If I were to design a robot that can tell me any object’s chemicals compositions, the input method would be licking. A thing that can lick everything and not die. I wouldn’t put taste buds on its tongue though.

Small jelly fish exhibitions can be quite deceptive and mesmorizing. I feel like all the jelly fish are swimming up and an infinite amount of new jelly fish appear from somewhere at the bottom of tank. When I look closely, I can sometimes actually see a few jelly fish that are going down but even then I feel like a majority of them are going up all the time..

How mysterious.

Watching the faces of people who are lifting heavy heavy weight reminds me of fish when they come up to breath. It’s funny how training of leg/arm muscles make you want to open and close their mouths desparately..

Pet shops say that betta live in a small puddle in rice field, therefore it’s ok (or even good!) to keep them in small containers. If I had Solomon’s ring, I’d like to ask betta, “Given a choice, would you rather live in a big puddle or small puddle?”

My betta seems to *love* his new bigger house.

Google got mold all over its logo..

Happy St. Patrick’s day.

Things have changed greatly since 1885 but one thing has not: For sale by (maybe not all) Druggies

Oh wait.

I wonder what current medicine people in 100 years from now will be laughing (or frowning) about…

Guys with mustache must have a pair of eyebrow scissors — I don’t think they realize how annoying it is for the parteners when the tips of their mustache get in the way of kissing.

Trim please.

A next generation weapon — a word mirror. When somebody says mean things to me, I can use this mirror to reflect the words back to the person.

My modest suggestion for the media lab…

I wonder if aligators sometimes think about eating these little birds that clean up their teeth when they are very VERY hungry..

I tend to like fresh smell of anything that has been just unsealed.

I lately found an exception to that rule: fresh smell of plastic matters. I smelled it the first when I opened a bag that had japanese box tape. I smelled it again today when I opened a bag full of fresh centrifuge tubes. Smells as if these synthetic evil chemical monsters were grabbing the membrane at the back of my nose…scary.

Whenever I go back to Japan, I feel like I came back to ‘reality’. I think I finally figured out why — it’s because I hear a lot more footstep sound (and other noise too) there than in the states.

Noise really changes how I perceive this world.

The little purple flower piece on the right side of the banner is bothering me — it looks too wet. It looks like a flower tongue — I’m afraid that that purple piece can actually move around and lick other flowers.

Is it ethical for vegetarians to eat carnivorous plants? What if they’ve got empty stomach?

Thanks to a zit outbreak, I’ve got a unibrow and a monroe beauty mark.

How sexy.

A good friend to have: someone who can sense whether police cars have their sirens on because it is necessary or because it’s more convenient for them — and can turn off their sirens if the latter is the case.

I’m always suspicious..

There is a way to estimate the powerfulness of virus. The method is called plaque assay. When you infect a lawn of cells with virus, the site where the virus attaches will have dead cells. The newly synthesized virus will infect the neighbor cells and kill them as well. In several days, you see plaques of dead cells in the lawn of cells. The more plaques you have, the more powerful the virus is.

I was reading an instruction of how to “grow” virus. There were a lot of typos like, instread of “big” dish, “bib” dish. As I read on, I came across “plague assay”.

I suppose that that is a more appropriate name but…it made me feel like I’m very evil.

If the rain could be warm — like 37-40C — during the winter or summer, I wonder if people would be more willing not to use umbrellas. It’d be like a warm shower.

I guess people’d get cold as the water takes away the heat afterwards but that can be solved by just wearing bikinis while outside and wipe off the water after getting inside the building and wear normal clothes.

A movie character (not main) idea.

An old man with white hair and semi-big white beard. He goes to supermarkets and pats on strangers shoulders, saying “Hm..you’re thinking” and say what menus and activites these strangers were thinking of doing with these ingrediants — and he’s always right no matter how radom the items seem.

I wanted to meet that kind of old man when I was at a supermarket yesterday.

If a study needs blood samples taken at two different sites of the body at the same time, he/she needs to poke two places at once. That sounds torturous even though it’s only one more poke difference from normal injections and nurses and doctors often poke patients more than once consequently.

Somebody in Japan invented a painless injection, using a ultrathin needle. Very cool.

I usually think that when animal products are served accidentally to me, I should eat it to respect the life of the animals — is it really a respect though? I feel like that that is something I heard when I was a child but I feel like the act of eating may be rather violent than respectful. But throwing the meat away seems rough too. Should I bury the meat or have a funeral for the animals? What would be the nicest thing I could do in such a mishap?

Affectioantely calling a little kid/baby a “pumpkin” — that just seems wrong. Do kids really feel loved when they hear “come here, my pumpkin”?

Who wants to look like a pumpkin?