最近、遊んでないな

最近、遊んでないなあと思います。仕事ばっかりして、その仕事も割と決まった仕事ばかりに時間を掛けてしまって、これまでにやったことのないこと、無理筋の仕事に取り組むということがありません。

遊ぶというのは、地面から足を話して、ふわふわと浮き上がって、これまでにやったことのないこと、不確実なことをやってみることだと思います。まったく、自分の身体や精神に保証がない感じです。

そんな毎日を送っていても、閉塞感が増すばかりで、ちっとも面白いわけがありません。やったことのないことに取り組む遊びこそが、人生の楽しみであり、生きる意味であるはずなのですよ。

TEXASでのAirBnBはちょっとした冒険だったかな

My declaration as a "NOWIST"

Hi, Bloggers!

I live a life depending on time and place passing by never stop. My life never comes back no matter how we beg. So, I want and swear myself to do the thing which is appropriate to do for me and people around now. I will enjoy and take care of now more than everything others. This is my declaration as a "NOWIST."

 

If I was Jack of fairy tale...

 Hi, Bloggers!

If I was Jack, I could go up to cloud and take big man's treasure back to my house. A big dream of mine encourage me to take care of this bean plant every day. actually it doesn't grow up to sky, but brings me much of beans as a treasure. Fresh sweet beans put color on dinning dish, and adds nice carbohydrate and protein. Human being has compiled history with beans as an important crop for sustaining life. And I do succeed the custom continued from old ancients in the way just like they did. 

To clean up killifish aquarium

 Hi, Bloggers!

I have fourteen killifishes divided in aquarium and basin. Sorry to them, especially for the ones swimming in aquarium, basement of it has been full of their drops, unknowingly. According to some article about how to feed killifish, replacing water should be done once in a week during warm season. To clean up aquarium for them, I filled a tub with tap water and stay it in yard to let chlorine out from yesterday. Hopefully, until tomorrow evening, their "residence" will be a place they never like to go out. Hey, you killifish, please wait for me to take care of your site cleaning up!

Pleasure to waiting for summer comes up

Hi, Bloggers!

How did you spend this weekend day? I woke up late a little bit and took care of home garden through a day. I cut garden weeds for four plastic garbage bags,  and mix leaf mold and oil cake into soil for planting summer vegetables. At neighbor DIY shop, I picked up three tomato, bell pepper, green pepper and cucumber. Hopefully, they will bear fruit through this summer, and enrich my life with fresh taste. 

This time, I bought three kinds of tomato seedling, and expect to harvest crossbreeding fruits of them. Not sure it will happen or not, but I  get pleasure to waiting for summer comes up.

Harvest last summer

Flower never found in shops

Hi, Bloggers!

This is " Oenothera rosea,"  a family of Onagraceae, we call it "Yugesho," in Japan. It means "makeup in evening." This flower was imported for appreciation from America continent hundred years ago, and broadly spread in warmer places around Japan. 

It will catch you by its clear pink color and wide petal like parabola antenna. From May to September is the best season of it fascinate you in grassy land. 

Even in outdoor vacant places, we can enjoy finding this kind of tiny wild coloring never distinguish easily and blossoms every year. Why don't you walk around neighborhood and find your favorite which cannot buy in flower shop?  

Replanting season coming soon

Hi, Bloggers!

I have several bowls of Sansevieria in my house and office. Some of them rescued at my campus almost dry up condition, and others were given by my fellow worker retired. Non of them has been bought by me in gardening shop. In spite of those opportunity, they are always keep green color and freshness, and keep increasing roots, also ask me to prepare for new pods to move in. Replanting season comes not so long. 

DIY work saves cost and train me to be multi-tasked

Hi, Bloggers!

I bought a putty set to seal gap between kitchen sink and wall which has been aged and divided looks bad for water leak. It's a work needs patience and takes several hours to be completed, so I am willing to do it coming weekend for my refreshment, a Sunday carpenter. DIY work saves cost and train me to be multi-tasked person to help myself and others everyday, every time.

Tag note saves you from impulsiveness

Hi, Bloggers!

Resisting to my temptation touching with digital devices during job, I am coming up with a way. It's very easy that just write down thing to do by the devises on a tag note to do afterward. For instance, checking FB, Tweet something, searching gossip and replying emails as well.

