Elephantom's radiation

Herb websites

2011-01-14T05:36:00.000+09:00

http://blog.longinghouse.jp/?day=20071210

http://www.sbfoods.co.jp/sbsoken/jiten/index.html

One puzzle solved

2011-01-14T04:58:00.000+09:00

Licorice=甘草（かんぞう）=甘草!!!!!

Reference:
http://www.sbfoods.co.jp/sbsoken/jiten/detail.php?SPCCODE=00010

Shyness and rudeness

2010-05-02T01:14:00.000+09:00

similarity between shyness and rudeness- inability to properly initialize a civilized communication.
shyness is the passive form. the expressions include ignoring, looking away, pretending not seeing....

rudeness is the aggressive form. the expressions include knocking into people without saying sorry, taking favors from stranger without saying thank you....

both are some symptom of lacking civility or education. both are result of being provincial or barbarian....
(am I too critical!?)

BBC: Secrete Scientists

2010-01-30T21:02:00.004+09:00

BBC Documentary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/04/090414_secret_scientists.shtml

Then I start to wonder whether we a living in a civilized time or are we actually living in a most barbarian time in history. We are so ignorant and still letting prejudice take control!

By the way, the philosopher in the scientific method class was so Euro-centric or Greek-centric that he tried to make everyone else to repel anything Oriental including Chinese ones.

Some strange thoughts

2010-01-28T23:08:00.002+09:00

I am going nut doing some statistics homework which involves particle physics.

Suddenly, I realized this:
1. The drawings, and the works that I do, they are just my decay particles.
2. My decay process happens right after my production (birth), and last for my lifetime.
3. I, myself is a decay product of my parents.

How to get sand for my tulips in the heavily-snowy winter

2010-01-28T23:05:00.002+09:00

First make sure that there is not naked earth surface available nearby.

1. Wait for it to get dark, so that no one can see me.
2. Get ready the tools, empty pot for the sand, a large bin of hot water, and spoon.
3. Go to the snow-covered volleyball playground, and pour hot water there.
4. When the snow and ice melts and sand shows up, dig it with spoon and put it into the sand pot.
5. Leave the "crime scene" as soon as possible.

Naming system

2009-11-03T21:47:00.002+09:00

Chinese naming system: continuous, theoretically any combination of "kanji"s
Western naming system: quantized, jumps from Ann to Anna and not to Annb, from Katrin to Catherine...

This is just absurd theory!

Sneeze

2009-11-03T21:44:00.002+09:00

Do people in different countries sneeze in different languages?

In Japan: "haxion!", and sometimes very literally "haxion!"
In China: "Ahti-!" "Ahchiu!"

Imaginary world

2009-10-30T18:48:00.001+09:00

What happened was shocking:

Img(l) x Img(f.l)

EMFT

2009-10-28T18:31:00.006+09:00

http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book/

He is very illustrating with his powerful tone and voice. Fantastic story teller especially on science history.

Weekend after party

2009-09-20T20:29:00.004+09:00

It is fantastic to find so many youngsters studying in the lab on weekends. On the surface they are so much into parties, discos and clubs, but beneath that, they all want to work hard for their own good. The different thing here is that teachers try really hard to instruct and students try really hard to understand. They discuss with their peers when there is anything not comprehensive, they would know that they are not the only ones that doesn't understand it, so they go to ask the teacher. Or if sometimes they are the only ones that couldn't understand, they go to ask teacher as well! It is always the teacher's fault when the students don't understand, quite the contrary to the Japanese system where they always blame students for not studying hard. Here in Sweden, if you as an instructor couldn't make your point understood, you can never get away from it, at least not easily!

And you know what? I just learned during the past two weeks in an undergraduate course, something that puzzled me for 2 years in graduate school in Japan! What a shame, I kind of wish that I was never in Japan to study! What a horrible waste of time! What a brain damage!

Miss Heath Ledger

2009-09-12T03:34:00.003+09:00

Really wish that he didn't work so hard!
-that he worked himself to stressful life and death.
Wish he lived longer.
- Bet he wished the same thing!
Maybe he didn't know he's dead
and he is flying around looking at us.

Reading advice on NY times

2009-09-08T06:09:00.002+09:00

"There is general agreement on the indispensable canon: Homer, Plato, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Milton. From the 19th century until now, keeping only to English and American authors, a slightly more arbitrary selection might include Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Yeats and Joyce in England and Ireland. Among the Americans would certainly be Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Hawthorne; and in the 20th century, Faulkner and the major poets: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane.

