The disk refragementer started up as scheduled. There should be some information erased. I don't know.
The next day, it was snowing heavily. Watching the pieces of small snowflake flying the world, there were some slight, peaceful delights leaking out of the bland sectors.
--in memorial of the first snowfall in the year of 2008. Tokyo.
I shouldn't complain but just can't help.
When I saw the new UI (until July 11, 2007) of google docs, I gasped then cried to myself: "What's that? An online Explore from Microsoft?"
Google's Rules are violated by googlers.
Rule #1. Simple is beautiful.
Rule #2. be creative.
well. I love google, but not this time.
"ドアが閉まります〜ドアが閉まります〜"
and midi was runing! Ran down the stairs! Rushed to the door! and the door closed just in front of me...
People inside stared at midi outside with no expression.(Yes,it's the typical Tokyo. No expression is the only exrression of the city.)
Midi made a sad face exaggratedly(since they would not judge, or at least would not judge utterly). I guess everyone within 20 miles around me could feel how frustrated I was...
What's the time for the next train? 20minuts later? or 30? When midi was looking around for a seat. The train gave a slight shake, however, no it's not leaving! The door openned, first uncertainly, then steadily. Midi, astonished(Just imangine how surprise u will be when u see a prince after kissing the frog!), With the same exaggerated but lucky face, midi stepped in~
Now a western lady, about 50) beside me is makingt up, and the high school girl opposite to me is eating instant noodle. midi sit here with no expression （i.e. no judgement) typing on the phone,wandering：y the door opened again?
Maybe it's wrong. But I'd like to think it as a kindness from the midnight driver-- They are famous to the whole world for their being on time and stiking to the rules.
midi@phone
My stomache ached this afternoon. In fact it keeps aching since I landing onto Hyderabad.
So I decide coming back to hotel earlier. So I called a cab. So without exception the driver wanted to charge me more than the price we have agreed on. That price, by the way, is already much more than usuall. So I yelled at him, said no no no! So now I found I lost my camera on his cab and he of course has gone, disappeared, without any possibility being found again in this old, giant hyderabad.
Today I was organizing the photos in my mobile phone. So here is the special post for food. :) enjoy!
I added some comments to the photos at flickr. especially the place to find the best. Cilck into the photos if intested in.
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There is always something in one's life, no matter how hard we try, no matter how well we prepare, we just CANNOT make it. Midi's doomed-to-fail 'something' is to read the map.
Just now it took me almost 1 hour riding back hongo campus from akihabara.
With a map printed from Yahoo!.
With the normal time being 15 minutes!!!
My problem is: I fully understand the map, but never succeed in mapping it to the real world...orz.
I knew finally I would be in hongo safely, but the feeling is bad. It always is.
annoyed midi@mobile phone.
Last week a little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking COCA COLA together.
Coke + Mentos = ?
Here is the (among innumerous) answer from youtube:
(msn space & rss reader click here)
Midi LOVE diet Coke, as all friends know. Yes, I know that coke damages your body, escpecially bad for women, especially the diet. But midi is OK with any (so-called bad) things as long as they won't kill me in a sudden. Like cigeratte, coffee, hair color cream with ammonia... and. Coke.
Since I agree that "life is short, have fun"(ref the XBOX ad.).
Now seems coke goes beyond my bottom line. This time Mentos shows out, what's next?
Sayouunara, Coke.
To begin with, today's blog will be relatively long. But I HOPE you will be patient enough to finish it. And it will be one in mixed Chinese and English, which I tried my best to avoid in the past, as I hope people from both sides can read and *undersand* it.
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About the PS3 Debut in Japan.
No.
I am not ganna cheer for the debut or complain about its quick sold out. In fact midi is not so much into it. Only there happens to be some (male) gamer friends and they mentioned ps3 from time to time.
Should I feel lucky because the first buyer is a Chinese, like here. Or feel ashamed according to the report from a Japanese newspaper (check the pic below)
No, midi just feel upsetted.
