Monday, August 1, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 107 degrees F (41.7 degrees C).
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
According to some web news, a right-wing extremist wants either a shrink from a country or a country to shrink in terms of economy, capability, stature, and so on. It's uncertain whether he's a Beaver Muppet or not. Anyway, regardless of his wish, seniors and their female propagandists in a country have been playing various roles in dragging it down gradually and surely and will continue to do that for the next couple of decades. Indeed, officials in a country chose the way to tighten the reins in either the 1970s or the early 1980s because of the nature of agricultural people and the influence of some foreign interventions.
Today's maximum temperature is 107 degrees F (41.7 degrees C).
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 107 degrees F (41.7 degrees C). The record-breaking heat has stayed since August 1 and will continue for quite some time.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
About one month before my wife's and my green cards were issued in the spring of 2004, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Texas took a number of my wife's and my fingerprints. Our fingerprints and photos are printed on the front of our issued green cards. The green cards are the most reliable identification of ours.
It isn't clear whether there is any cause-and-effect relationship between "Older Interventions and Newer Wimpy Performances" and "Cowboys and Aliens". A scenario writer, who is a devotee of Shakespeare's plays, maybe pulling the strings behind the scenes in the former case in the actual world.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the BBC online news today". The following is my comment on it:
The reduction of the reliance of an earthquake-prone country on nuclear power may be reasonable under the existing circumstances, but the complete abolishment of nuclear power in a country is unfeasible.
A strange helicopter was circling above our neighborhood this evening. A politician in Arizona whom the Asian seniors and their female propagandists had tamed since 2006 had done the same way very frequently about three years ago. Those were silly mistakes.
At midnight, either a whale hunter in Texas or a politician in Arizona let a helicopter fly around our neighborhood again.
Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). It seems that the actual temperature is higher than that by a couple of degrees F.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.
Stopped off at a US Postal Service branch in our neighborhood on the way to our house. Because a woman wearing a pair of eyeglasses in her old Lincoln SUV seemed to say something loudly in its parking lot, I tried to stay away from her. My wife, who watched a strange woman from our car when I was in a post office, told me later that she acted very suspiciously there. Her strange behavior reminded me of some odd acts by the Americans with large frames who were hanging around our house in the evening on July 13.
"This is an interesting topic found in the Los Angeles Times today". The following are my comments on it:
It's unquestionable that the F22 Raptor is the most advanced air-superiority fighter jet in the world. However, because none of the wars that the US has been involved in since the adoption of the F22 by its Air Force as an air-superiority fighter in 2005 has required this sort of fighter, the F22 has never been used in any actual combat so far. If by any chance F22 should crash in combat and some parts from the wreckage of the F22 should be smuggled into undesirable countries, sufficient loss in technical superiority would be suffered. Instead of the air-superiority fighter jet, some of the drones, which are much cheaper than the F22, have been enormously helpful.
Since its release, the F22 Raptor has ever had a bad reputation in the news. The F22 has attracted mostly criticisms in terms of the development costs and the mismatch to the present necessity, mostly. These criticisms may be just one part of trendy wimpy performances, desirably. Some of these criticisms are much to the point, but others may be misdirected. To put it briefly, my opinion on the air-superiority fighter jet is that it's still necessary as a symbol of air dominance, even though it doesn't match to the necessities currently.
However, its development costs have to be reduced. For the development of any kind of device, in general, both sufficiently careful brainstorming and planning from an appropriately wide and long-term perspective before initiating the development and appropriately repeated examinations to improve their accuracy by relying on computer simulations during the development phase are necessary. The computer simulation is a very powerful tool to reduce the development costs and time. Needless to say, however, the cost reductions by using computer simulations shouldn't be attained carelessly through the cutting of the number of workforces. More precisely, computer simulations should be used to improve the accuracy of the planning and designing and to reduce the useless expenditures of energy and time for the development of state-of-the-art devices, which generally entail a huge cost and take a long period of time.
BTW, the uses of machines, computers, and robots in order to lighten the burdens attended to the tasks involving considerable dander and to attain the objects requiring tasks exceeding human abilities should be meaningful.
