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Sonntag 7. März 2021
Ich schreibe diesen Beitrag aus meinem Samsung Tablet, das das Android Betriebssystem benutz. Zusätzlich zu Android bzw. auf dem Betriebssystem läuft parallel die sogenannte "Samsung DeX" App. "DeX" bietet die Möglichkeit an, das Tablet in einem Art Laptop umzuwandeln, indem die App die übliche Androidbedienoberfläche komplett geändert.
Es ist ziemlich toll, wie weit die Technik gekommen ist, um das zu ermöglichen. Manche Leute können sogar von einem Tablet aus seine ganze Arbeit durchführen. Wenn man nur ZOOM und einen Webbrowser braucht, ist das sinnvoll und sehr vollziehbar. Trotzdem muss ich zugeben, dass vielleicht die Durchführung der Idee nicht einwandfrei ist, selbstverständlich gibt es nervige Bugs und in der Praxis fühlt sich die App manchmal hastig an. Nichtsdestotrotz bin ich gespannt, was die Zukunft bringen wird.
March 7, 2021
Flyby - The Perception of Time
Yesterday, I watched a short film called Flyby on Youtube from DUST. If you haven't heard about this channel and you love movies, go check this out. There's plenty of fantastic films, which are created by the community. They are usually about 5 to 15 minutes long.
The one called Flyby totally got me. I'm not gonna tell you the story, but something that actually struck me. At the beginning of the movie, one of the women said something about the perception of time. When we were young, it seems like time was passing much slower than it is now. She explained that when we are young, we experience everything for the first time. However, when we look back, it seems like it must have taken so much longer for all that stuff to happen. But as we get older, everything becomes routine, everything stays the same, so we don't notice how much time has passed. That's why it seems to us that time is passing much faster now because we don't experience much new stuff anymore.
I think that there is a profound meaning to this and to the whole film. It creates a new picture of how we perceive time. The perception is made in our minds by our memories.
March 7, 2021
Diary: A Terrible Reading Experience
At the end of last year, while preparing for New Year's resolutions, I came across an article that mentioned the OKR management method, which is successfully used in many companies such as Google, Spotify, Tiktok, etc. It also recommended a book called Measure What Matters.
Recently, my plans are in a mess. Last week our teacher happened to give us an assignment about how to improve the management of the library. So I think it is time for me to learn this magic method. I stopped my study schedule for the day. Spent several hours reading the book today. But it really upsets me. It gives a lot of examples of huge companies. Yes, it increases the persuasiveness. But when I finished reading the book, I still didn't know how to implement this management method. This book doesn't even introduce the definition of OKR! It seems to be a storybook that introduces the success that OKR brings to companies! Feels like a waste of a whole day.
March 7, 2021
How do we solve the traffic problems in our cities
First of all, I hate traffic jams. So I'm ready to accept any ideas to prevent it.
So, the best way to get rid of traffic jams and to improve our urban environment is to get rid of cars on roads. There are many ways how to achieve it.
In Amsterdam, for example, in order to decrease number of cars government charge high parking cost. The closer to the city center, the more expensive.
But on official public holidays you can park for free in many of Amsterdam's streets. Another way to decongest roads in the Netherlands is using bicycles.
It's better for our health, the environment is harmed less and roads are freer.
In some countries traffic congestion is controlled by introducing a congestion charge or allow entry to city centries only for residents.
Also government can controls traffic jams using high transport taxes.
At the same time I believe that one of the most important steps to solve traffic problems is to build up a good public transport system and cycling infrastructure.
So people need to think twice if they should go by car or better to use a public transport or bicycle.
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Theo Black
The alarm's bell cut through the silence of stale darkroom, audible from a phone which was based on a wooden nightstand. Near it was an old, squeaking with slightest touches bed, on which lay, seemed dead body. The young woman lay around in bed, hugging her toy's shark. Seemed like nothing could ruin her sleep, except by ringing a mobile device. When the sound reached her ears, she jumped up, starting to look around. Perhaps, that action was completely nonsensical, because she was in her house, in the place, which is called safe. But not for her. Every time, when she wakes up, she automatically does the same actions: looking around, sniffing, doing all to make sure that she is out of danger. Theo is used to doing that since her terrible past.