 If you do not believe it, do it once for a trial. Temptation for running away to impulsive business catches us and snatches time intermittently. You will surprise that you are free from that temptation after you decide to write your impulse on a tag note. Why is it effective? It is cause of that your impulse satisfied with just expressing on a small paper. This mental phenomenon seems just like ventilating high-pressure air in a compressor. I think its wonderful that just only a piece of tag note save me from ramble use of time.

"Kairanban" keeps communication in local communities

Hi, Bloggers!

Do you know "Kairanban" system which is managed by residence groups in local community in my country. It means "Circulation Notice Board" among people there. What notice is on the board? Yes, there are several informations like monthly reports of neighborhood self-governing body, notice of cleaning activity, event information held in civic center, suspicious information in case and etc., etc.. 

Information delivery above is a main purpose of the system, but I think the meaning of this system is more over that. What is it? It's a custom to give greeting and communicating each other. Now on we tend to not take care of each other in the daily life. Delivering "Kairanban" to my neighbors' house provides the chance to talk person up there. If there is not the system, we have just a few chances to think of each other nevertheless we are living in and share a same local place.

This system make us feel a very old style of delivering information, but it keeps chance to enrich relationship among people nearby and share the same place here around. And it also expected to strengthen custom of helping each other when we face big disasters. 

We can not laugh nor throw away this local communication system so far up to a period which high tech communication method and system replaces old one.

Taro Okamoto's work displayed 

in Tokyu Shibuya St., Tokyo

Value is inside you

Hi, Bloggers!

These days, the frequency of "Morning Page" which is activity to write anything three pages in notebook with free hand declines. I have start it as my custom for mind mediation to develop ability connecting dots of knowledge in my brain since last March, and continued it almost everyday, but not these days. 

For do it effectively, I need to start writing before inputting any informations in daily life as a noise for output. Our consciousness can be recognized by writing by hand physically, and it comes back to my brain through sense of sight. And this rotation goes around continually. To make this learning custom established, I should sleep and wake-up early and take enough hour for it before starting job in my office. 

This note taking method enhanced me to find what I am thinking in daily life, and bring me something being surprised. The value worth to catch thought hidden somewhere outside, however probably inside ourselves. It's a finding brought me by "Morning Page" note taking. So, I like to take back the custom again to know myself deeper.

"Hops" far away in PP

A magic word, "It's easy, I can do it!"

Hi, Bloggers!

This morning, I delayed the due time of this blog I have sat by myself. Generally, I update my article during previous night, and set time to open. Due to be in time, I should start writing more early hours in a day, or stock articles before hand. Article can be written if I start and take some minutes, and concentrate through the time. 

Before hand, I should stock topics and keyword in the basket of my brain searching something worth write. Anyway to do is more important than just to say. Saying is easy, but doing is difficult, in other words. Even if those provers are right, I want so believe in a word of magic motivating us, just say, "It's easy, I can do it!" 

Wright Brothers' flight guide rail

@Kill Devil Hills, NC

https://goo.gl/maps/sGupVKYt1xqCFH9c6

Local taste Hai Phong, VN

Hi, Bloggers

I remember the dinner ate in Hai Phong, Vietnam several years ago. This Hue style beef taste with French bread and cucumber. At this period, I visited the city three times in a year for two or three years, and enjoyed local cuisine with people there. Beef was great of course, but French bread called "Banh" was excellent. Especially, flavor of it after roasted by briquettes will catch you to buy it again and again. I hope you some day join me to share the food there, never forget Hai Phong Draft Beer with it by the way. 

If you can not find what you like to write, you can find it when you write.

Hi Bloggers!

I like to write about something which can make our life better and happier, but this time I can not find anything introduce to. Now I've just started typing without any goal and objective. Always I feel envious the people who write rich blog contents everyday, and try to follow them just like they do. It's so hard doing so. 

This kind of grumble can be one of the topics to write blog. What a funny it is! If you can not find what you like to write, you can find it when you write. This is one of my principles when I feel total white in front of manuscript paper. Nothing to write comes over me if I just have a seat with it.

This is what I like to blog for you. Thanks.

Sao Paulo, a city of art object

What is done can not be undone!

Hi, Bloggers!

