Mika/Notes

This is where I keep notes on things that I will probably need to read again.

• I moved Computer Stuff to a new page

• Biking information on a separate page.
• Moved to Public Health.

Miscellaneous

• Banach-Tarski paradox.
• minipimer
• Temblor Range
• Khalil Gibran
• Making of 3 'Idiots'
• 野菜寿し ポタジエ Yasai Sushi
• MOCORO モコロ vacuum
• 丸ゆべし

Gardening

• I can use agar to grow Kaiware seeds etc.

Bicycle

• Brakes
  • Change brake pads before the grooves are gone: http://www.jimlangley.net/wrench/brake1.htm
  • U-brake (Center pulled calliper brake) are what's on my red bike.
• Items that may be useful for touring trips
  • Portable Water Heater - SunRocket Solar Thermos and Kettle - Boil Water With Only Sunlight

Concert

• Chopin Piano Concerto #1
• Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
• Gruppen (Stockhausen)　(2012 May NY Philharmonic?)
• Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)

Piano

• Balakirev / Glinka "The Lark"
• Liszt "Gnomenreigen"
• Chopin 3rd Sonata
• Beethoven Sonata 31
• ラヴェル／鏡より「道化師の朝の歌」

Movies

I liked these movies:

• Trouble the water
• Cube
• MST3K Pumaman
• Tokyo!
• Annabel Chong
• I love me

I want to watch these movies:

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Faust by Alexander Sokurov
• ビルマVJ 消された革命
• Sleeping Beauty (2011)
• Amour
• Pee Wee's big adventure
• White Dog, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller
• スープ

Books

• 1Q84
• AIDS and Accusation (Paul Farmer)
• 農協との３０年戦争 岡本重明
• Saturday is for Furnerals (Max Essex)
• クォンタム・ファミリーズ
• Penguin and Leviathan (Yochai Benkler)
• The Price of Civilization (Jeffrey Sachs)
• Godel, Escher, Bach
• 百年の孤独
• Ramesh S. Arunachalam, 2011: The Journey of Indian Micro-Finance: Lessons for the Future.
• 石の花 (坂口尚)
• Reassembling the Social
• reread: biology as ideology
• reread: the structure of scientific revolution
• ソープランドでボーイをしていました
• 最貧困女子

Articles

• Happy Land
• Ashtrays
• Wasteland

Places

• Xkeken
• Shark Bay
• スコトラ島
• Kayangan Lake
• Perchten festival in the western Austrian village of Heitwerwang

Diving

• Jewfish
• Basking shark
• Mola mola
• Turtles

Traveling tips

• How to send things from UK:

You can get a small, medium, or large box at post office (haven't tried royal mail but they're similar?). You can send a small parcel = less than 2kg internationally for a reasonable price. From UK to Japan is about 25 quid for 2kg.