Two news about the ps3.
news #1. from the Japanese newspaper:
I will try to translate it roughly and partially - due to my struggling Japanese - for friends who can't read Japanese. If there were any mistakes please comment.
“PS3于11日早上市，在各地的家电贩卖店门口大量游戏迷排长队等侯，其中可见大量的中国人，集团购买使得索尼和家电商场相当困扰。
福冈市多博的“yodobashi camera multimeida多博”店可限量售出200台PS3,但是从前一天晚上开始就有400人排队等候。据店内工作人员说，排队的大部分是中国人。从早上七点开卖起，中国人听从一个似乎叫做‘元缔’的人的指示，将一台台ps3购买入荷。刚买来的机器原封不动的堆放在店内的一角。这些中国人像是给‘元缔’打工，卖完后可以得到酬劳。
买机器的时候，只能讲少许的日语，靠手势于店员交流。店内时不时能听到因为没被找钱（？not sure），而怒喝‘元缔’的中国人的声音。早八点ps3全部卖完。‘元缔’的两辆车中推满ps3。”
店内负责人说，以前中国人大量来买游戏机的事情以前也发生过，好像是有组织的（not sure)。真是麻烦。得采取点什么措施才行。
同在多博中区的bic camera天神二号馆，限量贩卖50台，约有20名中国人，很像集团购买的样子参加抽选。SCE也发来有中国人有组织的集团购买的消息。该公司广告部职员说：‘因该是处于转手贩卖目的买机器的。这对那些完全为了娱乐而买及其色顾客造成了很大的不便。虽然我们很想处理。但是很难从买者中证据确凿的分辨两者。也没有相应的取缔措施。’
10点开始yahoo auction上，已经开始有ps3在卖，合计预售券为1500件。ps3机型有两种，便宜的开价40，080yen，贵的机型开价在六万左右，大容量HDD装载的高端型号甚至有20万成交的案例。”
News #2: Now the Foreigners And Fights, PS3 JPN Launch's Dark Side with more detailed descriptions, and even pic and video taken and sent by Dirk Benedict, who lives in tokyo.
"Everybody, the PlayStation 3 is the door to a new world of interactive entertainment," the spunky Japanese rep trumpeted as SCE CEO Ken Kutaragi joined her on stage.
Unfortunately for her and the rest of the Sony entourage, the men and women standing patiently in the front of the line either didn't understand what she was saying, or didn't care - the first buyers of PS3 were largely elderly Chinese men and young Chinese women with shaky Japanese language skills.
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ps3的首批买者是中国人-老年人或者年轻妇女，日语蹩脚。她们大部分不理解也不关心ps3带来的革命与兴奋。
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This is the true face of the PlayStation 3 debut in Japan. Hardcore gamers are not here waiting in line overnight, buying a first-run PS3, and running home to play some good old next-gen gaming. Rather, opportunistic Japanese businessmen have the largest presence, hiring poor Chinese men and women to wait in line for a PS3, one which will later be sold on web auctions to wealthy gamers around the world for exorbitant amounts of money.
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这就是ps3首发的真实场景。并不是铁杆游戏迷在彻夜排队。相反，这里出现最多的，是日本的投机商人，以及他们雇用的贫穷的中国男男女女。后者排着长队等着买ps3。它们将在在网上以离谱的高价被卖给世界各地的富裕游戏玩家。
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The pressure was too much as the line busted open and more pushing ensued (which broke out in front of the waiting truck), causing those waiting in back to push forward, inching themselves closer to the finish line with a prideful Kutaragi waiting.
One man truly leveled-up - the chaos allowed him to push forward from roughly 200th in place all the way up to 20th in line.
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拥挤和插队。
"Today I witnessed the most disturbing side of the video game industry in my three decades of game fandom. It's not the Chinese that I'm upset about. Who can blame them? If you're poor and without a good job in Japan, 20,000 yen to wait in line isn't a bad deal. And for ambitious people like the Chinese students I encountered who scored five PS3s, this hardware launch could net them thousands of dollars in profit through online auditioning - that's more money for them to spend on tuition. These are the lucky Chinese kids in Japan, getting an education, and trying to get ahead in life. If these kids are good students, who's to say that they should be playing PS3 instead of using the console to afford more education? "
我想说，This is the hardest part for midi. Yes, it's reasonable, it's true, and it hurts.
