The Rise Of Crude Oil Price ( Done Till This)

The Rise Of Crude Oil Price
2006.04.20 3:38

The rapid inflation of crude oil price has been in progress. 40% higher than last year. Gasoline price by one litre is 131 yen right now, because one gallon is equal to 3.785 litre, one gallon of gasoline is 495.8 yen, which is about $4.23. ($1=Y117)
This so affects every nook and cranny of entire life here in Japan. But I must admit this society is so stagnant still, unbelievably. Inefficiency has prevailed everywhere. Japanese people cannot change themselves on their own, but they are vulnerable to pressure out of other countries, especially from USA.
List all Journal entries
The Rise Of Crude Oil Price Preferences Top 4 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 4 comments 0: 4 comments 1: 4 comments 2: 3 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
I'll just beat a dead horse here...(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.20 10:04 (#15161721) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 22:19)
Right now, in minnesota one can buy a gallon of 'E85' (the flex fuel alternative) for $2.20 Regular E10 (I can't remember if minneosta changed to E20 yet or not.) is $2.70ish. Yes, one needs to buy a special car, I wish FORD would switch it's st. paul plant over to flex fuel vehicle production... instead of closing it down.Arguements have been made about if 'corn ethanol' is that viable, and perhaps not for wide scale roll outs, but a lot of other potential ethanol sources are viable. Switchgrass comes to mind http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/switgrs.html[ornl.gov]Not to mention my favorite plant, algea, which produces biodiesel and/or ethanol almost in entirety.Not to mention brazil has done very well using sugarcane to ethanol production.So, there you have it. the problem is or course getting peopel to BUY the flex fuel vehicles, which have to be MADE and SOLD as well as having the Fuel available enough places and affordably enough to make it viable.
--A Fool nation and their money are soon parted. America's Net worth -13 Trillion USD.
[ Reply to This ]
Re:I'll just beat a dead horse here...(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.20 12:22 (#15162261) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
The only reason it's a "dead horse", is because they are much harder to find than the commercials let on. THe first flex fuel push was in 2001, and there were more flexfuel models then than there were in 2005 - when I bought my car.
Even for the cars that are available (like the Ford Focus), it's only on the 'Fleet Sales' models (which are near impossible to find). Maybe, come 2008, we will probably see a lot of flexfuel vehicles in the commercial market... but by then we'll have lost another two years.
I live in Shakopee, and work in St. Paul (thankfully not for Ford), and the time to do something about making the plant viable came and went 15 years ago. Sadly, it's simply not big enough to mass-produce vehicles on the level that Ford needs to.
--Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
[ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:I'll just beat a dead horse here...(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.04.23 9:22 (#15182530) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.30 22:19)
flex fuel really took off in brazil though. i think the main problem is that ethanol production from corn doesn't really 'tap' the suns energy, so mush as allows the corn growers to overproduce and always have a 'plan b' on what to do with excess corn, and corn stalk. great for corn growers but it's hard to make a push for flex fuel when people see it as just helping corn growers. i tell you what though if demand for ethanol went up, there would be a lot of farmers considering switching to switchgrass production, due to the lower overhead costs and higher yields. especially since all the equipment needed is already in the fleets of most farmers, or can be added to their existing tractors at low costs.i don't see a problem with corn farmers maing excess corn into ethanol either, better than letting it go to waste. more like 'recycling' the energy and cost put into making sure the world has enough food*.*= by that of course the people who can afford to buy it.
--A Fool nation and their money are soon parted. America's Net worth -13 Trillion USD.
[ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:I'll just beat a dead horse here...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 2:20 (#15174896) (http://mercedo-complete.blogspot.com/2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
If we could utilise the maximum possibility the material has, we wouldn't have to worry about the cost of fuels any more. For the moment it is important to reseach and develop new alternative fuels.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Quiz Night

Quiz Night
2006.04.20 2:45

The day before yesterday I slept 6 hours at night. Last night, therefore I only slept 3 hours. Strange it to say though I only sleep 5 hours at longest in a day. If I slept more than 5 hours, I cannot sleep more than 4 hours next day.
So it was a long day today. Since I woke up at 7 in the morning after I went to sleep at 4 AM.
I went to another satellite city to have a workshop as to my job skill up for 5 hours. So my entire working hours are just 5 hours today. But because I had to learn many new things, my tiredness just accumulated piles and piles so high, so after I finished this session, my fatigue was apparently considerable. Soon after I finished, I rushed into my girlfriend house -my girlfriend, age 41, is also in the middle ages soon noticed my extreme weariness, so gave me an encouragement no one else can do. But my compiled fatigue never show state being extinguished, so just once in a blue moon I went to a foreigner's bar to have some fun probably for the first time for one year.
Firstly I went to A****, it wasn't good enough. Secondly I went to B***, but no one but few were there. It was not good enough to have some fun. Then thirdly I went to C***. It was still before happy hours expired -till 10 PM they offered us 50% discount for any drinks. I ordered first Sledge Hammer and next Melonball. Both are vodka based. I was able to rejuvenate myself rapidly.
It happened to be the quiz night. Unlike other Japanese unfortunately since I understand English well, I was allotted to the member of team 'The Rest of the World' . This was a USA versus the rest of the world team quiz entertainment program.
The result was USA 4 versus The Rest 0, we lost. I was drunk a lot and I made a speech at the hall. 'American people tend to believe that America is the world and the world is America, but actually...' I stopped making a speech. 'But actually America is a part of the world, there are many worlds other than USA.' I just said to myself.
It was the real quiz.