I don't know why midnight food is beyond tasty, Needless to say, I do understand it is a typical anti-heathy behavior to make me degrade as a human, but sometimes I can not run away from the irresistible desire of it. 

Frequency of the decadent behavior tends to decline compare with the days I was young, although it come back to my mind, unconsciousness caused of some reasons. It maybe fascinating taste more than Adam taste before he eliminate from paradise, even if the food in front of you is anything. 

Especially, salt, sugar and oil tempt you to intake every times in life. And the time of midnight make you confuse needed something to eat. Anyway, I satisfied with the evil's invitation and will fall into regret my behavior incited by sleepy spirit of deep night hours. "What is done can not be undone," somebody said!

 

Effect of walking for contemplation

Hi, Bloggers!

I book me to walk around my house about 4.5km after job everyday. It is a time of relaxation, joy and chance of flashing idea. I love walking more than run, and am able to walk as far as I like through a day. Walking in steady speed may bring me a sensory deprivation inducing information consideration inside brain. It is known as same effect as contemplation or meditation.

Our brain always demands information input through sensory organ. When quantity of input decline by walking in steady speed in common road condition, brain acquires relaxation, then produces information consolidation. By understanding the function of our brain, we can make up suitable condition for ourselves to produce innovation intentionally. However,  the result which you can get may depends on your way. Haha!

Sound is everything for online conference

Hi, Bloggers!

Since I started online communication in business and education, there was many chance to face trouble on it. Now,  I found audio is more important than visual in chat and conference online. In another word, "sound is everything for online conference." So I bought nice condenser microphone for my laptop to deliver better sound of my speaking to audiences and counterparts. 

Don't you have experience a online conference with terrible sound condition? It is a thing that voice of speakers with much noise, too small to listen to, cut off too often or others. If there were good condition about visual condition on my screen, lemon sound made me irritated and hindered concentration through the meeting. 

Comfortable big screen can be meaningless when sound trouble happened in the conference. So, not to feel gloomy your counterpart in another screen online, one thing you can do for it is buy nice microphone and setting up better sound condition of your side. The microphone I bought in Amazon cost about US70-80 dollars had met enough condition on desk top work set. 

If you like to set up online conference condition with lower stress to speak, get  a condenser mic I wrote before to support you, because it can catch your voice even if it so small, and spoken from distance. If you face counterpart moves mouth without sound, you will feel it uncomfortable. Never make your counterpart suffered from the trouble like you used to face.

As a trial, even if you participate online conference in off camera mode, you may catch up with it almost of all part of it. Your online life can be changed totally after it.

One way lecture is suitable for digital study archives

Hi, Bloggers!

Today, I had two classroom lecture face-to-face for bachelor students since 14 months after COVID-19 pandemic. The class populations were 78 and 102, mainly senior grade students. These type of classes are tend to be one-way lecture without any conversation between lecturer and students, or among students. It is a place and time as same as watching television or youtube which should be take home or handy devices outside.

So, this time I install a communication content for student doing chatting with next seat and questionnaire result show up at once after they answer in class room.

I always think of onsite classroom is a chance of simultaneous communication among participants sharing same place and same time. If I design lecture in classroom just like television broadcasting style, it wastes the time of participants who are willing to use time for a creative activities in communicating others. 

Of course I do not deny  that style of lecture which is designed to convey knowledge from lecturer to students, but it will be suitable in offsite, un-simultaneous style lecture archives. Basically, onsite class should be held as communication based more than past design in college and university curriculum, and one way lecture should be given in digital study archives as supplement for students who loves active learning. 

Language and more...

Hi bloggers!

It looks so hard to attain more readers of my blog if I continue to write it in English. Because I suppose its readers are mainly Japanese people, and some of them are not feel stress read in the language, but someone do.

Now I'm on a crossroads of the way to write language of this blog, and find some options. #1, keep writing in English. #2, go back to write in Japanese. #3, start another blog written in English. #4, write in both language.

I don't know which is the best way to choose, but one thing clear is writing hours are limited and I have several thing to write daily. It is a difficult choice for me.

although, before writing language, I should brush up my blog of much substances with rich contents for readers. It probably be a neck of increase readers.

We are a species of postpone

Hello, Bloggers!

