Saturday, October 1, 2011
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Since I came to the US in 1997 until recently, I have never suffered from any clear symptoms of allergy. A few years ago, however, exposure to late summer pollen (e.g. ragweed pollen) and early spring pollen (e.g. cedar pollen) started causing my allergy symptoms such as sneezing, nasal congestion, and eye itching. For the last few days, it seems to me that a lot of ragweed pollens have been floating in the air in Austin. In my case, any pollen allergy doesn't bring on a persistent cough.
Monday, October 3, 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.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The speed of a conventional semiconductor integrated circuit shouldn't be determined by the speed of the data transmission through the metal interconnects (Cu, Al, W, etc.) because the length of each interconnect is quite short generally and the electron mobility in the metal interconnects is sufficiently high. It's mainly determined by the switching speeds of the semiconductor transistors fabricated on a chip, which control the flow of electricity at the junctions between the interconnects. If the switching speed, the power consumption and the scalability of the photocoupler consisting of both the light emitting device and either the phototransistor or other optoelectronic device, which controls the beam of light at the junctions between the optical interconnects, become comparable to those of the conventional semiconductor device such as the MOSFET in the future, the optical interconnects, which don't entail any interconnect capacitance but lead to only a slight loss of luminous intensity during the data transmission, might be used as the interconnect of a future integrated circuit. If not, such a circuit will never be the mainstream. The realization of a photocoupler that satisfies all of the requirements above seems to be difficult.
To be honest, I am not well acquainted with the recent development of this sort of integrated circuit. There may be a breakthrough identified recently. It's only a guess of mine that when the compound semiconductor channel (e.g. InGaAs for nFET) and/or the other semiconductor channel (e.g. Ge for pFET) break into the mainstream of the logic applications in the future, the optical interconnects might be used partially on a chip without raising the additional manufacturing cost excessively and increasing the chip size considerably when the switching speed of the photocoupler surpasses the MOSFET and the HEMT. The performance of the future integrated circuit could be improved by substituting the optical interconnects only for the metal interconnects on a semiconductor chip that is used for the limited paths transferring a large number of signals frequently, just like the fast data transmissions outside a chip through the optical fiber cables ever seen in a nonintegrated circuit and between integrated circuits. Otherwise, even the partial use of the optical interconnects won't be brought to fruition. Therefore, it seems to me that the most important requirement for success in this technology is the improvement of the switching speed of the photocoupler, setting aside the power consumption and scalability. It's my impression that an ordinary combination between improved types of a light-emitting device and a phototransistor is unpromising. The development of an innovative optoelectronic device may be necessary to realize the optical interconnects in a semiconductor chip.
The setting of the very tight limitation on the choice of the basic material for the optoelectronic device should make it more difficult to identify its innovative device design. The substitution of the optical interconnects for the metal interconnects on a silicon chip seems to be more difficult and less advantageous than that of the compound channel FETs and/or the other semiconductor channel FETs for the silicon channel FETs, in terms of several aspects. These are the reasons why the introduction of the optical interconnect into the conventional silicon chip is more difficult. It's very difficult, but not impossible.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese-Western meal for dinner.
My allergy symptoms have already been calmed down though allergens should still be floating in the air. My symptoms lasted only for a few days. Recently, pollen scattered around from the elm trees in the neighborhood started filling the air increasingly, in addition to ragweed pollen. It seems that the elm pollen doesn't trigger my allergy symptoms noticeably.
Mr. Steven Paul Jobs passed away at the age of 56.
Thursday, October 6, 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.
Friday, October 7, 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.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Occasional showers soaked the surface of the ground today.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. The rain that has been falling since yesterday afternoon came down in torrents early this morning. The heavy rain had soaked deep into the ground. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Friday, October 14, 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.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.
