I guess everybody in high school had a few lessons in the physics lab where he/she had to deal with electronic blocks. I remember that the set we had in school consisted of large blocks with a few basic elements…
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Electronic building blocks
Black and white
Japanese business men are supposed to wear black suits, white shirts and always use a nice tie that gives the costumer or business partner the feeling of being treated with respect. However, it seems there is a small freedom of…
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Spicy recommendation XXV
It does not happen often that I visit a restaurant where spiciness, price, taste and freshness of the products meet all my expectations. I had the chance to visit one of these locations, only a few train stations away from…
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Tagged with: Cuisine, Curry, Food and drink, Indian cuisine, Lassi, Naan, Tokyo
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
Birthday statistics
A few weeks ago I have posted about the birthday paradox, but what the math there does not consider is that birthdays are not equally distributed across the year. As one can imagine that are days or months when more…
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Does free choice lead to deprivation of liberty?
Yesterday when I was returning from work the local train was a little bit more crowded than usual as the rainy weather obviously forced those salary men who ride their bicycles to office into the train. Thus, after departure I…
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100 % coffee
Yesterday I walked past a cafe/bakery which had a small wooden board outside where the current menu was displayed. In the lower part of the board they were offering “コーヒー １００％”(100% coffee) which made me wondering what the shop owner wants…
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Tagged with: Café, Caffeine, Coffee, Food and drink, Japan, Types of restaurants
Posted in Drink, Food, Japanese
Posted in Drink, Food, Japanese
At the ear doctor
Last weekend I went to my doctor to have my ears cleaned. While I was sitting in the waiting room I was wondering about the way how patients are handled there. It’s an ear clinic which is usually very crowded,…
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Patched aircraft
Many people believe that airplanes are always looking top-notch in order to give the passenger the feeling of safety. Well, planes are washed and polished regularly not only for this reason, but mainly to reduce the air drag and thus…
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Tagged with: Adhesive tape, Federal Aviation Administration, Fixed-wing aircraft, Technology
Posted in travel
Posted in travel
Hollerith constants
When reading and trying to understand some very old Fortran code I stumbled over an interesting solution to store character expressions in a time when PCs were only designed to deal with numeric types. If someone wanted to store the…
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Tagged with: Data types, Fortran, Hollerith constant, Software engineering
Posted in computer, programming
Posted in computer, programming
Spicy recommendation XXIV
Although the weather forecast was not so promising I took a walk along a small river until I reached Higashi Yamatoshi station. As it was already half past one and I did not have lunch before I checked out the…
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