Technocrat.net

Technocrat.net
2005.12.29 3:16

If I were not here, I am in Technocrat.net.
This is a very interesting site for those who love science or technology. I am a little bit not well versed in technology though, I love science. As a matter of fact what I wanted to be when I was in my primary school at age 10 was scientist. I decided to be a writer at age 15 so it was prior to this decision.
Again if I were not here, probably I would be in this site. Why not try visiting there. That is a very interesting site.

The End Of Love

The End Of Love
2005.12.25 1:40

She didn't call me. She might have another boyfriend, and he must have been more important than I, it is a beautiful thing.
I changed an attitude a little bit toward her. I realised it from the bottom of my heart. Christmas Eve is a good oppotunity to assess the degree of love between love& lovers. If I were not first to her, she's not supposed to be my first. I bought Kentucky Fried Chicken one barrel and Baskin Robins Ice Cream Cake for $50 combined and ate them on my own. It was a very fantastic Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas!
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all change(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro@@@gmail...com> on 2005.12.25 3:16 (#14332792) (Last Journal: 2005.12.29 22:21)
by all acounts I should be having A wonderfull Yule tide . I am really agitated , eassily upset and angry though.. No reason for it .Crazy little world this is .
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Re:all change(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.25 23:56 (#14335906) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.29 3:16)
I went to the supermarket near my house and asked one of cashier girl whether she spent a Holy Night with someone. She said, 'No, I don't have such a man!'
The end of love is the beginning of another story.
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Re:all change(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro@@@gmail...com> on 2005.12.26 2:05 (#14336242) (Last Journal: 2005.12.29 22:21)
There are no endings only new beginings .. yeesh I was sounding rather odd there .. ran out of my special medicine so was going nuts
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Re:all change(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.26 23:50 (#14339511) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.29 3:16)
Don't worry, I fully understand.
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Re:all change(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro@@@gmail...com> on 2005.12.27 0:51 (#14339687) (Last Journal: 2005.12.29 22:21)
It's Hanukah now, So i have been setting those candles on fire .. lacking a Menorat I have been improvising :D .You know it is really scary walking around these parts with a Kippah
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Coldness Loosened

Coldness Loosened
2005.12.24 3:01

Topical temporal extreme coldness has been loosened, I was about to lose my balance owing to its cold so I feel fine, I hope we never have another coldness.
I hope...

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve
2005.12.24 2:53

Here comes the most important day in a year. If I were able to see my current girlfriend, I intend to marry her. If not, that means she's got someone more important than me. I am obliged to seek for another one. Since we met first time, 2 year and a half have already passed. Our relationship has been more and more steady than ever. I would like to keep it as it is to the future. This is the most important thing for me.

What Is To Be To Be

What Is To Be To Be
2005.12.23 1:37

Que c'est la c'est la.
When a guy who has got a medical history of melancholy entered our workplace two months ago, one of my colleagues (female) felt uneasy saying 'I don't like him', I just said with a smile the word I mentrioned at the head of this article. She didn't smile at me though, I guessed she seemed she felt secured a little.
Now two months have passed, in fact he's gone.
If a canary don't sing, I will wait till it start singing.

Should I Call Her?

Should I Call Her?
2005.12.23 1:20

On Christmas Eve should I call my current girlfriend? I have already noticed I've been loosing my affection to her, so I don't believe I ought to call her.
Still pondering, though I realised we're unable to have our babies because of either of or both of us. We can't turn to the next page of our life. Probably it's time to leave. It is sad though. She's never been pregnant since we started having relations on 14th of August, 2003.
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hrm...(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2005.12.23 8:20 (#14323069) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2005.12.27 22:58)
well what else could you be doing to enjoy your time?if you're not feeling it though it would be nice to at some point let the other person know something is going on, i don't know when one would normally do it, but i usually do right away when i'm sure i'm not feeling it... unless i'm being evil, then i just make arguments and fights happen over nothing >_ ;
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Re:hrm...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.24 0:20 (#14326531) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.29 3:16)
I asked her for a dinner tonight on the 23rd of December, she said she needs to go to bed early because she has to work from early tommorow morning. Then I asked her for a dinner tomorrow night -Christmas Eve, for love& lovers it's the most important night in Japan. I asked her to reply to me tomorrow night. I guess she will say yes.
I'm a lonly guy, she's my only love, if I were an only lover for her, she would definitely call me tomorrow. As a matter of fact, I had already asked her to spend Christmas Eve with me prior to about one month.
I hope...
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Nineteen Years Ago

19 Years Ago
2005.12.23 1:01

In Trecca, Kyoto, Japan, I met her for the first time...
'Trecca' is the name of coffee shop at the centre of Kyoto.
Actually I went to see her at the commencement ceremony on the 7th of March, 1986. At this moment I just destroyed all our relationship.
In April she started working in Tokyo, in May I left for America.
We never met any more since then.
And probably the last time..

