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二条若狭屋 家喜芋

二条若狭屋の「焼き芋」を食べた。
何年か前から、近くのデパートでも全国の銘菓をいろいろ売るようになった。話に聞いていただけの有名なお菓子を目にする。つい買ってしまう。
お菓子の世界も日進月歩なのだろう。そういうずっと以前からあるお菓子は、「まあまあだけれどもまあとりたてて言うほどでも」という感想になることが多い。この「焼き芋」もそうだ。

# by mamineko110 | 2016-02-08 07:25

Is it hotter than old days?

It's really hot! I felt very hot in Osaka. I had been to Osaka. I felt as if Osaka were a part of subtropical zone. It was far different from the climate of the Tokyo metropolitan area. It is not that hot in The tokyo metropolitan area.

On Monday of the July 8th, there was a heavy rain and thunder in the east part of Tokyo in the late afternoon. The rainy season ended, since when we have been experiencing an extremely hot season. The end of the rainy season eas officially declared to have ended.

"If you don't care, you don't feel hot." This is not true. The heat rushes on my chest prove it.
I can clean the room; do the washing and cooking though I keep complaining when doing so" I feel hot! Hot!" I move around, get sweaty, and then take a shower and wash the sweat away. It's all right. On the other hand I can't do the desk work without air-conditioning. I can't concentrate in a hot and humid room.

Do we suffer heat stroke long ago? Even if we did suffer heat stroke, wasn't the news reported? Or the Japanese have got intorlerable for heat recently?

I noticed that the number of heat stroke patients has increased since 1995, as I visited the website of National Institute for Enviromenta Studies. However, when I read more closely, I found that the number of fatalities has increased since 1994, and one one of the reasons for increase of the fatality number in 1995 is said to be the reveasion of the law for making death certificate accompanied with the change of international sorting of disease in 1995. It also says that the primary cause for increasing the death toll is the ageing populations.

When I was a child, we didn't have the word "heat stroke". We only had "sun stroke". It was also hot in summer. I remember that the melted asphalt stuck the sole of sneakers. I occasionally felt dizzy in the heat. This sense of mine that it was also hot in those days is almost right becasue we can make sure of it by consulting the past weather of major cities throughout Japan. In midsummer and midwinter more old people and sick persons died today although I couln't find sipporting statistics. We have the phrases; "somebody couldn't survive the summer"; "somebody couldn't survive the winter". We had poor nutrition and hygiene, it was emphasized that we must show guts without a right reason in those days. I speculate that the death toll of the middle aged from heat stroke was larger than today.

It is certain that the average yearly temperature in Japan has riseb over the last 100years. The statics issued by the meteological agency proves it, and some old people say that they realize the same. I guess that it is not hotter in summer, but that the winter has become milder. My conclusion is that it was and is hot in summer, and some of us suffered and suffer from the summer heat.

# by mamineko110 | 2013-07-11 23:16

TUBES A Journey to the Center of the Internet

Our hometown library mailed me that they were ready with the book I had been waiting for. The totle is "TUBES A Journey to the Center of the Internet". Did I ask them to get such a book?...... I don't remember at all. A few days later I went to the library and opened the book. This book is printed in small letters. I don't have the energy to read the book now. I read through a few pages and then I gave up.

I have been using iPhone for four years. The iCloud has become available since the introduction of iPhone 4. I wondered "What's this ?!" when I saw the icon for the first time. It is said that our data would be saved instead of being saved in the PC by ourselves.Since then I haven't saved my back-up in the PC.I'm afraid that the naming is misleading; I mean we may misunderstand hat iCloud is something like one of the clouds in the sky; our data is stored in such a cloud. Even if we don7t think that it is a real cloud, we may misunderstand it for some kind of a breakthrough.

I have been thinking what the internet is. We should need some hardware other than a PC or a smartphone. What is going on about them? When we installed an optical cable system for the internet connection, the provider worked on the power pole outside for some days, then they drew the cable into the house. Such work and installation are necessary for the internet all over the place. I think that an enormous amoount of such connections enables the communication with the opposite side of the earth. this book may say such and such: how the Internet works physically. I am truly curious about a lot of thing. It's my troublesome habit to get curious sbout something in details. I want to know the content; however I don't have energy to read it through. I wish if I could find an easy capsule review which summarizes the contnt.

i found a book review on the net finally. The review says as below: this book is a reportage on the physical infrastructure of internet and a rare book which invites readers to the entity of the Internet. we often use words like "cloud" or "wireless",then gradually come to think as if the internet was an intangible virtual space. After reading through this book you throughly understand that it is an aggregate of cables. Your Email to your friend in the US is not sent directly by wireless, but goes through the underwater cable kaid under the Pacific Ocean. The Internet is a tangible entity of substances.

