This week, I often hear the word "science girl". In my generation, the word "science boy" was also used frequently.

With hindsight, I think "science someone" is a sort of discrimination word. But the word was also used as s indulgence as a following phase.

"It cannot be helped that we don't get a girlfriend".

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(1)There is no (few) girl in our department of college, so it is natural that we have no change to meet a girl.

(2)No girl, No love.

(3)No love, to study hard.

(4)To study hard, no girl.

The above (2)～(4) keeps in a circle, and we cannot get a girl friend during campus life.

The sprechchor(in German) "Our real battle field will be coming after graduation" had been shouted in our younger generation.

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However, you know, it might be clear that this paradigm was non-logical for the science boys.

In one phase,

"Why do you think that you can get a girlfriend in work day, even if you could not do in college life?”

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They were called "science boys", so there was no reason for overlooking the fault for them.

In short, they (we) wanted to ignore their (our) daily life with no girlfriend.

A few days ago, I opened all of the voice file for learning by heart for the junior high school examination.

For the IT engineer, like me, it is not so difficult to make such voice files, but I am afraid that ordinal many people might not.

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The other day, when I asked my wife's advice with saying,

"I would like to start the free voice file making service for the guardians of student preparing for an exam."

she rapped my knuckles seriously.

"Do you have even just one second time in your life?"

I could not argue against her.

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However, it is pity for me that these files become older and nobody come to use them in the near future.

In addition, if this files could help students preparing for an exam, I want to continue the renewal operation.

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Thinking the above, I came to think of

"How to use the open source program management method"

I mean,

- Students or their guardians who want to renew the voice file, send me the renewal text file.

- After the confirmation of the text file, I make the voice file and open it on this web site.

Added,

- Persons who want new voice files, of, for example Japanese or English, could send me the new text file.

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The merit of this method is as follow.

(1)A person who want to get the renewal or new voice file, could use them, after I make them.

(2)My task is going to be not so hard, because I just make and open the file without editing.

On the other hand, the demerits of this method are as follows.

(1)Other person, who doesn't do any effort, can get the renew or new voice file easily.

(2)The above works will make you worse. Because you would make a gesture of respect to the enemy with making such a text file.

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After all, buying "Yukari-san" and trying to make voice files by yourself, are not annoying for you, even if it looks annoying.

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Now, I start this project voluntarily, about getting your text files, making and opening the voice files.

Please send me the text files by mail.

I don't promise the exact day of the open.

I might not meet your demand without opening the reasons.

Please refer to the text file on the web site, in order to understand the format of description.

I could meet your some requests (the name of file, showing your credit, etc)

In addition,

Please do not execute your copyright or others, against Ebata or the others.

In principle, I have no plan to edit the text file. But if it is needed, I am going to edit the file. So I ask you the permission of the article 28 of the copyright law in Japan.

Please take care of the infringement of right of the other person's copyright. (I think there is no problem if it's contents is within the realm of studying for exam.)

Based on the intention of this project, please refrain from using this files on business.

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Finally,

I strongly welcome your gift of the text file for university entrance exam, because I have daughters who prepare for the exam.

This weekend, for the next Monday's deadline, I am carrying out a practice ritual of "Kamioroshi".

By the way, I am watching a new program on my PC, however,

For not only me, but also a lot of people, I wonder if we could not understand "UN resolutions" correctly.

To about four years ago,

I wrote a diray about "UN resolutions" and my own interpretation. Please read it, if you have any interest.

There is words "Target marketing"

This is a kind of advertising gimmick. to use a user's preference for advertising from the record of purchase.

Amazon uses this ad normally, and Youtube also shows me my favourite program from my access records.

However, there is a web-site to give me a following advertisement.

"Rolex, CASIO, other popular branded watches and good find "

This web-site is Yahoo auction, though, this site might not activate "Target marketing".

Because they could know easily that I am going through opposite life of "popular branded watches" from my auction records.

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If they target me, they should hit me by the advertisement as a follow.

