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2026/01/07 (Wed)
40
152
2
2026/01/06 (Tue)
42
退院、生還。
家でレコードを聴いて、ようやくひと心地ついた。やっぱり家は良いねぇ。
10日ぶりのニコチンは効くなぁ。そういうものを嗜みながら、私はまだまだ、
あと30年は生き延びたい所存である。
修理に出していた McIntosh のアンプも修理を終え、無事に退院。
故障が多く手間がかかるので、一時は売却も考えたのですけどね。
やっぱり良いですわ。
仙川「サウンドハウス」のオーディオ職人さんにも
「これは良いアンプだよ」と太鼓判を押していただきました。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
Discharged, alive.
Listening to records at home, I finally felt at ease. Home really is the best.
Nicotine for the first time in ten days really hits the spot. Enjoying such small
pleasures, I fully intend to keep on living for another thirty years or so.
The McIntosh amplifier I had sent out for repair has also finished its work and
returned home safely.
It breaks down often and takes a lot of effort, so I did consider selling it at one point.
But it’s still a great piece.
The audio craftsman at “Sound House” in Sengawa, Chofu also gave it his seal of
approval, saying, “This is a really good amp.”
家でレコードを聴いて、ようやくひと心地ついた。やっぱり家は良いねぇ。
10日ぶりのニコチンは効くなぁ。そういうものを嗜みながら、私はまだまだ、
あと30年は生き延びたい所存である。
修理に出していた McIntosh のアンプも修理を終え、無事に退院。
故障が多く手間がかかるので、一時は売却も考えたのですけどね。
やっぱり良いですわ。
仙川「サウンドハウス」のオーディオ職人さんにも
「これは良いアンプだよ」と太鼓判を押していただきました。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
Discharged, alive.
Listening to records at home, I finally felt at ease. Home really is the best.
Nicotine for the first time in ten days really hits the spot. Enjoying such small
pleasures, I fully intend to keep on living for another thirty years or so.
The McIntosh amplifier I had sent out for repair has also finished its work and
returned home safely.
It breaks down often and takes a lot of effort, so I did consider selling it at one point.
But it’s still a great piece.
The audio craftsman at “Sound House” in Sengawa, Chofu also gave it his seal of
approval, saying, “This is a really good amp.”
2026/01/05 (Mon)
28
2026/01/04 (Sun)
36
本日の日めくりJazz
・Jimmy Heath - Triple Threat (1962)
まずは Freddie Hubbard の目が覚めるような
トランペットにグッとくる。Dizzy Gillespie と同系統の、
アッパーでイカれたトランペットだ。
Triple Threat とは三拍子揃った強者、という意味で、
演奏家（Ts）、作曲家、アレンジャーとしての
Jimmy Heath を指しているのだろう。
昔、札幌の友人のスカ・バンドに Triple Slott（3気筒）
というグループがいたのだけれど、もしかすると
このアルバムからバンド名を借用したのだろうか。
松竹谷清さんの「君にバウンス」
（原曲：Skatalites – “You’re So Delightful”）をカバーしたり、
7inch を何枚か出していた、良いバンドだった。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
First off, Freddie Hubbard's eye-opening trumpet really grabs you.
Like Dizzy Gillespie, it’s that high-energy, slightly unhinged style of trumpet.
Triple Threat means someone who has all three bases covered,
and it likely refers to Jimmy Heath as a performer (tenor saxophonist),
composer, and arranger.
Years ago, a friend’s ska band in Sapporo was called Triple Slott
(“three-cylinder”). I can’t help wondering if they borrowed the band name
from this album. They covered Kiyoshi Matsutakeya's "Kimi ni Bounce”
(the original being the Skatalites's "You’re So Delightful”),
and put out a few 7-inch records.
They were a really good band.
・Jimmy Heath - Triple Threat (1962)
まずは Freddie Hubbard の目が覚めるような
トランペットにグッとくる。Dizzy Gillespie と同系統の、
アッパーでイカれたトランペットだ。
Triple Threat とは三拍子揃った強者、という意味で、
演奏家（Ts）、作曲家、アレンジャーとしての
Jimmy Heath を指しているのだろう。
昔、札幌の友人のスカ・バンドに Triple Slott（3気筒）
というグループがいたのだけれど、もしかすると
このアルバムからバンド名を借用したのだろうか。
松竹谷清さんの「君にバウンス」
（原曲：Skatalites – “You’re So Delightful”）をカバーしたり、
7inch を何枚か出していた、良いバンドだった。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
First off, Freddie Hubbard's eye-opening trumpet really grabs you.