The Sea Of Night

The Sea Of Night
2006.04.19 2:52

It is the end of the day finally.
I worked for 7.5 hours. Now it's almost 3 AM, I will have a workshop tomorrow 10:30. I'd better get up at 8 AM, since this workshop is being held in satellite city of our city.
Till 8 AM, I will jump into the sea of night.

The Poor Are Happy

The Poor Are Happy
2006.04.18 2:45

I came across my old colleague in a supermarket near my residence. I talked to her as to how her recent life's going on. She started making a lengthy speech without being asked by me as to her recent situations in which she said she's been trapped by severe financial difficulty and unable to get out of it. After she almost finished talking about her recent mishaps one-sidedly, finally she said, ' I have only $200 left now.' She never knew I had only $100 in my purse then.

Time & Money Wait For No Man

Time & Money Wait For No Man
2006.04.18 2:17

I ended up working for 9 hours 30 minutes.
They say the young have lots of time but scarce money. The old have lots of money but scarce time. How about me?
I have neither time nor money.
Worst middle age guy.

Pre-Golden Week

Pre-Golden Week
2006.04.17 8:26

Another business week has just started. I have to work 8 8 6 8 8 6 this week, total working hours go up to 44. Instead of taking a holiday week in Easter, we Japanese have a Golden Week, this year that'll be from 29th of April to 7th of May, up to 9 consecutive days. I myself take no Golden Week holiday, I am self-employed, I need to work during this holiday season too in order to keep pace with living standard currently I have. A little bit nostalgic to the days I was out of work.

Submit A Report

Submit A Report
2006.04.17 8:12

Being tired from yesterday's short trip to Mt Oil, I slept much earlier than usual. I went to sleep at 10 PM, so I got up at 4 in the morning. Since I started taking holidays on Sunday, I have been able to take a rest fully. Because all other friends take holidays on Sunday, I can get more oppotunities to see each of them. We can share the holidays, that's nice.
I have to submit a report in manuscript Japanese by today. About the latest workshop held on the last Wednesday. I am not accustomed to write a traditional Japanese by hand, I feel unwell.

Mt Oil

Mt Oil
2006.04.17 7:58

My ex was unwell this Sunday so I went to Mt Oil by myself. Mt Oil is located behind our city. It is not a high mountain at all. Long ago the mountain was famous for its production of oil obtained from camellia. I just went to on the foot of the mountain. I was able to see the landscape of whole city. On the way back to my home I found many flowers just beautiful. The season of cherry blossoms viewing just ended and the tree started getting leaves as well but other many flowers - camellia, magnolia, plum trees,etc were all beautiful and in full swing. Back in my home I found acer in my small garden very beautiful, since my cohabitant has watered a lot during winter and have been given fertilizer -which is rotten oil, the colour of leaves are just vividly vermilion.
It was just another perfect autumnal day.
List all Journal entries
Mt Oil Preferences Top 5 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 5 comments 0: 5 comments 1: 5 comments 2: 3 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
By any other name...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.17 12:34 (#15140640) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
You'd mentioned Mt Oil before, and the name struck me as being rather odd, both conceptually and phoenetically. It makes sense now, but would I be correct in assuming you've translated it?
--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery.
[ Reply to This ]
Re:By any other name...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.17 23:07 (#15141879) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
That's right. Original name is Mt Abura.
Abura is a noun form of Aburu, which is a verb, means 'grill'.
You see when we grilled something, we were able to obtain oil from it. Here [adam.ne.jp] is the night view from the top of the mountain.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:By any other name...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.18 11:29 (#15146390) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
It must be a marvellous view (photos never quite do justice to reality). I also did a google image search for the area; you live in a beautiful city, though I didn't see any photos with the trees in bloom. I imagine it must be magnificent right now.The logic behind the name of the mountain is fascinating, the word taking its definition from context and history that way. A kind of lateral thinking.It might also explain a question that has bugged me for a long time: where did the band Hawkwind get the name of their album "Hall of the Mountain Grill"?
--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery.
[ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:By any other name...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.19 0:01 (#15149190) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I just sent you a couple of photos taken here over a year. These are cherry blossoms, cosmos, hydrangea, azalea. Although I saw blooms of camellia and plums last week, I hadn't taken photos. If those flowers were still beautiful enough, I would like to take photos and send them to you.
The life of flowers are short. One week at best, yet they give us a greatest pleasure.
Mt Grill must serve us a greasy spoon here. [mountaingrill.co.uk]
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:By any other name...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.20 10:47 (#15161898) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
Thanks for the photos, very kind of you to send them. I must say, I've always been amazed at how a technologically advanced country like Japan retains such a stong cultural love of nature; though perhaps I should be more appalled by the European tradition that nature is there to be conquered and controlled.Truthfully, I knew about the Mountain Grill; naming the album after a real mountain just seemed a little more...grand? Romantic?
--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery.

This Week

This Week
2006.04.16 1:57

I managed to finish this week. I worked 8 6 6 8 8 7 hours -total working hours were 43 hours. Since I've been restricting working hours in a week from 42 to 44, this result was one of the idealistic landing.
Tomorrow is day off. I wonder we go on a picnic to the park.

