Day 838 : Stand Up!

Recently, I take my daughter to a park almost every week end.
Today, she succeeded to stand up on a swing. :)

But, I'm not sure if she was really enjoying that.
I mean perhaps she could be scared on the swing ... :o

La plus belle historie du monde

"La plus belle historie du monde"
Le secrets de nos origines

Hubert Reeves, Joel de Rosnay, Yves Coppens and Dominique Simonnet
ISBN 4-480-42176-9

This book looks like a best seller in France.
There 3 famous scientists give talks on the origins of Universe, Life and Human Beings led by a famous journalist.

Actually, there were several points which I was not sure if they are really established theories or not, but anyway the book is easy to read and a very good popular science book.

Shamisen

Today, I found a great video on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK6XwrZB0tY



Fascinating... isn't it? :)

Funny Font

I found a funny font today while net surfing...

http://blog.designed-by-kenji.com/?eid=613862

I thought the designer is a genius. :o
It's a pity that it's difficult to create Japanese version of the font because kanji characters have more complicated shapes. Maybe it's possible to design a Hiragara funny font. :)

BTW, I'm wondering what if I wrote a academic paper using the font... :o

Unbroken Arrow

Unbroken Arrow
Chohei Kambayashi
ISBN 978-4152090515

This is the third book of Yukikaze series.
Kambayashi is one of the most discriminating Sci-Fi authors in Japan.

For years, Kambayashi has been seeking for a bit philosophical things.
"What is reality?" for example.

Yukikaze series is a story about a battle between human beings and aliens called Jam which look like machinery life form, especially forms of combat airplanes.

In the first book of Yukikaze series, Kambayashi wrote mainly on relationship between human beings and machines.
In the second book, he tried to describe differences between human beings and Jam, but still the main focus was on the earth side. Actually, the relationship between human beings and Yukikaze, the most cutting edge artificial intelligence optimized for battle.
Here, the point is, the alien, Jam, was described as completely 'alien' throughout the two books. Anyway, too different to understand each other.

Here in the third book, Kambayashi steps into a new stage.
The story begins when a journalist received a mail from the planet Fairy, the battle field, connected by subspace corridor in the Antarctica. The sender is a human, a renegade commander of the earth side force in the planet, and his message was a proclamation of war on behalf of Jam...
Thus, there are not so many dog fight scenes of airplanes like the previous two books, but it's full of dizzy but meaning a great deal scenes which Kambayashi is good at.
I assure you that the book is worth reading. :)