Like Dizzy Gillespie, it’s that high-energy, slightly unhinged style of trumpet.
Triple Threat means someone who has all three bases covered,
and it likely refers to Jimmy Heath as a performer (tenor saxophonist),
composer, and arranger.
Years ago, a friend’s ska band in Sapporo was called Triple Slott
(“three-cylinder”). I can’t help wondering if they borrowed the band name
from this album. They covered Kiyoshi Matsutakeya's "Kimi ni Bounce”
(the original being the Skatalites's "You’re So Delightful”),
and put out a few 7-inch records.
They were a really good band.
2026/01/03 (Sat)
30
30年以上前、フリーター生活に見切りをつけて就職した。
まだバブルの残り香が漂う時代で、ほぼ未経験でも潜り込める
ソフト開発会社が当時は結構あった。公共インフラ系システムの
末端を担う会社に入り、電力会社の現場や空港の現場へ次々と
送り込まれた。
夜間、ヘルメットを被り無線機を手に、滑走路を駆けずり回るような
仕事だった。管制塔の下にある建物に作業場所があり、そこでコードを
書くこともあった。Unix C だった。同じ建物には機動隊の詰め所があり、
昼休みには構内のコンビニで屈強な機動隊員たちと並んで弁当を買った
ものだ。機動隊員は皆、自分と同世代で幼かったな。
滑走路の用地買収を巡って揉めていたため、反対派がタイヤを燃やす騒ぎが
起きると、様子を見に行くこともあった。結局、用地買収は実現せず、
僕がコードを書いた部分の滑走路計画も頓挫し、システム自体がお蔵入りに
なったようだ。反対派が乱入した当時の管制塔も、計画変更によって現在は
別の場所に移っているらしい。
いま振り返ると、なかなか得難い経験をしたと思う。
他の空港の現場では、埋め立て地の上に滑走路を作るため、地盤沈下によって
灯火の角度に誤差が生じることを前提としたシステムになっていた。
滑走路が沈む、というのは新鮮な驚きだった。先日、同業の先輩と話していて、
現在は埋め立て方式をやめ、浮き島の上に滑走路を作っているので、
沈む問題はないはずだと言っていた。
堅牢だと信じて疑わない社会インフラも、実は意外と
雑で場当たり的な造り・運用になっているのだな、とその時思った。
昨今のナショナリズムや排外主義の台頭により、国や社会に過剰に適応し、
同調することに安らぎを見出す人が増えているように思う。
政府に異を唱えると、反日だ、反社だなどとレッテルを貼られる。
あなたがたが寄りかかるその社会、国家とやらは、果たして本当に堅牢で、
信じるに足るものなのだろうか ―― と、一介のエンジニアの立場から
僭越ながら問題提起をさせていただきたい。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
Over thirty years ago, I decided to leave my life as a freeter behind
and get a proper job.
It was still an era with the faint afterglow of the bubble economy,
and back then there were quite a few software development companies
that would let you in with almost no experience.
I joined a company that handled the peripheral systems for public
infrastructure projects, and I was sent one after another to the sites
of electric power companies and airports.
At night, I would wear a helmet, carry a radio, and run around the runways
as part of my work.
There was a workspace in a building under the control tower where I
sometimes wrote program code.
It was Unix C. In the same building, there was a riot police station, and at
lunchtime I would line up with the burly officers at the on-site convenience
store to buy a BENTO.
All the riot police officers were about my age, and back then they looked
young.
Because there were disputes over land acquisition for the runway,
there were times when I had to go and check on disturbances,
like when protesters set tires on fire.
In the end, the land acquisition never went through, the runway plan I had
coded for was abandoned, and the system itself was apparently shelved.
The control tower that protesters had stormed at the time was apparently
relocated due to changes in the plan.
Looking back now, I realize it was a rare and valuable experience.
At other airport sites, since runways were built on reclaimed land, the system
was designed assuming that subsidence would cause errors in the lighting angles.
The fact that runways could sink was a striking revelation for me.
Just the other day, talking with a senior in the same industry, he said that nowadays
they no longer use the reclaimed land method but instead build runways on floating
islands, so the sinking issue should no longer exist.
At that time, I thought to myself that even social infrastructure, which people take
for granted as solid and reliable, is actually surprisingly rough and improvised in both
construction and operation.