March 7, 2021
English and Japanese
I write this entry after prewriting it in Japanese for the first time. I guess it's more difficult to translate Japanese to English than just to write in English. The word orders of Japanese and English are almost reversed, so it's confusing to think in Japanese and English at the same time. Many people tend to read English sentences from the back and translate them into Japanese when they start to learn English in junior high school. However, it takes a lot of time and it's useless when listening to English. I think I had to study for ages to understand English as it is.
March 7, 2021
Journal
Today was Sunday, and the weather was beautiful. I could feel that Spring has finally come.
Today, I went to Itaewon to meet my college friend, J. Itaewon is a district in Korea where many foreigners reside. Because of the population that frequent the area, it has a unique, hip atmosphere to it. If you walk around the streets in Itaewon, you soon find yourself surrounded by artsy-looking people in very creative and fashionable garments. It’s quite a different experience from taking a stroll in other populated places, like Gangnam or Hongdae.
My friend and I sat in a cafe, and each engaged in our work separately for several hours. Then we took out some salad from a vegan restaurant.
It is kind of far from where I live, but I really like this area. Visiting the places there is always refreshing.
I should come again soon, to grab some Kebab next time^^
March 7, 2021
March 7, 2021
Eating meat: Is it worth it?
Yesterday I was at home eating my meal, when my mother comes and see me throwing a little of the food out. She decided ask me:
"what is the point of get vegan if you are throwing food out?"
I didn't understand the meaning of that doubt. Maybe just a try of convence me to get out of the veganism, but I wondered for myself:
"how many food do I waste and how many food do a person who eat food waste?"
So I decided to do the math.
A cow eats about 55 pounds of food everyday and live for 30 months till the
slaughter. If we make 55 x 30 x 30, we will get the number of 49500 pounds of food.
After 30 months a cow will reach the weight of 660 pounds, after the
slaughter just 50% of the weight will be available, so we will have just 330 pounds of food. That means 49170 pounds of food will be wasted.
A american eat about 273 pounds of meat per year. What is 82% of 330 (the weight of meat we get after throwing out 49500 pounds of food), so per year a american eat just 82% of one cow. If we make 82% of 49500 pounds, we will get the number 40590 pounds, minus 273 pounds (the food we didn't waste) equals 40317 pounds of food throw out!
Now, a human eat about 4 pounds of food per day, times the whole year, equals 1460 pounds of food.
So, if I throw out all the food I should eat I were wasting 1460 pounds a year, what means 38857 pounds less than a meat eater!
I am not a mathematician nor a native english speaker, so maybe the way I expressed myself and the math was not the best, but is a north to see how eat meat is not worth.
March 7, 2021
The best present ever
Since I was a little girl, I love to read. For me it was always easy to get access to books. My mother and father red a lot, and they oftenly had for us (my sister and I) the newest books for kids.
I never gave up on books. As I grew up, I found the way to keep reading. The books became my friends, and I felt strong and happy if I had one in my purse. I think about it now, and it's almost ridiculous. I carried a book even if I knew I did'nt had the time to open it.
But, in the last years, I had to shorten my time with them. I missed my reading a lot, but other responsabilities came on, and priorities are important in life. However, even if one can survive without a hobbie... it's truly important to make the time and keep doing things that make you smile.
A few years ago, my sister suggested to me that I should buy an e-book, and read again. And I confess that I felt an inmediate rejection to the idea. How on earth an electronic device ever take the place of the real thing? I couldn't imagine myself holding one. So, my life continous with the urgent things demanding the time of the important ones.
It was until a friend of mine, sent me an e-mail with a book, in PDF. I was "forced" to read it on my laptop. And it was uncomfortable and unpractical... but the book was something else: deep, interesting, and surprising.
And, that's when I realize that the magic of a book goes far beyond its appearance. A few months after I red this particular book, my husband gave me an e-book as a present... the best present of my life.
