Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
侏儒の足跡
人生
——石黒定一君に——
もし游泳を学ばないものに泳げと命ずるものがあれば、何人も無理だと思ふであらう。
もし又ランニングを学ばないものに駈けろと命ずるものがあれば、やはり理不尽だと思はざるを得ない。
しかし我我は生まれた時から、かう云ふ莫迦げた命令を負はされてゐるのも同じことである。
我我は母の胎内にゐた時、人生に処する道を学んだであらうか？
しかも胎内を離れるが早いか、兎に角大きい競技場に似た人生の中に踏み入るのである。
勿論游泳を学ばないものは満足に泳げる理窟はない。
同様にランニングを学ばないものは大抵人後に落ちさうである。
すると我我も創痍を負はずに人生の競技場を出られる筈はない。
成程世人は云ふかも知れない。「学人の跡を見るが好い。あそこに君たちの手本がある」と。
しかし百の游泳者や千のランナアを眺めたにしろ、忽ち游泳を覚えたり、ランニングに通じたりするものではない。 のみならずその游泳者は悉水を飲んでをり、その又ランナアは一人残らず競技場の土にまみれてゐる。
見給へ、世界の名選手さへ大抵は得意の微笑のかげに渋面を隠してゐるではないか？
人生は狂人の主催に成つたオリムピツク大会に似たものである。
我我は人生と闘ひながら、人生と闘ふことを学ばねばならぬ。
かう云ふゲエムの莫迦々々しさに憤慨を禁じ得ないものはさつさと埒外に歩み去るが好い。
自殺も亦確かに一便法である。
しかし人生の競技場に踏み止まりたいと思ふものは創痍を恐れずに闘はなければならぬ。
四つん這ひになつたランナアは滑稽であると共に悲惨である。
水を呑んだ游泳者も涙と笑とを催させるであらう。
我我は彼等と同じやうに、人生の悲喜劇を演ずるものである。
創痍を蒙るのはやむを得ない。
が、その創痍に堪へる為には、——世人は何と云ふかも知れない。
わたしは常に同情と諧謔とを持ちたいと思つてゐる。
芥川 龍之介 『侏儒の言葉』拠り
——石黒定一君に——
もし游泳を学ばないものに泳げと命ずるものがあれば、何人も無理だと思ふであらう。
もし又ランニングを学ばないものに駈けろと命ずるものがあれば、やはり理不尽だと思はざるを得ない。
しかし我我は生まれた時から、かう云ふ莫迦げた命令を負はされてゐるのも同じことである。
我我は母の胎内にゐた時、人生に処する道を学んだであらうか？
しかも胎内を離れるが早いか、兎に角大きい競技場に似た人生の中に踏み入るのである。
勿論游泳を学ばないものは満足に泳げる理窟はない。
同様にランニングを学ばないものは大抵人後に落ちさうである。
すると我我も創痍を負はずに人生の競技場を出られる筈はない。
成程世人は云ふかも知れない。「学人の跡を見るが好い。あそこに君たちの手本がある」と。
しかし百の游泳者や千のランナアを眺めたにしろ、忽ち游泳を覚えたり、ランニングに通じたりするものではない。 のみならずその游泳者は悉水を飲んでをり、その又ランナアは一人残らず競技場の土にまみれてゐる。
見給へ、世界の名選手さへ大抵は得意の微笑のかげに渋面を隠してゐるではないか？
人生は狂人の主催に成つたオリムピツク大会に似たものである。
我我は人生と闘ひながら、人生と闘ふことを学ばねばならぬ。
かう云ふゲエムの莫迦々々しさに憤慨を禁じ得ないものはさつさと埒外に歩み去るが好い。
自殺も亦確かに一便法である。
しかし人生の競技場に踏み止まりたいと思ふものは創痍を恐れずに闘はなければならぬ。
四つん這ひになつたランナアは滑稽であると共に悲惨である。
水を呑んだ游泳者も涙と笑とを催させるであらう。
我我は彼等と同じやうに、人生の悲喜劇を演ずるものである。
創痍を蒙るのはやむを得ない。
が、その創痍に堪へる為には、——世人は何と云ふかも知れない。
わたしは常に同情と諧謔とを持ちたいと思つてゐる。
芥川 龍之介 『侏儒の言葉』拠り
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Chiaki Naomi "Yoru-e Isogu Hito (Oide Oide)"
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
日本語が下手くそ - I suck at japanese!