In recent years, with the rise of nationalism and exclusionary ideologies,
it seems that more people find comfort in over-adapting to and conforming
with society and the state.
If you speak out against the government, you are labeled anti-Japanese
or anti-social.
From the standpoint of an ordinary engineer, I would like to pose the following question:
Is the society and nation you rely on really as solid and trustworthy as you believe it
to be?
まだバブルの残り香が漂う時代で、ほぼ未経験でも潜り込める
ソフト開発会社が当時は結構あった。公共インフラ系システムの
末端を担う会社に入り、電力会社の現場や空港の現場へ次々と
送り込まれた。
夜間、ヘルメットを被り無線機を手に、滑走路を駆けずり回るような
仕事だった。管制塔の下にある建物に作業場所があり、そこでコードを
書くこともあった。Unix C だった。同じ建物には機動隊の詰め所があり、
昼休みには構内のコンビニで屈強な機動隊員たちと並んで弁当を買った
ものだ。機動隊員は皆、自分と同世代で幼かったな。
滑走路の用地買収を巡って揉めていたため、反対派がタイヤを燃やす騒ぎが
起きると、様子を見に行くこともあった。結局、用地買収は実現せず、
僕がコードを書いた部分の滑走路計画も頓挫し、システム自体がお蔵入りに
なったようだ。反対派が乱入した当時の管制塔も、計画変更によって現在は
別の場所に移っているらしい。
いま振り返ると、なかなか得難い経験をしたと思う。
他の空港の現場では、埋め立て地の上に滑走路を作るため、地盤沈下によって
灯火の角度に誤差が生じることを前提としたシステムになっていた。
滑走路が沈む、というのは新鮮な驚きだった。先日、同業の先輩と話していて、
現在は埋め立て方式をやめ、浮き島の上に滑走路を作っているので、
沈む問題はないはずだと言っていた。
堅牢だと信じて疑わない社会インフラも、実は意外と
雑で場当たり的な造り・運用になっているのだな、とその時思った。
昨今のナショナリズムや排外主義の台頭により、国や社会に過剰に適応し、
同調することに安らぎを見出す人が増えているように思う。
政府に異を唱えると、反日だ、反社だなどとレッテルを貼られる。
あなたがたが寄りかかるその社会、国家とやらは、果たして本当に堅牢で、
信じるに足るものなのだろうか ―― と、一介のエンジニアの立場から
僭越ながら問題提起をさせていただきたい。
#this is a pretty rough translation.
Over thirty years ago, I decided to leave my life as a freeter behind
and get a proper job.
It was still an era with the faint afterglow of the bubble economy,
and back then there were quite a few software development companies
that would let you in with almost no experience.
I joined a company that handled the peripheral systems for public
infrastructure projects, and I was sent one after another to the sites
of electric power companies and airports.
At night, I would wear a helmet, carry a radio, and run around the runways
as part of my work.
There was a workspace in a building under the control tower where I
sometimes wrote program code.
It was Unix C. In the same building, there was a riot police station, and at
lunchtime I would line up with the burly officers at the on-site convenience
store to buy a BENTO.
All the riot police officers were about my age, and back then they looked
young.
Because there were disputes over land acquisition for the runway,
there were times when I had to go and check on disturbances,
like when protesters set tires on fire.
In the end, the land acquisition never went through, the runway plan I had
coded for was abandoned, and the system itself was apparently shelved.
The control tower that protesters had stormed at the time was apparently
relocated due to changes in the plan.
Looking back now, I realize it was a rare and valuable experience.
At other airport sites, since runways were built on reclaimed land, the system
was designed assuming that subsidence would cause errors in the lighting angles.
The fact that runways could sink was a striking revelation for me.
Just the other day, talking with a senior in the same industry, he said that nowadays
they no longer use the reclaimed land method but instead build runways on floating
islands, so the sinking issue should no longer exist.
At that time, I thought to myself that even social infrastructure, which people take
for granted as solid and reliable, is actually surprisingly rough and improvised in both
construction and operation.
In recent years, with the rise of nationalism and exclusionary ideologies,
it seems that more people find comfort in over-adapting to and conforming
with society and the state.
If you speak out against the government, you are labeled anti-Japanese
or anti-social.
From the standpoint of an ordinary engineer, I would like to pose the following question:
Is the society and nation you rely on really as solid and trustworthy as you believe it
to be?