One Thousand and One Nights (2/13)

Le Liver Des Mille Nuits Et Une Nuit (2/13)
Translated to French by J.C. Mardrus
ISBN 4-00-327802-X (Japanese translation)

The 2nd book of "One Thousand and One Nights."
Like the 1st book, it's also full of stories for adults.
Humm...

From the Night 24 to the Night 44.

Secure Cloud Networking Project

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan embarked new research and development activities recently.
Among them, there is a three years R&D project on cloud computing named "Secure Cloud Networking." The project is a relatively big one and consists of 3 sub projects.

I'm working on one of especially "Cloud Federation" for about three years from now.
At this moment, I'm struggling with a bunch of paper works, but I'm really looking forward to seeing various researchers and discussing wide range of technical issues during the activity. :)

BTW, that means I'll be very busy at least 3 years from now, and I'm wondering if I can see the very much precious moments of my daughter... :o

Day 623 : Foot Stool?

My daughter has interests in almost everything and destroys everything... :(
Thus, I and my wife hide dangerous things, important things or so on the table everyday.

That worked well so far, but...

Recently, my daughter tries to ascend her stool and reach what she wants... not just stretching herself... :(

Of course, we didn't teach her that. She learnt it by herself. It's amazing... :o

Day 621 : Hair Pin

The above is a snapshot when we went out for lunch today.
Ha ha, she looks cute, doesn't she?
But, actually after going outside of our condominium, she wore a hat and took it away... :(
We were not sure why...
BTW, still I guess it's not so long before she begins to complain of accessories. :)

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
J.K.Rowling
ISBN 978-0-7475-9987-6

This book takes style of a collection of folk tales written by a bard Beedle about 500 years ago in the magician's world and their annotations by professor Dumbledore. The tales were also mentioned repeatedly in the 7th book of the Harry Potter series.
Here is a list of tales there.

1. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
2. The Fountain of Fair Fortune
3. The Warlock's Hairy Heart
4. Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
5. The Tale of the Three Brothers

I felt deja vu while reading the last story, "The Tale of the Three Brothers," but I cannot remember in which book I read a similar story with it now.
Maybe, it's in the last book of Harry Potter, and I have to check the book again...

Catch Copy Generator

I found an interesting web site which generates catch copies (in Japanese) for the given phrases, mainly for names/nicknames of people. :)

http://nameall.cosotto.com/catch/

Here are some examples which I generated for my family.

• "Big Joker" for My real name.
• "The Second Coming of Dragon Horse" for My nickname at home.
• "The Epicenter of Rumors" for My daughter's nickname at home.
• "You are asking for the impossible." for my wife's nickname at home.

The last one is a bit free translation. In original Japanese expression, it was "無いものは無い" which is used as the last phrase saying "You are asking for the impossible" like the above.
I like the one for my daughter. :)

Day 615 : A Puppy Dog

Ha ha, the above is a snapshot when we took a walk this morning.

My daughter found a dog on our way, and she looked like very much interested in the dog but needed some time to come close.

Actually, it was a tame and well trained dog, so they can be good friends next time. :)

One Thousand and One Nights

Le Liver Des Mille Nuits Et Une Nuit (1/13)
Translated to French by J.C. Mardrus
ISBN 4-00-327801-1 (Japanese translation)

From the frame story (Night 0) to Night 24.

Befor reading this book, I've been thinking that One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales like "Araddin's Wonderful Lamp" or "Ali Baba and Forty Thieves." But, I was a bit surprised that it's full of topics for adults, here I mean various forms of erotica. In this sense, maybe it's a bit like "the Decameron." :o

BTW, I have still 12 books of the series to read. In other word, there are stories for more than 900 nights! :o

As the story takes a form of hierarchical structure, I mean, a character who appears in a tale begins to narrate another story and so on repeatedly, I'm not sure if I can keep catching up the main story line. :o

Guin Saga 127

The Sinister Surge
Guin Saga 127
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030957-2

Kurimoto past away last month, and we have two more books of the Guin Saga which Kurimoto finished before she left this world. It's said that Kurimoto left (possibly huge amount of) notes on the Guin Saga. So, I'm expecting her bereaved family would publish posthumous writings someday...

Day 608 : Open Sesame

Recently, my daughter often walks around our mansion.

