Friday, May 1, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a nice warm day.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Today's maximum temperature here is 27.1 degrees C (80.8 degrees F).
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch. Visited Tsurumine Park this afternoon to enjoy the azalea blossoms. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A white-headed large raptor appeared again yesterday afternoon. That bird reminded me of a strange large raptor that came down on the roof of my former house in Texas in August 2011. According to some websites, the bald eagle doesn't usually stay in Texas during high summer and it doesn't live in the wild of Nagano prefecture. Steller's sea eagle, which is a large raptor with some white patterns on its wings, doesn't fly over Nagano in spring. It's still unidentified what those white-headed raptors are. One in Texas might be just a lone bald eagle peculiar in behavior and the other in Nagano might be a huge kite holding a white plastic bag with its beak for mending its nest. On the other hand, it's certain that my hair is becoming gray.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A series of tremors due to the increasing volcanic activities of Mt. Hakone in Kanagawa prefecture have been detected recently, according to the Meteorological Agency of Japan. The cross-sectional sketches depicting the magma chamber that's located deep underneath the active volcano and the video images showing the strong eruptions of steam from many crevasses on the ground inside its caldera suggest the application of it to the geothermal power generation to me at any time when theses are shown on TV. The underground magma chamber looks like a huge reactor core that doesn't require any fueling.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
From the viewpoint of the American strategists who armed themselves with the atomic bombs for the first time late in WWII, the passage of Japan's technologies, especially the naval armaments including the E400-type submarine, into the hands of their next opponent the former Soviet Union, should have been rather menacing. Those days, they were busily engaged in gaining the rocket scientists and engineers from Germany, which was already defeated. It should be rather easy for them to become aware of the dangerousness of the combinational uses of an atomic bomb and either a submarine or a rocket with an intercontinental range.
The choices of the cities in Japan and the detailed locations within these cities for the aerial bombings and also the choices of types of bombs for these purposes during WWII were conducted while giving high priority to removing the experts in the weapon developments and the craft workers, rather than to demolish the armories. This is simply because it should take a much longer time to set up for the experts and the workers than to rebuild the armories, and the potential risks of passing Japan's technologies into the hands of the former Soviet Union could be minimized. Probably, the leading Japanese experts in naval armaments were considered to be a security risk to their own country in those days.
Japan can't rationalize its blame for those aerial bombings by the US, except for two bombings, because Japan started that war, and people of today can't sit in judgment on the leaders responsible for those bombings carried out about seventy years ago on the basis of the present ethical standards and technology levels. However, it goes without saying that the atomic bombings against two major cities near the major naval ports of Japan mustn't be justifiable simply because these bombings were too devastating and ill-advised. Those atomic bombings claimed a large number of lives of innocent civilians including women and children who didn't engage in any military businesses at all.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The US was unable to win the Vietnam War even though it had much greater military power sustained by its financial successes and advanced technologies. It's rather ironic that the main cause of that miscarriage originated from the existence of what it first invented and developed for itself during WWII. Its real opponent in those days also succeeded in developing that weapon and then both countries competed with each other in strengthening the destructiveness and increasing the number of that kind of intensified bombs in a frenzy of fearfulness and suspiciousness during the following period. Once the Cold War structure was formed, no country was able to achieve a great triumph in the war involved in that structure.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The US was unable to win the Vietnam War lingering over about fifteen years under the Cold War structure, but it finally won the Cold War on the whole in the early 1990s. With the times, the intrinsic weakness of the socialist system had become prominent gradually in all the counties within the socialist-communist block until that time. On the other side, it's my view that the addition of the powers driven by the rapid growth in the modern industries mostly on the West Coast, which actually contained various implications, to the established powers on the East Coast in the US determined the outcome of the Cold War.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the US and some European countries entered clearly the era of war on terrorism. The influences of the accumulation of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere on the climate of the earth have become overt around the turn of the century and have been getting stronger. The severe droughts have been devastating the plains of the western and central regions, and desertification has proceeded in these regions. The frequency of disasters some huge tornados causing extensive damage to some residential districts not only in the southwest-central region but also in its wide neighboring regions has been increasing. The proliferation of what the US first invented during WWII in countries out of its controllable range is one of the vital concerns about the war on terrorism and one of the major hindrances for people to hesitate to take drastic measures to suppress climate change. As a man sows, so shall he reap. The time to gain only the profits by means of threatening was over. The time to abolish nuclear weapons entirely from the earth may be coming though it's a very difficult duty.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Differently from the desires of my heart, it's my forecast with the highest possibility that the future world thirty years from now won't receive any significant changes in terms of the abolishment of nuclear weapons, the control of terrorism, and the relief of climate changes, and the climate changes will deepen gradually. The number of Americans who see the disadvantages in the existence of nuclear weapons may be somewhat increasing, but the number of Europeans and Eurasians who see the advantages in climate change may be increasing. The cause of the recent epidemic of terrorism is really deep-rooted. China is currently gaining in its influence and initiative at a rapid pace but this trend hasn't led the world in a desirable direction so far. A mild Cold War structure, which may retrace the world situations, is returning to some extent.
