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Horiemon Is Released
2006.04.28 3:11

For the first time in 94 days.
He hadn't admitted committing any wrongdoings.
The authority of Tokyo Prosecuters Office will be questioned soon.

A Treasure Box
2006.04.27 5:47

We found a rotten steel inside the trasure box. For the ancient people, steel was treasure but they didn't make allowances for its decay. Nowadays things around steel is very different. Fine steel that doesn't rot at all is more expensive than Ag. Fine steel can be endurable to be called as treasure in our times.

Muchas Gracious
2006.04.27 5:05

LaurenBC (924800), thank you very much for befriending me. I am expecting to read you journals again.
slothman32 (629113), thanks for befriending me. I befriended you soon, apart from a strange statistics.

Environmental Hormone
2006.04.27 4:51

We occasionally eat instant noodles in plastic cup. The ingredients which came out of this plastic cup is called 'environmental hormone', that affects on our life function intricately. The name is derived from very interesting simility in fuction that affects on us.

Money Back
2006.04.27 4:44

In some commodities, the indication says '100% satisfaction guaranteed, or money back.' This one is cheap, and I was unable to feel satisfied. I cannot claim money, because it is so cheap and in addition I had already tasted.
I'd better refrain from buying cheaper products again. They needed to write an excuse -money back, if it's really good we won't complain about its taste.

Money Back

Money Back
2006.04.27 4:44

In some commodities, the indication says '100% satisfaction guaranteed, or money back.' This one is cheap, and I was unable to feel satisfied. I cannot claim money, because it is so cheap and in addition I had already tasted.
I'd better refrain from buying cheaper products again. They needed to write an excuse -money back, if it's really good we won't complain about its taste.

The Label

The Label
2006.04.27 4:27

I was asked from one of our customers. 'Is this raw fish a wild or a farm-raised?', 'I can tell, will you bring me the fish?' ...'This is wild.'
In our label system, if it's wild, we don't indicate so. If it's farm-raised, we indicate so. I just saw the label, but the customer seemed to have thought that I was able to tell from the skin of fish, which is nearly impossible.

An Able Hawk Hides Its Nails

An Able Hawk Hides Its Nails
2006.04.27 4:07

This is a comical story..
I am a superman, I think I have to hide my talent in my daily life, so people who don't understand my lifestyle don't hesitate to blame me for not working as hard as our supervisers. Our supervisers usually work nearly 12 hours, as for me I don't work more than 8 hours in a day. So when I was accused from one of my colleagues ( a woman the same age as me ) as not working hard, I replied, 'An able hawk hides its nails.' My colleague replied, 'Do you intend to keep on hiding your nails?' I said,' Yes, till the end of time.'

Contents With Charge

Contents With Charge
2006.04.27 3:37

While I was browsing many Japanese bloggs last night, I encountered some sites which requires us to pay for their contents. I want to raise some question on this. There are two reasons why this is not good. Knowlegde has to be prevailed without the difference of our economy. If someone who can pay can only get access to the information, this is not called information as such. The second point is its credibility. Information has to be confirmed by many, not only some readers who were able to pay but others need to get access to the information just to confirm.