March 7, 2021
El club de libro en español
Hoy estaba mirando el sitio web de la biblioteca y vi que hay un club de libro en español que reúne cada mes por videollamada, y sólo se tiene que mandar un email a la líder para unirse al grupo. ¿Crees que debería este email en inglés o en español?
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Hola XXXXX,
Hoy vi por el sitio web que hay un club de libro en español virtual y me gustaría aprender más sobre lo que consisten los reuniones y cómo participar.
Me gustaría practicar mi habilidades orales y conocer a otros miembros de la comunidad.
Un saludo,
Cordero
March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
¿Colonizar Marte? (1/2)
Recientamente, he mirado algunas videos de vulgarización científica en YouTube. Uno de sus temas era la colonización del sistema solar, una cosa que aún pertenece al ambito de la ciencia ficción, pero que podría hacerse realidad en las próximas décadas.
Casí todos los proyectos de colonización espacial se tratan de Marte, y no es difícil entender porque: es la planeta más próxima de nosotros. Sin embargo, si organizaramos el concurso del nuevo hogar para la humanidad, no sería muy probable que Marte lo consiguiría. En resumen, Marte es un gran desierto steril, sin atsmofera ni fuentes de energía, al contrario de otras cuerpos celestes como las lunas de Saturno, donde hay literalmente mares de combustible. Seguro, hace muy frio en Marte, aunque al lado del ecuador, las temperaturas son bastante agradables para que humanos puedan sobrevivir.
Marte tiene otros problemas. Por ejemplo, no da ninguna protección contra las radiaciones solares muy nocivas, porque Mars no tienen ningun campo magnético. Además, por la gravidad más debil de Mars, nuestros huevos podrían restractarse, debilitándo nuestros cuerpos también. ¡Naturalmente, no hablo de todos los problemas psicológicos que sucederen con el sentimiento de solitud en una planete ubicada en más o menos 55 miliones de kilometros!
(Acabaré de hablar de Marte en una publicación futura, ya que mi texto está bastante largo)
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March 6, 2021
Percy Jackson
« Percy Jackson » est une série des livres très populaire aux États-Unis. Je l’ai récemment commencé à lire en français. C’était un de mes préférés série des livres de mon jeunesse.
La série est basé sur le mythologie Grec. Les dieus ont des enfants avec des mortels. Ces enfants sont demi-dieu, une moitié Dieu et une moitié humaine. Ils ont des pouvoirs magique grâce à leur héritage. Les caractères principaux sont les demi-sangs qui sont chassés par des monstres, alors ils vivent dans un camp spécial. Ils ont envoyé sur des missions, comme sauver le monde.
Le principale caractère, Percy Jackson, est le fils de Poséidon, le Dieu de la mer. Il a beaucoup d’aventures.
La série est bonne écrit et est encore agréable, même après des années. L’histoire est amiable et engageant.
March 6, 2021
about medical drama TV series
Among many medical drama TV series I would like to write which I like and why.
First of all, there is « Doctor House » which the main actor is Hugh Laurie. The story tells us the professionnal life of the king of the sarcasm, a brilliant doctor but also a kind of teasing man, a man which is always on the border line between a dark mysanthropy and a very specific love of humankind...
Different is the serie « Nurse Jacky ». Here we are following the complicated life of a nurse, Jacky, character played by Eddy falco, marvellous actress discovered in the Mob serie « The Sopranos ».
Jacky is a brave woman, totally committed to the patients, mother of two pretty daughters. Her life is complicated because she is also a great lover, cut between her husband and other men. But her huge issue could be her addiction to the novocain and other drugs. Obviously, it could be too much for this very nice person The serie gives us a delicate, tricky balance between real comedy and drama. I liked it !
With « The Knick » we are invited to get in the History of the modern surgery. The story, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and with Clive Owen as main actor tales us the story of a doctor who, in the beginning of the twentieth century, is going to make great, amazing discoveries in medical science especially in surgery. Among many discoveries and amazing inventions he was going to create the tools which will save the pregnant women when they were in great issues. Unfortunately he is addict in drugs. In fact, here we find again, I could say always, the same theme in medical series. In « The Knick », the pleasure comes also from the description of the twentieth society. It's a medical story, a story about blood, flesh, love, violence. I have always been sorry about the fact that only two seasons were directed by Soderbergh. Maybe in the future could we get the pleasure of a sequel ?
