Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Replaced a damaged light switch for an attic on the second floor of our house by a new one today.
It was warm for February. Today's maximum temperature was 82 degrees F (27.8 degrees C). This winter is warmer than usual.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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, February 3, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at an electrical appliance store and grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a BBQ meal for dinner at home.
Repaired a microwave oven installed in a cabinet in the kitchen of our house by replacing one of the switches in it this evening.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Got up at ten forty. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Looked through several websites listing a lot of original oil paintings today. The following oil paintings attracted my attention.
1. Michael Gibbons (Landscapes with a distinctive cozy atmosphere)
Autumn View On The Yachats River (30" X 45")
In Between Showers (20" X 24")
Barn On Elk City (15" X 24")
2. Vezna Gottwald (Impressionistic landscapes reflecting a good sense of abstract)
A Break In The Storm (48" X 60")
Bright Sun, Tuscany (30" X 48")
3. Alexander Dzigurski (Dynamic coast landscapes)
California Surf (24" X 36")
Carmel Coast (24" X 36")
4. George Kovach (Leading Hill Country landscape painter at the present time)
Open Spaces (24" X 36")
Spring In The Hill Country (24" X 20")
Monday, February 6, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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.
Repaired the Driver's side mirror of my wife's car this evening.
Looked through several websites listing a lot of oil paintings drawn by the painters who won prizes in oil painting contests in the last few years. The following oil paintings attracted my attention this evening.
5. Joshua Larock (Very detailed realistic portraits)
Jeune Femme Allant a la Fontaine (62" X 28")
The Grape Harvest (19" X 32")
6. Kathleen Dunphy (Well-studied landscapes)
Crazy Pretty (20" X 24")
Windswept (18" X 34")
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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.
According to some websites found recently, a problem in the coolant temperature sensor that is designed to monitor the engine temperature roughly by measuring the temperature of the coolant using thermistors may cause a hardness to start the engine when it's warm. Both the sensor for the power-train control module and the sender for the gauge are combined into one sensor module. The resistance of the sensor for the PMC and that of the sender for the gauge of the standard CTS at RT are 2.2k to 2.9k ohms and 1.3k to 2.0k ohms, and those at HT (above 80 degrees C) are about 400 and 200 ohms, respectively. The resistances of the sensor for the PCM installed in my wife's car that I measured yesterday are about 3 times higher at RT and about 10 times higher at HT than the standard resistances above. Due to this substandard, the PCM may misunderstand that the engine temperature is cold even when it's warm in fact. A few websites say that this causes too much enrichment of the fuel mixture during driving so that the spark plugs may get wet and the engine can't restart easily for a while. However, when the spark plugs get dry themselves a few hours after the engine stops, the engine can restart without any trouble though it's cold.
It seems that the coolant temperature sensor of my wife's car went wrong five to ten years ago or earlier. Since then, the incomplete combustions in its engine have led to the emission of a faint irritating odor around continuously. As the spark plugs have been getting out of the best shape gradually, a hardness to start the engine when it's warm has surfaced recently.
Sent an email to some VW car dealers in Austin in order to check to see whether they currently have some coolant temperature sensors for the 1998 VW Beetle in stock or not, last evening.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Any VW dealer part shop in Austin hasn't replied to my inquiry emails via email, as usual. It seems that the genuine coolant temperature sensor (part#: 059919501/078919501B) is the safest choice. Probably, its package also includes an O-ring. The OES genuine coolant temperature sensor (WT7256) by BWD that may be available at Pep Boys looks nice.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Bought a new genuine coolant temperature sensor at a nearby Audi dealer part shop, and installed it in my wife's car early in the morning. Because of the appropriate control of the concentration of the fuel mixture, the condition of the engine of my wife's car should become better than before. Especially, its fuel efficiency should be recovered by avoiding an unnecessary enrichment of the fuel mixture while driving. No odor of incomplete combustion gas from its exhaust pipe was smelled.
Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Looked through several websites listing a lot of oil paintings. The following oil paintings attracted my attention this evening.