Enclosed Outside Japan

Enclosed Outside Japan
2006.04.27 2:45

It was probably 1984 or 5 still I was an undergraduate student when French philosopher Jacques Derrida came to Japan to see Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani. In their talk, Derrida used French and English, Asada used French, English and Japanese, Karatani used English and Japanese. Anyway they were able to communicate whatever the tool of communication might be. In their conversation, Karatani said, 'The extremely rapid growth of Japan's capitalism that has been taking place right now is as a phenomenon an extraordinary thing, so I can't help enclose inside Japan all the more.' Derrida's replay was this, 'I'd like to rather enclose outside Japan.'
Both Philosophers were seeking for what the nature of capitalism in progress worldwide those days, but their objective of study was different.
Derrida was gone, but Karatani is now in America. For those who are interested, here're some links.
Nationalism And Ecriture On Kant And Marx
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And to think I just read an article in Asian Times(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 3:17 (#15206450) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
That claimed that Japan was failing at capitalism- and is currently experiencing a very swift reversion to feudalism- seen mainly by a high unemployment rate and professional Gen-Xers thrown onto the welfare system, even as an unamed "economic recovery" shows the nation growing richer. Of course, this is the ultimate cost of privatization: concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 3:49 (#15206668) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Yes, we are heading for feudalism again. I have no idea as to how to escape from this process unless I myself feel eager to seek for wealth. Am I corrupted?
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 3:57 (#15206725) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Yes, we are heading for feudalism again. I have no idea as to how to escape from this process unless I myself feel eager to seek for wealth. Am I corrupted? Money is power- and power corrupts. The problem with capitalism is that being eager to seek wealth isn't enough- nowhere close. Most people living under capitalism seek wealth. The problem is to actually find wealth, you need wealth- it's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why capitalism eventually breaks down into corporatism and feudalism- because there isn't enough wealth to start out with.
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 4:19 (#15206866) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
In our current society the very rich get richer, the so so rich get poorer, the poor become very poor. This process is just gathering speed very rapidly. If things unchanged as it is, we have another Middle Ages again. I observed that this is inevitable and we cannot change the course of direction toward this. Within two or three years many things will change.
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Re:And to think I just read an article in Asian Ti(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.04.27 6:11 (#15207805) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Reversing the direction of the flow of wealth isn't very hard- it's just very painful. Truman and Eisenhower showed us how- and between them created the first non-agricultural middle class the world had ever seen. Their method? High marginal income taxes. In 1953 America, 93% income taxes were common, to pay back bonds from the war. By doing this, the spendible income of the very rich was checked. Likewise they put in the first minimum wage the United States had ever seen- which limited the income of the poor as well, so that the rich man could only earn 8x what the poor man earned. Standard market economics took over from there- luxury goods suffered a major deflationary period, neccessity items experienced inflation in their prices- and the postwar housing boom insured that returning GIs could afford a house.This created the world our parents grew up in- Japan experienced something similar in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But such tax rates are not sustainable- and once relaxed, the road of the rich becoming richer and the poor getting poorer returns rather quickly.
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.

Read A Blog

Read A Blog
2006.04.27 2:05

Last night all night long till 4 AM, I was reading a blog written by Japanese bloggers. I found some of them are extremely knowlegdeable, they know many things and even they show them without stinginess, but that is all. They just show a lack of digestion, comprehension, sublimation at the same time.
To learn and not to think. That is stupid. - Confucious.

Read A Blog

Read A Blog
2006.04.27 2:05

Last night all night long till 4 AM, I was reading a blog written by Japanese bloggers. I found some of them are extremely knowlegdeable, they know many things and even they show them without stinginess, but that is all. They just show a lack of digestion, comprehension, sublimation at the same time.
To learn and not to think. That is stupid. - Confucious.

Leather Back

Leather Back
2006.04.24 3:55

It's been hard to find a book with a leather cover nowadays. But today, I found it. I had asked them to order a book with a leather cover about a month ago -on the 26th of March, then I found the book in a bookstore, especially dealing with a foreign books.
I bought a de lux ninth edition of the New Pocket Oxford Dictionary. That's really what I have wanted.
It cost 47.5 dollars. As a single copy of dictionary of intermediate size, it is not inexpensive. I've been using this edition of paper back since the 10th of October, 2002, so I've been using it for three years and a half. I like it, I like it very much.
This edition was printed in Japan, Japan is good at printing such an intricate work, I recommend yhis country's these technics only limited in those areas.

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
2006.04.24 3:39

I am pessimistic about Japan's near future. As is usual, my girlfriend and I went to Amusement Park called Mari**, where a largest big wheel (or rather a ferris wheel) in Japan is located.
I asked her how many years Japan's position in internatinal society will last. After a while she replied, it's 30 years. I said two or three years instead.
I assume the collapse of Japan, financially, culturally, liguistically will be coming soon surprisingly soon. Japan's stagnant system has already come to a point of no return. I hope the sun also rises, but we have to change ourselves within an extremely short term. And it is second to impossible. Japan's economy is declining, sluggishing conspicuously enough.
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Decline relative to whom?(Score:2)
by AB3A (192265) on 2006.04.25 2:00 (#15190856) (http://slashdot.org/~AB3A/journal Last Journal: 2006.03.15 8:15)
Yeah, Japan isn't the powerhouse it once was. But neither are the US and most of Europe. The up-and-coming countries are China, India, and possibly Brazil. However the up-and-coming ones are growing at unsustainable rates. The only question I have is whether they will "crash" or whether they will find some way to dial back their growth to a more reasonable pace.I have always had great respect for Japan's electronics industry. They still hold the number one position in my mind. Unlike those of us in the USA, where manufacturing seems to be an unwanted and dying art.
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Re:Decline relative to whom?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 1:48 (#15205698) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
The up-and-coming countries are China, India, and possibly Brazil
Agreed.
However the up-and-coming ones are growing at unsustainable rates.
In the case of India, Brazil, it might be so. But China has been showing rapid, steady, sustainable rate of growth in economy. China is an extremely big country. And it is surprising to see such a big country shows such a double-digit figure in economic growth rate.
The only question I have is whether they will "crash" or..
Neither of these countries won't crash but Japan will. Soon -within 2 or 3 years, this country will be gulped from USA, or being already gulped?
Decline relative to whom?
Particularly relative to China, Korea. China is sure to surpass Japan in every respect soon -within 10 years.
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This Week II