Now we are facing the limit of capitalism. Saying in another way, we are forced to live in the logic of capitalism by goodwill system. Essentially, capitalism is the one of the method to make our life happy and better than other way, and is an economic system easy to understand broadly. But now without noticing it, we live our lives just like slaves of capitalism to make it stay longer. We addict it and can not come out  of it in other words. 

Now we know, capitalism faces limit of the environment and resources which have guaranteed economic expansion and reproduction. Even if resource productivity increases and consumption of fossil fuel per capita reduced, for example, volume of consumption will be kept going until the point of no return of environmental destruction like global warming and ice age caused by it. We tend to postpone to make decision and take action for trouble like it. 

So, now we should understand ourselves a species of postpone and take action after tragedy came up.

How do you mark up important words and sentences in the book you read?

Hello, bloggers!

How do you mark up important words and sentences in the book you read? Checking by ball point pen, color marker, put tag on sentence head? They can be many ways and style of each of you. My way is more simple without any tools for marking. I just fold edge of pages triangle, It is so called "dog ear." 

I think dog earring is the best way to mark up words and sentences you can do easily through reading. No pen, no marker, no tag piece, but just fold edge of page. Dog earring does't disturb your concentration for reading, nor ask you to hang pen and marker and put them on the part to be marked up precisely, but guide you to be back to the part you like to check again.

Some opinion which against dog earring insists we shouldn't hurt book pages by folding carelessly, and it shorten lifetime of books. Even though, I follow and defend dog earring cause of it shows history of book, and potentially enhance conversation among readers one after another. If I launch a library in a new concept, I'll set a rule there, "dog ear free" for every users. 

If some people famous in writing or book review left dog earring in my library, the books which hurt by them potentially shows high value to read, and to be an asset of my library to call nice user there.

 

Which hours do you like best for your productive work?

Hello, bloggers!

Which hours do you like best for your productive work? For me, it is from 8 to 11am. I tend to stay up late around 12 midnight, and wake up around 6:30am. So, my brain need 1.5 hours to re-boot for taking action. 

This three hours in the morning is very precious time for me to deep thinking, designing and assembling ideas for future contribution. I always spend the time alone, and mainly talking to myself. 

If I revise my daily life custom more healthy, my core time can shift to more early hours. Schedules after lunchtime is mainly used for doing research consultation of the students, preparation of class materials, meeting and writing emails.

When you doing your job processing tasks just as a duty, the job could be withered sooner or later. Not to fail in the condition like that we need to cultivate the farming place in mind day by day. That work will bring us precious seeds growing up to feed us back in the future.

To attain the seeds containing much energy and ingredient, we need to take care of our crops in hours we are doing it very productive. We cannot miss the hours to do it and keep it, even if there are other plans book you up. 

Have a good day you all!

How to make your daily life more productive

Hello bloggers!

How often do you watch social media application in your mobile phone, every day? According to my iPhone, I watched Twitter 8 minutes, Facebook 6 minutes, LINE 5 minutes, SmartNews 4 minutes, podcast 3 minutes and YouTube 1 minutes. Precisely, this record does not include the screen watching time for the laptop and desktop computers. So, exact time can be longer than that.

As you know,  social media contents are designed to keep consumers watching the sites and making click, click and click as long as you can to consume the services of the applications. An article said those years, people tend not to watch televisions but hand-device display. That trend influences mega trend of media advertising industries. It also reflects individualism among people daily life to consuming information. In that meaning, social medias win the game to fascinate and hold consumers to be with then long hours everyday Strategically. 

But, in other sight, the information we can consume in social media is not enough organized and tend to not include contents that bring us to the important future. So, I just start to reduce the time to watch social media content, but write by the way, and increase the frequency to read book and the magazines, or contents in the authorized website. If you likes to make your daily life more productive, you can re-design how to use the time for consuming social media applications and not to touch your mobile phone consciously. 

Please have a great day!

Poor writing can transform into rich over time

Hello, you all. This is Hiro TSUJII.

Due to write blog daily, I always search appropriate topics for it day and night. Because blog is a social media, but just a personal. Readers can decide leave this page freely without any cost, and there is no restriction to make them read it. 

So, it's value fully depends on market mechanism, readers consciousness like to follow the articles or not. And when blog collects readers even if it is a small number, it dresses some of public aspect and takes responsibility to make them enjoy sharing the contents.