Best Teacher

Best Teacher
2006.04.15 3:04

Who is the best teacher?
The answer is a teacher -Not so good and not so bad.
I mean here a class teacher, not a tutor who teaches someone personally.
I was a very good teacher, so some student felt really appreciated in my way of teaching. But some felt my class is very bad, my class was designed for a particular student, so some student didn't like my class. It is difficult to have all students satisfied, so we have to aim at the middle of strata, inevitably the class's going to be moderate. It is difficult to meet all their demand, we usually aim at the middle of strata in class. Inevitably it is not interesting from both ends.
I want to teach personally, that's the best way.

There's No Alternative

There's No Alternative
2006.04.14 4:21

I was assigned to go to 4 days job skill up training course which will have been held four times per one class in a week. I know the trainer who is soon to retire in June. He is 59 now. He suggested going to eat with him. This is the first rarity I encountered today. So I said,' Because you proposed me to eat with you, you ought to pay.' He said, 'No, let's pay each.' I didn't think it's common for us guys to pay each by ourselves, then I said nothing and agreed to go out. This was the second rarity. On the street, he started smoking. Third rarity. In the cafeteria, he was still smoking. Fourth rarity. In the first place I never eat in restaurant for some reason, so it's fifth rarity.
He started talking to me about his future after he retired. He was expecting to work by 70% worthy of his last salary and offered to work in $10 per hour. He told me he's still considering but he was very disapointed. I said, 'I never entered the work force. I don't expect anything from my company.' 'You have no retirement.', he said. 'Right ' I said.
'Did you quit smoking?', he asked, and I said, 'There's no alternative to smoke in my life.'
He said he entered the company in hope of working till retirement, this was happy when he started working, it's been changing for these ten years.
I think we both showed great empathy one another, he was in trouble as to after his retirement. His first rarity comes from that.
'Did you quit smoking?' I was strongly impressed by the word.

The Theatre View

The Theatre View
2006.04.14 3:17

I normally use a right hand in writing manuscript, but when it comes to writing on the keyboard, of course I use two hands equally.
A screen is a reflection of our mind, so while we were using a right hand dominantly, our mind transcripts things from left to right.
So I mean 'centre focused' template is closer to what is now of the description of our mind. I support the centre focused template -the theatre view.

A Vacant Bin

A Vacant Bin
2006.04.13 0:27

My cohabitant sometimes throw away my belongings. She seems to think that some of my possesions are dust. Despite the fact that I have been asking not to throw away anything in my room.
I want ot say to myself in loud voice. 'If you can't give me anything, don't rob anthing of me.'
But the fact is she gives me stability, security and tranquility of my mind. I'm not supposed to say complaint in front of her.
What did she throw away? It's a vacant bin.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
A Vacant Bin Preferences Top 12 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 12 comments 0: 12 comments 1: 12 comments 2: 5 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.04.13 0:54 (#15114129) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Have you ever listened to the music [samthebutcher.com] on my site? I have a song called "Cohabitant". I like it a lot. :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
Re:Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.04.13 7:40 (#15117285) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
i like it too. ima listen to it right now.
--you probably shouldn't have read this. [slashdot.org]
[ Parent ]
Re:Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.14 1:34 (#15122021) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
The term wife is used for a woman that got married to me legally. So even if she doesn't live with me and haven't had sexual relationship with me, that doesn't matter. She keeps on being my wife. The term love or girlfriend is used for a woman who has sexual relationship but doesn't live with me. The term concubine is used for a woman who lives with me and has sexual relationship with me but is not married to me. The term cohabitant means a person that live with me, so cohabitant might be my wife, my mom, my dad, my kid, my servant, my grandma, my grandpa, my grandchild. Sometimes my cohabitant means a dog or a cat that lives with me.
Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?
My cohabitant gives me stability, security, and tranquility, so my cohabitant is a great person, but the word cohabitant itself has nothing to do with the greatness itself.
It was already seven or six years ago that once I lived with a woman who is very rich. I wanted to marry her and proposed her to marry me. She said, 'No, I have no merit to do so.' That's right, it was going to be a misalliance. I might have gotten a great benefit, but she would have lost many things. So for two full years, I was a sex slave, but it was a really rejoicing experience though. I admit though almost all women hope marriage. I feel remorse in my situation.
As to your song. I have just heard your song. It was a great song, you should have written the title of the comment as 'Isn't "cohabitant" a great song?' I didn't have to write such a long reply.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.04.14 2:04 (#15122320) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
I like words. I like the sound and meaning of some words. I wrote the song, I don't feel qualified to say if it's "great" or not.
By "great", I meant that I really like the word "cohabitant", not that cohabitants are great. They can be. But that's not really my point. :)
I'm glad you at least liked the song. :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
[ Parent ]
Re:Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.14 2:35 (#15122607) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Oh, I see. You like the word 'cohabitant'. It is rare for us to have a liking for some particular word unless we have some association with the word. I used to live together with very strange people, the word is associated with good and bad memory. We had often had quarel with one another when I lived with someone. This time rather belongs to rarity.
I must admit though that I am always a very analytical person as such. I think much more than ordinary people. But believe me I am also a very sensitive person. Sensitive here means showing great appetite in art. So when I found your name in my friend's list in devianArt, I felt greeat pleasure. (Though still I don't know how to befriend you.)
By the way, do you smoke, especially when you compose the song? Although this is merely from my impression.
By "great", I meant that I really like the word "cohabitant", not that cohabitants are great.
I like the word 'debauchery', but I never flirt with someone when I am in love, so I know what you mean.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Isn't "cohabitant" a great word?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.04.14 3:47 (#15123270) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
I suppose I see your point. I have bad associations with the word "roommate". I had several "roommates" in college that I had disagreements with, as you say "quarrel". We don't really call them "cohabitants", although that's what they are.
On deviantArt, you add them to your deviantWatch list. When you go to someone's profile, on the bottom of the first main box, there's an icon on the far right of icons on the bottom...it looks like a person with a "+" sign by it. You can choose from the next screen what of them you want to watch - journals, "deviations", scraps, etc.
Do I smoke? As in cigarettes? No...My parents do. My sister does. I do not. I have a cigar [pipesandcigars.com] occasionally. Not usually when I compose/write music. I might have a drink or two, though. Wine usually anymore, but I like beer.
I agree, "debauchery" is also a great word. :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
[ Parent ]
garbage(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <eglamkowski.angelfire@com> on 2006.04.13 1:34 (#15114438) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2006.04.30 3:54)
My wife always wants to throw away a lot of my stuff. "Garbage" she calls it.Hrumph!I don't complain about how many shoes she has, no matter how much I'd like to throw away most of them (and she'd probably never notice...).But them sometimes I realize how emphereal it all is and how none of it is going to matter in the long run.*sigh*
--Government IS the problem.
Re:garbage(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) <stargoat@gmail.com> on 2006.04.13 5:22 (#15116143) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 13:35)
I am amazed to hear this. I cannot get my wife to throw away a used q-tip, let alone anything that _might_ potentially be used one day. "We can repair that. I'll darn those. We might need that staple." I am amazed to hear that.
--Hoist Number One and Number Six.
[ Parent ]
Re:garbage(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <eglamkowski.angelfire@com> on 2006.04.13 5:39 (#15116264) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2006.04.30 3:54)
Well, some stuff like an 8 year old computer she thinks is still useful (it could be as a router or some such, but she's talking about as a computer for primary use), but stuff like books and games she wants to toss.
--Government IS the problem.
[ Parent ]
Re:garbage(Score:2)
by Stargoat (658863) <stargoat@gmail.com> on 2006.04.13 5:53 (#15116393) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 13:35)
You're lucky. I suggested throwing away a book once after the ferrets annihilated the spine, and you would have thought I pawned her engagement ring. And mind you, this book from free from a library giving away books.
--Hoist Number One and Number Six.
[ Parent ]
Re:garbage(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <eglamkowski.angelfire@com> on 2006.04.13 6:29 (#15116739) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2006.04.30 3:54)
Was she born in the year of the rat? I was :-O
--Government IS the problem.
[ Parent ]
Re:garbage(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.14 3:02 (#15122827) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I know your wife and you are one of the best couples ever. In a sense I've been seeking for my better-half in my entire life chasing a shadow of my past woman. The day is yet to come.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