# by mamineko110 | 2013-05-17 23:49 | うだうだ

Point cards and face-recognition vending machine

I found the difference between point cards and loyalty stamps the other day. When we make a point card, we write our name, telephine number and address in the application form. I didn't think of writing a false name and address at that time. I guessed most people write their real names and addresses.
We hand the point cadrs every time we pay at the register. The shop gets the information about -where the customer lives, how old he or she is, and when, what and how many he or she bought previously. The information is valuable unless giving false information for application becomes common.
On the contrary, loyalty stamps don't demand any information about the customer until he or she accumulate a certain number of them and get a voucher. Customers have to write their names, addresses and telephone numbers when they exchange the stamps into vouchers.
I haven't heard that some mischief was commited by using the personal data in the application form of the point card.
An old woman says that her next door Lawson comes up with a line up of goods she wants as if the store reads her mind. It is possible because Lawson knows when what kind of customer buys what from the record of the point cards and it can estimate what kind of goods are in good demands. the shop obtain valuable information. This can't be applied to loyalty stamps. Customers are required to give their addresses, names and telephone numbers only when they get a certain number of stamps and want to exchange them into some monetary vouchers.

I heard of face recognition vending machines in the station yard of Yamanote Line. A camera on the machine shoots a photo of a customer and automatically estimate how old and which sex the customer is. I have never come across such machines yet; anyway red lamps blink on and off above recommended five drinks out of 30drinkas by judging from the photo.
There are also face recognition electronic signs. They shows advertisements most recommnedable the sex and age judging from the photo shot by the camera on the upper part of the sign.
Gmail is free mailer. It displays advertisements based on the contents of our mails we wrote.
As for the point cards this kind of utilization of the information is OK because we give our personal information on our free will and we can give false information if we don't want it to be utilized.
In the case of face recognition vending machines there may be no problem unless they don't use our photos as they are although i feel it a little too accomodating to show recommnedable drinks. And the electronic signs are also kind of pushy because it sounds like saying that " This is good for your age." As for Gmail, because this is free we can't complain anything about it; however, I don't feel comfortable.
I speculate that somebody will put a blinder seal on the camera lens on the vending machine if he or she finds where it is.

# by mamineko110 | 2013-04-15 11:16 | うだうだ

Shy and Extroverted

I got an interesting indication from the article of TIME. I feel happy now that what I had vaguely had in my mind has been logically clarified.

The article differentiates the concept of being shy, introverted and extroverted as follows:
Being introverted doesn’t have to mean shy, though there is overlap.
Shyness is a form of anxiety characterized by inhibited behavior. It also implies a fear of social judgment that can be crippling.
Shy people actively seek to avoid social situations, even ones they might want to take part in, because they may be inhibited by fear.
Introverts shun social situations because; they simply want to be alone.
Introverted people aren’t bothered by social situations. They prefer not to engage, and find social interactions taxing.
Extroverts draw energy from mingling with large groups of people.

My mother often had told me that women shouldn’t be extrovert; women’s intrusive behavior would be criticized in the world. She is lively-natured but obedient to her parents and the social norm of Syowa Days over 60 years. I guess that she is neither an extrovert nor an introvert, but an ambivert. Even when she wants to go out with a group of her friends, she never wants to be the one who calls it up.
I was shy; I was shy for a long time and so am I still now, partly.
I think that I am mostly extrovert because I prefer going out to staying at home. But I feel much drained after being out and mingling with people even if I have enjoyed myself. After I did something I get worried about how the people felt about it. But the older I get, the thicker my skin is (the more impervious I become). So my shyness slowly as I get older.
Japan was occupied by the United States after World WarⅡand so much Americanized as time went. The Japanese social norm has changed gradually during the Syowa Period. I don’t believe that young girls don’t find it bad to be an extrovert.
If I had not developed a sense of guilt about being an extrovert, I might be good at getting along with people. I am sorry about that.

# by mamineko110 | 2012-03-18 23:04 | うだうだ