What did I do when I was 12?

So a little while ago, I was on ted.com and I came upon this interesting video. If your wondering what ted.com is, ted stand for "Technology Entertainment and Design," its a global conference held by the Sapling Foundation. The ted conferences usually host speakers like Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Larry Page and Sergio Brin founders of Google, noble prize winners, and many others. Their focus for the conference usually is surrounded around technology and culture.

The video that I have linked below is about Thomas Suarez, his a 12 year old apple app. developer. Yes you did read it right, it does say 12 years old.

After watching this it made me think of how much I haven't done anything with me life. At the age of 12, this kid taught himself programming and how to develop an app. Now his trying to teach kids at his school about developing apps. When I was 12, I'm pretty sure all I was doing was watching television and trying to just barely pass in school. I'm 23 and just learning the python programming language in my programming class in college and this kid learned python on his own.

I want to dislike this kid so much, but then it just makes me dislike how lazy I've been for the past 23 years of my life. At the same time I feel like I've accomplished nothing in my life, this kid gives me inspiration. If I really want something, I just need to work hard and push myself.

God Bless
-J.Hatori

Taste of the Pacific Northwest

Circa fall 2006, I got my first taste of the Blue Scholars. It was track 8 "Brunt Offering," on their self titled album which came out two years prior. I heard it while folding t-shirts at work, my co-worker put it on and before the song was even finished I was hooked.

Its five years later and I'm still hooked. Doesn't matter if the songs from their first self titled album or their most recent album "Cinemetropolis" or even one of their EP's, I can just vibe on it all day long. I've probably listened to all their albums and songs like a hundred plus times, but I always seems to find a song that I've never noticed before and just start vibing on it til I notice another one of their songs.

I know its been a few months since Cinemetropolis came out, but I just started getting back into listening to it a lot. When it first came out I was really into track 1 "Cinemetropolis," track 5 "Seijun Suzuki," and track 8 "Slick Watts," but since I started listening to it again I've noticed a few other songs that I really like.

Track 3 "Fou Lee"

Track 11 "Yuri Kochiyama"

Track 12 "Rani Mukerji"

This is my first time blogging, so hopefully I did okay and you'll come back. Sorry if my grammars kind of bad, I've never really done well with that stuff :).

God Bless
-J.Hatori