ABC conjecture

I published my first paper this summer. Although the paper is a modest one, it took me a year to revise it. Aroud this time last year, I got a major revision from the editor. I was really overwhelmed by the decision. I thought I was unable to do the required experiments while working as a doctor. Besides, it takes more than two hours to get to the lab from my hospital. I was streesed out, worrying about how I could jaggle hospital and lab works. I did not want to revise it. I wanted to give up.

With help from a few colleagues and a significant person, I completed the job. Extremely fulfilled.

phlebitis

Ranunculus asiaticus requires little care. You never have to water during summer. Just leave the bulb in the pot. Plants from dry land like this tend to be low-maintenance. Such plants are often dormant in summer.

I think that a key in growing plants lies in summer. Low-maintenance plants always can take heat.

mallet finger

I don't drink. I don't eat shitty food. I don't use elevator to go upstairs. I am not obese at all, rather thin. I had thought that I was fit and trim til the moment when I put an ultrasound probe on my abdomen.

My liver is fatty... There is a rectangular region which looks dark on ultrasound image. This region is actually normal, meaning that it contains less fat. On the other words, the rest of the liver, which accounts for more than 95% of the liver and is bright on ultrasound, is fat rich.

People around me said "Can't believe. You are so thin.", "You have no risks for fatty liver. Why? ", and so forth. I think they mean that I don't deserve fatty liver as I have been health-conscious. But, their sympathetic comments made me even more pitiful. Without any contributing factors, my liver has become fatty. Sadly, I was born that way; my liver is by nature prone to lipid accumulation. No ways to change it.

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.