Dreamer

Dreamer
2005.12.23 0:48

In my new workplace, I started working with a guy who wants to be a musician, guitarist, his age is 20, still young. I said to him. 'Don't give up your dream. If you gave up, you would lose possibility 100%, still we are not sure whether you would succeed or not though, you have possibility of succeeding even if it's 1%.
A godness of success will smile at those who never gave up like me at age 44, I was still pursuing dream.' He asked, 'Are you?' I said, 'Yes, I have never given up my dream, if a godness of success would like to smile at some one, I would be the only one who she smiles at since I would be the last person that gives my dream up. In the end she would reluctantly cast a smile at me.'
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Success(Score:2)
by Cujo (19106) * on 2005.12.23 4:55 (#14320939) (http://slashdot.org/~Cujo/amigos Last Journal: 2005.12.21 12:28)
Ask him if he's half as good as Kido Natsuki [tzadik.com].
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Re:Success(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.24 0:28 (#14326575) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.29 3:16)
I do tomorrow. I think he is not as good as established professional guitarists, because he told me he leaves a little to be desired.
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Re:Success(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.27 0:03 (#14339553) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.29 3:16)
Seems it was the last day for him to work there. I haven't seen him since then.
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Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
2005.12.21 1:59

For these two or three months, I usually spend 7 or 8 hours in reading & writing articles in Slashdot, three months ago it was in the middle of September. It was still very hot, hot enough to operate a cooler in my air-conditioning. It was already last summer that the operating board of remote controller of air-conditioner in my room which was made of liquid-crystal, was out of order and I was unable to determine which state is cooler, warmer, dryer, just wind. But I managed to find out which is cooler in summer and when the autumn comes I was supposed to find warmer section in my controller.
Last night at last the controller came to be out of order. I thought the dry battery was up so I changed the battery today. Wonderful! Not only the function of controller is recovered but the panel of liquid-crystal also recovered. Now I am able to see what the section I've been operating.
Umm? It was a cooler, but because I've been operating it in 23 Celsius degrees, it happened to be warm. Now I understood why it was so cold in my room. Immediately after I changed a cooler into a warmer, I feel chilly in my room no more.
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Sorry(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <Allen.Zadr@NoSPAM.gmail.com> on 2005.12.21 3:29 (#14300463) (Last Journal: 2005.12.22 2:58)
I'm sorry, but I laughed when I read this.
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Re:Sorry(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.21 4:10 (#14301121) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.24 3:01)
Thanks. As a matter of fact, also I laughed at how unconcerned I am with my surroundings except for writing.
Fact is stranger than novels. I was lucky enough since I noticed tonight. We are expecting to have another very cold wave in coming weeks.
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New Job

New Job
2005.12.20 3:29

As of the day after tomorrow from 9 a.m. , I'm going to work in a new workplace. I've been just working 6 or 7 hours from noon. I've been felt a lack of something. I've not been satisfied both in working hours and in the contents of work. I still continue working at the same workplace, I just work up to two hours and a half in the morning and later from noon I work as I have been doing now. My total working hours will be 9 hours or something, it is enough and necessary.
Adjustment has been made successfully.
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A change(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro.gmail@com> on 2005.12.20 5:13 (#14293578) (Last Journal: 2005.12.23 22:40)
Variety is the spice of life , just be sure not to make a Vindalo
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Re:A change(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.21 1:30 (#14299226) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.24 3:01)
As long as we've got a strong Self, we won't make a Vindaloo but pilaf, in either way people around me won't understand me.
Except for slashdotters.
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Nuclear Winter

