granulocytopenia

Ah..., I have not updated my blog for a year or longer. I have been so worried about the layout of this blog. This blog should be more organized, not an assembly of unrelated posts. I want to sort out the entries by content. I know many blogs have an organized archive classfying their post. How can I do this on this blog?  I have been looking for someone who takes care of the hassle of making a new archive for me.

The Minami-dake peak, 3033 meters high. I saw many alpine plants which form a tight cushion in rock crevices along the ridge.

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome

Extremely hot..., no breeze... I am writing this entry in the uncomfortable lull, while eating dinner.

The primula is Primula cunelifolia var. hakusanensis. This species grows high in the mountains where snow still stays around this time. If I reincarnate, I wish I would be reborn as an alpine plant. Just sitting in the same place throughout the life in cool climate. Awesome.

When choosing coffee this evening in a grocery store, I stepped on something soft and slimy. At first I thought I got dog shit on my shoe. The feeling was very close. But, I found it a jelly fish! Why do I have to stumble upon a jelly fish in front of coffee shelf? The store is not even close to the shore (at least two-hour drive to the sea). The jelly fish might reincarnate into something else. Could be a coffee tree.

preeclampsia

Finally, it bloomed. This is a hybrid of Japanese alpine rhododenrons. I got this four years ago. It had grown slowly but never come to flower. With camera, can't show its real elegance. The milky color with a yellow hue. The petals are so thin as to be translucent. Lucent technologies bell labs.

retinopathy of prematurity

It has took me more than ten years to have an intuitive picture of ∇×∇=rot.　When knowing this concept in class, I could not understand why this means rotation. ∇= (∂/∂x, ∂/∂y,∂/∂z) was easy to see: how steep the slope is. But, ∇×∇was not such straightforward to picture what the formula means. I asked the teacher for intuitive interpretations. He answered something. It only confused me even further. I kind of gave up grasping the meaning, and tried to learn how to use it to solve problems.

Ten years since then, one mid night, I remembered this for some reason and googled "∇×∇=rot, intuitive, image (in Japanese)". The one-decade-long question was solved in 0.21 seconds. I was so exhilarated and called to many people to deliver my pleasure. Their responses were all cold and sleepy. I think they were merely jealous of me.

A Qdoba in St. Louis, MO.
Photographer: seno minoru.

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Hello, I have nothing to write in this entry.

I got an email from my cousin. He went trekking today and sent me some pics he took in the mountain. Posted is the one I like most. The flower is called Fukuju-sou "福寿草", Adonis ramosa. It blooms around when snow melts away. This plant opens leaves very early in the spring and the above-ground part goes before summer comes. They apprear only during spring. We collectively called such kind of plants spring ephemerals. I like this name. Sounds beautiful.

Well, I often have a hunch when something unpleasant is going to happen to me. It very often comes true. Maybe I should use it to avoid potential problems.

arteriosclerosis obliterans

Hello. Now that it is winter, I will talk about liquid nitrogen, which is as cold as -196C or -321 F.
As the temperature goes down, so does the electrical resistance of a metal. You may know this rule. When the temperature is extremely low, it even becomes zero ( superconductivity). The liquid nitrogen temperature is cold enough for some materials to turn superconductive.
I immersed my cell phone in liquid nitrogen for 5 minutes when its battery was nearly out. I had expected the battery would get recharged because the cold liquid nitrogen would lower the resistance. We feel invigorated when we have our stress lessened. With a twist of physics, I applied this analogy to the chilled battery and its resistance. To my surprise, when taken out, the phone didn't work at all as the buttons were deeply frozen and immobilized. I let it thaw for 20 minutes or around. The power was off... Tried to boot it. Coudn't! Found the battery empty! Where had the energy gone? Almost empty it was, but not exactly empty. Superconductive recharge was not observed...

I think there is something wrong with the superconductivity theory. I have lost some of my faith in physics.

sick

I took a sick day today. Persisting headache and diarrhea. The diarrhea is very watery. Except for its foul odor, you would not be able to tell it from tea. My father, a doctor, told me to only drink hot tea. Taking up tea through the mouth and squirting tea out of the bottom hole. That is what I have been doing since Sunday.