This Week II
2006.04.23 1:16

This week I worked 9.5, 7.5, 6, 8, 8, 6. Total working hours are 45 hours. This is over the top.
Next week working hours will be 8, 8, 6, 6, 8, 6. Total working hours will be 42. Tomorrow is holiday. I must confess that I am completely exhausted now. But it's a comfortable one. With a full of achievement.

Slashdot Statistics

Slashdot Statistics
2006.04.22 4:27

(The number of fans minus the number of freaks) divided by (the number of friends plus the number of foes) equals the rate of support in Slashdot.
This merely reflects my particular opinion tonight.
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I approve(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.04.22 6:25 (#15177304) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
This is a very deep and interesting statistic. I like it.Mine is +1/12 ~= 0.0833
--Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
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Re:I approve(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 23:22 (#15180346) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I tried calculating other noticiable Slashdotters' indices given that the indices must be showing some meaning.
(13 minus 9) divided by 48 is 0.0833, which was your case.
In the case of my best friend MH42, (196 minus 97) divided by 400 is 0.2475.And me myself 60 divided by 172 is 0.3488.Sammy(SamTheButcher)'s case, (247 minus 4 ) divided by 247 is 0.9838.How about Morosoph? 77 divided by 127 is 0.6062.
The more the index is small, the more unique they are. The more the index is big, the more their view is generally accepted.
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hmm(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.04.23 1:33 (#15180905) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
no one so far has a negative score.but there are a few slashdotters who have more freaks than fans, for example former editor 'michael' [slashdot.org].if you didn't make any friends or foes, your statistic is invalid (division by zero!) and you are excluded from the study.
--Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
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Re:hmm(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.24 3:15 (#15185599) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I've been trying to post carefully not to make a freak. I have been posting a comment with a view to making a new friendship with other Slashdotters. But this behaviour somehow restricts my freedom to speak out freely as I want. I wish I were able to post a comment without worrying about being someone's foe.
By the way since I was a kid, I've been repeatedly told that the division by zero is impossible. What is the mathematical basis on this?
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Re:hmm(Score:2)
by slothman32 (629113) <pjackso5@nOspaM.rochester.rr.com> on 2006.04.24 4:50 (#15185988) (http://www.thegaminguniverse.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.20 17:32)
Since division is defined so a/b = c is the same as a = c*bthen if b=0 it translates to a = c*0 wich would make a=0.If you begin with a=1 and b=0 then also a=1, contradictory to the other result.The make it easy by saying that if you have a/b = c and b=0you can't take the b from the bottom of one side and put it at the top of the other. That means there is no way to figure it out unless a/0 is defined some other way.It isn't needed so they don't do that.'i', the imagionary number wasn't defined until it is needed so 1/0 isn't either.Think of it this way, if you know limits:The limit of (1/x) as x goes to n=1/n, unless n=0.If n=0 then it diverges, i.e. goes to infinity.Mathematitions don't like dealing with infinities in arithmetic so they get rid of it.P.S. You talked about MH42. It could theoretically be possible for one mole of a metal to deal with 42 moles of hydrogen.Some higher elements like Platinum can actually disolve Hydrogen. It doesn't work with even Helium though.Some factories use it to purify Hydrogen.They are also thinking it could be used to store Hydrogen at room temperature instead of liquid really cold for use in Hydrogen cars.Yes I know who you mean but I always think of chemistry when I see a few letters like that.
--Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
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Re:hmm(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 0:46 (#15205123) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
My basic position as to the use of acronym is we'd better not use it as much as we can. The reason is clear -because of its ambiguity. The speaker only understands what that acronym really means, but oftentimes readers are subject to taking them for something completely different.
'i', the imagionary number wasn't defined until it is needed so 1/0 isn't either.
I didn't try calculating it even experimentally. As long as mathematic basis concerns, I understand.
then it diverges, i.e. goes to infinity.
In my imagination, I've got a similar conclusion. 'We cannot divide by zero.' It's a rule in mathematics. Though ambiguity still remains if we were asked this rule is derived from our empirical conviction. Almost all mathematics is firmly rooted in our empirical conviction based on our close observation to the order of things. I mean division by zero is not impossible in our daily life.
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heres mine(Score:2)
by slothman32 (629113) <pjackso5@nOspaM.rochester.rr.com> on 2006.04.24 4:56 (#15186004) (http://www.thegaminguniverse.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.20 17:32)
Mine is about 0.10989 or 1/9.I just cleared up a bunch of foes though.
--Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
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Re:heres mine(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.27 1:14 (#15205392) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I'm in my mid forties. I came to be much more moderate than my twenties. My supposed index those days -in my twenties would have been (62-738)divided by(400+400).
(F+F) means someone's scope of interest -matrix, wheras (F-F) means the number of support from this matrix.
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The Spiral Rod