Nuclear Winter
2005.12.20 3:18

After the very big, consecutive nuclear explosions like collision of meteor or of course the use of nuclear arms, it is believed to occur so-called 'nuclear winter' thereafter.
I think we had a similar experience here though it's much smaller than nuclear winter in global scale.
Global warming is a result of incessant emission of carbon dioxide that produced from burning a fossile fuel, etc. As a result of this, lots of vapour was formed and thick clouds with a lot of vapour contained formed over the atmosphere. Some of them moved to the Arctic area and cooled down. When that cooled air moved to some part of the world, that is likely to be the one that caused lots of precipitations especially in the form of snow.
Now we see lots of snow here, that's the last form of water transformation which started from the sea water. It was heated by sun and transformed into vapour in the sky.
In nuclear explosions, the process is the same but just the scale of this process is enormous.
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I believe(Score:1)
by StalinsNotDead (764374) on 2005.12.20 4:23 (#14293142) (Last Journal: 2005.12.24 1:26)
Nuclear Winter is also caused by the dust and ash thrown into the upper levels of the atmosphere by the nuclear explosions, blocking a fait amount of solar radiation from contributing to the temperature of the Earth.
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Re:I believe(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.21 1:11 (#14299054) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.24 3:01)
Yeah, you are right, and current regional cooling was partly caused from thick strata of clouds that prevent sun radiation from reaching the ground. This is different from the cases of greenhouse effect. Under this effect, ultra-red get through the layer of clouds but the heat is caught within the limit of atmosphere.
Nuclear explosions in global scale would bring about global cooling. This is the most effective way to prevent the process of global warming, though, we can't help but have another Ice Age with a limited number of humans & other lifes, or we have to wait another tens of millions of years from bacteria to humans.
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Regional Cooling

Regional Cooling
2005.12.19 3:42

Global warming, but regional cooling here in the East Asia. We have had unusually snowy days for these five or six days -apparently colder than last year, and in some area adjacent to the Sea of Japan, many areas have been affected by recordbreaking snowfall. Here my city -Fukuoka aka Yahoo! City is also regarded as adjcent to the Sea but since a little bit located at south, we have't seen lots of snowfall though.
Global warming, but that would destroy an overall climate balance and bring about a regional extreme unbalance, eventually that might bring a spot regional cooling that hit our area as the coldness in this winter.
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This is to be expected(Score:2)
by sam_handelman (519767) <skh2003@columNETBSDbia.edu minus bsd> on 2005.12.19 20:46 (#14290017) (http://www.columbia....ndelman/student.html Last Journal: 2005.10.23 16:23)
An overall rise in global temperatures is expected to be accompanied by: intensification of climactic variation between regions - so some places will become quite a bit colder, intensification of climactic variation between seasons - so winters in general will become colder, relative to summers, and intensification of climate variation from year to year - so your weather might be record-breaking mild next year. This is especially true while the climate is unstable or in flux. Enjoy :)
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Re:This is to be expected(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.19 23:59 (#14290764) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.24 3:01)
Both in the Unite States and in Japan, in this summer we had an unusually lots of tropical low pressure systems-hurricanes and typhoons respectively, with a lot of precipitations. People easily noticeed that they were a clear sign of the result of global warming. The warmer the water of sea evaporates, the more the cloud that will bring rain on the ground comes up with.
In winter the rain turns to snow, of course it's cold, colder than last year, but above all things, we have had a lot of snow -precipitation, that makes sense.
The clouds that brought a lot of snow here are said to be directly from the Arctic region. There lots of vapor must be turning to snow.
Global warming is still working a lot.
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Sincerity

Sincerity
2005.12.19 2:21

I think many people know what sincerity is but just can't keep it. Some can no more than pursue it, in case this expression is ambiguous, some only pursue it.

Chinese Hyperbole

Chinese Hyperbole
2005.12.18 0:58

Yesterday I watched a movie called 'Green Destiny', original title is 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. I just wonder how the scene in Qing Dynasty was so similar to what was then in Edo Period in Japan. For example, lantern, tiles on the roofs. But different in how to use sword and the existence of gate in front of capital city.
Besides most of all I noticed was clear sign of Chinese hyperbole that doesn't exist in Japan's movies. Actually I though that was an origin of special effect later widely adopted in Western movies as Star Wars, The Lord of the Ring, Harry Potter. Chinese hyperbole is a key to enjoy their movies. There's a piece of truth, though, was the word a hero uttered.
Wherever you go, you have to maintain your sincerity.
Actually I do, so I always face difficulties before me, yet I don't change since it is the way I do.

Simultaneous Eruption

Simultaneous Eruption
2005.12.16 3:18

In Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a number of eruption of geysers appeared abruptly these few days.
Strikingly similar incident occurred in a different place but similar latitude here in Japan almost simultaneously. A City of Oita is located internationally famous hotspring paradise Beppu and since this July the hotspring boring has been conducted in the field of Nakasone Hospital with the hope to find a good hotspring to make money essentially. But instead of finding a hotspring, they just find a natural gas leakeage and the fire in sequence.
At 8:30 a.m. on the 12th of December, as was usual the workers started operating the boring machine for still unidetified reasons, fire started at the site by igniting the natural gas methane that abruptly erupted from a gap of the diametre 54 mm pipeline that dug into 370 m under the ground within a diametre 80 mm pipeline that dug into 800 m under the ground. At the beginning of the prior small explosions, they had 5-6 metre high fire columns. After 9 hours the fire was put down but the leakeage of methane and vapour had been there. Before 4 o'clock p.m. on the 14th of December, gas leakeage was put down by injecting mud water into the smaller pipeline, it took 55 hours after the fire.
I watched the scene in the local news, it was like a burnt small oil rig or well, shaft. I was unable to find a photo, though.

