Mathematics-girl

I hated studying when I was at school. Especially mathematics was the worst lesson for me. Derivative, integral, matrix, identical equation, etc. Just what were they? For what purpose do they exist? I absolutely didn’t understand them. Still now, I don’t understand.

Despite a lack of mathematics knowledge, I’m reading a book named “Mathematics-girl”. The author of the book is Hiroshi Yuki. When I began to learn Perl language, I frequently visited his site. I also read his mail magazine. Though I didn’t have a communication between he and I, he was a person like my teacher.

After a long interval, I visited his site again. And then, I have known the book that is in high repute. Without delay, I bought the book on the same day. It was Tuesday last week.

This book made me interest in mathematics. I go to know the world that they are enjoying and want to enjoy mathematics like a puzzle. I am in no mood for studying. At the first temporary, I’ll begin to do middle school textbooks as when I restudied English.

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I hated studying when I was at school. Especially mathematics was the worst lesson for me. Derivative - derivatives, integrals, matrixces, identical equations, etc. Just what were they? What purpose did they serve? For what purpose do they exist? I absolutely didn’t understand them at the time. Still now, and I still don’t understand them now.

Despite a lack of mathematicsal knowledge, I’m reading a book named titled “Mathematics-girl”. The author of the book is authored by Hiroshi Yuki. When I began to learn the Perl programming language, I frequently visited his site. I also read his mail magazine. Though I didn’t have a communication between he and I there was no real communication between us, he was a person like my teacher.

After a long interval, I visited his site again. And then, I have known the book that is in high repute I found a highly reputed book that he wrote. Without delay any hesitation, I bought the book on the same day. It that was Tuesday last week.

This His book made got me interested in mathematics again. I go to better know the world that they are enjoying and want to enjoy mathematics like a puzzle of mathematics and how people treat it like a puzzle. I am in no mood for studying. But At the first temporary chance I get, I’ll begin to do review middle school math textbooks as when , just like I restudied did with English.

Nuance

I experienced writing a comment of a blog. A skill that I have is really poor. English sentence I write has a few variation. An example follows:

1. 「うそじゃないよ。ほんとうだってば」
2. 「うそではありません。ほんとうです」

How do I sort out and write them with the different between these sentences? I don’t know. I can’t write. If I write them both, these results became the same sentences.

1. It's not a lie but a fact.
2. It's not a lie but a fact.

I can’t write nuance because amount of words I can handle are too a few.

About this diary

Why do I virtually never write Japanese on this diary? Today, I’m going to write about it. I wonder if I can send readers words what I’m feeling. I’ll possibly try it.

I’m in situation that don’t require to use English in my life. Even if I can’t do reading, writing, listening and speaking, I’m sure I have no problem.

I’m not attending anywhere, like an English school. And there aren’t friends who are studying English around me. But it means that I don’t have any situation to need to use English. Instead if I used English, maybe everyone would look at me like a ludicrous person. So I think it’s the very least I want to use English in my blog and comments of programs I wrote.

If I was in overseas alone and there wasn’t anyone who I trust, there would be only way to use English to talk somebody, and I wouldn’t be able to use Japanese. I assume I’m in such situation and writing this blog.

How many times will I make a Japanese blog? There are times when I want to write comfortably in Japanese. But If I made a Japanese blog, I wouldn't write this English blog. I guess if I began to use Japanese of even a little, the ratio of Japanese would go on increasing on and on. So I am trying not to write Japanese.

Tantan-men witout niku soboro

Today, I went to work without my lunch box. So I had lunch at a staff canteen. Today’s noodles was tantan-men. When I have it, I bring back to memory a particular chinese restaurant.

This occasion happened at the restaurant that my wife and I had a meal seven or eight years ago. We both ordered tantan-men in the restaurant. The meals were brought on my table, and we began to have them. After a little, I realized that there was no ground meat (niku soboro) on noodles. So, I politely asked a waitress.

“Generally, is there ground meat on noodles of tantan-men? It is showing up on a picture of the menu, too. The meals we ordered are tantan-men, like they are written on this order sheet. Could it be that did you serve other’s order for us?”

And then, she went back to kitchen wearing a troubled look. Shortly she came back to our table with a cook, and he began to explain about this noodles.