Today, I was a bit surprised to see she tried to open the door.
Of course, she needs some more time doing it by herself, but I'm wondering what happens when she masters opening a door with a lock... :o

Idea Mapping

Idea Mapping : How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business
Jamie Nast
ISBN 978-4484081045

Today, we went to Kokubunji Marui to by clothes of our daughter, and after finishing the main shopping, we stopped around a book store there.
The above books is about a kind of Mind Map methods, and it looks like more practical for common people.

Now, I'm thinking about using that in the upcoming R&D project at work. :)

Day 601 : What's This?

I took the above photo when my daughter sat down on my lap by pointing my digital camera to her just in front of her face.

She looks like saying, "What's this?" :)

In Memory of Kaoru Kurimoto

Today, Kaoru Kurimoto, the author of Guin Saga, past away because of cancer. She was only 56 years old, and her biggest work Guin Saga was left incompleted.

It's almost 25 years ago when I began to read the Guin Saga series and since then I was always waiting for her new book. Originally, the series was scheduled to complete at 100 books, but actually it was too optimistic(?) estimate and this year she released 126th book. Furthermore, the story looked like continuing at least 25 more books for me.

She indicated several times that she had already written a note of synopsis of the finale, but I'm not sure if the note will be made public. Maybe, it could be the longest and incompleted novel written by a single author.

Anyway, impossible...

I pray sincerely for the repose of her soul.

Day 596 : Friends

Today, a friend of my daughter, Naho, and her mother visited our home.
Here are snapshot that time. :)



I'm wondering what they are talking about in the above right picture. :)

Axsh with Wakame?

Today, I saw a demo of Wakame, a ruby based scale-out engine for Amazon EC2 created by axsh Co. LTD, Japan.

In a sense, it's similar to RightScale, and Wakame is still in very early stage. But the most important point for me is that it's open source. I mean that there is rooms working on it for me. :)

BTW, in Japanese Axsh is pronounced as 'Akushu' (あくしゅ) which means "shaking hand."
It's cool, and I like it. :)

Debug Hacks

Debug Hacks -- Tips & Tools for Removing Bugs
Yoshioka et. al.
ISBN 978-4-87311-404-0

Finally, I bought the book at this time of day. :(

After skimming the book, I felt that I'm not so behind from the authors compared to the case of Binary Hacks. But, anyway it's a great work for programmers. :)

StarBED and SpringOS

I didn't know that NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) has been developing a large scale networking testbed, called StarBED, and the StarBED team developed a set of convenient tools to manage/operate StarBED.
The set of tools is called "Spring OS."

Here, my point is that why the developers chose the name.
At least for me, Spring OS means a SUN's research operating system in the early '90s, and this is common impression for most of engineers working on network or operating system.

But, the tool looks like useful for a massive cluster environment, and I'm going to try it once...

Day 595 : Stairs

Here are another snapshots I took during the walk today.



I didn't know that recently she climbs a stairway by herself.
So, I was really surprised looking at the scene today.
Anyway, this is another memorial photo of my daughter. :)

Day 595 : Pansy

Today, I got a half holiday because of anniversary at work, and I stroll around with my daughter.
The above is a snapshot at a flower bed within the lot of our condominium.
I'm very happy to see that she began to show interests in various flowers. :)

Day 594 : Negative Entropy Girl?

Well, in the above photo, my daughter is getting the books over, not messing up.
Yes, she is decreasing entropy!
It's an really amazing progress... :o

Day 591 : Flowers of Azalea

These are snapshot when I went for a walk with my daughter this morning.
I love the right above photo very much. It's a DASH through a flower road. :)

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Research seems to begin a new service, Wolfram Alpha.

Here is my first question to Wolfram Alpha. :o

|What kind of girl do you like?
|Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.

Anyway, I'm thinking about using the system when I will work on mathematical models of various multi-tier web systems on cloud computing environment in near future. :)
It's because I was a veeery bad student in Mathematics. :o

Hubble Telescope

Today, I'm really pleased to hear that Space Shuttle STS-125 team completed upgrading the Hubble Telescope. :)

Actually, I'm not so interested in watching sky by my own eyes. But, I love seeing photograph of stars taken by professional astronomers. Especially, since the Hubble Telescope began to work, I was surprised many times by seeing amazing structure of various astronomical objects.