7. M. & I. Garmash (Floral impressionistic portraits with a certain flavor of modern Crimea)
Summer in Crimea (24" X 36")
Sweet Morning (24" X 48")
8. Pino (Beautiful nostalgic portraits which look like monochrome pictures decorated with the additive colors)
Immersed in Love (30" X 40")
A Summer Day at the Beach (40" X 31")
9. Vladimir Sorin (Realistic landscapes like a photograph)
Evening Twilight (24" X 40")
Venice Canal (24" X 36")
10. George Hallmark (Realistic US southwestern landscapes in quiet good taste)
Winter's Gift (36" X 48")
11. June Carey (Realistic landscapes with high contrast in the morning sunlight)
Medocino (24" X 48")
Near Pacheco Pass (15" X 30")
Rio Marina (32" X 21")
12. Tom DeDecker (Beautiful impressionistic cobalt blue ponds)
Lilies and Flowers (30" X 24")
13. James C. Christensen (Deformed religious pictures with the charming texture of clothes)
We Three Kings (24" X 36")
14. Robert Wood (Very skilled and popular landscapes)
Live Oak (24" X 36")
Tumbling Surf (24" X 36")
15. Phillip Philbeck (Magnificent landscapes)
Eternal Bear Spirit (38" X 76")
Grandfather Mountain (36" X 60")
16. Kevin Courter (Realistic landscapes in the warm evening sunlight)
Old Dirt Road (12" X 24")
Evening's Light (24" X 30")
17. Oleg Zhivetin (Cubist portraits having the expression of the inner thoughts)
Day Dreaming (46" X 52")
Inner Thoughts (48" X 48")
18. Alexander Volkov (Realistic landscape painter of talent)
Autumn Snowfall (34" X 48")
October Thunder (20" X 30")
Alone with the Aspens (22" X 30")
19. Rod Chase (Realistic landscapes with patriotic themes)
Blackmore Vale (24" X 36")
Pillars of Freedom (24" X 32")
20. Pierre Bittar (Professional French impressionistic painter active in the US)
Harbor Springs - Michigan, Ref# 70 - M889 (24" X 20")
Cape Ferrat - France, Ref# 24 - F591 (52" X 38")
Harbor Springs - Michigan, Ref# 12 - M1032 (36" X 24")
21. Jack Frame (Impressionistic landscapes depicting dreamy scenes with trees)
Cherry Blossom (75cm X 92cm)
Falling Blossom I (89cm X 148cm)
Autumn (57cm X 43cm)
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Got up at ten-fifteen 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.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Got up at ten-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Confirmed that the condition of my wife's car had been recovered. Currently, its engine condition is better than ever since we bought it.
Looked through some websites selling many kinds of the giclee on canvas of impressionistic oil paintings, the originals of which should be maintained at the museums or may be unavailable currently on the open market, this weekend. The following giclee prints attracted my attention.
1. Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night over the Rhone (28.5" X 36.2")
The Starry Night (29" X 36-1/4")
2. Claude Monet
Cliff Walk at Pourville (25-3/8" X 31-7/8")
Wild Poppies (25.6" X 19.7")
La Japonaise (91" X 56")
Water Lilies -Blue Reflections, 1906- (34.5" X 36.5")
3. Gustav Klimt
Music (14.7" X 17.5")
Pallas Athena (29.5" X 29.5")
The Tree of Life (76.7" X 40.2")
Water Snakes I (7.9" X 19.7")
4. Pablo Picasso
The Dream (51 1/4" X 38 1/8")
Marie Therese Walter -Thérèse Walter with Garland- 1937 (24" X 18")
5. Rembrandt van Rijn
A Man in Armour, -Alexander The Great- (54.1" X 41.1")
6. M. & I. Garmash
The Allure (36" X 24")
Under an Evergreen (40" X 20")
Summer in the Country (20" X 30")
7. Oleg Zhivetin
The Small Gift (30" X 36")
Beautiful Music (30" X 24")
8. Alexander Volkov
First Snowfall (30" X 46")
Aspen Light (18” X 27” or 32” X 48”)
Towards the Delaware (20" X 28")
Beyond The Turning (32" X 47")
Into The Wind (27" X 44")
Autumn Wine (18" X 25")
Je Te Veux (36" X 25")
Alice’s Farewell (34" X 24")
October Rain (34" X 24")
Winter Window (34" X 24")
9. Vladimir Sorin
Reflections on Loire (30" X 40")
10. Andrew Wyeth
Night Sleeper (30" X 20")
Wind From The Sea (28 1/2" X 20 3/8")
11. Michael Sowa
Bunny Dressing (20" X 28")
Sailors (28" X 20")
Monday, February 13, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western meal with glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon wine from Alexander Valley CA for dinner.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
It seems that the most certain way to avoid becoming a victim of a fake in the art market is to purchase a new original oil painting directly at the gallery of an artist who painted it and to purchase a classic masterpiece at either a credible gallery or a major auction, without relying on the Internet or middlemen. Whether it's credible or not, the Internet is a very powerful tool to collect information.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Got up at eight-thirty 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, February 19, 2012
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.
Looked through several websites listing a number of tall ship models this weekend. If I have to choose only a tall ship model, H.M.Y. Royal Caroline (Scale 1:46) is the one. If I may add more, some of the tall ship models in the 1:78 scale approximately, such as Sovereign of the Sea, HMS Victory, the Vasa, the Amerigo Vespucci, USS Constitution, the Flying Cloud, Le Soleil Royal, the San Felipe and De Zeven Provincien, are the other choices. If I can allot an extra large room for the hobby of the collections, some of the large tall ship models of Sovereign of the Sea, HMS Victory, and the Vasa (1:30 to 1:50 scale) may be selected, instead of 1:78 scale models.
Needless to say, however, a rebuild of these tall ships in the actual size (1:1 scale) should anchor at the wharf or sit in the dry dock of a memorial dockyard. An original historical ship should be maintained in the museum with good care perpetually.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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 88 degrees F (31.1 degrees F). It's a warm day for February.