That's Not Your Job

That's Not Your Job
2006.04.12 23:48

Following story is a fiction. I made it in my imaginary world.
One day I was pointed out that I made a mistake in my job. So I said to him, 'It is not your job to point out someone's fault, but supplement their faults. That's why you were here. Nobody's perfect, we are completing our job as a whole.'
To tell the truth, I didn't say so in front of him but people around him, and I found his attitude changed soon.
Some people don't understand what I say well, and keep on criticising as if it were their job. They are wrong, but usually I leave the office.
They never know they have to leave their office if I pointed out their faults. Indeed they are a fault itself.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
That's Not Your Job Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 1 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
It's About Tact(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.14 10:01 (#15126544) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
For myself, I much prefer a co-worker tell me directly that I'm messing something up. If they tell me so politely. It's better than them telling my boss.
Tact: a way to approach a sensitive subject without insulting or blaming.
Tact is very important: "If you do it this way, it'll be easier for the next person who must handle this job."
Without tact: "You have made a mistake. You are wrong. Do this, not that."
Does that make sense?
--Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Re:It's About Tact(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.15 2:03 (#15130498) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
When I found some faults made by them, I do myself without telling them anything.
After I did it myself, I urge them to pay more attention to the miss I found without mentioning who made a mistake. Because someone's fault is more likely to be others' faults. This might work as a caveat. When I made a mistake, I am willing to admit that I did it. If someone pointed out that I made a mistake in other's presence, of course I am willing to accept their advice. But I do point out their mistakes in other's presence when they did. That's what I did this time.
We usually do some work in 5-7 people as a team. Everyone has their part, some play decisive parts while others play peripherals. Yet everyone is necessary to do their best to complete the work. While they are doing so, some of them subject to making a mistake. It's inevitable, human to error, however there're someone who always point out and scold other's miss. I don't like to work with those guys. I think we ought to try to complete one work making up for minor misses some of us made. By all.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Kidding

Kidding
2006.04.12 3:09

Kidding is named so because it is effective to the kids of age 2-3 years old and 13-15 years old. They are in resistance period, they always oppose what we say, so by kidding they do against what we say, thus kidding is effective to the kids of these ages.

Happy

Happy
2006.04.12 2:53

We don't like long rain in autumn. As we have long rain, we are getting closer to the arrival of winter. On the other hand, we like long rain in spring. It gets warmer day by day. So when I found not so happy people around here, I feel perplexed.
We have had three or four consecutive rainy days, with a short interval of good weather from time to time. I found quite a lot of people here and there fell in melancholy this turning point of two seasons. Especially here in this tiny island. It really amazed me that many people are very fluctating, vulnerable, sensitive, naiive, sentimental, in short they are melancholic.
I am never depressed, I always think things positive.
Certainly I am happier than them.