The Spiral Rod
2006.04.22 2:52

helicobacter, thank you for befriending me. Is your nickname made from the combination of helico=spiral, bacter=rod ? Literally it means 'spiral rod', if the word were invented, I thought it so artistic.
Japanese slashdotter 'NoGood' created an account and befriended me. Thank you very much.
And the ship pulls up the anchor again.
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So very close!(Score:1)
by helicobacter (930363) on 2006.04.22 9:24 (#15178418) (Last Journal: 2006.04.29 22:25)
Helicobacter Pylori is a spiral shaped organism [mpiib-berlin.mpg.de] that causes ulcers.
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Re:So very close!(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.24 2:54 (#15185496) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I've got a very strong stomach. Even if you invaded, I welcome.
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West Meets East

West Meets East
2006.04.21 3:21

I haven't read any political news for more than one month. Apparently it is not good as a teacher of social studies. Any way I did tonight. Oh, Chinese leader went to see U.S. President. The photo is here. The two leaders will never fight against one another, because two are too strong to fight with. They will seek for a peaceful co-existsnce very naturally.

At The End Of The Day

2006.04.21 2:57

I worked 8 hours today as was usual. I visited Slado tonight, SassyOS2, NoGoodslash..., cyber205, oddmake are Japanese Slashdotters in which cyber205, and NoGoodslash...are a regular contributer. As opposed to numerous entries from other countries, the number of members from Japan is still small.
I have noticed I am not keen on latest world movement. I work very hard, but I don't want to attribute my lack of common knowledge in the current world to the lack of free time as a result of this hard work, but sadly I must say it's true, I have no time to browse 'even' the latest news. This vicious circle already affects so badly over all ourselves.
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I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.21 11:16 (#15170167) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I rarely find that national news matters to me. I do however, use an RSS feed from my local newspaper to keep up with local news.
And I visit the /. front page to skim the article headlines.
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Re:I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.04.22 0:51 (#15174043) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Before the advent of the Internet era, the lifestyle of almost all Japanese people were similar. They work from 9 to 7 and at home they watch the same TV program. They read the same newspaper. They were talking about the same social topic, hold the similar opinion. Always say we Japanese think, believe, act, not I. We had been feeling very secured when we put ourselves in this group psychology. They rarely thought they act because it is right. Everybody does, therefore I do. They didn't care whether it is right, or not. Our mentality was so simplified as if they ceased thinking that nobody wasn't willing to take responsibility for their act, nothing but their act. According to their criteria, they do because everybody does so.
I was one of the very few renegades in such an era. But I didn't change my lifestyle. I had been keeping my lifestyle though it was opposite to majority of Japanese people.
Time has passed. Things have been changing drastically these ten years. Preferences of people have been just diversified so we no more point out someone is different from others. People nowadays prefer to live according to their preferences. People are different essentially.
Japan's society has been changing. But in comparison to American society, still it's very conventional.
Twenty years ago I was much more particular about what Prime Minister said about national politics in a newspaper than what my friend said about politics. Now what Degree said about politics is much more worthy of than what one unknown critic said in a TV show.
Thank you for befriending NoGoodsla..., I feel deep gratitude to you on his behalf. I think it surely encourages him.
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Re:I rarely find that national news matters to me(Score:2)
by Degrees (220395) * <degrees AT comcast DOT net> on 2006.04.22 4:19 (#15176161) (http://slashdot.org/~Degrees/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.19 12:51)
I do like reading Journal Entries and associated comments more than I like broadcast media. Particularly, I like the fact that people from (sometimes wildly) different viewpoints can post their ideas. Once in a while, I add my own opinion; but often, I just read other people's opinion.
--Define the finite space of spelling definitely - no A exists there

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.
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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?
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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.
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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"?
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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]
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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?
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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.
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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. :)
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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.
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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.
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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. :)
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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.
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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. :)
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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 ;-(
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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