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OK, midi apologizes to the (rich ^^) PS funs for my poor folks. Although the author of the 2nd news is kind enough who just discussed the possible solutions against similar situations in the future for Japanese society.
To my I folks, I know, I can't simply say it's wrong, especially if it is a matter of living. But if you have a decent job, please don't join the line for more money.
If you are in China, what's the feeling when you use the "hacked" machine shipped to you in this way?
“东京也无非是这样。上野的樱花烂熳的时节，望去确也象绯红的轻云，但花下也缺不了成群结队的"清国留学生"的速成班，头顶上盘着大辫子，顶得学生制帽的顶上高高耸起，形成一座富士山。也有解散辫子，盘得平的，除下帽来，油光可鉴，宛如小姑娘的发髻一般，还要将脖子扭几扭。实在标致极了。”
YouTube is awesome~~~~
Well...I failed to find the "the firefly's song", but there is "remember when".
MSN space & RSS reader click here for the video, and also here for the brokeback-mountain-version of "remember when".
As for midi, I like the hetero version, where Alan Jackson is really charming~~~
my motivation of this post is "the firefly's song".
the firefly's song -- Alan Jackson
...i used to sing with a young man's voice/a young man's heart/and a young man's choice/hope my song is what you're longing for/i don't sing like i used to/sometimes less is more/...
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大家原谅一下，没有了国内的访问量，只好用英文来欺骗一下英语读者维持blog的pagerank。而其中最好的方法就是贴歌词。知道为什么么？因为一般人都会用“歌名”+midi来google。你不会知道，在midi的访问历史里面，"where the wild rose grows" + "midi"有多大的分量~~
以前好像说过，起谜笛这个名字是为了大隐隐于市的。嘿嘿，没想到还有别的好处。不小心走在了时尚前列，变成了“低调的浮夸”。
今天不知道怎么，脑海中突然升起一句话，“人生就是做减法”。觉得特别适合描述现在自己的状态。可是如果要写blog，似乎又缺了些感觉来触发。正好听到今天的VOA，一反平时讲伊拉克北朝六国会谈，说的是Alan Jackson的专辑。Like Red on a Rose。
他唱Sometimes less is more...
世界很奇妙。比如我虽然有断背山的avi可是一直没有看。因为似乎对自己而言，影片的好看与否比不过“未知”重要。因此大家都有了定论的电影，反而不容易提起精神去看。之后看到leia（？）在DH上了断背的所有插曲。照理说这种情况我一定跟进找来听的；可是懒了一下，错过。再之后，小丁回国前大家互赠礼物。我收到的就是断背的电影剧本(-_-!)。上面小丁写："midiちゃんが好きだよ！"，明显想拐我上断背不归路。很多事情，怎么努力就是错过；又很多事情，你不经意忽略它一千次，它还是会一千零一次的等你发现给你惊喜。就好像Alan Jackson和它的音乐:-)。
这张Like Red on a Rose要加入midi的“欲しい物リスト”(购物列表)。
Remember the "Free Hugs" post?
Now, "Free Hugs" reached Beijing. 
On 29th Oct, someone offered free hugs at WuDaoKou, Beijing.
Here you can find the photos taken by one of the members.
>> Pay special attention to the "Lotus Blossoms" in the 2nd and 3rd pics. It is a super market near Tsinghua University, one of the most famous Universities in China, with a nick "WuDaoKou Male Technology Institute". Thus midi can assure you, the place was WuDaoKou. :P
ref:
possibility theory from wikipedia
probability theory
Dempster-Shafer theory
Take a look at:
http://www.keikos-homepage.jp/funtime.htm
And have fun.
Orz.......