I had a daily habit of going to the gym to firm up my muscles as often as I had had the opportunity since my school days. Even when the condition of my health wasn't very good, I didn't fail to go to the athletic club. A very persistent cough had troubled me due to a combination of prescription medications for blood pressure reduction that probably didn't suit my constitution, the overwork, and some other reasons from late 2003 until late 2004. On most occasions during this period of time, my habit of working out was continued. Instead of a persistent cough, the dizziness had seized me when I stood up suddenly from the summer of 2005 until 2008. In order to recover the condition of my health, I tried to work out harder in 2006 than before. During this period of time, in addition to the muscle training, I went jogging for 30 minutes every morning. In early 2007, I finally realized that I needed complete rest.
My health condition is currently fine considering my age of 45. As a substitute for some medications, my weight was reduced to about 145 pounds for the purpose of blood pressure reduction. Recently, after a long interval, I started doing light stretching and muscle exercises in order to avoid my stiff shoulders.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, October 18, 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.
Because I wasn't blinking frequently when concentrating on writing a document file on the computer during the daytime, my eyes are now bloodshot due to eye fatigue and dry eyes. Frequent blinking is only a practical way to avoid it.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, October 20, 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.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
The condition of my red eyes has been taking a turn for the better because of frequent blinking during the documentation.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Got up at eight forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
The documentation of a computer file has already been completed.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Within a few years, I may purchase an eBook to read magazines and newspapers when it comes with a good color display that is gentle to our eyes and consumes energy at a low rate. I still want to read the books made of paper. Needless to say, wasteful spending on paper has to be minimized. However, as long as the balance between supply and demand of paper is maintained by reducing a surplus of its demand and by recycling scrap paper more actively, there should be no serious problem with cutting down the forests manageably, just like harvesting vegetables. The serious problem is that the development of farmlands by swidden accelerated with the rapid growth of the developing countries especially in the tropics and the frequent occurrences of forest fires in the arid regions and their neighboring regions have advanced deforestation in the world.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Yesterday, an unreasonable request made me recall the unpleasant experiences I had in 2003. It's unpleasant because it's one of the causes of my sickness in those days.
I had been under manageable pressure from closing dates, as some of the hardworking people were so. Since the late spring of 2003, however, some leeway on the due dates had been reduced gradually. In accordance with it, pressure from closing dates had been intensified more until the end of 2003. Unfortunately, during this period of time, most of the deadlines of the work that I was pressed for time with were set without urgent necessity. Judging from what people have said, those tight deadlines were set to harm my health on purpose. To be honest, there were many other unhealthy conditions laid down intentionally. The fortunate events in 2003 were that the projects that I had been involved in were very successful and that those deadlines were met in time in most cases. The unfortunate aspect was that an ill will caused my ill health.
Indeed, it isn't true that only a chain of tight deadlines made me ill those days. I had a better mental endurance than most. A very persistent cough had troubled me due to a combination of prescription medications for blood pressure reduction, overwork, and some other reasons from 2003 until 2004, followed by dizziness from 2005 until 2008. It's true that I underestimated some harmful influences of the side effects of prescription medicines on me.
I refused to accept an unreasonable request yesterday in order to avoid an undesirable agreement on my part to take charge of the future working to numerous tight deadlines set with only malice. I would like to believe that an unpleasant request I saw in three email messages to me yesterday had no connection with who carried out some wicked designs on me in 2003.
BTW, a person who made an unreasonable request yesterday behaved as if he had become a different person.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The worst drought in a century did a lot of mischief to the crops in Texas. The City of Austin has imposed tight restraints on the use of water outside the house. It had caused some damage to the lawn in front and backyards of my house. However, because the St. Augustine lawn is sufficiently drought-resistant, it has been recovering from the drought damage gradually and surely.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
The new transistor design for the scaled MOSFET with the compound semiconductor n-channel should be a matter of interest to the semiconductor industry. It seems that many researchers have been engaged in developing that. In this stage, it would be wise for me to keep the details of the ideas about its transistor design under my hat even if they have already flashed into my mind.
On the other hand, the transistor design for the MOSFET with the Germanium p-channel should be obvious.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Got up at eleven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Some sorts of journalists often lay in ambush for a person, as a part of their job. Usually, ordinary people don't do that.
My wife and I noticed that we are always being waylaid and followed, for some reason or other. We dislike a person who follows or waylays us.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