This time, NASA added some new features to Hubble, and I'm really looking forwad to seeing new photographs from the upgraded Hubble. :)

Day 586 : LEGO -- The First Work

As I wrote recently, my daughter got a LEGO kit from grandpa.
This is her first work using LEGO. :o



I had the same feeling when I saw monoliths last month. :)

Day 586 : Fancy Goods

Today, we went to Kokubunji Marui, and here is a snapshot there.



She seems to like fancy goods. :)

BTW, I'm wondering if she loves jewels in (near?) future ... like her mother. :o

Microsoft Research in Trouble?

I'm not sure if this is Japanese Internet environment specific issue, but anyway I cannot access to http://research.microsoft.com/ from Japan.

c:\>ping research.microsoft.com
Pinging research.microsoft.com [131.107.65.14] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 131.107.65.14:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
Control-C
^C
c:\>

Hum...

Amazon S3 Performance Issue

Recently, I got a performance trouble uploading files to Amazon S3.
Here is a brief summary of the performance results when I tried to upload a 2GB backup file of photos using my ThinkPad X61 with various conditions.

1. WindowsXP + FireFox + S3 Organizer + WiFI
   
• 2GB/12h+
2. WindowsXP + FireFox + S3 Organizer + FastEthernet
   
• 2GB/12h+
3. CentOS 5.3(x86_64) + FireFox + S3 Organizer + FastEthernet
• 2GB/20min
  

All cases above, I used the same FTTH router.

It's better to try Amazon S3 API tools such as s3sync from WindowsXP environment, but still the above difference is strange.
I'm wondering who is guilty...

Cloud Storage

Today, I saw a small demo of S*Plex3 Cloud Storage Service by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
Their press release published on May 12, 2009 can be found here, but it's only in Japanese. :(

At first, I thought it's an yet another Google File System clone, and indeed their architecture is similar to GFS. But, they focused on satellite broadcasting data, that is, streaming data. Thus, S*Plex3 seems to have achieved a good resilience for multiple faults.

The demo system which I saw seems to consist of a 90 nodes clustered file server and a video access client. The video data is divided into many chunks and stored in the cluster redundantly.

I was impressed seeing that the video play was not affected even 1/4 of the 90 nodes file server were down by unpluging their LAN cables.

I'm wondering why they do not publish the press release in English to all over the world...

Day 579 : Tower of Babel?

Since last month my daughter has been playing with blocks as I wrote recently.

Today, she made a big progress. :)
The below is the first major work of her, possibly its title is the Tower of Babel... :o

Day 578 : I Love Mommy!

Ha ha, the title says everything. :)

BTW, on the back of her clothes, there is a phrase saying "Love Me."
Of course, I do. :)

VCP Certificate

I received a certificate of VCP (VMware Certified Professional) finally today.
It took about 50 days after passing the exam. :(

Day 576 : Exhausted?

Today, we got back to Tokyo from my home town.
Against a traffic jam forecast yesterday, we weren't caught in traffic jams almost at all.
But, it was more than 5 hours drive, and anyway we were very much tired. :(

After arriving at home and getting luggage over with my wife, I was doing some PC things such as checking e-mails. I knew that my wife and daughter took a nap together.

But, after a while I was astonished looking at the scene below... :o



Oh, my God...
Maybe, it's because my daughter was exhausted...

Day 576 : The First Shot

The above is my little brother. It's nothing special about the picture.

But the point is, that my daughter loves playing with a cell phone and the above is her first shot.
Yes, it's a memorial photo. :)

Day 575 : Trampoline

This is a snapshot at my home town. :)

Formerly, my mother did some exercises in trampoline for her health, but it looks like she gave it up and that was almost abandoned for a while there.

At first, we expected that my daughter could enjoy the trampoline, but it looked like too early for an 18 months baby playing with a trampoline. :o

Day 574 : Shimada Rose Hill Garden

Finally, I took my daughter to the Shimada Rose Hill Garden in my home town. :)
Before going there, I expected that she could be excited looking at bunch of beautiful roses , actually today we had limited time and my daughter looked like a bit sleepy. :(
So, I'm not sure if she really enjoyed the garden or not today, but on this summer vacation she might have began to speak, then I'm going to ask her what she feels about looking the flowers. :)

Day 574 : Hobby Horse

Ha ha, my daughter got on a hobby horse for the first time. :)

BTW, today we had almost no time there. So, I'm not sure if she likes it or not...
Actually, it's a very busy day... :o

Day 573 : Telephone

This is a snapshot at my home town.