"Web-Camera, no guarantee of proper operation" "Used EtherCAT master" or "new battery for sale as used for note PC, released 15 years ago"

Recently, I read an information magazine for group companies at the corner for coffee-breaks.

In that magazine, the dialogue between a marriage consultant(woman) and a consultant (man) was described.

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Woman: "Well, let's first go on a diet"

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Yes, she is right.

If you lose weight, you can become beautiful.

If you are careful about anorexia, diet is the best cosmetic method for both men and women.

For appearance, there are (violent) effects that can not compare any expensive cosmetics.

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I can agree that that it is important, of course, to "increase intelligence," "acquire cultural knowledge," "have confidence in yourself," "active something others depend on you".

But for "romance" "marriage" strategy, -- Unfortunately -- the top of the action list is "diet".

(Continuation from yesterday)

I know that there are many devotees of this singer group.

I think that it is natural that the issue majority is interested come to a momentous news.

The attitude of both medias and the Chief Cabinet Secretary seem to be not at all unusual

However, I have thought that "What is this big uncomfortable feeling in my mind ?"

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At the present, I think the following, however that is a just my assumption.

There is no ask a question of

"What can you do against this news?

and there is also no reaction against it.

Physical abuse of children, unfair of government statistics, fraud case, traffic accident and fire accident. how much the ratio of our life is, they are also our problems too.

To hear the new, we can get angry, criticize the government and myself, and pay attentions. And we can get the problem as ourselves and come to think to avoid or resolve the problem.

However, according to "the news of disbandment of popular singer group", I could not feel more than the news content.

"This is the reason of uncomfortable feeling in my mind". This is my my assumption.

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Now I notice that

"Do many people feel "sad" for the disbandment of popular singer group ?"

That means that this news is an "obituary".

as the same obituary of actors who had been loved by the public, or politician, scientist of great attainments.

That is not "obituary" based on "love" or "familiarity", but, for example,

"I wanted to watch his/her acting" or "I wanted to keep working for our good life",

"obituary" based on "regret" of "disappearance of their performances or abilities"

Thinking the above, I could understand the reason of my unpleasant feeling.

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On the contrary, according to "the news of disbandment of popular singer group"

"I don't feel anything"

I could reconfirm that in my mind.

Now I ask some college students to help a campus field experiments.

The students in the science and engineering majors, is really polite, logical and intelligent, so I feel good to talk with them.

Incidentally, I am in the science and engineering majors.

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This time, more than 60% of the students who helped did not have a driver's license.

While thinking that I need to get a driver's license, I became "M1" (first year master's student) ...

I feel that this story is like that

"I have to take the TOEIC test before I get a job..."

This is just my guess, however, they are thinking

"Obtaining a driver's license is as annoying as taking the TOEIC test"

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I was forced to get a driving license by my parents more than 30 years ago.

At that time, I felt like I only needed a motorbike license, and I still think so.

However, this may only be felt because of the large urban transportation network.

The only exception for me, when I was sent to the United States, I thought, "If I don't have a car, I will die in three days in this country."

(To be continued)

Yesterday, I published an email from a person who had a "Notarized Declaration of Death with Dignity. Today, I received an email from him again with the following information.

====== From here ======

If you have your family, it is recommended that you discuss the contents with them.

It is common for family members to make decisions against the patient's will (e.g., begging for life-prolonging treatment) at the last minute.

====== To here ======

As a matter of fact, I am also planning to make a "Notarized Declaration of Death with Dignity," and the reason is exactly the "family".

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As you may know, I am the one who made the decision to "kill" my father.

This was a judgment based on my own beliefs, based on my own learning, knowledge, examples and "reason".

Even now, I have no regrets.

Nevertheless, it is true that it was a lot of pressure to judge other people's lives by my own beliefs.

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In contrast, my daughters, who will be the judges of my life, seem to be "completely unprepared.

Ebata: "Since I've been so clear about how I want to die, I want you to 'kill me properly' in a way that conforms to my will. You are my last line of defense"

Senior daughter: "Hmm, but I'm confident that if a doctor were to tell me in a strong tone of voice that I should prolong your life. I would easily snap"

Ebata: "Oh, my..."