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C). Since the readjustment of the sprinkler setting last week, the condition of the lawn in our yards has already started recovering gradually from the damage due to severe drought.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
As expected, one of the wimpy performances has already started coming to an end.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Different from my expectations, the stock markets were hesitating today. It seems that pretenders to wimp got perverse, unfortunately. Whether giving picky Tres Amigos in Europe and Asia lax rein or not might be the next key point.
Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The belief in the lucky number is one of the most popular superstitious mental actions. Some people think that it's a serious matte. For some, it's just for fun. For others, it's nonsense. When people are standing at a crossroads in life, most people tend to be superstitious, to one degree or another, even though they don't believe in it at all, psychologically speaking.
From 1999 until 2002, for some reason, several lucky and unlucky numbers had weighed on my mind. When an unlucky number in books, monitors, screens, or signboards happened to catch my attention, it often hurt my feelings. Although I have never believed in such a vain superstition, it wouldn't be gotten out no matter how dedicatedly I tried to ignore it during that period of time. At the end of 2002, that superstition was broken with my own idea. Instead of trying to ignore it, I assigned my own meanings to all of the numbers that happened to catch my attention. Fortunately, an opposite way of doping things solved a problem.
Thinking back to those days, it's true that a number of various foolish behaviors by others around probably resulting from the leadership struggles on the apes' mountain here made me rather nervous until I had noticed the real meanings of those behaviors. Living on the planet of the Apes without noticing it was really stressful. Anyway, it was overcome about nine years ago.
About half a day after writing about the F22 Raptor in my diary, a real raptor such as a bald eagle, a golden eagle, an osprey, or a black vulture flew down on the roof of our house and stayed there for several minutes early in the morning of August 9. It's the largest raptor I've ever seen wild in my life. It's dark brown or dark gray with a white head and comparable in size to a person's child. It looks like a bald eagle. In the past ten years, I have seen a raptor only twice including that event inside the site of our house. Oh yes, that's just a coincidence thought that's rather suggestive. A religious Greek may say that it should be a messenger from Zeus or Zeus himself. A Native American may say that it should be a thunderbird.
A mechanistic view can't explain exactly why that coincidence happened. This is because it's hard to believe that that coincidence was predetermined at the Big Bang of our universe. It seems that the future of our world isn't precisely determined. There is always indefiniteness to some extent, I believe. It's simply unbelievable that indefiniteness in our complicated macroscopic world has its origin in the uncertainty principle, which describes a fundamental behavior of matters only at the scales of atoms and subatomic particles, though there are many quantum effects in macroscopic systems that have been exhibited. It's also unbelievable that such a coincidence in our complicated world can be explained by the chaos theory, which describes chaotic behavior in a complex system. Logically speaking, my writing about the F22 Raptor shouldn't attract a wild raptor here within half a day. It seems that a psychological issue can't explain all of such coincidental events. To be honest, I have no idea currently.
Indeed, there are many strange coincidences occurring in one's life. In most cases, those coincidences are all in one's mind. However, it seems that not all cases come under that. Only a couple of thousand years have passed since mankind started somewhat scientific methods to unveil the truths of the universe and only four hundred years have passed since mankind differentiated science from philosophy by introducing the experimental methods very actively. In the course of time, humankind may be able to discover some mechanisms hidden beneath a series of coincidences and the fluctuations in fortunes and misfortunes in our complex world and to establish a theory that tells scientifically why such strange coincidences happen so often and why there are the fluctuations in our luck according to the period of time and individual differences.
You may say that that's still coincidental. It's only an illusion.
Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
Friday, August 12, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Whether what I wrote about a series of coincidences and the fluctuations in fortunes in our daily life in my diary yesterday falls under scientific matters, spiritual matters or worldly matters is uncertain.
To my knowledge, science isn't currently good enough to deal with such phenomena in a complex world. Relying on the adoption of appropriate approximations for the purpose of simplification and the aid of computer simulations, scientists can give some insights based on the theory of probability. However, our capability of computing is very limited at the present time. No currently existing simulation with reasonable models can predict the visit of a raptor.
Most of the religions may offer some answers for them. However, which of the given answers is true isn't distinguishable because it isn't provable. A believer may choose what a believer can believe.
Indeed, worldly factors have made the world very complicated. This tendency has been getting stronger gradually with the passage of time. Some global organizations dominative in numerical strength, solidarity strength, financial strength, and political strength can intentionally affect the near future in some limited areas of our world through various means to some degree. However, there is almost no possibility that an organization of leisure was willing to have a team of a zookeeper and a raptor make a visit to my neighborhood for a vain trick within half a day since my writing about the F22 Raptor in my diary.
