今さら気がつくのもなんだけど、去シーズンから私のような個人客が活きた上海蟹を手に入れることはできなくなった。なぜかというと、上海蟹=チュウゴクモズクガニが外来種被害防止法の適用対象種となったから。中華食材屋の店先で100gあたり数100円の上海蟹を品定めするという古き良き習慣はもう過去のもので、食べたくなったら素直に中華屋に足を運んで一杯あたり最低1500円くらいのものを食すほかない。
蒸し蟹二杯と、海鮮粥とビーフンで割とよい散財だったけど、とてもおいしかった。また来年行こう。
今まで通っていた学校で受講した授業の中で、一番面白かった授業は何ですか？面白い理由も教えてください。
蓮見重彦の映画の講義。
毎回映画をみせてくれた。ビデオだと絶版になっている映像とかもあってとても貴重。映画の技法や批評については知ることができたわけだけど、学んだことで一番重要なことは、
「簡単に『知りません』とは言わない」
という「学究」に必要な態度だ。
「知らない」と言うのは簡単だ。特にひとつの映画作品について「観たことがない」というのは。「観る」のは後でビデオ屋やフィルムセンターに足を運んでなんとかすればいい。仮に観てなくても知らなくても、自分の持っている知識から何を産み出せるかということが問題なのだ。自分が「知らない」という事実に興味がある人などいない。
What are your favorite and least favorite words? Any reasons why?
Question submitted by Byrne.
"Execution speed is the only metric in computer science." -- Kei Hiraki
"In computer science, elegance is not a luxury but a matter of life and death." -- E.W. Dijkstra
These words are my most favorite ones. "Speed" and "elegance" are very important for me to do anything.
"Koh-suh", "Ning-getsu"
These words are my least favorite ones. Don't talk me about "Koh-suh", and never say "Ning-getsu". I hate them. Keep silence and just do work!!
I love to eat fish and chips with beer. It's my bliss if all of Tokyo cafes have them!! But actually they don't. So, every weekend I often run around looking for fancy cafes, which have F&C to feed me ;-)
Last Sunday, I found another cafe named Oombla, which is located at a little bit far from Komazawa Olymic Park and is not so popular.
This is a photo of the river side view of Pittsburgh, November 1996 (almost ten years ago!).
It was my first visit to the United States for my first conference speech at the International Conference. I was too nervous to speak to the audience in English, so I could not enjoy and eat so much. All I remembered at that time was a chinese restraurant in the river-side mall was awful ;-)
This photo is around Carnegie Melon University? I can't remember.
A boy in a trench coat is me, and his left man is Takagi-san. He is one of the most famous activist in computer security in Japan, but at that time he was an ordinary researcher in computer architecture.
Last Saturday, I visited the Hokkawa Hotspring, the Izu Peninsula and stayed at a fancy guest-house named Shiomiso.