Effect Of Labour

Effect Of Labour
2006.04.12 2:36

Last night I slept at 3:30 AM. It was a little bit earlier for me to go to sleep, and I woke up at 11:30 AM. I slept too much.
I work 6 days in a week in which I start working at 10 AM for three or four days and at 12:30 PM for three or two days, so my working pattern is like 8 8 6 8 8 6 or 8 6 6 8 8 6 ( from Mon to Sat, hour of work ), my total workinhg hour is 42 or 44 in a week. This is one of my best working hours.
My sleeping hour is usually 5 hours, but sometimes when I feel very tired I sleep longer. Yesterday was such a night. So when I got up at 11:30 AM, I didn't feel well and I didn't go to work.
After working 6 hours, I felt more vigorous, I was rejuvenated by work. Works work not only for means of making a living but practicing physical exercise. I am free from fatigue now. This is a favourable other side effect of labour that I thought.

Scale

Scale
2006.04.11 2:57

New Slashdot User 'NoGoodslashdot.jp' (966988) -this is his user name. I don't know what this User name means. Aside from that, he must be one of the newest Users. In Japan site, the number of Users has just exceeded over 30000. American site is 32 times larger than Japanese counterpart. Ah 32 times!
Didn't he notice what his nickname mean?
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Scale Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 0 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
My wish for the truth was ...(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.12 11:11 (#15110557) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
My wish for the truth was to have created the account 'NoGood', of course.
> I don't know what this User name means.The 'NoGood' made from an actual family name, and the one by the jest.I had to give up the account creation with original nickname.Though, I don't know too, There is no person [slashdot.org] named 'NoGood [slashdot.org]', but Slashcode said that:
"The nickname 'NoGood', or another similar to it, is already in use. Please choose another."Maybe, NoGood as NoGood, its means NG-word ;-(
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
Re:My wish for the truth was ...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.12 22:59 (#15113209) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I like your nickname, so I have no idea why you nick wasn't allowed.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Congratulations!

Congratulations!
2006.04.11 1:48

Nine out of ten, inspired by me finally he got an account here in org. site.
In his bio,
Actually, I wished to use the nickname 'NoGood.slashdot.jp', but it wasn't realized... orz...
Japanese slashdotters often use 'orz', this is not a misspelling of 'org'. 'orz' means 'I finally gave vent to my emotion fully.' (According to my impression.)
He is an extremely intelligent guy an we both belong to Club Slado Liberal Arts, he is indeed a connoisseur in many arts, music, literature. He's learning English extremely earnest by listening to 'Immersion English', and his writing skill has been in progress very rapidly.
Actually I was expecting to have more entries from Japan. NoGood is indeed really good. I beg your expectations.

Wuthering Hill

Wuthering Hill
2006.04.10 2:06

I live in a little bit hill side so tonight I feel strong wind and have rain. We often call it a spring storm. As we have storms, we are getting closer to spring.
It is not cold tonight.

Fugue

Fugue
2006.04.09 20:41

My ex and I have been seeing every Sunday these days and today we went to South Park. After we finished climing the hill and walking around the philosopher's path, we got on her car and left the park. On the way to our residence, the high class domestic car called 'Fuga' was ahead of us. The peculiality I found in the car was its tail lamp. 'I cannot endure watching these tail lamp.' It was like ball-bearings, probably about ten lights were arranged in a shape of circle in a tail light, and the moment I saw the shape of lights, I got strong nausia. She knows I am very vulnerable to a kind of sound, light, especially in case it's repetitious and a lot. This time I saw was the one that I can't put up with. 'I also feel unwell to these lights, it's too strong and stimulus.' She also agreed to my claim.
Fuga was an Italian word and Japanese car makers always prefer to name their products in Latin names. The word fuga in English is fugue, and fugue also means some confused state of mind. The car led me to the state as such.

Generic Chicken

Generic Chicken
2006.04.09 20:04

I sometimes buy precooked chicken so that I don't have to cook it again at home. There are several supermarket that sells such produce.
Recently I found the taste and tongue touch of these precooked chickens are very similar to each other wherever I purchased them. You know there's a famous giants everybody knows, but of course what I buy was not that giants'. But the taste and tongue touch of these generic chickens are also very similar to that famous giants', but the prices are much reduced. $1 each as opposed to $2 in original one, and unlike the case of drugs, there's no reduced effect found, just the slight difference we found but the difference affects us in a good way. Because sometimes we want to eat something different in taste and tongue touch. Besides in the case of generic chicken, the price is a half of the original ones. The producers of generic chicken wouldn't say, however, that they analysed every nook and crany the ingredients of the recipe of giants.
Probably many foods were produced in a clandestine recipe in a generation to generation basis in one family company long long ago. Source, soup, whisky, etc, and as times go by, people around them started producing similar foods as well. We cannot keep on hiding something very good.

Meta-language

Meta-language
2006.04.09 17:57

My poem was written in meta-language - a language spoken in a dream at night, or a language spoken in the world under your consciousness.
So whatever the language I used, it was not a matter. The matter was I used such a language or a meta-language. So they couldn't understand my poem, it was a natural thing.
If they try to understand through an ordinary language they use in their daily life, it is categorically deniable that they can understand my poem. In the end we ought to understand poems through our instinct or a meta-language, not our reason or an ordinary language.

