Oh god, it's morning (10am) in Chicago. I'm very sleepy but it'd be better to keep awake (^^;;

Typically seen in autumn! Click for a larger image!

久々にむしょうに食べたくなり，ある店舗へ行ってみた．大混雑していたが，待ちの3番だったので並んだ．前に2名×2組，後ろもまず2名．さらに増えてきた．この私の後ろの方から店内に入れなくて外に並んではった．6名用のテーブルが空き，最初の2名が座りはっ…

Somehow I bought a CD of The Cure. Songs in this CD are gently flowing. They didn't bother but were very helpful for keeping my concentration in the night.

Yesterday, the long holiday season including Obon was over. I just prayed for the world peace in my heart, although I didn't have a chance to join any ceremonies and festivals. Today, I made my best effort to kick off a couple of matters o…

My NIKE+ system has not been working for around a year. I thought it was due to battery ehaustion, but buying a new battery did not work out. So, I think it's due to some problem of the wireless receiver, or of the interface between iPod n…

This year, JGFoS 2009 will be held at Harumi Grand Hotel. I'm looking forward to meeting scientists from different areas.

I'm glad to hear from my internship student, saying his project was nominated for the best project, and also he has joined Ph.D. in his institute. I'm looking forward to seeing students this year again in India.

I was excited by finding DONQ opened at a place between JR and Kintetsu Kyoto stations! I bought a batard, and they gave me a dish as a little gift for celebrating their foundation or something like that.

Talks given by Dr. Hori@NiCT and Prof. Hashimoto@JAIST were both enjoyable. It was unfortunate that I wasn't able to attend the Dr. Yoshikawa's talk due to my business trip to Sapporo.

It was held in Sapporo, and we presented two posters Circuit-level modeling of the SGI by Moren, Shibata and Doya Attentional spreading during object tracking by Nishida, Shibata and Ikeda

Nara and Kobe are directly connected by Kintetsu-Hanshin line, although I haven't used this line yet. This ad is of Kobe Luminarie

5 years have passed since my last visit to US, and I'll visit US twice this year. TSA lock, 10 digital fingerprints, ESTA, ... Entropy is just increasing as theory predicts. (^^;;;

What an exciting night! I finally started a study with an actroid! Thank Takemura-sensei, Tamei-kun, and Kondo-kun!!!

論理生命学の学生（林君，中村君）が優勝しました．おめでとう！ http://mill.ucsd.edu/index.php?page=Main このコンテストは，2004年から開催されており，今年で6回目．今年は，134大学，31国が参加したそうです．優勝したのは，Task 1で総勢201チームが参…

Acrobat Professionalで添削しても，相手がMacで見ていると，加筆が表示されない問題に逢い，ひどい目にあった．と言っても，これは2回目の経験．ああ，すっかり忘れていた．．．orzI was beaten by a crucial problem that rewritings done on Window's Acr…

徹夜を余儀なくされたが，まあ何とか一つ締め切りを凌いだのでよかった．次はIROSの最終原稿締め切り．そして，査読がいくつか．