Many of these authors are difficult and demand rereading, but that doubles their value. A freshman may have read Shakespeare before, but the richest and most available of all writers is also the most profound and elliptical. Rereading “Hamlet” and “King Lear” should teach a student Shakespeare’s mastery of the art of leaving things out."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06bloom.html

back to the future

2009-04-03T14:14:00.000+09:00

Hire myself as secretary

2008-09-27T22:39:00.003+09:00

Today I used "ical" application for the first time in hope to regulate my schedules and improve time management!

"Venus as a boy- Bjork" in Leon The Professional

2008-09-03T19:57:00.001+09:00

Björk - New World

2008-09-03T19:55:00.001+09:00

"I've seen it all-bjork" in "Dancer in the Dark"

2008-09-03T19:53:00.002+09:00

Greedy greedy world

2008-08-10T23:06:00.004+09:00

Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4472654.ece

2008-08-09T22:44:00.003+09:00

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMJFUh-0pw

Interesting Sites

2008-08-06T20:31:00.002+09:00

Interesting Sites for People to share news and other information

NewsTrust
http://www.newstrust.net/

FARK
http://www.fark.com/

Digg
http://digg.com/

Mix
http://www.mixx.com/

Stumble upon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

ことわざlink

2008-06-30T14:33:00.000+09:00

http://www.geocities.jp/tomomi965/

link

2008-06-06T15:09:00.001+09:00

http://www.qudev.ethz.ch/phys4/

Mathlinks

2008-05-08T08:55:00.002+09:00

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~gerlach/math/BVtypset/BVtypset.html

Engineering fundamentals
http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm

Nostalgia

2008-05-04T23:16:00.001+09:00

http://www.clcn.net.cn/guest/search/st_dianzi/st_xiandai/yuqiuyusanwenji/index.htm

PhD comics

2008-02-22T15:58:00.003+09:00

http://www.phdcomics.com/

Couldn't help

2008-02-21T13:36:00.001+09:00

to put another link on!

http://www.physics.org/

Could be a very good link for middle school, high school students!

metal

2008-02-20T13:24:00.000+09:00

http://physicsworld.com/cws/search?section=&query=metal

superlens etc

2008-02-19T22:47:00.007+09:00

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/22065

Nothing new but exciting still.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/9

Out of date Financial Issues.

somelink from iTunes

2008-02-18T21:49:00.006+09:00

Tired day, so, some links,
Never listen to that from live365.com, tedious procedures!

electronics
www.philosomatika.com
www.party107.com
Deep house on www.di.fm
beat blender on www.somafm.net
groove salad on www.somafm.net
www.AH.FM
www.beirutnights.com
www.danceradio.gr
www.fusionchicago.com
www.HARD.fm
www.icebergradio.com
www.friskyRadio.com
jazz
www.sky.fm
www.rootdown.fm

Jazz...zZZzZ....Zz.....z

____
No hyperlink, don't want it to be convenient to you ;P

The Hotel Fire- Alternative

2008-02-13T21:34:00.007+09:00

This is about the famous "engineer-mathematician-physicist jokes"

Please see here to get the original story:

The Hotel Fire
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. Fortunately for this joke, a small fire breaks out in each room. The physicist awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations......,
see more from http://www.farmdale.com/emp-jokes.shtml

I was thinking: if the fire was bigger ---When they saw it, it was about the size that is impossible to put out but only appear promising. What will they do?
Physicist still observe and calculate with the caliberation on the fire's time-progress, then he got the answer that it is impossible for him to get the necessary amount of flow rate to extinguish the fire, so he escapes.
Mathematician also "proved" that there is no "solution" and escaped.
Engineer thinks it promising in his usual intuitive fashion and tried to put it out but the fire never went out.......luckily, his knowledge about safety guided him to do all his effort on the solid ground of his own safety, so he escaped when the last possible exit is about to be closed by fire.
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I think it is always better to know the real situation.

Solitude Battle

2008-02-13T00:32:00.000+09:00

Trying to know oneself is a solitude battle...
Be tough!

EMFT@Uppsala etc.

2008-02-11T22:16:00.000+09:00

http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book/

"Welcome! You have just found the World-Wide Web site for the advanced electrodynamics Internet textbook project...."