(Guess msn space doesnot allow for embedded object, click here for the video)
I always feel guilty for blogging in the morning, it's the working time. (Although I do surf the internet in the morning.:P)
And I am always reluctant to add music/video in my post, which would annoy the reader I think.
Well...have a look at the video in YouTube. I feel so touched and teared...
"Sometimes, a hug is all what we need."
some background:
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Free Hugs: The Virus of Connection
"folksonomyies are self-organized systems."
-- Emergent Semantics Principles and Issues. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications.
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self-organization from wikipedia
Self-organization is a process in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source.
Citing:
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As mentioned above, phenomena from mathematics and computer science such as cellular automata, random graphs, and some instances of evolutionary computation and artificial life exhibit features of self-organization. In swarm robotics, self-organization is used to produce emergent behavior.
In particular the theory of random graphs has been used as a justification for self-organization as a general principle of complex systems.
The self-organizing behaviour of social animals and the self-organization of simple mathematical structures both suggest that self-organization should be expected in human society.
Tell-tale signs of self-organization are usually statistical properties shared with self-organizing physical systems (see Zipf's law, power law, Pareto principle).
Examples such as Critical Mass (bicycle), herd behaviour, groupthink and others, abound in sociology, economics, behavioral finance and anthropology.
In economics, a market economy is sometimes said to be self-organizing. Friedrich Hayek coined the term catallaxy to describe a "self-organizing system of voluntary co-operation," in regard to capitalism. Advocates of laissez-faire hold that a centrally-planned economy makes the system less organized and less efficient. By contrast, some socialist economists consider that market failures are so significant that self-organization produces bad results and that the state should direct production and pricing. Many economists adopt an intermediate position that and recommend a mixture of market economy and command economy characteristics (sometimes called a mixed economy).
Non-thermodynamic concepts of entropy and self-organization have been explored by many theorists. Cliff Joslyn and colleagues and their so-called "global brain" projects, and Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind" idea, are examples of applications of these principles - see collective intelligence.
Donella Meadows, who codified twelve leverage points that a self-organizing system could exploit to organize itself, was one of a school of theorists who saw human creativity as part of a general process of adapting human lifeways to the planet and taking humans out of conflict with natural processes. See Gaia philosophy, deep ecology, ecology movement and Green movement for similar self-organizing ideals.
"Eraser
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need you
dream you
find you
taste you
fuck you
use you
scar you
break you
lose me
hate me
smash me
erase me
REF.
...in JS a function is also an object. You can pass a function around as an argument to another function just like you can pass a string, for example. This is extensively used and very handy.
...
var myDog = {
bark: function(){
alert('Woof!');
}
};
var myCat = {
meow: function(){
alert('I am a lazy cat. I will not meow for you.');
}
};
function annoyThePet(petFunction){
//let's see what the pet can do
petFunction();
}
//annoy the dog:
annoyThePet(myDog.bark);
//annoy the cat:
annoyThePet(myCat.meow);
hakodate(函館) has one of the three most beautiful nightviews in the world. The other two are in HongKong and $%&. But it was clouldy today and the staff of touring bus told us we could see nothing from the mountain top. He is warm hearted and introduced another route to us.
The city in the night is beautiful, but sooooo cold. "I feel cold while only seeing u girls" （見てだけ寒いよ〜) the staff said. I guess the temperature was ~21゜.
But I am not dissapointed at missed the nighview. People should not get the best gift of the world so easily, otherwise we are likely to loose the respectation to the nature and imagine we ourselves are God. I guess at this point I am a traditional Chinese which is opposited to the American spirit.
We found an western resturant for dinner. The building is restructed from a factory, similar to 798 art museum in Beijing. The taste was merely ok for me but it was the first time in our trip that we could seat quietly and eat.
Today's hotel is extremely cheap: 2500yen per person. Just cant believe it! But the quality is ok. I rank it number 2 of all the hotels in the past 4 nights.
Tommorrow is the last of our trip... It's hard to figure out my mood when typing those words.
迷笛@函館
