Immediately Following

I'm not sure which X holds the sentence 'not immediately following Y'

1. XY
2. YX
3. X, where X=YZ

I think #2 is false (because X is immediately following Y). I want #3 to be not false.

E-mail address

Some people are trying to keep their e-mail address secret, while I don't care about hiding the e-mail address of my own. The baysien filter relieve me from annoying with spams. Also, I can easily change it whenever I want. I think the e-mail address has already become not so personal information. There must be more merits to expose it rather than to hide it.

I know that many people are strongly bound by an address being available with only one mobile phone equipment. I don't intended to talk about such an inconvenient address.

Intimacy

As somebody says, a human cannot survive without intimacy with others. Dalai Lama says, instead, that a human can build intimacy with every others, and should do that. However, building intimacy even with one person will take a lot of time. And life is too short. What am I going to do about that?

FBI supernatural power agent

My spouse seemded to believe a little that the FBI has a special agent team consisted of members having spernatural power and applying it to solve the criminals. This 'FBI supernatural agents' are popular in Japan thanks to the silly TV program. And most people have no doubt about their real existence and activity.

S-expression

I was blinded by the shape. I remember the list is just an abbreviation of the cons cell. So the definition of an s-expression is

sexpr: atom
| ( sexpr . sexpr )
;

New espresso maker

I bought Bialetti's new espresso maker. It can serve four cups of espresso at once.



I've used the three-cups model for almost two years. The amount of three cups have been a little short for me. But it's not the reason I had to replace the old one. As a matter of fact, I overheated the attached one and gave an irreparable damage to it. The tragedy could have been avoided if I had been more careful. I decide that I'm going to die with the new one being able to make four cups of fresh espresso.

Ima-Karada

Good naming sense. The meaning of the sentence 'Ima-Karada' in japanese are explained in its web page.

Well, today I visited Aoyama to experience the exhibition called 'Ima-Karada'. Summing up tremendously, there we could enjoy several media art works that IAMAS students have built. Someone had a cool idea, another had a hot implementation, and overall, I was so fascinated by their works.
Especially, a work called "Time Machine!" got me hooked. Although I think the idea of the work is, to put it bluntly, not so fresh, its elaborate finished form brought the advantage to its impression.

Bloglines mistery

Sometimes, Bloglines feeds me old entries as new.

S-expression

I wonder what the definition of an S-expression is. Here is the most naive description I reached.

expr: TERM
| '(' expr ')'
| expr expr
;

where the TERM means a sequence of alphabets and/or numbers (and/or symbols except ')' and '(', though I omit these so far).

The problem of the above definition is that that accept two sequential S-expressions "(aa) (bb)" as an S-expression. It's curious. I'm becoming aware of that such a syntax rule might not define the S-expression. This means I must write the real lexical analyzer.

Now I use this infantile code with the YACC.

yylex()
{
  char c;
  while ((c=getchar())==' ' || c=='\t')
    ;
  if (c == EOF)
    return 0;
  if (isalnum(c)){
    char sbuf[100], *p = sbuf;
    do {
      *p++ = c;
      } while ((c=getchar()) != EOF && isalnum(c));
    ungetc(c, stdin);
    *p = '\0';
    printf("%s ", sbuf);
    return TERM;
  }
  if (c == '\n'){
    lineno++;
    return '\n';
  }
  return c;
}

declining my turn

I decided to lose my next turn, tommorow, by myself. Or, the surroundings almost bake my mind.

I'm also getting nervous as a friend getting so nervous.

Inari

So, there are eight millions of gods/goddesses in Japan. These ubiquitous gods/goddesses are called Kami (plural Kami-gami).

I think it's the Inari that the one of the most familiar kami in Japan. We have Inari shrines even in any small town, and one of those is placed near my house. Tonight I visited there with my pregnant wife invoking for her safe birth, though I'm not so religious.



Inari is mainly the kami of the business. But it's not a big problem as there must be the vast network among kami-gami.

Zucchini

I got a lot of zucchinis today. Roasted a whole zucchini without cut is so sweet and juicy. Highly recommend. Additionally, it’s easy to cook.



I've never seen the spherical zucchini before. Can I put that big globe into the oven?

Vegetables look like green peppers in the photo are green peppers, of course.

Iwata

There've been around eight million gods and goddesses in Japan since tens of thousands of years ago. Of course, I just familiar with only a couple of them. Which mean, I often encounter the Third Kind. 'Iwata' is a kind of that I found most recently. It is in a shape of a dog, and is said to protect woman from hard labor. Dogs are supposed to have an easy delivery.

However, I'm not sure whether the word 'Iwata' is the name of the god/goddess. It can just represent the under ware for a pregnant woman. But I'm not going to seek his/her name.

Gloomy

I think there are two types of events happening through the life. The one energizes the mind, and the other makes the brain freeze. The later seems to have been hitting me for these months.

The pleasure doesn't mean the happiness, but the unpleasure means the unhappiness.

It's easier to write gloomy than to write bright.

I'd really appreciate if you quit glueing.

I often drop in an antique bookstore near the office. The store is distinguished because they specialize in the science and engineering books. I love to stroll through the bookshelfs in the store.

Their only fault is, I dare say, that they bond the price tag on the last page of every books. I can't peel off the tag without tattering the page.

I wish this somber mood were blown away. Managers are seemed to pick a bad time to put the screws on us. I know that I shouldn't look forward to a better tommorow just wistfully. Instead, I have to start getting my foot on a ladder to the happiness, not to the current pleasure. I know that. But it's too hard to practice.

For your information. This journal is just for my exercising of English. The statements appear hear are not always true.

Discarding Old PC

I have to discard old PCs, but it's not easy in Japan. It's banned to dispose PCs by the government law. We must pay for discarding all electric appliances as well as PCs.

I'm not refusing charges. I'm just confused as there are few trusting disposal contractor. I wonder why the autonomy doesn't offer the disposal services for a fee.

MOONLIGHTING

I got a DVD of "MOONLIGHTING", one of my most favorite drama serieses. And I watched the first episode twice a day.

A/C

The radio said today's high was almost 36 digree Celsius. Indeed, it's so hot that my mother living away concerned about my condition and made a call anxiously. But I don't feel I can't manage without the A/C. I'm certainly in a best shape in my life.

Preface

Do you read the preface of a book? I hadn't until I began to work as an editor. Now I know that there are a plenty of informations in the preface, so I first read the preface when I start reading a new book. On the other hand, I think, as a book editor, I should keep the preface from being put the significant information since it isn't read by much of the readers. I could edit any books so as to avoid the preface being critical to the rest.

Beer and Old Book

Our team (having just two members, though) finished a project today. We went to drink a cup of (I took three cups, though) beer. I'm always relieved when I'm drinking with her. But I'm always afraid that it might cause her annoying. However she looked relieved as well. I was really relieved tonight.

When I came back to home, I found a book ordered through Amazon Marketplace has arrived. The book seems to have been in a library, since it has the library card on its reverse of the cover.

People who says he could do well in many fields has no expertise. Meanwhile, the multidiscipline expertises is possible. That is to say, it is people who say nothing are the multidiscipline expertises. And this is just a play on words.

Ayatori

My wife knoted a string and made an ayatori. Ayatori is a traditional string game among children in Japan. I used to play it in my childhood, but I forget almost all the moves except 'the ladder'.

Lost Sunday

While playing with PostScript, it became August 6.

Thai rice

I had a lunch at my favourite Thai food restaurant. One of the reason I've been prefer the restaurant is I could enjoy thai rice but Japanese rice. Thai rice has less moisture than japonica rice so it's match well with thai curry. But many japanese seem to dislike thai rice. They believe blindly that japonica rice is taste best unquestionably. And the restaurant decided to quit serving thai rice lately. It's really too bad.

Atmosphere

I feel there's a good atmosphere in the office these days. It's preferable even if it's mere a facade.

By the way, I was surprised to be aware that the PDF interpreter of ghostscript is written in PostScript. It must be used as a sample for learning PostScript.

Arugula Pasta

I ate arugula pasta at the dinner. It was the first time I ate pasta with arugula leaves. I love, by nature, an arugula. So loving that I've tried to grow it few years ago. But they were all affected by greenfly.

00

I’m unconvinced on a statement that "0⁰ is undecidable". At least, there is no doubt about lim_x->+0 x^x= 1 because of the continuity of the logarithm function. Are there any practical problem in 0⁰ = 1 ?