BGM: Beck's "Already dead"

My unplugged family

I just emailed my mother from the school PC. My family had been one of the most unplugged folks until she have gotten the text messaging function on her cell phone. The deal is; she types in Japanese and some of my school PC can display the language. I use the roman alphabet to write her. Emailing my family makes me nostalgic- when I came to US long time ago, I communicated with my family with long-distance phones, faxes, and letters…

Why do I keep blogging?

[Why do I keep blogging?]
Another faculty member mentioned my blog (this one), asked me why I do this. He is not judging my motivation, but curious. This is why I am elaborating on this topic…

First, I am blogging to proof that I am here and I will be here. I will not disappear, not from the cyberspace and playgrounds of thinking. Second, I am here to proof myself that what I am thinking is important, at least, to me and ppl around me…

Hmmm…my LAN network has been down for the last two days. [title only]

Hmmm…the LAN network at home has been down for the last two days.

Thank you for your support...

Thank you for your support...
Briefly discussed on my situation with M, 4th year student.
One of the discussion topics are…Art: Do you create an art form or the art calls on you?

New Apt

[New Apt]
Found an apartment. The room will be ready to move my stuff in as early as two weeks.

Ikiru! The superb movie!

Ikiru http://www.xasa.com/wiki/en/wikipedia/i/ik/ikiru.html I am sorry for my language. But if you think that life is meaningless, get up, hop on your car, and grab this damn movie!

THE REALM OF VISUAL STATISTICS [useful stuff-statistics]

THE REALM OF VISUAL STATISTICS [useful stuff-statistics]

MODERN EPISTEMOLOGY IN SEARCH FOR MEANING
BY DAVID J. KRUS


Posted the link to a Wiki:
Getting Serious About Statistics

[Note][Adult ADHD]

[Note][Adult ADHD]
"Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder", Psychiatric Clinics of North America, June 2004, Vol27(2)Editor T. Spencer. ISSN 0193-953X [Found at MSPP]

Looks like another kayak day (Saturday)

Looks like another kayak day. I will finish videotaping a psychpharm class in one hour or so: the kayak time is coming as soon I get off from this (yet still fun) work today!

I have been actively kayaking and canoeing on the Charles River lately. One of my classmates expressed his deep interest in joining...Anybody wanna join us in the summer?

See you on the water.

A slowly shattered soul/drafting a website

[A slowly shattered soul/drafting a website]


I am re-reading Bessel van der Kolk’s seminal article about post traumatic-stress disorder, “The Body Keeps the Score”.

This article somehow makes me plan another website, or at least another page on my existing website (jayotsuka.com). The new website will feature dissociation, trauma, and spirituality. I start with these vague ideas, since I believe that a website has a flexibility that allow me to think about/work on multiple themes at the same time. This website is a challenge to myself: I will speak to linier thinkers and parallel thinkers at the same time through the web.

First Bipolar Paper is done

I just submitted a literature search paper, which consumed me in the last one month or so. This was my first time to write a formal paper about this topic. Thank you for P.W. and S. A. for helping me out.

[Dostoevsky-stuff]

Humans are beautiful,

in spite of,
in spite of,
in spite of,...
and

because of...