When the seven colors shine

 

Finger Ease.

One squirt on the strings of your guitar or bass and the strings instantly start to glow seven different colors, your hands start to glow seven different colors, the volume coming out of the guitar doubles, the neck splits in two, the head of course splits in two, and your left hand moves over the strings as fast as a red comet (meaning three times faster than normal). Your left hand will move over the strings as fast as a red comet (meaning three times as fast as normal, if you're right-handed), your right hand will pluck down the strings as fast as a machine gun (if you're right-handed), right-handers will become left-handers, left-handers will become right-handers, you'll be able to play any song you know and any song you don't know, punks' mohawks will stand upside down like hedgehogs, rock 'n' rollers' regalia will be a thing of the past, and you'll be able to play any song you want. A punk's mohawk stands upside down like a hedgehog, a rock 'n' roller's regent gets caught in an automatic door, heavy metal spews hellfire from its mouth, the end of the year is a busy time, CDs are made to order on disc-on-demand, it's summer all year round, drums are played in space, people drink canned chuhai and despair about their tongues, the band survives despite a change in vocalists, and a novel with a cool title is written. A novel with a cool title is made into a movie, and analog records overtake CDs...

In short, it's a magic spray.

I found it when I was cleaning out my room. I have no idea when I bought it. It's probably the only Finger Ease I've ever bought in my life. The number of times I've used it is probably in the single digits.

I've often seen guitarists and bassists spraying the neck (or rather, the fingerboard) of their guitars and basses at live music venues, but I just found out that spraying directly on the fingerboard is a bad idea. I just found out that it's not good to spray directly on the fingerboard, because it damages the fingerboard and neck. Well, I guess it depends on how much you spray.

I wonder if anyone needs this finger-ease.


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It's the end of the fiscal year

 
Today is the 31st of March. I'm sure everyone is busy with this and that.

March 31st is the day when the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of the French capital Paris, was completed. The tower itself was completed on March 15, 1889, but since it opened on March 31, the official date of completion is March 31, 1889. That means that March 31 is a busy day for everyone.

Speaking of March 31, the Ministry of Justice announced that the total population of Japan surpassed 100 million on March 31, 1966. It's a good thing. The population is expected to drop below 100 million by 2048 and to 86 million by 2060. The number is expected to drop again below 100 million by 2048, to around 86 million by 2060. That means that March 31 will be a busy day for all of you.

By the way, it has nothing to do with March 31st, but it seems that the KISS Ukiyoe that I introduced in the Pop Art Showdown has appeared in Japanese textbooks.

KISS Ukiyoe "Kissing Four Great Heads" published in a Japanese junior high school art textbook

It seems to be an introduction to the "print" technique, but is this KISS Ukiyo-e a real print? I thought they were just designed to look like that, but I guess not.

Oh, and I heard that March 31st is Mr. Santayo Viper's birthday. Happy birthday to him!


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From 1 CD

 
If you've ever tried to sell something with inventory, you know that you don't want to be carrying inventory.

When a CD label or a band or a musician produces a CD, of course the parties involved are going to have inventory. No matter how huge a warehouse you have, space is finite, and you can't hold an infinite amount of inventory. This is why CDs of bands that have broken up are sometimes discontinued. Of course, even if a band doesn't break up, they often discontinue their CDs due to various reasons.

This is why there is a service called "Disc on Demand". It's a service where you can order a single copy and have it produced to order. Of course, the profit margin that is returned to the artist or label is lower, but the best part is that you don't have to carry inventory, which is a benefit that can turn your whole world upside down.

I haven't used such a service yet, and I don't have any plans to make anything new at the moment, but just the other day I was vaguely thinking that if I were to make another CD, I might as well use Disc On Demand.

Then, today, I heard the news that Amazon's "Amazon Disc on Demand" will be discontinued.

I thought, "Oh, maybe there weren't enough users," so I looked into it, but I wondered if Amazon had made such an announcement. I couldn't find any such announcement from Amazon, but I did see a few companies other than Amazon withdrawing their services. I didn't see any such announcement from Amazon, but I did see a few companies other than Amazon withdrawing from the market, so I guess it's not that popular.

So, when I took a closer look at the contents of the "Disc on Demand" service, I realized that it's not for "CDs" but for "CD-Rs". It's natural to think of it as a "one copy minimum" service, but I guess that might be a point of resistance for the general public.

It doesn't matter if it's a CD or CD-R, the music inside is the same.


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Is it included?

 
I was thrown into despair when I heard that today was supposed to be a "summer day," meaning that the maximum temperature would be 25 degrees Celsius, but in reality, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius. In fact, it only got up to about 23 degrees Celsius around me.

Even so, I've been lambasted for calling it a "summer day" when it's over 25 degrees Celsius. In the real summer, it's supposed to be around 40 degrees Celsius. Around me.

Come to think of it, the highest temperature above 25 degrees Celsius is called a summer day, above 30 degrees Celsius is called a midsummer day, and above 35 degrees Celsius is called a heat wave day. I used to think that summer days, midsummer days, and heat wave days were separate things, but according to this definition, midsummer days are included in summer days, and heat wave days are included in summer days and midsummer days. Highball and chuhai are not separate, but chuhai is a substitute for highball whisky with shochu (so chuhai is included in highball).

I wondered how much hotter it had gotten in recent years, and found this article.

Annual number of summer days, midsummer days, extremely hot days, and tropical nights in the district

This PDF came up in a direct search, but from the URL, it looks like "in the ward" means "Chiyoda Ward. I don't live in Chiyoda Ward, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere in the 23 wards.

This is only up to 2019, but in 2019, there were 126 summer days, 55 midsummer days, and 12 extremely hot days.

That's 126 summer days!

Over 1/3 of the year is summer? One out of every three days is summer?

That's amazing...

By the way, in 1920, there were 95 summer days, 38 midsummer days, and 0 extremely hot days. Japan has a beautiful climate.

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Cosmic Sound

I wonder how sound sounds in zero gravity.

Gravity is not supposed to have anything to do with the propagation of sound, but what does it really mean? It is said that gravity has nothing to do with the way we hear sound, because sound is a vibration of air. Well, I don't know if people can actually tell the difference by listening to the sound.

This is because I've been reminded of the importance of reverb for the past few days.

Reverb is "an effect that adds reverberation and reflections to sound to create a sense of spatial depth and breadth" in general.

To tell you the truth, I didn't really know what reverb was. I didn't realize how important a role it plays.

Especially in the old days, bands would say, "I like the sound of this place, so let's record here! I wondered what kind of albums have been recorded in unusual places, and when I looked it up, I found an album recorded in space.

Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can" was recorded on board the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, but he didn't record all the parts in space. It seems to be just songs and guitars. I'm really interested to hear how the drums sound in zero gravity.


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