It seems to be good for my health to regard it as "just a mere coincidence".
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Till now, human beings have never found any definite evidence of extraterrestrial life. A human being is the most advanced form of life on the Planet Earth and within our present knowledge of our universe. When we compare the complexities of any life and its territories with those of the rest of the world where there exists no form of life, the differences should surprise us. How immensely complicated every form of life and their territories are!
Firstly, let's imagine that there has never existed any form of life in our universe, though it isn't right. The universe with no form of life is a marvel of order and neatness, though the subatomic particles that the universe is composed of act in accordance with the principle of uncertainty. In the universe with no life following the early stage of the universe, taking a macroscopic and long-term view, every matter appears to progress approximately according to the law of cause and effect from a mechanistic point of view. Because only a limited amount of truth about the universe has been scientifically discovered so far, and even the universe with no life is so complicated, the universe with no life is still full of mysteries.
Next, let's move on to the other point concerning life on the Planet Earth which we are familiar with in our daily life. Any form of life on the Earth is very complicated. Especially, their brains are amazingly complex. The organ of the brain mainly consists of numerous numbers of neurons, synapses, and neuroglia are responsible for the control of the body's activities including intellectual activities. Intellectual activities in the brain are known to be very complicated and also ambiguous. Through the physical actions controlled by intellectual activities involving some degree of ambiguity in its brain, a living thing has continually had various influences upon the environments and various interactions with other living things by various methods. The influences of the whole forms of life on the environment of the Earth since the birth of life are inestimable. The influence of a living thing on the environment becomes stronger, as its evolution advances more and its population increases more.
As written previously, the future of our world isn't precisely determined. There is always indefiniteness to some extent, I believe. When only the complexities of nature including those of intellectual activities of the brain blindfold us, indefiniteness shouldn't be a fundamental issue. In this case, our world should be mostly predetermined though there is uncertainty at the scales of atomic and subatomic particles. It's just an issue associated with the immense complexity. Our future is indefinite for mankind because mankind isn't smart enough to know precisely the truth and the future is hidden in the veil of immense complexity. Mankind isn't smart enough to know those even having the support of computer simulations. Such thinking about a nearly predetermined world doesn't sit well with me. It strikes me intuitively that there may be a source of fundamental uncertainty even in our macroscopic world. When the ambiguity of intellectual activities in a brain has its origin in the uncertainty principle in quantum physics, the indefiniteness of physical actions based on the decision by a brain should be fundamental. In this case, a living thing is a being like an amplifier that boosts the uncertainty from the scales of atomic and subatomic particles up to the macroscopic scales. If we assume that this is right, the indefiniteness seen in our world can be explained for the most part. However, I have never heard of such a theory that the transmission of information by means of the electric impulses between two neurons via a synapse is susceptibly subject to the influences of the fundamental uncertainty of the constitutive elements of electrons and nuclei through some mechanisms. When the ambiguity of intellectual activities in a brain stems only from logic as seen in the electric circuit with fuzzy logic, it should only be a matter of the immense complexity explained above. In this case, there has to exist an unknown other origin of the fundamental uncertainty in our macroscopic world. It may give rise to uncertainty either only in the intellectual activities of life or in nature itself including the intellectual activities of life. The former case suggests that the uncertainty in our macroscopic world may be due to the activities of living things, and the latter case suggests that there may exist unveiled origins of the uncertainty at the macroscopic scales in our universe. This thinking about the unknown origins of the uncertainty sits rather well with me. The above-mentioned hypotheses are what I considered when chatting with my wife during dinner last evening for fun. To be honest, what causes the indefiniteness of our future, the complexity or ambiguity of intellectual activities, the complexity of nature, the uncertainty of nature at the scales of atomic and subatomic particles, and/or other unveiled factors, is still unknown to me.