2020ok for free ebooks links

http://2020ok.com/books/69/classical-electrodynamics-35269.htm

Random walk and diffusion

http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/teach/18.325/lectures/

Little experiment for today

2008-02-06T18:19:00.000+09:00

It was not I who was doing it.
Our respectable senior technician was taking photos of my little norms and mutants that I made last week. He was so skillful and serious, and was capable of any subtle movement to ajust everything to its best state! In fact I guess his movement must be of micro or nano-scale precision. What an exhibition of great spirit of Japanese craftsmanship! He is not exactly a craftsman but he did make the best Microscopic photos all the time.

Conservation of Creativity

2008-02-06T18:00:00.000+09:00

Last week, I said I dried out because of hard experiment schedule. This week I am experiencing an idea turbulence, a flood of ideas are storming in my mind!

Conclusion:
Ideas obey the law of conservation of creativity. Of course creativity doesn't stick to one person if that person is not oblidging to it.

Frozen New York --Cool video on Youtube

2008-02-05T21:18:00.000+09:00

eXp_{WEEk}(weekend)

2008-02-03T15:37:00.000+09:00

I went to school to clean the mess!
It was somewhat funny. It is the 2nd day of Setsubun(節分) festival today, so the way to school is full of people and shops and smell of food!
Who would believe that I am going that direction to lab? :)

These are paparazzi photos of average people. You can see my handsome university building there in the first one.

EXp_{week} (4th Day)

2008-02-01T01:26:00.000+09:00

Thursday 25:30

Today was extremely troublesome day!

A grain jumped in to the EB gun and I had to redo everything.

Now I am waiting for the cooling so I uploaded some pics to my Little Drawing blog.

I really have a lot of waiting time during experiments but I can't really use it for drawing because I easily fall into a state to think about drawing all the time, which may lead to some experimental hazard!

exp_{week} (3rd Day)

2008-01-30T12:31:00.000+09:00

No trouble but troublesome.
Megohmmeter is suffering bad connection or a serious health problem. An examination is to be done.

-------
14:50 Then the trouble came
Lesson:
If the damage is small (say less than 500), just close shutter and take time to fix.
If it is much more than 500, stop immediately and prepare to redo it.
Or try to make some interesting mutant out of the damaged material.

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A software note

2008-01-29T22:36:00.001+09:00

A lab friend told me about these 2 for 3D crystal structure drawing:

POV-ray

http://www.povray.org/

http://xahlee.org/3d/povray.html

Ortep III

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/ortep/ortep.html

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A nice site by accident:

http://xahlee.org

2nd day of exp(week)

2008-01-29T13:40:00.000+09:00

Everything seems to be fine except the cooling water which is leaking 1~2 drops /day. It's dangerous but not so terribly dangerous now, so we are going to fix it some time this week. Hope it will take place on Friday so that I can realy complete something this week.

The high voltage power source is doing ok though a little noisy because of micro thunder inside.

1st day of the experiment week

2008-01-28T19:05:00.000+09:00

After a weekend's relax, cryopump is full of gas vapour that was once condensed on the metal plate during pumping process of the previous week. It needs a restart.

1. Restart cryogenic pump

1.0 Get rid of the gas inside of the Cryogenic pump by using roughening pump.

1.0.1. Before doing anything (that one may regret later) make sure that:

no contact between roughening pump and main chamber
no contact between roughening pump and outside
no contact between cryogenic pump and outside.

1.0.2 Connect roughening pump with Cryogenic pump　　make sure that the wire is connected and then turn the switch (that connect crogenic pump and roughening pump) on, there is a mechanic sound to confirm that the corresponding parts (inside) moved.

1.0.3 Turn on the roughening pump.
(It is a little better to turn on the roughening pump before turning on the switch, I feel)

1.1 Start the Cryogenic pump

When the pressure inside Cryogenic pump is about 70~100 mTorr.

1.1.1 Turn off the switch that that connect cryogenic pump and roughening pump, disconnect the wire of the switch from power, and turn off the roughening pump.

1.1.2 Turn on the cooling water for Cryo pump and then turn on the power of the Cryo pump.The temperature inside of Cryo will drop quickly from 293 K to 150 K within an hour (or 30 min, I forgot?).

2 hours later the temperature should stay at 8 K which is the working temperature of Cryo.

If the temperature didn't drop to 8k within 2 hours, the process of starting Cryo failed and one have to know the reason why it failed and prepare to start it the next day (wait a whole day for the condensed gas to vapor so that it's possible to be evacuated by roughening pump). The reason of failure is always that the 1.o process failed so that vacuum inside of Cryo was so bad that temperature can never drop to 8 K (too many gas molecules keep taking heat from the shell of cryo which is about the temperature of outside environment.)