Xmas Eve

Xmas Eve
2005.12.13 0:12

For young Japanese Xmas Eve is a day for loves&lovers, so who to spend with, that is the question. I proposed to my only love that we go to the French restaurant and have some dinner then spend a luxurious night with me afterwards. She didn't seem to feel uneasy, but..
Probably I will sit before the screen on Xmas Eve too.

Cold, Colder, Coldest

Cold, Colder, Coldest
2005.12.12 23:38

For these 4 or 5 days, we have had a very cold day. In our system, it's less than 5 degrees celsius, in Fahrenheit it's 36 degrees.
Who said we have been suffered from Global Warming? I think we need a global warming up.
Oh, so cold..
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That's not cold(Score:2)
by Cujo (19106) * on 2005.12.13 0:08 (#14238525) (http://slashdot.org/~Cujo/amigos Last Journal: 2005.12.14 4:58)
It's really not. There are places where the parking lots have electrical outlets so people can plug in their block heaters to keep the engine from freezing while inside. Those people know from cold.
In my mind, anyone who lives where you can safely ice skate outdoors in late December lives in a cold climate. Everyone else has it easy.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.13 0:31 (#14238693) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Cujo..Thanks for commenting.
I don't live in a condominium, I live in a house on a hill, so when it's so windy&stomy as is tonight, lots of wind creeps into the room, so it's cold. In the country where cold winter is so familiar, they must be well prepard for the coldness. Our houses are made of paper, wood, and paste(a kind of concrete made of cray), besides I live southern part of the archipelagoes -the latitude is the same as Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Sydney.
You live in the north? For the northerners 5 celsius must be warm enough.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:2)
by Cujo (19106) * on 2005.12.13 0:43 (#14238779) (http://slashdot.org/~Cujo/amigos Last Journal: 2005.12.14 4:58)
I now live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. (about 40 deg N lat.), which is a more moderate climate. I have have lived in much colder places, and I have lived in Los Angeles, which is semi-tropical. I went through one "Winter" in Los Angelese without ever turning my heat on.
I have also lived in a house on a hill. My main problem with that was all the lightning strikes.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:2)
by Ethelred Unraed (32954) * <john@granthaCOUGARm.de minus cat> on 2005.12.13 1:33 (#14239124) (http://www.grantham.de/ Last Journal: 2005.12.16 21:31)
Ya. I lived in Minnesota for 10 years, and was a Boy Scout in those years -- and we camped outside a lot in all weather. Minnesota has very extreme conditions -- often well below zero Fahrenheit in winter, and sometimes close to 100 F in summer (with very high humidity because of all the lakes). The local Boy Scout council also had a special award, the Zero Hero, which was awarded to anybody crazy enough to spend 24 hours straight outdoors in subzero (Fahrenheit) weather -- that is, -17 C.
Yes, I got that award. Lost a toenail in the process (I was wearing four pairs of socks in boots that were too small for it) and spent much of the time shivering in my mummy bag...
I think they've since weakened the requirements*, because let's face it, it's a rather loony thing to encourage people to get.
Cheers,
Ethelred
* - At least I recently looked around for information about it after telling someone about the award, and the site I found said that you only have to spend one night in subzero temps outdoors. Maybe my memory is wrong, but I'm fairly certain that the requirement in those days was 24 hours in subzero temperatures.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.13 2:45 (#14239762) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Oh, now I must retract what I said. It's 6 degrees Celsius in a room. Warm enough.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile@mind[ ]s.com ['les' in gap]> on 2005.12.13 22:03 (#14245645) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
And here's me thinking that anything below 20C (68F) is cold...but I live in Sydney, where the daytime temperature rarely drops into single digits, even in the middle of winter.It hit 38.9C (102F) last week, so I'm off to the beach; not to swim, I just love to watch a good drunken rampage.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.14 1:14 (#14247300) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Which beach? I recommend Le Peruse.
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Re:That's not cold(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile@mind[ ]s.com ['les' in gap]> on 2005.12.14 5:43 (#14249990) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
Coogee or Bronte are my favourites, but I haven't been to a beach near Sydney for some years...too much attitude from the locals. Speaking of which, we've had rioting over the last few days at Maroubra and Cronulla; just when I think I've seen the limits of mindless selfishness, something comes along to renew my contempt for humanity.
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Cold(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <Allen.Zadr@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on 2005.12.13 2:37 (#14239693) (Last Journal: 2005.12.17 11:33)
It's -2 C (27 F) right now in Minnesota (where I live and work), worse, I'm thinking it's almost warm today because it was much colder last week. Ethelred is right. It's cold here.
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Re:Cold(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.13 4:18 (#14240564) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Minnesota is located as high as Sakhalin, Hokkaido here in the Far East. The climate there is completely different from here in Kyushu island. The most renowned place for producing sake is Fushimi in Kyoto and Nada in Kobe, but when it comes to shochu, Kyushu is the heart of its production. All Bourbon tastes extremely well and Scotch has its own taste as well, when in Rome, as Romans do, every place knows the best produce they can come up with, but for me Bourbon is the best.
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Kant

