Day 210 : Something Strange

Today, May 5, is a national holiday, Children's Day in Japan.
We celebrate children by displaying an armor (or just a helmet) of samurai and having rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves.

My daughter looks like happy in front of her father's samurai helmet...



But!
The above picture is something strange.

Yes, actually May 5 is Boy's Day. :o

Day 209 : Fell Asleep from Exhaustion

This is a picture taken at her gramma's house.


Well, in short, she looks like an untidy sleeper. :o

Day 209 : Here we go up, up, up!

I'm not sure if the title explains what I want to say.
Seems to come from Mother Goose, and I hope English speaking readers understand looking at the picture below.
Anyway, she likes this. :)


BTW, I took the picture at the Kotono-Mama-Hachiman-gu (事任八幡宮)" in Kakegawa city, Japan where her great grand mother lives. I'm looking forward to taking her to the summer festival held there in every September for the first time this summer. :)

Day 205 : Hair Salon

Today, my daughter went to a hair salon for the first time.


The left above is "before" and right above is "after". :)

The before picture was taken about a week ago.
Looking at the "before" hair style, a colleague of my wife called her, "Ochi-Musha(落武者, おちむしゃ)" which roughly means a samurai who lost and on his way around.
You can find sample pictures of Ochi-Musha here.

Now, she looks like a boy, I think. :o

L'attentat

L'attentat
Yasmina Khadra
ISBN978-4-15-208805-5 (Japanese translation)

No salvation.
That's what I and my wife felt when we finished the book.

But, I don't think the situation described there is not rare in the world.
The world is full of tragedies, and we have to see them directly.
Especially, peace-addicted people in this country.

Catcher in the Rye

Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
ISBN 0-14-023749-6

Finally finished.
Now I'm feeling that I should have read it by Japanese translation. :(

Bought on February 4, 2007.
Finished on April 24, 2008.

Day 198 : Aya Bauer?

Recently, I and my wife often say, "Again, it's Aya Bauer!"

Well, of course it comes from Ina Bauer, and the below is a sample photo. :o

A Simple Periodical File Content Recorder

At work, I often want to record content of some special files of operating system (e.g., '/proc/stat') without calling system provided utilities such as 'sar' because they often cook information too much.

Of course, it's easy doing so by writing a simple shell script which calls 'cat', 'date', etc.
But, under high loaded situations, shell scripts are often delayed, and I wanted to do so as atomic as I can.

Thus, I wrote a small stupid program again. :o

It's available here at this moment and will be moved to this sourceforge project soon.

Hey Mori-san, you can replace your(?) /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat sampler by this small utility, 'pfr'. :)

Day 187 : An Armadillo?

Recently, she began to bend her body like the above.
She's like an Armadillo, hahaha... :o

BTW, the above armadillo is not this one. :o