A Book

2008-01-25T18:19:00.000+09:00

Experience:

There is this book that I read about 10% when some events interrupted and the reading was terminated. I pick up this book today and found myself don't remember much!

Conclusion:

A book reading process must be carried out regularly and frequently for the brain to weave a really strong web of it or the memory will decrease (exponentially?) with time. A few pages a day or a week is not a bad solution as the brain can always recall something that happened last week which have some connection with something that happened longer ago.

Makefile

2008-01-25T12:02:00.000+09:00

English site

http://www.ecoop.net/coop/translated/GNUMake3.77/make_toc.html#TOC2

Japanese site

http://www.ecoop.net/coop/translated/GNUMake3.77/make_toc.jp.html

Computation

2008-01-24T19:13:00.000+09:00

I am beginning to study this. I searched internet for introductory materials and found a few links.

This page provide simple codes and nice links for beginners. "Education" link is also worth a check.
http://omlc.ogi.edu/software/mc/ http://www.ualberta.ca/~cdeutsch/MCS-course.htm

Miso's computational physics
http://www.geocities.jp/supermisosan/

Lecture note in Nagoya University (check 2002)
http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~naito/lecture/

Other link: Moving Stars Around
http://www.artcompsci.org/msa/web/vol_1/v1_web/v1_web.html

Interview tips

2008-01-24T16:28:00.000+09:00

I found some interview tips today. Some are for high school graduates and undergraduate students, though

http://www.lewisu.edu/resources/careerservices/interview.htm

http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/interviews/

http://www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk/itq/studentservices/UCAS/submission3/page_15.htm

Funny Maybe?

http://www.zukan.tv/post/kyoto-university/

Amazon discussions

2008-01-23T13:17:00.000+09:00

This is about intelligent design

http://www.amazon.com/tag/science/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=FxZ58KVEERYS5E&cdThread=Tx4RPCVKKSHEFC&displayType=tagsDetail

This is about physics

http://www.amazon.com/tag/science/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=FxZ58KVEERYS5E&cdThread=Tx3AHHSDZ3CJ738&displayType=tagsDetail

"Go" mark words for today

2008-01-22T20:11:00.000+09:00

EIT(electromagnetically induced transparency)

Kramers-Kronig

SOA(Semiconductor Optical Amplifier)

New Toy

2008-01-21T14:06:00.000+09:00

I have been long persuaded by an excellent lab mate to download Inkscape for the production of beautiful figures for presentations. Rebellious and stubborn of me, I didn't download it. Now with some motivation other than aiding research and presentation, I downloaded it to the school Mac and domestic Linux.

It could be pretty cool! Good new toy to "little drawings" !

Alpha III M2 profile

2008-01-20T21:19:00.000+09:00

Warning: This is a note on "Clans of the Alphane Moon" by Philip K. Dick. It will contain some spoilers so do not read this post if you are planning to read this book.

Alpha III M2
People :
The Pares:
Paraniac schizophrenics. The paranoids. They are the statesman class on this moon. They think about defense and strategies systematicly and rationally all the time.
Residence: Adolfville.
Adolf Hitler was a paranoid.
The Manses
Manic-depressives. The manias. The highly creative and aggressive clan who develop spectacular and highly distructive weapons. They are the warrior class on the moon.
Residence: Da Vinci Heights
Da Vinci was a mania.
The Polies
The polymorphic schizophrenia simplex. Unpredictable and never grow up, they are the creative members of the society, producing the new ideas.
Residence: Hamlet Hamlet
The Heebs
The hebephrenics. They are inclined to ascetic saints or the labour class.
Residence: Gandhitown
Gandhi?
The Skitz
The simple schizophrenia. With their severe hallucination, The are the poet class, some become saints.
Residence:
The Ob-Coms
Obsessive-compulsive neurosis. Their ritualistic functionaries with no orignial ideas. Their conservatism will balance the radical quality of the Polymorphic schizophrenics and give the society stability.
Residence:
The Deps
The Depressive.
Residence: Cotten Mather Estates
The Norms
The normal, with no mental disease at all. New class on the moon consist of only 1 person.
Residence: Jeffersonburg
Jefferson was a normal person.

The Alphane clans are all mentally ill, however the society has all the elements so it works. It could be interesting to make a video game out of it. There are so many characteristic characters here.
It makes me think eigenvectors that compose a space. There are always more then one selection of eigenvectors.
Isn't it just a linear transform of everyone on Terran?
It appears everything wrong to the Terran people, but all together, this moon, with all kinds of mentally ill people, works well.