Kant
2005.12.12 21:50

I'm solitary. I'm free. I'm a king of myself -- 18c-19c German Philosopher I. Kant
While I was strollin over the shell of liqure in a supermarket, I came across the word of famous philosopher in a label of Japanese sake.
Just once I had had sake when I was 22 at the school festival then. That was first and the last time I had sake, but I still remember the taste.
Unlike the cases of other philosophers, I was not enthusiastic to read his books. He wrote his famous three critics -Critics of Pure Reason, Practical Reason, Judgement. I had only browsed the last one -Critics of Judgement one time. Unlike the expectations I had, I remember the contents of its writings was a full of energetic emotions. Prejudices always are prior to the judgement. Though I don't recommend you reading his writings. They seemd a full of energy, but complexity, inconsistency at the same time.
I'm not having sake but Shochu now, I'm solitary, I'm free, I'm a king of myself, but I've got hundreds of friends inside the screen. Certainly I am happier than Kant.
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Sake(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <Allen.Zadr@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on 2005.12.13 2:13 (#14239487) (Last Journal: 2005.12.17 11:33)
I have had it a few times, though I'm sure it's probably not as good as what you would have there. I'm not a big fan, but wanted to try it from different places (it just tastes like tangy Vodka to me). I assume that - like any alcoholic drink, there is 'good' and 'bad'. I've never stumbled onto the good, and I'm becoming convinced that I won't find it - at least not in the MidWest.
If you've only had it once, you must not be a big fan of it either, so maybe ... I just don't like Sake at all.
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Speaking of Sake, there are two that I know of... One is the Japanese Rice drink that we speak of, but there is also Nigiri Sake (Salmon). Question, are the two pronounced the same? SAH-keh, or does the Nigiri sound different?
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Re:Sake(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.13 3:21 (#14240061) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Now I'm having Evan Williams, thought to be the oldest Bourbon since 1783. Sake in nigiri sake & rice liquor sake pronounce the same but where to put stress differs. SAke in nigiriSAke is as Ugly and rice liquor saKE is as agrEE. For some people sake in nigirisake is pronounced as SHA-keh. I like SHake -Atlantic salmon or Chilean trout salmon is eaten in raw and it's delicious, I like that. Japanese version of SHake is not suitable to eat in raw -which doesn't contain enough oil to keep its tissues and easy to be decomposed, and soon to be rotten, we usually eat Japanese SHake in grilled.
As to rice liquor saKE, it's a fermented one not a spirit, so like cheese or natto, it is liable to be rotten soon if it's left in a room, and we are 100 times sure to have hangover if we had plenty. More and more people prefer having shochu- Japanese vodka rather than saKE.
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Sake & Kant(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile@mind[ ]s.com ['les' in gap]> on 2005.12.13 21:42 (#14245560) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
A night with either is regretted in the morning: sake because you have too much fun, Kant because you don't have any.
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Re:Sake & Kant(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.14 1:20 (#14247374) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Sake& Kant have the similar effect, if taken too much, we would have hangover &perplexities.
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Tower Of Bubble

Tower Of Bubble
2005.12.12 19:57

Our country has been shaking from the 64 buildings -skyscraper condominia, hotels turned out to be not fulfill the endurance criteria for the quakes whose Richter's scale is over 5 - so common in Japan about 126 quakes over that measure are thought to occur for a year. Most severe case is a condominium of 14 or 15 stories whose strength only fulfill 15% of the endurance quake criteria now faces the fear of self destruction. Over half of residents have evacuated already but still half remains in their residence with trembling. Needless to say, they have to even endure trembling.