Several news sources reported today that some errors in the cables of the apparatus in the OPERA project led to the mistaken result that neutrino travels faster than the speed of light. This event may have helped renew people's appreciation of the difficulties not only in the theory but also in the experiment of modern physics. It's to be desired that there's no political meaning behind it.
All or most of the principles of both the theory of relativity and classical quantum theory should be right, or at least approximately right because these were scientifically proven with the experiments. Prof. Albert Einstein was right in terms of his theory of relativity, but he was wrong in terms of the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. This provides the best example that it isn't true that all the theories he proposed and supported were right. It seems that the quintessential genius in modern physics had merely had an aversion to the uncertainty principle of quantum theory or its discoverer in his life, thought he was smart enough to know what science suggested. A well-known photograph that shows his portrait striking out his tongue at a cameraman may imply that he didn't set himself in the frame of a stereotyped scientist and didn't want to be considered as a great scientist at all. Embarrassingly, this may be one of the signs of a genuine genius who is capable of making a breakthrough.
Although I have never placed an order for the book under the title of 'Bentham' with amazon.com, a strange email informing a customer of its cancellation was delivered to my email account this afternoon.
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You just canceled order 181-4696-7444 placed on February 22, 2012.
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By: Elspeth Miller
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According to the Cobuild dictionary, "utilitarianism, the clothed skeleton of the first major proponent of which has been exhibited at University College London, is the idea that the morally correct course of action is the one that produces benefit for the greatest number of people".
My way of thinking is scientific and rather idealistic. As told frequently, people should have two points of view. One is the subjective view, and the other is the objective view. People on duty in natural and social sciences should think about matters only objectively without bringing in any subjective point of view.
My subjective point of view tells honestly that my family's and my benefit are most important to me. Our benefit should be my first priority. My objective view also tells that the morally correct course of action is the one that produces benefit for all the people. This objective view has secondary priority, tertiary priority, or lower. Prioritization is always important. This is one of the reasons why my favorite stance is slightly right of center. It's neither far right nor far left. I am neither a majority supporter nor a minority supporter.
Democracy is far from an ideal system, as well known. Although the outputs from it may be often obscurant and it's rather vulnerable against interferences from outside, democracy is a better system of government than absolute monarchy, aristocracy, and autocracy. It seems to me that a democratic society with the appropriate reins by bureaucrats and wise leads by politicians while avoiding going deep in bureaucratism and despotism, is close to the ideal at the present time. In this system, how to reflect the opinions of minorities fairly without harming the main principle of democracy is always a difficult subject. I believe that this difficult task has to be carried out by government officials in the higher echelon predominantly. Unfortunately, however, the general tendency of government officials to believe in not rocking the boat is disappointing. The pressures from outside may be able to spur on the lazy spirit of the government officials. International organizations that are on politically, ethnically, and religiously neutral ground should be necessary. Any pressure from outside getting caught up in various interests and rights predominantly through the extremist groups inside is unwelcome.
Although I have never placed an order for the book under the title of 'Selfsame' with amazon.com, a strange email informing a customer of its cancellation was again delivered to my email account this evening.
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Your order has been successfully canceled. For your reference, here's a summary of your order:
You just canceled order 13-555-61238 placed on February 23, 2012.
Status: CANCELED
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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 92 degrees F (33.3 degrees F). It's a hot day for February.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Listened to Mozart's Symphonies comparing between Mr. Karl Böhm and Mr. Trevor Pinnock at an online store this evening. This time, for the limited selection of the symphonies, only #40 and #41 (Jupiter), the difference in the quality of the recording technologies between them that I recognized one year ago wasn't so distinctive online with the limited length of samples, for some reason. However, on average over the entire symphonies, the sound quality of Mozart's Symphonies conducted by Pinnock should be better than that by Böhm simply because the one was recorded and mastered later than the other by a few decades. Contrary to last year, the acclaimed interpretation of Mozart's works by Böhm can be recognized to some degree. It seems to me that the performances of those symphonies by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra of those times might be too tense for Mozart's cheerful works. Probably, they were the best for Beethoven's works.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
My wife and I had subscribed to both Fortune magazine and Forbes magazine for a few years in the middle of the 2000s. Although we stopped subscribing to both of them several years ago, for some reason or other, Time Warner Inc. still has continued to deliver a copy of Fortune magazine to our house regularly. However, we have never read it since we unsubscribed it in either 2006 or 2007.
My wife and I would like to receive $100 million dollars in cash or a check for $100 million dollars that is made out to us, instead of copies of "Fortune magazine".
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The wiretappers asked an African man who previously professed himself to be a supporter of both the 42nd president and the wife of the 43rd president of the US to lie in wait for my wife and me under the pretense of coincident at a neighborhood FedEx office today. This sort of manner that the Asian conservatives have a liking for is unpleasant. This is simply because the fact implies that there are always spies (ninjas) hanging around us.
One of their other troublesome ways is that they often impose their convenient opinions or views on a person using a unique trick, as explained previously. With some design, some of them come to talk to a person about the opinions or views convenient for them, and afterward, they circulate a false rumor that a person has the same opinions or views as theirs. This way is troublesome because a person feels a deep-rooted distrust toward them.