Finally, let's think about the influences of the activities of living things upon the simpler universe. As described above, life may be defined as the being that makes the condition of our world more complex and/or makes the future of our world uncertain through our continuous activities in everyday life and developments. Until recently, the field of activities of identified living things has been limited on the Earth but it began gradually expanding to its neighboring satellites, asteroids, and planets with the development of space by the most advanced living thing on the Earth, that is mankind, in the middle of the twentieth century. In the future, the territory of life may expand all over our solar system, other solar systems, or further. With the expansion of our territory, the sphere of either complexity or uncertainty will grow as if it's harming our simple and beautiful universe, taking an objective view. From my point of view, we are making our world more interesting and more convenient, but taking short-term perspectives is more dangerous.
Thinking about what the real meaning of life had sometimes interested me in my school days and it still has interested me on very rare occasions after graduations. A strange visit of a raptor to the roof of our house last Sunday motivated me to think about it only for a short time after a long silence. Although this consideration doesn't offer any clear answer to the question raised last week, I now successfully convince myself that that's "just a mere coincidence". The probability that a large raptor flew down on the roof of our house about half a day after my writing about the F22 Raptor in my diary may be small but it just happened by chance. It shouldn't be predetermined long before.
BTW, a religious person may say that an unknown origin of the uncertainty in our macroscopic world should be associated with God's will.
During dinner, as a joke, my wife said that my electroencephalogram may have attracted a raptor on that day. Some animals might have a well-developed system to sense the electroencephalogram.
Today's maximum temperature is 97 degrees F (36.1 degrees C). It's cloudy for the entire day.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.
I have experience with computer simulations. About seven years ago, a guy asked me how I had learned the simulations specialized for the development of semiconductor devices. In order to avoid any confusion by others, the following tells that again:
What I majored in at an undergraduate school and a graduate school are solid-state physics and materials science mainly. Both the basis of my knowledge and the way to learn the academic matters were acquired with mostly readings when I was at universities. After obtaining a position in a manufacturer of wireless communications, electronic systems, and semiconductors, I studied applied physics for semiconductor devices and processes by myself reading a number of textbooks and technical papers in my free time. In Japan, there was an opportunity to attend a class that was held by a software vendor and supplemented with tutorials and examples. In the US, I learned how to use the other simulators by reading their user manuals and the two Japanese books dealing with the basis of the simulations. Both the user's manuals and the books present many technical papers as references. Those technical papers referred to in the user manuals and the books also make references to other technical papers. Reading the interesting technical papers chosen among those references is what I had mostly done to acquire the knowledge necessary to use the simulations efficiently for the development of semiconductor devices in the late 1990s. That's all there is to tell.
Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).
Monday, August 15, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Looked after our yards this evening. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Friday, August 19, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Found an interesting book written by Prof. Armando Freitas da Rocha and Prof. Eduardo Massad at an Internet bookstore this evening. The title of the book is "The Brain: Fuzzy Arithmetic to Quantum Computing (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)". According to its product description, "The Brain- From Fuzzy Arithmetic to Quantum Computing" presents an original and astounding new understanding of the brain by taking into account novel achievements in Fuzziness and Quantum Information Theory" and "This book demonstrates how the physiology of the neuron can be understood based on the fundamentals of fuzzy formal languages and introduces the basics of quantum computation and quantum information to the brain."
From only the limited descriptions above, however, it's unclear whether the authors mentioned that the fuzziness of the natural neural system in the brain is subject to the influences of the quantum properties of the uncertainty or not. Probably, it's not. In any case, this book interests me. What researchers have ever concluded in their prior works so far draws my attention. I may purchase it for fun one of these days.
Today's maximum temperature is 107 degrees F (41.7 degrees C).
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
As written previously, a raptor such as a bald eagle, a golden eagle, an osprey, or a black vulture flew down on the roof of our house early in the morning of August 9. It looked like either a bald eagle or an osprey. According to some websites, however, both the bald eagle and the osprey aren't common in Texas in summer. The abnormal weather conditions lasting since early spring may let more of the bald eagle and the osprey that nested in Texas during winter stand by migrating to the Northern regions this year than in the average year. It might be either a golden eagle or a black vulture if there exists some white-headed in their species.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese-Western meal for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.
Found an interesting DVD under the title of "Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann" at an Internet store this afternoon. This theatrical performance unfolds in the style of the exchanges between the recitations of Robert Schumann's letters and those of Clara Schumann's letters. Robert and Clara Schumann might blush if their spirits were to attend the Royal Opera House. I may purchase this DVD someday.
