Entries this day: miraikan plans-for-tomorrow 日本語を勉強しました

miraikan

12:57 Sunday 05 April 2015 JST

Just finished lunch with peeps after seeing Miraikan first floor exhibits. I forgot to write during lunch; we're leaving now.

13:04

We're in line for the floating flower garden.

Downstairs there were several interesting interactive exhibits. My favorite was a table with 300cc colored wooden blocks. Cameras above the table would detect the blocks and lights above the table would project rivers between blue blocks, planes flying between yellow blocks, railroad between red blocks, and highway between green blocks, and maybe helicopter landing pads on purple blocks (maybe).

Lots of kids were just tossing the blocks around, causing the terrain to be redrawn quite quickly!

I considered slowly collecting the blocks as they were tossed off the table until there were no more on the table, so the kids would get bored and then we'd be able to experiment without their godzillian antics.

15:10

We went through a mockup of the ISS, which featured a floor on the earth-facing side instead of more handled panels.

I skipped a very crowded animatronic robot thing. I'll wait until the crowds die down and the AI can actually have a chat with me.

I was enamored with a giant marble track thing that allowed people to send four characters to any of a few different stations. Messages consisted of 8 bits to identify the station to which the remaining 8 bits of the message should be sent. Each bit was encoded with a black or white ball.

I'm not sure what encoding was used, but I bet it was made specifically for the exhibit. They encoded 0-9A-Zア-ヲ and couple other symbols (hearts and stars).

17:55

After crepes, Jon and I went back in to see if the green tables were less crowded. They were slightly so, so we were able to test the detectors a bit. The first time I put Francois on the table, he was marked as a highway point, but on subsequent placements, he was ignored altogether or scanned and rejected. Some women next to us determined the cases on their cellphones worked. My phone on its front or back wouldn't work, but when it was standing on end, the computer marked it as a highway point.

Then back with our group under the large video ball (spherical display screen made of around 2000 little square video screens)

(wow we just did a rough count measurement and calculation and got 12000 square video screens!)

There, Emma and Kaito (ages 9 and 4 or so) laughed as they fed snacks to me, Jon, and Lin. I was game, but Lin and Jon were like, "もういい " and "okay stop" respectively.

Some kids nearby had some magnets that made a neat noise when thrown in proximity of each other, so I asked where the got them, and they led me to the spot in the shop. Nice! I bought some and two little spring launchy things which we played with as well.

18:40

Then そろそろ time to go and we walked to.... ice cream shop for more chat and chill before heading home.

Jon, Lin and I are on りんかい線 now headed home. He's debating between going to Shibuya and having a longer walk or changing in Ebisu and taking more stairs.

plans for tomorrow

19:45 Sunday 05 April 2015 JST

In addition to catching up on pushups, (assuming I can't do 100 tonight,) (my goal is 100 per day this month,) and catching up on Japanese study, I hope to retool the bejeweled game so the pieces move slower than light speed. Oh, and try to find the light speed game for Travis, who had a dream about my having created a game that included relativistic effects.

1. ~~100 pushups for April 5th~~
2. ~~100 pushups for April 6th~~
3. ~~1 hour Japanese study~~
4. draw a maze
5. resubmit Japanese apps (fix misspelling)
6. find light speed game
7. retool bejeweled
8. ~~chat with David on Skype~~
9. ~~Japanese class~~

optionally

1. put https on new.robnugen.com
2. put https on b.robnugen.com

22:26 Monday 6 April 2015

I crossed out the items I finished today. I need to draw a maze because it's due in a few hours!!! I don't have ny queued up at the moment.

I fixed the Japanese apps but haven't resubmitted them. It's such a chore each time to repost all new screenshots etc omg. Maybe I won't have to and it will save all previous data.

I looked for the light speed game but couldn't find it for sure.

Worked on stuff for sbstrm instead of doing Bejeweled (or submitting Japanese apps).

To do SSL, I popped both new.robnugen.com and b.robnugen.com onto Cloudflare (single checkbox does it on Dreamhost's control panel)... BUT then I couldn't connect via SSH to my accounts (without doing something else apparently and I didn't want to look for it.. so "bah" and I switched them back.)

I'll do SSL when the new browser-backed free service comes online in a few months.

日本語を勉強しました

22:00 Sunday 05 April 2015 JST

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

Via memrise

1. 下宿　げしゅく guesthouse
2. 下着　したぎ　　undies
3. 不便　ふべん inconvenience
4. 一生懸命　いっしょうけんめい with all one's effort
5. 下げる　さげる to hang something