Frustrating voice mail experience

2008-01-18T19:24:00.000+09:00

It was frustrating. To do better next time I collected some little information on how to do it. This one contains rules.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2306/voice_mail_manners_to_send_the_right.html

This one contains samples:

http://www.smallfuel.com/blog/entry/professional-voice-mail-message/

other stuff that is not useful for me right now but it will be
http://www.infotech.siu.edu/telecom/vm_etq.html
http://www.udel.edu/voicemail/vm_information_faculty.shtml

Things to be prepared:

Telephone interview manner

Next time before calling I should prepare for all kinds of cases.

A Hard Day

2008-01-09T22:53:00.000+09:00

It was a hard day. I had to compose 2 different recommendation letters for myself from the perspectives of 2 different persons. I was shocked after knowing that I have to do all these by myself and I do not even know myself well enough! I soon learned that students in this country have to do this kind of thing some time because professors are highly engaged creatures. I had to do it myself, submit and leave them to the prof.s' final corrections.

It was a interesting journey indeed. After looking at a few samples online I started composing. On one hand I was drowning in good words that express the same meaning because I don't want the 2 prof.s to use the same expressions, on the other hand I found some other character that I wish to have as my own possession. In other words, I found something WANTING about myself. It was just the kind of experience that one of the prof.s told me "a good chance to think of oneself"

The ability to know oneself just by oneself turned out to be extremely important to a japanese person who is a part of the Japanese society because most Japanese people never say their opinions about you directly. You are suppose to "read the air" and figure it out all by yourself. I will write a special post about "air-reading" some time, it is very interesting as a cultural phenomena that exists only in Japan.

Physics link (for myself)

2008-01-05T16:25:00.000+09:00

Physics link to Gingrich in University of Alberta.

some other small link

A collection of physics courses not necessarily with notes. As a compensation to my own educational deficiency I always have to peek the education of others and sneak around on the internet.

What a shame for my excellent university! Soon it will be my Ex-university anyway!

New year

2008-01-03T18:01:00.000+09:00

Aura of the holiday is fading, so the time that I spend in fantasy world should shrink. Fantasies reform from a visual one to a physics one.

new years goal

care more about reality, something that other people care about
do more exercises, physically, mentally, also more on communication skills
do more experiments
do more efforts intended for future easiness
get along well with experimental equipments
Insight Insight Insight
more creativity, humor and skills in "little drawings"
more friends from different viewing angles
launch myself somewhere

Origami for polyhedron

2007-12-26T16:05:00.000+09:00

I borrowed a book from the school library named "Polyhedrons by Origami" or something like that. Hope I will have a good time doing it.

I always think that there are different maths in the world and learning physics does not necessarily make one smarter. Actually, the very strategic "Olympic math in primary school" was a great improvement to my mind. After years of physics study my mind is once again feeling "puzzle-thirsty". Origami can be a beneficial puzzle in some sense though not as strategic as some other logic puzzle. I will have to do some other puzzle as a supplement for the very analytical and experimental physics training.

For the mean time, I will make some beautiful shapes with colorful Origami to celebrate the new year.

The old classmates gathering

2007-12-25T22:19:00.000+09:00

The old classmates gathering was a total culture shock! People from different fields in different universities reached concordance in their plans for the future career. They all want to go to the money business including banking, security, consulting, trading etc. Now it is time for everyone to be determined to have "a bright future in sale" and a large income. Suddenly the conversation became like the ones our parents had.

A magnetization resulted in strong external magnetic field, indeed.

However, much more guided by the law of entropy and Pauli exclusion principle, my behavior is seeking diversion from popularized mainstream all the time. Apparently, I am a Fermion.

In fact, I am very much inspired by my lively classmates ( I am having an excitation) and really good luck to them all!

Dis....landish

2007-12-21T10:13:00.000+09:00

I will go to Dis....land in Chiba for X'mas. Dis....land is notorious for keeping people waiting in ultra long ques. I never had the money to go just to experience that myself, fortunately, some rich classmates funded the 4-day trip and I got a chance. If I shall wait in the endless long que tomorrow, I can at least enjoy talking with good old classmates.

Physics link-Stephen Wolfram

2007-12-19T16:32:00.000+09:00

I happened to find this today. This is a note for my humble self

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/articles/physics/

Stephen Wolfram is the Mathematica guy. It is surprising to find his early works cover interesting theoretical physics topics.

My prejudice against biological SFs

2007-12-18T22:55:00.001+09:00

(Someone please save me from this prejudice, I am holding it most unwillingly.)