Curfew In Kobe

Curfew In Kobe
2005.12.12 19:18

In January, 1995, the strong earthquake hit Kobe, left 5000 people dead. I had a chance to see the devastated area after the earthquake. At that time Kobe was definitely one of the most prosperous one million cities -the population was 1.3 million -in Japan, but after the quake, the city came down to as if the third grade city. What I noticed was that the patrol cars were circulating with a siren throughout the affected area incessantly. They needed to protect their abandoned area from looting. When natural disaster was the first cause of their mishaps, usually human disaster follows, still the city has been struggling from severe damages made those days.
This year our city had the earthquake similar to the size of the Kobe earthquake ten years ago, but we were extremely lucky since the epicentre of the quake happened to be located ten kilometres away off the shore, our city survived. Remember the natural disaster doesn't have nothing to do with human factors. Majority of buildings collapsed after the quake was built before 1981. At that time the standard of constructing buildings didn't fulfill the requirements regulated later of this year for possible quake occurrence.

Giant Jelly Fish

Giant Jelly Fish
2005.12.12 18:00

Usually in this season of the year -winter, a handful of giant jelly fish are seen on the beach, usually 1 body per 100 metres is found dead and landed on the long (15 km) beach near here. There are many jelly fish at sea that appears after 15th of August every year. We can't enjoy swimming at sea for this reason in the late summer. If we were bit, the ichiness lasts for 7 or 8 years - I am the one who used to be bit by this behemoth, still I feel itchy for the wound I had several years ago, so keep away from contacting this sea animal. There are possibly three ways for utilisation. First one is for food, and the second is its poison -strong alchaloid called tagecine, which might be utilised for medical purposes. The last one would be for energy. Some giant jelly fish are known for generating electricity, the ampare is so small but the bolt is very strong. We might be able to make use of it for energy by collecting these creatures in a pool, etc.
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"R" versus "L"(Score:2)
by Shadow Wrought (586631) on 2005.12.13 1:53 (#14239308) (http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal Last Journal: 2005.12.17 5:13)
I know you've written before that the "R" sound and the "L" sound in English are easily confused by native Japanese speakers (if I'm saying htat right), and I wanted to let you know that we would write as "Jelly Fish."
I have hear that their stings are extremely painful, but I didn't know that they linger on. DO you ever take pictures of them strewn across the beach?
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Re:"R" versus "L"(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.13 3:54 (#14240352) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Thank you very much. I was unable to find any entries of 'jeRRy' fish in Wiki, so I thought they are uncommon in Western world. Seas are connected, who claimed jellyfish is not found at sea in the world except here?
Here is the link [timesonline.co.uk]. While this behemoth was dead on the beach 7 years ago, I investigated fully with all my body (guess?).
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something i heard(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2005.12.14 11:30 (#14252862) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.12.11 6:29)
that maybe because of glbal warming, this year the jelly fish are so big that they are breaking the nets of japanese fishermen, and ruining their livelihood this way.however, whether these fishermen are actually trying to catch jellyfish (with nets?) or are after other fish i don't know.
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Re:something i heard(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.15 1:12 (#14256580) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Jellyfish is edible, but only a part of it -a part called arms, so in comparison to its huge main body called bell, edible part is just tiny. Mainly because they eat lots of small fish at sea that causes trouble.
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Eight Horns

Eight Horns
2005.12.12 15:51

Swiss phermaceutical company Roche invented Tamiflu and the medicine was originally based on the lengthy study how to make use of one of the Chinese medicines or additives for food -this is long believed to be effective to some form of cold, the name of it is Eight Horns.
To have it directly does not prevent someone from having a cold but just resulting in feeling excited, but the company extracted, concentrated the effective ingredients and made into pills and now this medicine is regarded as one of the most effective medicines for flus.
There are many beliefs not only in the East but anywhere in the world as to which food is effective to some disease. But to collect these information, utilise them and invent a new drug is a totally different thing. West science overcame East tradition.
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Reminds me(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) <stargoat@gmail.com> on 2005.12.12 22:54 (#14237983) (Last Journal: 2005.12.11 6:09)
It reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of my mother-in-law in China. I had caught a terrible cold after a couple of days in Beijing, and it got worse on the train ride over to the city that was the final destination. While there, I visited a good number of my mother-in-law's friends in preparation to the wedding. She told me to take Chinese herbs and drink a special (extremely foul) tea. I wanted to leave, get over to the phamacist, and get some Tylonel Cold medicine. I was cranky after having been in China for ten days (I don't travel well), and said, "Chairman Mao used an iron lung broughy by Henry Kissinger." My mother-in-law (who did not necessarily like her friend) thought that the most witty thing she had heard all year.
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Re:Reminds me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.12 23:55 (#14238438) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
China has long history of nature based medicines - from botany, animals, bones, etc. On the other hands the West came up with synthesised medicines through scientific, chemical research & development. But probably those R&D are originally derived from a careful observation on the phenomenon of nature. We had a report that China's also trying to produce effective medicines from very large collections of Chinese nature based drugs. If they succeeded, we wouldn't need to use an iron lung to breeze the herb of very foul tea anymore.
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Re:Reminds me(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile@mind[ ]s.com ['les' in gap]> on 2005.12.13 21:04 (#14245441) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
The West also has a long history of natural medicines, but this is often forgotten because of the growth of chemistry over the last couple of centuries. For example, aspirin (acetylsalicytic acid) is produced synthetically because the raw extract from willow bark or meadowsweet flowers is rather toxic*, but the pain killing properties of willow bark were noted by Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. St John's Wort and red clover are two other herbs used traditionally in the West that spring to mind.That said, there is a lot of bunkum in traditional medicines (I'm not singling out Chinese medicine here); there are plenty of examples where a reputed theraputic effect simply doesn't appear in epidemiological studies, and some cases where the side effects are greater than the medicinal value. The point I'm making is that natural doesn't automatically equate to effective or safe, but it is a very good place to start looking.*Fortunately, willow bark tastes terrible, so its very difficult to eat enough to cause major problems.
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Re:Reminds me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.14 0:57 (#14247099) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Thanks for the very useful information.
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Bacchei

