(장국영), Maggie Cheung(장만옥), and Andy Lau(유덕화)… One of the best HK movie I missed in past….

The movie doesn’t feel like it is the movie from 21 years ago… wow…

“You and I had 1 minute together, and now it has become a fact”