I have this prejudice that, SFs with biological themes are no more than fantasies about a world with bizarre monsters and horror. These monsters come from genetic mutation or manipulation, which is the only thing that makes the story a Science Fiction. An example that follows this pattern "Jurassic Park".

Idiots -a vital social role!

2007-12-17T21:34:00.000+09:00

I am very glad to find the show "Monty Python- village idiots" on YouTube so I don't have to make my own video for this post. In my opinion, this is one of the most sophisticated jokes in the Monty Python series.

TV program

An interview with a prestigious idiot in the community

"**(couldn't catch) is a idiot, a village idiot. Tonight we look at idiots in society."

The idiot:

"Idiot is a vital role to play in the modern rural society because this is the very real ** (couldn't catch it) for someone almost anyone can look down on and ridicule and this is the role that I and members of my family had fulfilled in the past 400 years."

"So you see that the idiot does provide a vital psycho-social service for this community."

"Oh excuse me, i see a coach party just arrived, i believe i shall have to fall off the wall, I am afraid."

The journalist:

"He also takes idioting seriously. He's up at 6 'o clock every morning, working on special training equipment designed to keep him silly."

".........."

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I really like this one very much.

I think there really are such similar roles in the society that individuals have to play, but they wouldn't gain as much prestige as in this Monty Python video. Also, nobody would care about. They may just discriminate people in those roles as always and never realize that it is their own stupidity and vanity that made them look down upon others. On the other hand, idiots could be of some therapeutic use for those unsatisfied people with no talents. Just like what they once have, a therapy for people to go and destroy glass wares.

I will go back to the topic of social role play now. I think this remind me of the role that the Japanese high school girls are playing. Whenever they need a not so intelligent stereotype in a conversation they will say "for example a high school girl ........"

I always wondered why so many young Japanese girls like cute silly things, why they like silly stories in "Shyojo Manga"( a kind of Manga intended for young girls, some are "daily exercises to keep them silly"), why they like to dress themselves in cute silly ways, why all the young girl artists have to start from making photo album with stupid silly posing in bikini to become famous? Now I have an answer, they, in their male-dominating society are supposed to be like that, be nice, beautiful, cute, sexy, innocent, mindless, stupid so that highly-pressured males can take them with not so much respect, with ridicule, and they can attribute large part of success of a female person to the sex appeal. This is all that they are requiring from females in the Japanese society. The girls are fulfilling their roles in the society. It could be a vital psycho- social role for the highly-pressured male-dominating society. I just wish that the girls are actually as sophisticated as the village idiots in the show.

I wish someone could say something to oppose me against the opinion above, on most of the Japanese girls.

It is nice to see some a little change in Japan. There are more women with career in the society (mostly doing minor works) and more girls in the universities now, so, even the most "masculine" departments like science and engineering had made up their minds to build "Lady's Room"s.
Notes:
1. Japanese girls are not all fulfilling the roles, but still there are still more than one should expact. It is not their fault after all.
2. There are a lot of smart and accomplished girls in my acquaintance in the university. but one cannot

expact much from outside of the campus. Hopefully, these girls' great performance will change the society in the future.
3. One has to be absolutely mean and ruthless when critisizing something.

A physics lecture link

2007-12-15T15:26:00.001+09:00

Besides a set of physics course notes, you can find a super-cool Greek-English version of "Euclid's elements of geometry" and other mathematical stuffs!

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu

or see

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching.html

On Words

2007-12-13T23:29:00.000+09:00

What does one do when he or she encounters something unknown, when one cannot see clearly or touch? One may measure the radiation of it. One may shine light or other particle beams on it and see what it does to those particles. One may research the reflected, transmitted or scattered particles and try to get information from the spectra or something-scopic images.

What does one do when he or she encounters somebody unknown, when one cannot do anatomy or test on them? One may listen to what they say just like measuring the radiation of an object. One may talk to them, shine words on them just like shining light on an unknown entity.

A speech or a blog is a radiation, a reply is a scattering, reflection or some kind of induced emission. A person is an operator, a matrix with lots of dimensions who processes words in a very complicated way and at last gives us some hint about himself or herself.

What kind of particle should words be? Fermions? Bosons? The interaction-governing Bosons, I believe.

"Flow my tears, the policeman said"

2007-12-12T15:32:00.001+09:00

"Flow my tears, the policeman said" by Philip K. Dick

What a weird novel it is! As weird as his other psychological philosophical science fictions.

I enjoyed it a lot.