Bacchei
2005.12.12 3:06

I often chose the liquor for its name. Yesterday I found the Japanese Shochu named 'Bacchei'. (Literaly means in Japanese, the pleasure of malts.) Actually the name of this Shochu has nothing to do with Roman Gods, but that happened to be the same pronounciation as their name. If the one who named knew the origin of the word, it is splendid.

if(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2005.12.14 11:25 (#14252827) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.12.11 6:29)
..they didn't know the word it's kind of splendid in a different way isn't it?
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Re:if(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.15 2:03 (#14257030) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Bacchus is well-known to among ordinary Japanese as God of wine in Greek mythology, but when it comes to Bacchei, I don't think many Japanese know. Originally I thought Bacchei is a plural form of Bacchus assuming from other examples in Greek words. Again I looked it up in search, it was the women of Bacchus. Anyway it sounds great.
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Two Months Leave

Two Months Leave
2005.12.09 2:24

It's been already more than two months since I quitted my second job, now my conditions are fully restored, now it's time to work somewhere again.
Currently I am just working around 35 hours per week, I hope I work more 15 hours per week.
Really 'No pain, no gain.' I have neither time to spend extra working hours nor time to watch TV. I am just OK, but now I am rather humble person. I find new job whatever to seek for an new encounter, findings, insight into the nature of humans, besides making more earnings. Let's go.
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Time(Score:2)
by Shadow Wrought (586631) on 2005.12.09 2:53 (#14211865) (http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal Last Journal: 2005.12.10 2:55)
While Ic ertainly don't have the time for a second job, I hve oftent hought that, maybe after retiring or if my conditions change, that it would cool to work in a retaraunt. The kind where they encourage you to chat with the customers and build a bit of rapport. Whether I would still be wanting to do it after a couple weeks or months though, is an entirely different question;-)
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Re:Time(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.10 2:17 (#14220832) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.13 0:12)
About fourteen years ago, we had only two or three foreigners' bars in downtown, now they are more than five -doesn't make big difference though, and I always visited one of them called 'The Big Apple'. The premises are very small with only ten seats available, but with also a small hall they had always twenty strong people inside the bar. Sometimes that exceeded thirty and we sometimes had troubles as fist-fighting, sexual harassment, molestation, pick-pocketting, but also we had nice conversations and instant love affairs. We all complained about the smallness of the bar and scarcity of its kind in town, but it was still in early 1990s. Foreigners are not so common as they are now.
There I kept on visiting for 210 consecutive days, I mean for seven months. Every night I made it a rule to come to the bar at as early as 7, then stayed up until 5. I usually stayed there for 7 or 8 hours talking to guys and gals from inside and outside Japan. Actually all my -4 loves, including ex-, post-ex-wifes, a current love, a former love are from foreigners' bars. I mean they are great places to brush up your thoughts, but now the days are gone. I prefer sitting in front of the screen rather than dancing in the hall, but if you are young enough, I strongly recommend dropping in at the bar where you can know the world directly from your eyes, noses, ears, hands, and body.
I had worked both in a bar or cabaret and a restaurant before. To vist a bar is very ammusing but to work there is very different from vising as a guest. I had to always put myself in a third person position. I was far from enjoying the ambience there. That is mere my experience or observation there, why not try working?