“We constantly use our brain because of providing better foods. These noodles are mixed and kneaded ground meat into themselves”

It’s an amazing answer. We lost words because of unexpected answer. We pretended to be satisfied and left the restaurant. But did she and he think we accepted that answer? After we left there, maybe they laughed at us. If words he said was true, I will never go to the restaurant again. I don’t think that I want to eat such noodles. If words he said was false, I will never go to such insulting restaurant. At any rate, I will never go to the restaurant. And I have never gone there again.

My wife and I aren’t angry at them. We sometimes talk about this restaurant and laugh as a joke that is tantan-men witout niku soboro. Of course, the restaurant closed.

Do I have too much coffee?

I like coffee. I wake up at five thirty, first I make a cup of coffee each morning. I study English with having it. After an hour, my wife get out of bed. And then by seven o'clock when I leave home, I have second cup of coffee with watching news programs on TV.

After I come to work, I sit down my desk and boot up a Mac, then I have third cup of coffee with browsing web sites. Afterward I have an additional cup with doing a job . . . Ah, it’s inversion. I do a job with an additional cup. :-) At least I have four cups of coffee in the forenoon. Of course, I have a cup after lunch. It’s fifth. And then, in the afternoon I have about two cups. Totality, I seem to have about seven cups of coffee in a day.

Do I have too much coffee? I don’t think so. Is it not good for health? What do you think?

XPath statement

Following XPath statement gets nodes that are specified with a node name, only when a node differ from the previous name. In other words, if those nodes are in sequence, the node first appearing is picked from a list.

"//foo[ local-name(preceding-sibling::*[1])!='foo' ]";

At first, there was a wrong statement I described but I didn't notice any misake. Because the program worked as expected. A xml document that InDesign exported was rightly processed. However, in reality, another document had spaces in line head to indent was failed.

I wrote as such:

"... preceding-sibling::node()[1] ..."

node() was mistake. In the case of parameter, character of asterisk is correct. It seems that node() contains text nodes, too. If I want to target only element nodes, I must use asterisk in a expression of XPath.

Uh-oh, I wanted to write something else, programming excepted.

iPod touch

Finally, I bought a iPod touch! I had wavered between it and a handy dictionary for a long time as I wrote in here before, too. Last week, my iPod I was using frequently showed sad iPod icon. It's the reason I decided to buy new iPod.

At first, I tried to prepare to write a note on the iPod touch. Soon I was aware that there is no way to save my notes on it. Some softwares are introduced here saves data on someone’s server. No wonder that’s why they are web application. I hesitated to use them. Then I decided to use my wiki and added a CSS for iPod touch. But when iPod touch isn’t connected to network, I can’t save data. After all, I upgraded iPod software and am going to use memo application added at that moment.

I confirmed that iPod touch has been possible to use LDOCE, but it couldn’t use as popup window. Even so I have been quite comfortable.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express started. This is a web based product of the most known graphic editor among some desktop applications. I never say both them have the same performance, though I think it has enough functions to be used by amateurs. This software relates to the picasaweb. It’s useful for Blogger users. I immediately got its account. At present, there are no other option but to select U.S. as living area. Even so there is no problem with selecting it.

... After I used this for a minute or two, of course I felt that comfortable using of a desktop application was better than a web based product. But a version of PhotoShop I personally bought last was CS, not CS2. Perhaps I won't buy it in the days ahead. Then maybe I should get use to it.

Some day in the future, I guess .... I wonder a layout software of desktop publishing will become a web based product in common with PhotoShop. It’ll be much less likely to become common because layout software is not popular as much as graphic editor.

What a cat gazes at

There is an empty land beyond the gaze of a cat in this picture. Next my house is blank space. In every morning and early-evening, many people take a dog for a walk and go round there. 

In these day, she seems pleased with looking at it through the window. No, although there is nobody, she sits gazing into space.

I put a wooden box underneath the window on the desk. Because she was on a printer before doing that. Such a place was bad condition for her to feel at ease. And I sometimes troubled her to turn it on. Please enjoy gazing dog-walking to the full.

April Fool

I'm shocked! A icon of application, MacJournal is rendering upside down ...


Today is 1 April. I love such the MacJournal!(^.^)