Senior daughter: "Well, I won't resist for three minutes. I'm sure the doctor will break me down right away"

Ebata: "That's not good enough for me..."

Junior daughter: "In the first place, it's about your life, isn't it? You have to make sure everything is in order! You can take care of yourself, can't you?"

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Unfortunately, my daughters are the ones with the "reason" in this case.

It seems that I need to pre-install a "batch process" that will automatically activate when I am unable to express my will.

I have to be prepared for 'how to get myself killed' with that kind of determination.

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I have another parent (my mother) who is living in a bedridden state.

My mother has had the chance to make her own judgments about life-prolonging treatment once before, and she has expressed her opinion -- that she wants to prolong her life.

However, I don't know what my mother is thinking about now.

My mother is no longer allowed to express her "change of judgement".

Therefore, my mother's "final judgment" has become the principle and lock for my current actions (her care and life-prolonging treatment).

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The greatest lesson my parents left for me was -- no matter the pros and cons, the merits and demerits, the pressures and conflicts,

"I have to decide how to handle my own life"

that is the necessity of this "self-determined death", I believe.

Today, I was building an iron bar in my room.

I tried to hang on -- I felt like I was going to rip my arm off.

And the moment I let go of my hand and landed, disturbing sounds (like body parts breaking down) came from every knot in my body, echoing in my inner ear.

"I may have made something meaningless"

I thought.

Currently, I can only hang on for less than 10 seconds.

My goal is to improve this record to 60 seconds by the end of March, and to achieve "one pull-up" by the end of the year.

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It occurred to me...

"If I were to hang myself, this would be quite an ideal device"

If you are currently considering hanging yourself, try to find a place at home where you can do it.

Maybe you won't find it.

This is because ordinary houses are not equipped with equipment that can withstand a weight (50kg-100kg) load -- or rather

Maybe it was intentionally designed that way.

In the tree burial service here, a hole about 15 cm in diameter and 60 cm deep was dug and the remains were placed in the hole.

Since my father died first, then my mother, the plan was to place my father's remains first, and then my mother's on top of his.

However, the person in charge had removed the markings on the urn, and just before the bones were delivered, it was impossible to tell which remains were which.

My sister and I had a conversation for about five seconds, saying, 'This is that,' and 'Yes, I agree that", and we decided which is which on the spot.

It is currently unknown in which order the bones were delivered and will remain unknown.

That is why I call this cemetery of my father and mother as follows,

-- Schrodinger's parents

I knew that "land rises," but I had no idea I would see it in my territory during my lifetime.

- Groundwater pumping for domestic use is currently causing severe land subsidence in the capitals of many countries.

- Many areas of coastal cities are now under water due to rising sea levels caused by global warming.

I knew this from NHK specials and other sources.

However, after the Noto Peninsula earthquake, I learned about the 4-meter uplift of the coastline and learned about it on video.

I had thought that these phenomena would occur somewhere in the billion years after the birth of the earth -- in other words, they were "someone else's problem" in the distant past or future.

I realized that I was living in a billion years of history.

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Today, the theory of continental drift is evident if you look at a world map. Still, at the time, the proponent of this theory (Alfred Wegener) was widely ridiculed by the public (and quite recently (1912)).

But, well, 'the ground can't possibly move!' I can understand why you would think that.

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I heard that Hawaii was near Japan in elementary school, and I did the math.

(1) Land moves roughly 1 cm per year.

(2) The distance between Japan and Hawaii is currently 6600 km.

Applying (1) and (2) above as they are, the time required for Hawaii to reach its present position is 660,000,000 years = 660 million years

The earth was born 4.5 billion years ago, mitochondrion arose 2.1 billion years ago, multicellular organisms a billion years ago, and 600 million years ago was an ice age.

The birth of humankind is roughly 10 to 1 million years ago (0.001 to 0.01 billion years ago), so it is well longer than that,

"The ground moves surprisingly fast."

Even as a child, I thought it.

Anyway, I can't help but be amazed that the ground has risen several meters in my lifetime.