Asterisks

Asterisks
2005.12.08 3:08

Recently I am less active here in Slashdot. But here's my home ground. Asterisks are compiling by degrees, and I would like to resume making a commnet before all my comments are attached by asterisks.

Anti-Nihilism III

Stormy
2005.12.05 3:53

I've been all right. I've been browsing and reading many journals. Outside it's so stormy, winter has come, however inside me it's as quiet as the calm ocean.
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cold dark and grey(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro.gmail@com> on 2005.12.05 20:45 (#14183808) (Last Journal: 2005.12.07 22:14)
That's what it is , yes sir brrrr
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Re:cold dark and grey(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.06 1:24 (#14185441) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.13 0:12)
Thank you for encouraging. The main discussion here in Slashdot seems Intelligent Design versus Evolution. I will write a journal entry soon on that, probably. In short my point is this is a red-herring, people are arguing beside what is important by talking about ID vs EV. Since to believe in God is a matter of personal conviction, this is fallen into within a range of freedom of belief. No one can prove God exists but just you believe in or not. What's more important is those people who believe in God and don't believe in God, both advocates of Intelligent Design and Evolution make a common frontier and to oppose the movement of dangerous currents -rise of nihilism, I certainly believe both a man of faith and a secure scientist are men of conscience, and all had better concentrate on more crucial, emminent, realistic social issues such as the severe lack of the stock of Tamiful in the possible wake of new type influenza pandemic, etc. Let's talk about something we can find the better answer for the better society, that's what I really want to say it out loud. Probably you can feel sympathy with me, for I didn't like to speak out with guys who don't intend to hear.
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Re:cold dark and grey(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) * <fidelcatsro.gmail@com> on 2005.12.06 3:30 (#14186628) (Last Journal: 2005.12.07 22:14)
Many of us with Scientific backgrounds are also men of faith.. however we have the brains to realise that the Twain should never meet .Science studies the way things work and observes things . Religion is there to guide us to being good mensch
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Daniil

Daniil
2005.11.28 17:58

Our friendship started at the journal discussion,'the Origin of Your Nickname', created by johndiii, where I got a friendship from Ethe, and daniil for the first time. While Ethe and I were talking about Nietzsche's thought, she suggested his thought was made use of by Nazis owing to its perplexities.
Again in johndiii's journal discussion, ' what's your favourite poem?' I raised 'Une Saison En Enfer, The Season In Hell' written by Rimbaud, she gave me a kind comment.
Assuming these, she must be a woman who loves literature, especially among Americans two names - Nietzsche & Rimbaud- have been not so common, as a matter of fact she is a European. Subsequently we had a couple of conversations in both of our journals.
Among European literary people, George Sand is a famous woman who didn't like her gender. She wore as men did, and had a long relationship with Chopin, assuming her fondness to be men didn't affect her preference in her sexuality, she was a heterosexual.
Her confession really amazed me, probably she doesn't come back under the same nickname. I hope she come back soon under the different name - which doesn't have to reflect her gender, it doesn't matter whether we are female or male not only in the internet, but also many other fields in the society as well.
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nicknames(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2005.12.01 11:41 (#14153140) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.11.30 15:47)
>I hope she come back soon under the different nameme too.what was the origin of your nickname? do you know the origin of daniil's?
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Re:nicknames(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.01 13:46 (#14153942) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.05 3:53)
I'm glad that I can help you. Here [slashdot.org]Daniil herself explains the origin of her nickname, from the description,
"daniil"(Score:1) by daniil (775990) * on 2005.03.22 0:25 (#11999100) (Last Journal: 2005.11.27 21:24) Daniil is the first name of one of my favourite writers, Daniil Harms. It also happens to be Russian form my of first name, Tanel (it being the Estonian form of Daniel). There, it's really quite simple. -- Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
For the overall observation of the origins of someone's nicknames, see johndiii's presentation [slashdot.org].As long as I know this one is the most comprehensive.
As to mine, the name of the famous car company came up my mind when I had to decide the nickname, thus. Were you expecting more romantic story? How about yours?
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Re:nicknames(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2005.12.01 14:44 (#14154329) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.11.30 15:47)
i thought you might be named after the car, but i wasn't sure.daniil also i suspected the writer - who i only heard of after she mentioned him somewhere.Karl Weierstrass is the name of a German mathematician of the 19th century. He is pretty much my favourite mathematician for a few reasons.He is seen as the father of 'analysis', a branch of maths i specialise in.Analysis is about the precise and formal treatment of concepts earlier mathematicians dealt with intuitively - infinity, the number line, the space of all possible numbers etc.
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