Different from the case of our house, their telephone station is located almost on the floor where my daughter can reach.
So, she was very much pleased to find a new thing to play with... :(

I'm not sure whom she is speaking with ... :o

In Memory of Kiyoshiro

Today, one of the greatest rock singers in Japan, Kiyoshiro Imawano (忌野清志郎), past away because of cancer. He was 58 years old.

Although the English page of Wikipedia does not have much information, but as the Japanese page says, Kiyoshiro was not like any other musicians, and in a sense, he established a style of singing rock music in Japanese.

As for me, I loved YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) when I was a junior high school student, and he appeared as the singer of the tune below (い・け・な・いルージュマジック) which is in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto who is, needless to say, a member of YMO.
In those days, I felt his song a bit strange, but still I thought that this singer is something special.
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One more his work I want to refer here is a collaboration session with Akiko Yano singing "Hitotsudake (ひとつだけ)" which means "The Only One Thing." As I wrote several times, I love Yano's songs, and listening to the song especially I'm always moved to the point of tears.
Furthermore, Kiyoshiro's voice has something special and appeals to me especially with the lyrics.
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It was really a great loss of Japan...
I prayed for the repose of Kiyoshiro's soul today.

Day 571 : Taking a Nap

Ha ha, this is a snapshot of this mid-afternoon.
I was trying to get my daughter to bed, but I also fell asleep with my daughter on my stomach... :o

Day 571 : LEGO -- A Double Helix

My daughter got a LEGO Zoo Kit from grandpa yesterday.

The below is a work of my daughter using the kit.
Wow, it's a double helix, DNA! :o



Ha ha, it's a joke.
Not my daughter's but mine. :)
I also got LEGO kits when I was a small child from one of my uncles and my parents. I really enjoyed them very much. Anyway, I was really looking forward to Christmas season. :)

Day 571 : Zoo

Today, we took our daughter to a Zoo, Toyohashi Non-Hoi Park, in Aichi prefecture.



Unfortunately, today she looked like sleepy and a bit grizzled.
But anyway, she saw various animals such as monkeys like the left above.

As for the right above, it looked like a cage of so called Homo sapience. :o

Kodaira Udon

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As I wrote several times before, there are lots of good ramen restaurants around my house.
Today, it's a topic on a new Udon shop along the ramen avenue.

• http://r.tabelog.com/tokyo/A1328/A132804/13087964/

The above right is my choice at today's lunch time, Niku-Udon (400g) (肉うどん(400g)).
Compared to common style Udon, they offer very strong and thick noodle, and its soup with sliced pork is served separately. I felt the soup is a bit salty, but it's because the soup is also strong, I think.

Furthermore, it's not expensive! :)
It's worth trying at least once for ramen freaks. :)

Day 569 : Fashion Model?

This is a snapshot when we were about to set for the Golden Week Journey of this year.
She is like a fashion model, ha ha... :o

4KB per Sectors?

It has been a common sense that the most basic size of an HDD is 512 bytes in case of commodity computers. But, there seems to be a plan extending the size to 4K bytes now.

• http://bigsector.org/

When I got into the business more than 10 years ago, I was assigned to a division which is working on software for mainframe computers. In those days and still now, main stream block storage devices were variable block size ones. Furthermore, they are called DASD (Direct Attached Storage Device) not HDD, and conventional HDDs (for outside the mainframe world) were called FBA (Fixed size Block Architecture) volumes.
Well, it's an old story, but the news reminded me of the old days...

Anyway, thanks for interesting news, JR0BAK!

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI

I didn't know that Utada did a cover of "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" in her third studio album, "This is the One."
Its lyrics is here, and I'm wondering why she didn't choose completely different title from the original. What does she mean by just adding "FYI" to the original title?

Oh, but anyway I like it.
I know several covers of the tune, and among them Utada's cover could be the best. :)
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Maybe this link is better. The latter half is the tune above.

Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2009

Today, I went to Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2009, and there I attended at the 6th lecture of Professor Maruyama's lecture series:

• http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/special/dev_marulec/2008.html

Basically, his talks are on cloud computing. But, the 6th lecture was titled "On the Latest Trend of Cloud and SOA."

That reminded me of my business trip to New York last year. :)
I attended at this conference there, and I was a bit surprised that in North America SOA looked like finally launching. I felt it would take roughly 2 years till the trend comes to Japan.

Maybe it's better taking SOA into account for the cloud computing related project which I'm involved on at work now...

Compressed (LZH) Folders

LZH format is one of major compression format at least in Japan.

I didn't know that Microsoft added LZH format for compressed folders recently.
After passing Genuine Microsoft Software check, now the extension seems to be offered by Microsoft for Japanese version Windows XP and Vista.

The left below shows the icon for an LZH format archive file, and the right below shows properties dialog of an LZH file.



There are several restrictions.

1. It's not supported by Microsoft, it's provided as is.
2. The extension does not support compression, it does only de-compression.
   Thus, we cannot add files to an LZH archive file nor create an LZH format archive.

Actually, there are many LHA format archiver which are implemented as shell extensions. But, so far as I know, all of them extract LHA files temporary and I didn't like that. I wanted to handle LZH archive files like Compressed (Zipped) folders for browsing contents of LZH files.

The extension resolved the issue, and I'm happy now. :)

New Workplace

Since the beginning of this April, I was relocated to a division working on R&D
activities at work.

Formerly I felt like a prisoner till the end of this March, but now I can see a lot of interesting people on behalf of the organization which I'm working for now.
So, although I've been a bit busy since then, I'm enjoying the current works. :)

Kemari

Kemari is an implementation of Fault Tolerance feature using Xen hypervisor on top of commodity IA32 hardware.

Actually, I was in touch with the author of Kemari since the project was very early stage about 3 years ago. To tell the truth, I was doubtful if he can finish the plan he explained me in those days because the theme was too aggressive and he had limited time.

But, today I saw a live demo where a running Windows XP instance was migrated to another machine within seconds on a hardware crash (pressing the reset button) and continued playing video streaming.

His work, Kemari, will be merged into Xen 3.5, and furthermore, he seems to be working on porting Kemari to KVM.

Really impressive...

Ideas of Phenomenology

Ideas of Phenomenology 現象学の思想
Gen Kida (木田元)
ISBN 4-480-08570-X

Well, actually it was too aggressive trying to work on books on philosophy
for me. I gave up the book. :(

I could understand the big picture of ideas of phenomenology, but there are
too many undefined terms for me and adjunctive expressions beyond
my understanding in the book. :(
Anyway, phenomenology was an effort to re-formulate philosophy
from the ultimate stand point where no assumptions were made.

One more thing which the book reminded me was that philosophy is the
most ancient science and not a small number of modern (social or human)
sciences were forked from philosophy. For example, psychology, sociology,
linguistics, history and so on. Furthermore, even some areas of natural science
are also influenced by philosophy especially positivism which phenomenology
criticized constructively.

In this sense, it might be useful to try to study philosophy again
for understanding evolutionary theory, in particular, evolution of
human brains.

But, I'm not sure how long it takes for me... :(

Day 559 : Flowers

Today, we went to Kokubunji Marui, and the above is a snapshot at the roof garden there.
My daughter began to show interests in flowers.
Now, I'm looking forward to taking her to the Shimada Rose Hill Garden in my home town in this golden week. :)

Guin Saga 126

Beauty in Black
Guin Saga 126
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030952-7

Well, this time I missed the on-sale day of Guin Saga.
Actually, it was April 9 for the 126th book, and I was 10 days behind. :(

Brain Pollution

Brain Pollution (脳内汚染)
Takashi Okada (岡田尊司)
ISBN 4-16-367840-9

This is a shocking book.

It's often mentioned that addiction in video games is very harmful for brains.
But, according to several psychological surveys, there seems to be strong
correlation between diffusion of TV and increase of crimes resulted from
psychological problems.

Simply speaking, contemporary media from TV to video games are
NOT natural for the development of mind or humanity and
human being cannot adapt to the rapid dissemination of contemporary media,
thus they can be said as poison for especially small children.

So, after finishing this book, I reduced time for watching TV actually.
Of course, this is mainly for my daughter...