Content

Content
2006.04.09 6:37

Now I feel very content because I transferred my most important past writings written in Japanese into the Internet.

Wanted

Wanted
2006.04.09 6:12

Unfortunately Japanese ordinary people don't understand their native tongue well. I don't expect them to understand my language any more, so I will leave my past writings to those who learn Japanese in school overseas.
Here it is. I attached my translation attempt there. Those who are eager to translate it into English, please do.

Command A Fine View

Command A Fine View
2006.04.08 2:05

Once in fifty clicks, I can see a new template, it is centre focused. Indeed it's very good. Personally I am in favour of this view. As if I were a very important person seeing cosmos in order from an invitational room.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Command A Fine View Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 1 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
I have seen that too(Score:2)
by GeckoFood (585211) * <geckofood@noSpaM.gmail.com> on 2006.04.08 2:23 (#15085788) (Last Journal: 2006.04.28 21:50)
I thought it was an error on the part of my browser, though. I am not convinced yet that it's not a rendering error.
--relax, we understand j00 [megatokyo.com]
Re:I have seen that too(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.08 3:08 (#15086255) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I thought it was an error on the part of my browser, though.
I often use browsers other than mine in my study. It was there firstly I encountered that new sight. I thought it was a present for a very good contributer in Slashdot.
I am not convinced yet that it's not a rendering error.
I believe this is an experimental injection from administrative team, this is a clinical trial or a kind since it were held it would be a very major change in template. Since extremely many Users are making the most of this very revolutionary journal system, they are just showing their careful thoughtfullness. This is a good sign for and toward the future of Slashdot.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Law Of Success

Law Of Success
2006.04.07 3:06

One of my co-worker is a University student, he is in senior now, a year ahead of his commencement, usually almost all students in their four grade have already decided where they go after they graduated - usually a company they are going to work, so as is usual I asked him whether he has already decided the company he will be engaged in. 99.5% students go to workforce soon after their graduation. He said 'No, I am not going to be engaged in a company, I want to be an actor.' Immediately I replied, 'You know there's a law of success?' 'I don't know' he said. ' You are sure to succeed. 99.5% students are going to be engaged in a company, that means majority people are out of course from success. You are one of .5% people already. This is a law of success.'
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Law Of Success Preferences Top 5 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 5 comments 0: 5 comments 1: 5 comments 2: 3 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.07 3:41 (#15078473) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
He's retired now, but he used to have a Mom&Pop restaurant in Beaverton serving American/Japanese fusion cooking (his Chicken Cheese Katsu on Fried Rice was to die for). He went by the name Crazy Chef Sato. On his menu was the following explaination of the name:8 out of 10 people are normal.1 is a genuis, 1 maybe crazy.I don't like to call myself a genius, so that leaves only one choice. I've duplicated *some* of his recipies at home- but I've yet to get good enough at knifework to duplicate Chicken Cheese Katsu, despite knowing the full recipie (Thaw a chicken breast. Butterfly slice it. Stuff in a slice of American Kraft Cheese. Close and bread in traditional Katsu crumbs, then deep fry at 400F. Serve with Tonkatsu sauce.) I just can't seem to get my hands to slice a chicken breast the thin way....
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.08 2:45 (#15086036) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
This is a post personally I feel it difficult to reply. Since many people call me I'm genius since I was a child, I know I'm genius and I don't hesitate to call myself a genius.
He should have said that many people call him a genius or he knows he's genius.
Genius has much to do with creativity. Genius has to challenge something new perpetually. That's what I think it's genius, not just that someone who shows extreme skill.
Many people call me a genius and I myself knows I am, but only history can tell who was genius. Unfortunately we can't live that long.
As to the difference of insane people and genius. Genius has got similar mentality as insane people have. But he overwhelmed his insanity and is able to handle with his insanity completely. While insane people were just overwhelmed by the darkness of their mind.
Should I post this?
I do and I shall wait for a judgement of history.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.08 3:05 (#15086222) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
I'd call him a genius, his creativity in his chosen profession was quite obvious, he was the one who introduced me to the whole concept of fusion cooking- a concept I've taken to my own extremes in an amateur way (at a yearly church social for making pasta sauce, mine are always named after, and inspired by, the nationality of Popes. Pope John Paul The Great sauce was an Alfredo with Kielbasa, extra Parmesian, and Saurkraut. Pope Benedict XVI is a egg and bratwurst in Hollandaise. Neither of these are strictly Italian- or strictly German or strictly Polish.)
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
[ Parent ]
Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.08 3:36 (#15086509) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I never met him so I'm not sure though. Probably he is a genius guessing from your description.
Geniuses are not here and there, but once I met guys who showed an extreme skilfulness in painting and writing a novel. I was able to tell they were very skilful in painting and writing since it was apparent for anyone to judge so to see their works. The problem was, however, we were unable to tell whether their works showed sheer creativity or just met the standard. For laymen it is sometimes hard to tell the level of professionals. Only professionals can tell how exquisite other professional's works are.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Reminds me of a Japanese Chef I once knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.09 0:33 (#15090886) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
One of these days I'm going to find where Crazy Chef Sato retired to- and try to get him on Iron Chef America to find out. It's only by going up against Morimoto that I'd truly find out if he was genius, or merely crazy. But either way- I'd bet the ingredients for his creations would cost less.
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.