Robert Schumann's Symphony #1 in B Flat, Op. 38, "Spring" and his piano pieces have often entertained me for the last five months. It goes without saying that my listening to his works didn't induce what I wrote about in my diary the week before last. A raptor did.
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Monday, August 22, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
It's rather mysterious why a defendant hasn't brought libel suits. At least, the court of justice should argue a plaintiff of perjury if a plaintiff really gave false evidence. There may be a planned give-and-take trade about the positions and the management of the monetary funds. It's really an age of decadence, isn't it?
Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Cosmic rays, which are mainly composed of protons, alpha particles, and electrons, travel through the spaces in the galaxies and the extragalactic spaces in the universe. It's generally considered that the main origins of primary cosmic rays are the supernova explosions. Only a small percentage of the fluxes of high-energy cosmic rays that originate mostly from our galaxy and also from the extragalactic nebulas reach the surface of Planet Earth. The collisions of primary cosmic rays with the nuclei in the upper atmosphere produce the cascades of secondary cosmic rays that consist of lighter and lower-energy particles (e.g. protons, neutrons, pions, kaons, muons, electrons, positrons, etc.) than the particles in primary cosmic rays. The fluxes of solar cosmic rays, a large majority of which have much lower energy than that of galactic cosmic rays, enter the atmosphere and cause the auroras only near the geomagnetic poles due to the influence of the geomagnetic field of the earth.
Under this circumstance on the earth, the birth of life happened about 3.5 billion years ago or earlier, and the evolution of life has advanced since then. Although the atmosphere and the geomagnetic field of the earth protect life by filtering out harmful radiations including cosmic rays and ultraviolet rays, very small amounts of radiation can reach the surface of the earth. The frequency of the strikes by the particles in secondary cosmic rays or in both primary and secondary cosmic rays into the human brain at the sea-level zone on the earth is estimated to be only about 4 incidences per second. However, it's hard to believe that such small fluxes of cosmic rays have some recognizable influences on human intellectual activities, though a small number of these strikes surely cause a small number of damage to the complex organic compounds in the brain cells. For instance, the changes in the locations at different altitudes where people live comfortably may somewhat affect their intellectual activities because of many and various reasons such as brightness, temperature, air pressure, air density, climate, a sense of spaciousness and scenery, but these influences shouldn't result from the increase and the decrease of the frequency of the cosmic ray strikes into the brain. It's untrue that the people who live as usual on the high ground within reasonable bounds are wilder than those who live underground because the number of cosmic ray strikes increases with a rising altitude above sea level up to about 15 km in the atmosphere. Even assuming that the small fluxes of cosmic rays influence human intellectual activities very slightly, it should only add an additional matter of complexity. Although the incident particles in cosmic rays may entail a very small scale of uncertainty in nature in terms of the simultaneous measurements of both position and momentum and those of both energy and time, the uncertainty at the atomic and subatomic scales accompanied by a small number of the particles in cosmic rays shouldn't bring any noticeable uncertainty to the brain activities, I believe.
BTW, cosmic rays can cause soft errors in the circuit operation of the semiconductor chip through the generations of a large quantity of the hole-electron pairs along their trajectories when its well structure isn't designed to have sufficient resistance against the undesirable cosmic ray strikes. This problem becomes more serious when the semiconductor chips are used for artificial satellites and space stations in outer space than when they are used for applications on the earth.
Today's maximum temperature is 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Tonight, my opinion on my wife's joke about the possibility that some animals might be capable of sensing the brain waves of others shall be told.
The magnetic fields reflecting the electrical activities in the human brain can be measured rather accurately using a highly sensitive magnetometer such as the SQUID. On the other hand, in the case of the so-called electroencephalogram, the variations of the electric potential differences around the brain are usually measured and mapped by using the electroencephalograph, which requires that its electrodes should be affixed to the scalp of a subject with or without using gel.
According to some web news today, there are an estimated 8.7 million species living on the earth currently. The possibility that some of these species might have a well-developed system to detect the magnetic fields around the brain reflecting the electrical activities in it can't be categorically denied. However, none of these species on the earth is capable of decoding and understanding information in the magnetic fields reflecting the intellectual activities of the human brain, even if they could detect it. When I was writing about the F22 Raptor in my diary on August 7, my brain may have variously and ambiguously interpreted the F22 Raptor as an image of either a jet fighter or a bird of prey, as a concept of either of them described in either English or Japanese and/or as something else. It may safely be affirmed that no animal can recognize such information in its brain through the magnetic field around it from far away. By a "strange" coincidence, a large raptor flew down on the roof of our house early in the morning of August 8. I think that's about it for now.