Isolation Ward

I've been suffering from hemolytic strept coccus since this Monday, and I had days off since yesterday.

Of course, I slept in a small room which usually we use as a lumber room and isolated my self from my daughter.

The above is a snapshot at dinner time today, it's like an isolation ward of hospitals... :o

Day 555 : Ruins

Ha ha, I think the above picture explains everything.
Of course, the wrecker is my daughter... :o

The Kingdom of this World

The Kingdom of this World (El Reino de este Mundo)
Alejo Carpentier
ISBN 4-387-85162-7 (Japanese Translation)

In a sense, this is a chronicle of Haiti's short but amazing history after
standing on their feet.

It's often said that Carpentier's works are magical realism.
Simply speaking, it's because like the following:

1. The old saying that fact is stranger than fiction is true.
2. Different from Western Europe, in Latin America (of those days) people indeed believed in magical events described in the book. In other words, they were facts for them.
3. This work is based on facts Carpentier collected in Haiti actually.
4. Thus, the chronicle is a so called Magical Realism.
   

Anyway, almost all the events and behaviors of people there are dizzying... For us Japanese at least, it's almost unbelievable that this kind of the kingdom of this world existed. I'm not sure how many Japanese people feel happy if they were placed in the situation.
But, in the last several pages, Carpentier says that this world is better than the world above because only in this world it makes sense or there is room to make effort improving ones current situation, and that's what an old man, the leading character of the story, perceived.

Thus, in a sense, the conclusion is common. But, the tour with magical reality leading to the (common) conclusion is excellent. It's really worth reading...

BTW, back cover of the Japanese translation says that the original title of the book is "El Derecho De Asilo." I'm not sure why, because I don't understand Spanish... :(

Saki Best Selection

Saki Best Selection (サキ傑作選)
Saki
ISBN 4-00-322611-9

After reading this anthology, I regret that I didn't read that as soon as I bought it about 10 years ago!

Among the short stories there, I like "Tobermory."
It's a short story of a mad scientist and a cat which the scientist
gave ability to speak a human language. After getting speech of humans,
the cat began to reveal inappropriate secrets of people around her.
After describing comical behaviors of the people, Saki gives readers
a bit unexpected and ironical ending.

Like other good story tellers, Saki shows us egoistic behavior of the
people but softly. In some regards, the story can be an irony of
innovation in science. But more than anything else, Saki does not
make us bored.

BTW, according to a commentary in the end of this book, Saki seems to be often
ranked with Maupassant and O. Henry. That makes sense for me at least
O. Henry firsthand, and I believe that the former is also true.
But, as a reader in Japan, I felt something similar in Saki's works
to Hideo Nakai. Nakai's short stories are full of fantasy in addition to
unexpected and ironical endings. So, I'm not sure if English translation of
Nakai's works are available or not, but I would suggest trying Nakai's
short stories if one likes Saki.

Yet Another SCM

Recently, I'm working on Eucalyptus which is an open source Amazon AWS clone software.

I didn't know that now there is one more source code management system, Bazaar.
I believe that clearly the name comes from "the Cathedral and Bazaar."

But, to tell the truth, I took it for Bizarre at first. :o

The Silent Miaow

The Silent Miaow: A Manual for Kittens, Strays, and Homeless Cats
Paul Galico
ISBN 4-480-03440-4 (Japanese Translation)

The (English) subtitle describes contents of this book very good.

Aside from the book itself, it reminded me of a woman who insisted on a two way classification of human characteristics intensely.

According to her, human can be classified into two types, a cat type and
a dog type.

A dog type human wants to to get involved with other people, especially
one's partner. On the contrary, a cat type human does vice versa
regardless of one's gender, and she insisted on strongly that she
was a typical cat type woman.

But, in those days, the essential problem was whether I and she should
carry on a connection with each other, and for me she looked like talking
her theory like a problem of someone else. She explained the theory
extremely methodical, but I could not understand what she wants really to do
in those days after all.

In this sense, it reminded me of Masahiko Fujiwara's book.
In short, her logic looked perfect, but the principle which she based on was
not appropriate for the situation those days. Furthermore, it's meaningless
arguing ones (possible) partner down.

Well, but anyway it's an old story today.

I wonder what she is doing now and then as yet so far.

BTW, it could be a good textbook for my daughter. :o