My Slashdotting Life

My Slashdotting Life
2006.04.05 4:03

I wake up at 9 in the morning. I start working at 10 till around 7:30 in the evening. I usually work 8 hours in a day. After finishing taking a bath, dinner, relax with a friend, around 10 at night I start my slashdotting life till usually 4 in the morning. I usually spend 5 to 6 hours in reading and writing Slashdot.
Do I read newspaper? I stopped doing it twenty years ago. Do I watch TV? I ceased to do it about a year ago.
From 4 in the morning to 9 I sleep well.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
My Slashdotting Life Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 1 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Not much sleep(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 8:40 (#15071949) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Not enough sleep. Some people get that little, but very few, and usually not for long.
--Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Re:Not much sleep(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:47 (#15077950) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
My cohabitant worry about me. Especially my health. Whenever I sleep, the result is the same. If I go to bed at 22, I will get up at 3.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

What's 'Zen Ya'?

What's 'Zen Ya'?
2006.04.05 3:16

All night long I was transcribing my past works written in Japanese into Romanised form. Japanese language is totally transcribable in English alphabet, but usually they don't do. Yet as long as they write as they speak, they are not going to face serious problems as to how to write down their national language.
Recently I've been visiting Slashdot Jp, there they are wondering whether I am really a Japanese. So that was one of the reason I posted my Japanese writings in Slashdot Jp, they will soon realise I was very senior in writings in Japanese.
The 'Zen Ya' means 'the Zen=Previous Ya=Night', literary it's the same as the Eve.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
What's 'Zen Ya'? Preferences Top 3 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 3 comments 0: 3 comments 1: 3 comments 2: 2 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 3:31 (#15060222) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
So Zen Buddhism is "Previous to Buddha"?
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.05 3:53 (#15060439) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was anticipating comments like this. It's my fault, I didn't fully explain it. You see if you say 'I want to play in a pool bar' I understand you want to play billiards since I know pool means two -water cistern and a ball game. But someone doesn't know these difference, probably asks, a pool bar? A bar with a pool? Or Bar means many -rod, lounge, jurisdiction, etc. This time is similar and much more complicated, the sound of Japanese is so limited that just the sound Zen means five or six usually. Sometimes in America, they too confuse what's American Bar Association, security company (usually security-guard, securities-bonds but some don't tell).
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Zen means "Previous"?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.05 4:00 (#15060504) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
When I was on my honeymoon- the "pool bar" was a floating Tiki Bar in the pool that you could swim up to to get drinks (seems to be a highly popular concept in Florida- I have a tendency to stay out of those Southern states, they're crazy down there). So yes, I do know what you mean....
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.

At Server Room

At Server Room
2006.04.04 3:48

Japanese joke patagon did versus American joke I did.
It was at the end of the fiscal year on the 31st of March that he was working. So I thought he was working in a room with a lot of people congested. He wrote he was working in 'a mackerel room', so I imagined as if it were a lot of sushi with a vinegered mackerel on it packed like sardines', though at the moment I came up with the scene I couldn't recall the English term for 'server', I never mind since I ended up the expression of 'packed like sardines'. As a matter of course, I knew blue fish mean mackerel, weak fish mean sardines, just I didn't think it's important.
These are the interpretation of my post 'You meant a room packed like sardines?' It was not a joke. I thought you meant so by 'server room'.Japanese joke was just from phononym server-Saba, while I thought mackerel was used sushi packed like sardines.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
At Server Room Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 0 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by NoGoodslashdot.jp (966988) on 2006.04.11 12:12 (#15103350) (http://slashdot.jp/~NoGood/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 13:40)
2ch [2ch.net]'s origins [media-k.co.jp].# But, I think that it can go back more.# Maybe, when the first server in Japan came from oversea.
--NoGood [slashdot.jp]@slashdot.jp [slashdot.jp]
Re:I think the word that commonly...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.11 22:46 (#15105219) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I was not in any Japanese site for a long time. So I thought as if I were a foreigner there.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

A Day's Excursion

A Day's Excursion
2006.04.02 21:39

It was rainy this morning but when we started going on a picnic to Mt Aratsu, the sky was as clear as the deep blue sea. It was windy though. We went to Mt Aratsu where whole mountain forms a park called West Park. We enjoyed seeing cherry blossoms. They were a little bit prior to full swing, and because of the strong wind we had last night, the flowers were not as good as we saw the last year.
There we went to see a poem in 'Collection of Ten Thousands Leaves' that said,'Like perpetual waves at the cape of Aratsu, am I going to keep on loving my wife?'-written in 723 A.D. Many times soldiers here were forced to leave their home in Osaka for here in Yahoo! City, so they were longing for their wife who lived separately.
My ex said 'It's a good song' It must be her unfalsifiable thinking.
We walked around the small mountain hand in hand. And on the way back home, we went to Yahoo! Dome. Many new facilities were constructed there. I sent several photos to johndiii. I wrote a journal. I go to sleep.

Four Digit Dotter

Four Digit Dotter
2006.04.02 17:45

How does it look like?
mercedo's Latest 24 of 1000 Comments
Uhmm..Excellent. Now I am officially a four digit dotter.

