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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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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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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Posted in Food, Spicy recommendation
My new bicycle
I was thinking what I buy myself for my birthday this month. Long time I thought that a smartphone might be a good thing to purchase, but the increased monthly telephone bill did not really convince me to go and…
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Toilet games
Japan is famous for computer games and two of the three large video game console companies comes from here. Sega which had a console in the past is still active in developing video games. But beside video games, Japan is…
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Poor inflight service
I am not writing explicitly the name of the airline, but those who know me better or the country I come from can easily guess the company I am talking about. Last Saturday I returned from Europe and my flight…
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Tube travel
It seems someone had the same idea which I had in my childhood Let’s hope that this project does not only include that nice video, but finds some investors who really spend some money on a feasibility study. I am…
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Posted in travel
Central limit theorem
Today I had to recall some basic theorem which I learnt in one of the introduction courses on statistics at university – the “central limit theorem“. The central limit theorem states that, given certain conditions, … the mean of a…
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Diet water
The marketing department of Sapporo Beverages has really some very creative guys. A few years they started to market bottled water as a diet drink. Yes, you read correctly – water for your diet. And their sales point? They say…
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