Overall, the key tangle of these issues should be deeply related to the existence of what the US first invented during WWII. As long as this tangle is left unraveled or any clever accommodation isn't reached, people of the future world won't see any favorable progress in terms of the aspects above.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Because the season's 6th typhoon is approaching, the weather conditions here are unstable today. The next 7th typhoon was formed a few days ago in the Pacific. The number of typhoon formations this year is the highest in the meteorology records over the period of the last few decades so far. Both the frequency of the typhoon formations and the intensity of these on average may be increasing.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My electronic dictionary has been out of order completely since last month. Not only my electronic dictionary but also my computer mouse has been prone to malfunctioning since freezing in January and February of this year. Its clicking isn't well-controllable. It shouldn't be a mere coincidence that both can be classified as hand-held devices. It seems to me that the formations of dew on some inner metal parts of both devices that occurred when these were considerably cooled down before being held in a warm palm have caused these troubles. How to disassemble this faulty mouse without breaking it is unknown.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
In order to restore the original state of my electronic dictionary, the contact surfaces of the foil electrodes of the flexible cable were gently scoured and the locations of the contacts were slightly adjusted last month. Although the condition of my electronic dictionary was once recovered, the same malfunction recurred only a week after my running repair. At that time, the same running repair as before wasn't helpful. These symptoms clearly suggested that some other electrodes inside it may have become rusty too. Last Saturday, a small amount of the so-called contact spray was applied to the connector of its printed circuit board while covering the delicate flexible cables with a few sheets of tissue. Probably because my previous running repair fixed the trouble with this particular contact barely, the application of the contact spray to the connecter made no improvement. Then, the keyboard module, which a repairman probably installed in the electronic dictionary to fix the same trouble two years ago and should be most suspicious this time again, was removed from the electronic dictionary, and the contact spray was also sprayed over its inner parts through some tiny gaps randomly. Unfortunately, the application of the contact spray damaged a necessary rubber-made part of the keyboard module, so the replacement with a new keyboard module, which isn't sold to consumers, may be necessary. My attempt to extend the life span of these rusty parts was unsuccessful. Although the purchase of a brand-new electronic dictionary should be a more desirable choice than the repair, I would like to keep it as a backup dictionary in any case.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
It's my understanding that there is an unwritten custom for some sort of people to impose their convenient ideas on others in Japan. Whether the custom was independently developed in Japan or previously imported from either another Asian country or a European country is still unknown to me. In short, the custom is only a fake. In other words, it's no good as a manner to degrade others by some people who have no right to do so. A telephone conversation today reminded me of some past occurrences. The reminiscence of those occurrences made me feel weird this afternoon.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
An unknown insect bit the skin of my right arm about ten times in the front yard this afternoon. That insect seems not to be so venomous. For the next few months, the application of a spray of insect repellent to the surface of my bare skin should be necessary before entering the tussock.
Monday, May 18, 2015
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
Motorcycle touring was one of my hobbies in my school days. I owned a used motorcycle with a two-cycle single-cylinder engine, a compact truss frame plated with chromium, and a dark navy gasoline tank (Yamaha SDR), by making an appropriation of a small part of my salary gained from summer and winter jobs for its payment. However, I didn't like to ride my motorcycle together with many others as a member of a group. My hobby of riding a motorcycle in those days fitted well with my meditative tendency and might grow to some degree. When it's fine on the weekend, those days, I sometimes go on a one-hour ride to a seashore site nearby the Kasai Seaside Park and Tokyo Disney Land alone in order to read either a physics book or a novel there in the warm sunshine.
BTW, being meditative while riding a motorcycle shouldn't be recommended for anyone because it's risky. Although my motorcycle had experienced some tumbles on the road in several years, my AGV helmet and I had gotten only some minor scratches, fortunately.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The X-37B unmanned spacecraft, which the US Air Force currently operates, was scheduled to launch out to restart orbiting the earth for the purpose of a secret mission within the next few days. Based upon the Outer Space Treaty the X-37B can't carry that destructive weapon legally and officially, but the presence of this space cargo drone carrying a confidential object in a low orbit around the earth for a long period of time is still ominous for some sorts of people. As many are guessing, the X-37B may be a prototype of future space aviation that's capable of attaching to any place on the earth in a relatively short period of time in theory. For the purpose of threatening others, this prototype has already come on strong enough.