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Cherry Blossom Viewing
2006.04.02 11:11

Cherry blossom viewing. It's a Japanese tradition to go to see flowers and trees in a park around this time of the year.
We are going to West Park today. I plan to send a photo to johndiii this year too.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Cherry Blossom Viewing Preferences Top 8 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 8 comments 0: 8 comments 1: 8 comments 2: 3 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Photos...(Score:2)
by johndiii (229824) * <johndiii&amilost,com> on 2006.04.02 12:11 (#15044041) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 4:58)
Will be sincerely appreciated. I hope you enjoy the blossoms.
--...to the heart that's coming home? [slashdot.org]
Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.02 13:39 (#15044227) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
The Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. is such a big deal because the Japanese people gifted the USA hundreds of Cherry Trees. Not that cherry trees didn't exist in D.C., but the Japanese Cherry trees have exceptional flowers.
There are lots of photos online of the ones in D.C., if Mercedo doesn't have any for ready upload.
--Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
[ Parent ]
Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:05 (#15068049) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to watch the scene many viewers were appreciating cherry blossoms along with the estuary of River Potomac. In TV. And the flowers were exactly the same as the ones here.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Photos...(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <[moc.liamg] [ta] [rdaZ.nellA]> on 2006.04.06 9:28 (#15072222) (Last Journal: 2006.04.30 5:48)
Yes, and thanks for the Email as well.
--Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
[ Parent ]
Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.07 2:40 (#15077880) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Welcome. Why I feel so familiar with you while we haven't seen one another even one time. I notice how large the portion of spirit-to-spirit contact occupies in our daily life.
I am very healthy because I've been spending life free from stress by this soul communication.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
Re:Photos...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:19 (#15044702) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I just sent you seven photos -6 cherry blossoms and 1 additional one. I will write about my excursion today -nothing special though later today.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:2)
by AB3A (192265) on 2006.04.02 23:35 (#15045475) (http://slashdot.org/~AB3A/journal Last Journal: 2006.03.15 8:15)
Of all the things about DC, this is one of the biggest tourism magnets. The folklife festival in the summer is a big one, as are the independence day celebrations.However my favorite is the kite festival. That's one of the best kept secrets.And if you live in the region, don't forget about the notorious punkin chunkin [punkinchunkin.com] contest. It's amazing what idle time and a ridiculous contest can do...
--Nearly fifty percent of all graduates come from the bottom half of the class!
Re:DC Cherry Blossoms are really good this year(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.06 2:15 (#15068164) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Actually I've been to DC three times. It was many years ago though. It was early summer twice and late summer once, so I only saw trees with lots of green leaves.
Cherry trees change their views completely as the seasons go by. So we are unable to imagine cherry blossoms in full swing from the green leaves tree. It was only one week that we can see the blooms in full swing. So it will be very fortunate if I could visit DC again around this time of the year.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Tradition

Tradition
2006.04.02 5:37

Part of the reason I was unable to realise was time lag between USA and here, here it's already over April the first, besides it's not our tradition to do so, so.
I changed my preference and set up Eastern Standard Time. I am longing for the day is over.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Tradition Preferences Top 2 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 2 comments 0: 2 comments 1: 2 comments 2: 0 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
clear(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.04.02 14:45 (#15044361) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
you're safe (from this) for another year.
--you probably shouldn't have read this. [slashdot.org]
Re:clear(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:39 (#15044738) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I won't turn on the computer next year on the first of April. And the year after next year too. April the first will be my Passover forever.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters

Joke?

Joke?
2006.04.02 5:31

Reading many Slashdotter's journals, now I gradually believe it's merely a joke. April Fool joke. You see it's a tradition in Western nations, but certainly not here one of East Asian countries. As if I were caught by a ghost, but if it's just a temporary, of course I can endure -I think.
List all Journal entries
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Joke? Preferences Top 4 comments Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold: -1: 4 comments 0: 4 comments 1: 4 comments 2: 1 comments 3: 0 comments 4: 0 comments 5: 0 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) Save:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
The origin(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) < > on 2006.04.02 6:00 (#15043048) (Last Journal: 2006.03.08 7:21)
Its related to the pre-Christian calendar and pagan celebrations of the spring equinox. Unfortunately, being a tradition approaching two thousand years old, the exact origin is lost.Also unfortunate is that America is not one of the countries that observes the tradition of only committing pranks before midday, so the colour scheme will stay this way until the 2nd arrives on their shores. But yes, it is only temporary.I have my own tradition regarding April Fool's day jokes: I can be a good sport about people's jokes if they can be a good sport about being punched in the face. Some day I'll have to invent a device that allows this over the internet; the closest I've come so far is a web page that asks them to look really closely at their CD/DVD drive, then issues an "open tray" command after a short delay.
--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery.
Re:The origin(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 17:58 (#15044780) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Around this time of the year is a turning point from long winter to short spring. People here get together under the cherry tree day and night, drinking, eating, singing, dancing, sometimes taking off their cloth people enjoy having fun. April Fool is also based upon such a jocular one.
After this season passed, again people start pursuing serious business. April Fool and Cherry Blossom Viewing, both work as an oasis in our life.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
[ Parent ]
You're missing out(Score:1)
by jawtheshark (198669) * <slashdot@jawthesh[ ].com ['ark' in gap]> on 2006.04.02 6:14 (#15043092) (http://www.jawtheshark.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.26 23:29)
One of the oddest days on slashdot in the whole year. One can't take seriously anything at all. OMG!!! Ponies!!!! I need to run now I saw some furry equi caballi.
---- A sharkless slashdot is a toothless slashdot. -- Turg (19864)
Re:You're missing out(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.02 18:03 (#15044787) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
A sense of humour -I don't miss out on it again.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters