Sunday, November 1, 2009
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of vegetable soup and a bowl of cereal for lunch. Went to see the movie "Where the Wild Things Are" at the Bob Bullock IMAX theatre and shopping at grocery stores this afternoon.
This film brings to the screen a picture book of M. Sendak's. According to my wife, the original work tells a much simpler story about an American boy, Max. Children in the audience may enjoy this movie as if they were in a haunted house. Adults may enjoy special effects and metaphorical expressions put into this movie. In a sense, this is more educational than an allegoric drama rewarding good and punishing evil. Its trembling video image on a huge IMAX screen gave me a slight headache.
Ate a bowl of Japanese noodles for dinner.
PS, a major field of study of my wife's was children's literature.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The chain reaction of acts of terrorism followed by acts of retaliation in the 1990s originated from the invasion of Iraqi forces into Kuwait and preceded the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen and the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US. It's uncertain whether some political obstacles between a girl's clique and a boy's group clique months before the 1998 off-year election in the US might result in pouring oil on the fire of terrorism or not. It seems that last week a visitor reminded a terrorist group of unforgettable missile attacks.
PS. More detailed information on the matter above can be found in my diary written on February 27, 2009 (February 2009).
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese-style boiled rice soaked in hot water for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
Who should seriously think about the prevention of obesity? Naturally, adults should.
If a child gets fatter, especially in early childhood, it becomes constitutionally predisposed to high obesity because its body makes more fat cells, as well known. If excess weight is gained as an adult, fat cells increase only in size. Needless to say, children need a healthy diet to grow. Parents have to feed their babies properly in both quantity and quality. In adolescence, exercise and a well-balanced diet are essential.
It seems that the majority of modern American youths have a good figure. However, a considerable number of Americans are significantly getting out of shape after turning thirty or forty. Although its appetite still may not diminish, the fully-grown body of an adult doesn't need the same amount of food as it did in the growth period anymore. The recipe for a good figure for an adult is "a moderate amount of foods". For the purpose of lowering your weight, you don't need any reducing medicine, fat cell removal, stomach operation, hard exercise, or any other radical treatment. You just need to reduce the portion of your daily meals by 1/4, 1/3, or 1/2. If you still want to satisfy your appetite, an improvement in quality may compensate for a lack in quantity. Enjoy a smaller luxurious healthy meal.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Got up at ten forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of pizza and a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
It's a rainy day. Got up at ten forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
We have never bought any smartphone such as a BlackBerry or iPhone. We haven't watched any TV program since February 22, 2009.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. A computer hacker attacked my computer after a lapse of ten days.
"This is an interesting topic found in the New York Times online news today". The following are my comments on it:
It's the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The news above is very favorable.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner. A computer hacker attacked my computer several times today.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch. A blackmailer attacked my computers persistently today.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
--- "Japan marks 20 years since emperor crowned," the BBC Online News reported. ---
Friday, November 13, 2009
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner. An extortionist attacked my computers persistently this evening.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day. An extortionist attacked my computers persistently this afternoon.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese-style meal for dinner. A blackmailer attacked my computer several times this afternoon. A backup copy of computer files to an external hard drive was made this evening.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the BBC online news today". The following are my comments on it:
If the average climate temperature were to rise by up to 6C (~11F) in the future, the earth's environment would change considerably. It would raise the sea level by up to 2 ~ 3m (7 ~ 10 feet). Desertification would proceed on nearly all the continents.
To be honest, it's uncertain whether the greenhouse effect due to increased amounts of carbon dioxide will really lead to global warming by 6C from pre-industrial times until 2050 or not. However, the theory of the greenhouse effect itself is true. A good and extreme example is the planet Venus. Its surface temperature is much higher (above 460C (860F)) than Earth's surface temperature because over 96% of CO2 in its atmosphere with a pressure of 90 atm traps incoming solar heat energy efficiently. On the other hand, Earth's atmosphere currently contains below 0.1% of greenhouse gases including CO2 (0.03 ~ 0.04%) with a pressure of 1 atm.
Currently, the proportion of CO2 is rising by about 3% per year. On the assumption that the proportion of CO2 continues to grow at a constant rate per year of 3%, it will become 0.128% in 2050. Temperatures have already risen by about 0.7C during the industrial age. The proportion of CO2 was about 0.03% in 1960. Let's assume that it was about 0.025% in the pre-industrial age. If so, by extrapolation, the average climate temperature will rise by up to 5.5C (9.9F).
In reality, the growth rate should also increase as the CO2 emissions from developing countries rise. If the proportion of CO2 were to become 0.15 ~ 0.20% in 2050, the average climate temperature would rise by 6.7 ~ 9.4C (12.1 ~ 16.9F). Hopefully, this is just a miscalculation.
There remain some uncertainties in global warming. One of them is the main cause of the rise in the average temperature up to now by about 0.7C. The majority of scientists say that it's caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere during the industrial age. Other scientists claim that it's due to the periodic change in solar activities lasting about 22 years. If the former is right, the average climate temperature will rise by up to 6C. If the latter is right, it won't.
What has to be done in this ambiguous situation was written in my diary on April 29 (April 2009) and May 17 (May 2009), 2009.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
My opinions on World Federalism were described in my diary on October 4 and 13, 2009 (October 2009). Today, some comments on two milestones were added again:
Comments on the 1st milestone, "development of the advanced mobile translator"
In any case, a so-called international language is probably necessary in the world. People in most countries still need to learn an international language as a second language. Once a country switches its standard language to an international one, an appreciable part of its culture will be forgotten within a couple of generations. Many believe that these cultures have to be preserved.
The advances in translation and mobile technologies will enable people in a country to communicate with all kinds of people from all over the world while avoiding giving up its native language as the primary language and its cultures related to the native language.
Comments on the 6th milestone, "mitigation of exclusive doctrinal contents of religions after consultations"
Most religions have exclusive doctrinal contents. Unfortunately, the more pious a believer is, the more intolerant of other religions he/she tends to be.
The ideal situation is, "A believes X, B believes Y, C believes Z, D believes nothing, none engages in criticism of each other, and then all the people are happy."
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Which should be an international language? An existing language such as English, Spanish, Esperanto, or something else, can be an international one.
The other way is to create a new language specially designed for the world language from scratch again. A team consisting of linguists from all over the world may create a simple, concise, logical, and non-rhetorical language with the assistance of computing. With the concurrence of all, all countries adopt it as a second language and use it for international documents such as a constitution, a deed of contract, an academic paper, a traffic sign, and so on. As ever, people in a country can satisfy themselves by employing various literary expressions in writing and speaking and can appreciate literature in its primary native language, and they can also appreciate foreign literature in either translation or the original if possible.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
An extortionist has been nearly absent from attacking my computer for the last week. Your return is unwelcome.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
For the first time, the collisions of low-energy protons were carried out in CERN's Large Hadron Collider for the purpose of its trial operation. Months or years later, experimental evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson (neutral, zero spin), which is postulated in one of the unproven mechanisms of the quantum theory of fields that unifies the weak interaction and the electromagnetic interaction, may be discovered. Hopefully, some other mechanisms in the quantum field theory that unify the weak, strong, and electromagnetic interactions may be proven experimentally.
There's only one force left. That's the force of gravitation, which is much weaker than the three other fundamental forces. In the standard theory of elementary particles that combines the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and Weinberg-Salam theories, elementary particles are treated as dimensionless points, and the inclusion of gravity in the theory leads to problems associated with the divergence to infinity. The superstring theory is the mostly believed unified fields theory that describes all four of the fundamental forces including gravity by treating elementary particles as vibrating strings with supersymmetry. In this theory, there are opened strings and closed strings with different vibrations, and the size of strings is surprisingly in the range of 10-35m. Currently, however, any type of experiment cannot prove the truth of the superstring theory, to my knowledge. This may be a good example that there is a limit to everything, even to modern science.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-European meal for dinner.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a BBQ meal for dinner.
Went to see the newly released movie "The Road" at the Arbor Regal Theater this evening. This film brings to the screen Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize work, The Road. A man and his young son are traveling a hopeless long road only for food while carrying a pistol loaded with two bullets for their probable suicides in the aftermath of either a man-made or natural catastrophic upheaval of unknown cause. On their journey, a man teaches his son a way to survive. The film visualizes the end of the world where almost all living things, plants, animals, and humans have already died out and exceptions are also on the road to extinction. In extreme circumstances, the only survivors who are bound by rigid parent-child ties may somehow retain humanity.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Today is Thanksgiving Day. Got up at ten forty-five. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, a piece of shortcake at three o'clock, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner. Drank a few glasses of apple cider this evening. Stayed at home for the entire day.
What should a student learn at a university? There are many things available. It seems to me that the most important thing to learn at a university is how to learn on its own. A graduate student can learn how to do research and find a research topic. If people still need to obtain not only knowledge but also skills after graduation, they need to go to school appropriate for them.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, a piece of shortcake at three o'clock, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Drained half a gallon of milk out just in case because its bottle wasn't tightly sealed. Ate a bowl of Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Today is my wife's birthday. Got up at eleven o'clock. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
According to Wikipedia, "Very rarely (approximately 1 in either 3,000 or 30,000) a male tortoiseshell or calico (cat) is born". "These animals typically have a condition known in humans as Klinefelter syndrome, and undergo an inactivation process like that in females".