Added: July 27, 2006
Added: July 27, 2006
Category: Entertainment
| Tags: | 日本語 nihongo japanese |
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
What the Economics is all about, Today.
TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.
You have two cows.
You worship them.
PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You don't have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British for technology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan for equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.
AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. You put the blame on some nation with cows and naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.
BRITISH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
They are both mad cows.
FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary
cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowke-Mon and market them worldwide.
ITALIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
SWISS ECONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.
RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.
CHINESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting the actual numbers.
BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know economy.
You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the
other as the Leader of the Opposition
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.
You have two cows.
You worship them.
PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You don't have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British for technology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan for equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.
AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. You put the blame on some nation with cows and naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.
BRITISH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
They are both mad cows.
FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary
cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowke-Mon and market them worldwide.
ITALIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
SWISS ECONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.
RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.
CHINESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting the actual numbers.
BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know economy.
You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the
other as the Leader of the Opposition
technorati tags:Quote, Humor, World, Joke, Japan, Aphorism
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Moriclock/モリ・クロック
Moriclock/モリ・クロック
I am giving it a try to Moriclock .
I just read through an article: 「MoriClock」ユーザーを発見！ via my RSS feed.
The article was from a blog of Morley Robertson where he features this blog parts named "Moriclock".
I am not very sure about the details of this, but I thought it might be fun to make it work on my blog.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Self-esteem
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
technorati tags:quote, philosophy
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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Are You N*ts, Your Emminence?
RIAA Sues LimeWire
(Quote)
The RIAA has sued the popular P2P program LimeWire in federal court today. "The labels are seeking damages, including $150,000(!) per occurrence of an illegally traded file."
technorati tags:news, Technology, p2p, music, IT, Web, 2.0
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Today, I found a very interesting and enlightening article written by *Owen Linzmayer at Wired.com.
Celebratingthe 30th anniversary of Apple Computer, hereby would I like to sharesome of the most brilliant and indicating (sometimes, even suggesting,in a way as you might guess) quotes which have come out of the mouth ofSteve Jobs; one of the co-founders of Apple Computer, Inc.
*Linzmayeris author of Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of theWorld's Most Colorful Company (No Starch Press, 2004, ISBN1-59327-010-0).
The following are series of quotes in the artcle captured my mind.
Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever/ Wired.com
By Owen Linzmayer 02:00 AM Mar, 29, 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,70512-0.html
"...TheCEO of Apple Computer is a master of hype, hyperbole and the catchyphrase. Even when he's trying to talk normally, brilliant verbiagecomes tumbling out..."
//
On Innovation and Design:
"Innovationhas nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Applecame up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more onR&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, howyou're led, and how much you get it."
-- Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
"It'sreally hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, peopledon't know what they want until you show it to them."
-- BusinessWeek, May 25 1998
"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."
-- BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004
Greatest Sales Lines Ever:
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
-- The line he used to lure John Sculley as Apple's CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John Byrne
"What'snew is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen propertycalled the internet -- and no one's gonna shut down the internet."
-- On how he sold iTMS to the music industry, Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003
On Life's Lessons:
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
-- Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
"Ifeel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all mywind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continuecreating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer inme. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that."
-- Playboy, September 1987
"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."
-- Apple Confidential 2.0
"Ididn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple wasthe best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness ofbeing successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginneragain, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the mostcreative periods of my life."
-- Stanford University Commencement address, June 12, 2005
technorati tags:apple, steve_jobs, mac, trivia, history, IT, quote, humor, study, wired.com
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Wired on Apple
"Apple was in deep doo-doo at the time, so the magazine polled a variety of experts for advice about saving the company."
Friday, February 24, 2006
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