Today, some news sources reported dubious news about the plan that a laser cannon might be installed in the International Space Station in the near future in order to protect itself against the potential collision with wandering space debris. Actually, this can be a prototype of a future defense system against the conventional ICBMs and the above type of new space weapons. However, this news may be only black humor concerning the power balance between the sovereign and the rebels on the international stages, which a sarcastic journalist from one of the ISS member countries makes a great point of guarding the Outer Space Treaty spread around.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
At the end of this year, the latest episode of the Star Wars movies will be released. About three decades have passed since the Strategic Defense Initiative was first announced in public. The realization of some of these robot weapons and laser weapons designed for military uses in outer space, like some weapons that flourished in a series of this movie sequels or proposed for the SDI, have already been fulfilled to some extent or will soon become possible. However, it should be much better for these advanced weapons not to be thrown into any practical use. The resolution of the causes of the troubles by peaceful ways and means should always be more desirable.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
What a Chinese ambassador to the United Nations has recently stated at the NPT assembly was weird. The choice of the Chinese ambassador and the current stream may hint at who asked the government party of the People's Republic of China to let its ambassador speak like that. That statement is repugnant to most people from the non-nuclear power nations, so it may create a political situation favorable for the Japanese government for a while if they don't mess up.
Friday, May 22, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Although the second and third in its three installments were rather mediocre, the first of the Hollywood movie The Matrix was fascinating to me. It describes the human world where the brains of all the people except some rebels are connected to the computer system directly by wire soon after they are born, and they stay in a life-support cradle until their deaths while living in a virtual world that the computer system creates and AI totally administers and feeding the electric energy generated from the human bodies into the entire machines, without knowing it. In the movie, for some reason or other, humankind slides into the situation of a domestic animal though, unlike it, they can continue to live in a virtual world where things seem to be going on normally as long as they don't notice the covert truth and don't revolt against the AI's administration. The virtual world that the computer system is generating and AI is controlling is prospering in the Matrix. Because AI doesn't possess any humanity both in good and in bad, its administration goes on fairly and objectively and may help humankind avoid being threatened with extinction in the Matrix world.
On the other hand, in our real world, most people have increasingly connected themselves to the computer network either by wired or wireless utilizing various means of their own accord willingly. If people have no plan to commit any criminal act in their lives the growing tendency for them to be connected to the computer network shouldn't be so problematic, but this modern situation convenient for a large majority of people have ever made some minor flutters by creating the new opportunities for some potential criminals to get committing the new kinds of criminal acts. From the viewpoint of the administration, however, the evolving world situation that is coming closer to the Matrix world is more favorable for them even though some of the negative aspects above are taken into consideration. What I would like to mention today is that the fairness, cleanness, reasonableness, logicalness, objectiveness, farsightedness, etc. of future AI may be an ideal example for government officials to follow though it's driven to an extreme. In other words, strengthening only the administration powers without improving and modernizing the ethical and moral standards of the governments will aggravate the diseases prevailing among human societies. The reasoning behind the mysteries of who in our actual world corresponds to the Architecture and its creator in the Matrix movie and when he or she contrived this evolving and expanding large-scale administration covering most societies on the earth and started it may be curious. He or she should be brilliant intellectually and farsighted among others.
BTW, the peculiar concept of causality that can be found in the Matrix movie is unacceptable to me. That's obviously contradictory to the UCCR theory.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A strong rainstorm brought outbreaks of flash floods and tornados to many cities of Oklahoma and Texas in the US and of the northern states in Mexico yesterday and today. A long-lasting drought has been devastating the plains of California. A severe heat wave grilled the grounds of India recently. It's forecasted that the maximum temperature will be about 30 degrees C (86.0 degrees F) even here in the highlands of Japan for the next few days. Climate change has inflicted more serious impacts on the tropical, subtropical, temperate, and semi-desert zones than on other zones.
The agreement with the signatories of the NPT about a newly proposed draft was failed to reach with one assent this time. Currently, there is little certainty that things concerning climate change will improve desirably.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The Internal Revenue Service of the US announced that a large amount of personal tax information had been stolen from its database for the last four months. The US government should be more interested in the other mystery that where a counterpart in our real world to another character wearing a shiny black cat-suit in the movie is currently living, in the US, Russia, China, North Korea, a European country, a Central-South American country or a Middle Eastern country than in the mysteries I wrote in my diary last week.
The Trinity River that flew through the east of Houston Texas overflowed with heavy rain yesterday. On some websites, there are many photo images exhibiting the widespread damage from flooding not only in the riverside districts but also in the urban districts of Houston.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
According to Reuters, a VP of Apple Inc. suggested a likelihood that it might embark upon the automobile undertaking. When Apple Inc. really succeeds in the development and sales promotions of new automobiles with its Apple emblem in the near future, the proportion of American cars to the other cars that are sold in Japan may soar fairly. If it's really incarnated, this news builds up the hope that Apple Inc. will promote a trend in selling not only left-hand-drive American cars but also right-hand-drive American cars in the Japanese market.
I feel no difficulty in driving a right-hand-drive car on the left-hand traffic road and vice versa. Probably, however, the possibility of a traffic accident with which I may meet should increase considerably when I begin to drive a left-hand-drive car on the left-hand traffic road or a right-hand-drive car on the right-hand traffic road before getting well accustomed to doing so for a while. I have never heard that the Japanese government has been wavering in its switching from the left-hand traffic road to the right-hand traffic road.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.