Finally, the last serie that I had had the pleasure of discovery is « New Amsterdam », story who takes place in an hospital in New York, nowadays. The distinctive characteristics of the story is 1) that it happens in a emergency department and 2) that the chief doctor had decided to welcome every patients whatever would be the cost of the interventions. From that point of view it's really fascinating for a French man to see how works, or not, the medical american system. It's fictionnal, of course, but nevertheless like many series « New Amsterdam » is realy, totally addictive ! So I'm waiting the season two with a great imatience !
March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
China hasst Bitcoin
Circa sechzig Prozent aller Krypto-mining passiert in China. Acht Prozent von diesem Teil passiert in die Innere Mongolei Region, wo Strom sehr billig ist, aber das wird bald ändern. China kündigte ein Krypto-miningverbot in der Region an, unter Berufung auf Umweltgründe und Energieeinsparung. Bitcoin zu handeln in irgendeiner Weise in China ist schon verboten, und deshalb ist das neue Verbot wirklich keine Überraschung. Es ist ja nicht so, dass China Kryptowährung hasst, was es wirklich hasst, ist die Idee der Dezentralisierung, die damit einhergeht. Das Land hat Pläne, seine eigene Kryptowährung in Zukunft zu implementieren, den digitale Yuan, aber alles wird natürlich strikt reguliert und die Regierung wird von allen Transaktionen wissen. Am Ende wird es der KPCh nur mehr Autorität und noch mehr Kontrolle über politische Dissidenten geben.
March 6, 2021
Dziesięć zdań
1) Amerykańscy astronauci doleciali do Księżyca w 1969 roku.
2) Dzisiaj zjadłem jabłko.
3) Rak to albo zwierzę albo choroba.
4) Jesienią liście spadają z drzew.
5) Rekin to morskie zwierzę, którego wiele ludzi się boi.
6) Brzoskwinia ma słodki smak i skórę jak aksamit.
7) Studenci medycyny uczą się przez wiele lat, nim staną się lekarzami.
8) Oboje kobiet i mężczyzn nosi spodnie, a tylko kobiety noszą spódnicy.
9) Słoń to wielkie zwierzę, które mieszka w Afryce i Azji, i ma bardzo dziwny nos nazwany „trąbą”.
10) Mówi się, że gdy komety spadają, powinno pomyśleć życzenie, a gdy mówisz do kogoś życzenie, się nie spełni.
March 6, 2021
Danser
Je n'ai jamais été un grand danseur. En fait, j'avais beaucoup de honte (et je l'ai encore) quand mes tantes m'invitaient à danser « salsa ». Ces jours je ne suis pas non plus un grand danseur, mais je peux faire quelques mouvements sans me voir trop ridicule. Je crois que danser dans ces jours est plus facile, tout le monde connais ce « TikTok mouvements» et les répètent en chaque chanson. Mais quand il s'agit de suivre les pas d'un rythme plus difficile ou d'improviser, je crois que ma génération l'aura mauvaise.
Un de mes projets pour cette année, c'est de m'inscrire dans un cours de danse. Je crois que le tango et sexy et très amusant de danser avec quelqu'un... mais, j'ai besoin d'un partenaire effectivement. Peut-être j'inviterais une amie à l'apprendre avec moi, ça serait une option intéressante pour améliorer notre relation. Deux personnes qui dansent ensemble, restent ensemble !
March 6, 2021
Müde
Ich habe keine Lust mehr zu denken. Ich will einfach nicht mehr an jede einzelne Dinge oder jedes einzelne Detail denken. Ich will das Leben genießen, ohne jeden Moment uber jeden Quatsch, der bei mir passiert, nachzudenken. Es nervt einfach and ich bin deshalb gestresst.
Es wäre so schön, ein freies Leben führen zu können.
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