Today's maximum temperature is 106 degrees F (41.1 degrees C).
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 94 degrees F (34.4 degrees C).
Friday, August 26, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the Absolute Astronomy website".
The probable supernova explosion far in the future of IK Pegasi B, which is the closest star approaching the final stage of its evolution gradually and large enough to result in gravitational collapse, may have a considerable influence on the process of the evolution of life on the earth. When IK Pegasi B evolves into a red giant not far in the future contrary to expectation, the necessity for the precaution against possibly intense cosmic rays emitted from the probable supernova explosion of IK Pegasi B will rise to a crescendo. In the stage when the danger signal turns yellow, future mankind may need to start preparing something for the possible rapid increase of cosmic rays, for instance, the underground shelters. Mankind may need to live there for some time until cosmic rays calm down. An anxious aspect of this issue is that when people on the earth notice its supernova explosion, which should be the red signal, with astronomical observations in the future they will have already been exposed to intense cosmic rays from it.
A relievable aspect is that it isn't considered an immediate threat at the present time. It may take IK Pegasi B millions of years or longer to evolve into a red giant, which is the yellow signal. As long as IK Pegasi B continues to be at the stage prior to a red giant, life on the earth won't be naturally fraught with any impending dangers attendant upon its supernova explosion relatively close to the earth. The other relievable aspect is that the distance between IK Pegasi and our solar system is increasing with the lapse of time, as explained in this topic. The intensity of the fluxes of cosmic rays from a supernova explosion measured at the surface of the earth should decrease with increasing the distance between them. According to a simple estimation, when a supernova explosion of IK Pegasi B happens about 50 million years or later from now, its influences on life on the earth won't be significant. The influences of its supernova explosion on life on the earth will become more significant as it happens earlier. It may happen within 50 years, 5 thousand years, 500 thousand years, 50 million years, or a longer period of time. Nobody knows exactly when it may happen.
BTW, on the assumption that the lifespan of IK Pegasi is comparable to that of our solar system, the time span of 50 million years is only about 0.5 % of its lifespan. It seems that taking the accuracies of both the models and the measurements necessary for the calculation of the properties of IK Pegasi into consideration, the estimated error should be greater than 0.5 %. Therefore, the prediction of the rest of its life within the range below 50 million years is difficult. Although an extrapolation of the estimated lifespan of the other exploded stars similar to IK Pegasi in size and composition may give a value, its accuracy is unreliable. What has to be done chiefly on a green light is continuous and precise observation.
Today's maximum temperature is 110 degrees F (43.3 degrees C).
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.
Today's maximum temperature is 112 degrees F (44.4 degrees C). It's the hottest day this year.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 109 degrees F (42.8 degrees C).
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 105 degrees F (40.6 degrees C).
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The said Asian ultraconservative have recently started their usual measures. Some sorts of Japanese, Korean, African American, and Hispanic Americans tend to prefer these measures. One of their usual measures is that, by taking advantage of my good intentions, they try to steal my rights on the sly, while telling a total lie that I devolved my rights upon them. For instance, some African Americans crossed the path of my wife and me twice when we were out shopping three days ago. It seems that they said something incredible after that. Probably, a line of their thought is something that because they crossed the path of me, I devolved my path and then something else. This sort of logic shouldn't be valid in any right-minded human society.
The other measure is that they try every means available to rouse my ire. As written several times previously, however, this modus operandi hasn't been effective anymore because it has been out.
While keeping up the appearance of a competitive principle, in fact only for the purpose of disturbance, they bring me into various unfair competitions without being noticed.
Generally speaking, a person often becomes a target of such ultraconservative measures for a while when a person makes a striking and remarkable achievement. In most cases, the competitors for disturbance may be the people who are of unimpressive physical appearance and inconspicuous mentality. In some cases, a gangster is selected as a competitor troublesomely.
Today's maximum temperature is 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C). In spite of the hot weather day in and day out this summer, my weight hasn't changed. It's still 143 pounds.