Hey, some of readers have own blog! How do you find and decide topics to write every time? And, how do you start to write your article every time? I sometimes start with out any plan to complete it. Just start writing something on this play. In these months, voice input without typing is an ordinary way to compose my article. So I just talk to my macbook through microphone with converter not to miss my words one by one.

When do so, some of sentences compose context of their own and become an article includes meaning even if it is boring or worthless. Poor writing can transform into rich over time, when it bundles much words. This is just my belief though. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy of my article if you like, even a part. 

  

Truth of "JUST DO IT"

Hello, you all, I'm Hiro TSUJII.

This time I'll try to write blog in English as an international common language. Please read this if you like to follow me. Here we have bunch of chances of learning and influencing other to enhance each other and community. But I don't  thing myself get and use such occasions effectively, because of hesitating them in a reason of laziness.

The best way to motivate myself to learn something is to use them in my  life everyday and everywhere. Using knowledge will enhance myself to learn more and more, and make up community to share it and lead people to deep knowledge for understanding our world more than before. 

Today, I thought how I get chance to use English, and reached to an answer that is write blog in the language under self-promising. Language, sport, drawing and other skills should be brushed up as far as they are taken into practice. But, we tend to keep them away while not good at using them, nevertheless know the words "practice makes perfect," it means if you like to understand something well, you should get used to it in practice, but learn from someone. "Body feels more than brain," in my words.

This is what I think to enrich my life to the future so far, if it makes me feel green, but I also believe it includes universal truth for every generation. Now I know the cause the NIKE's catch phrase "JUST DO IT," have touched and shook people in world wide, then made the company global brand.

リービッヒはパン作りにも目を光らせていた

こんにちは。辻井洋行です。

2日に1度ホームベーカリーで食パンを作るのが、すっかり習慣になりました。それが、ここ数ヶ月、パンの膨らみが、全然思うように行っていなかったのです。調べてみると、ドライ･イーストにも使用期限があり、また、保存状態も働きを左右することがわかりました。

2020年の4月頃に、日本中で、強力粉とドライイーストが品薄になり、スーパーから消えた時期がありました。その時に、amazonでたまたま見つけた500グラムのドライ･イーストを買って、それをずっと使っていました。えらいもので、その袋もそこをつきつつあります。

ただ、その保存方法があまりよろしくなかったようです。開封後のドライ･イーストは、冷蔵庫で保存するべしとのことだったのですが、僕は、夏場にも室温で保存していたのでした。それはドライイーストも、働きが悪くなるはずです。

今週末家に届いたものは、3グラムずつ小分けになっています。それに切り替えたところ、これまで1.5斤分の材料が必要だった膨らみにまで、1斤分の材料でしっかりと膨らんでいました。新しいものにしてからは、2回ともいい具合になっています。まだ、3回目以降を期待するには気が早いのですが、きっとドライイーストの鮮度は、大事なのでしょうね。

リービッヒの最小律は、植物の成長や収量に関する法則です。パン作りも、必要な要素が1つでも欠けるとうまくいかなくなることを学びました。

問題解決の設計と実行とのズレ

こんにちは。辻井洋行です。

エコロジーの観点から生活を見直すのは、単純に節約すればよいということではありません。例えば、これまで出勤に自家用車を使っていたのを、乗り場乗りバスや鉄道へ切り替えること、ガソリン車を電気自動車に変えるということ、自転車にしてしまうということ。エネルギー消費の面では、自転車にするのが正解ということになるのでしょう。

ただしもっと踏み込むならば、そもそも通勤する必要があるのかどうか、さらに、自分にとって、その職場や仕事でなければならないのかという事まで考え直すとことにもなります。なぜその仕事をするのかを改めて問うことも、エコロジーがきっかけとなります。

気候変動への対応や持続的な社会発展の実現のために、資源・エネルギー利用節約や代替エネルギー資源への転換が図られてきています。ただ、既存の資源・エネルギーの利用節約は、気候変動への影響を先送りにしているばかりであるし、代替エネルギーへの転換は、それによる他の課題への対応に目をつぶることがあります。例えば、メガソーラーを建設するために、山林をわざわざ切り開くような行動です。

リチャード・ウェルフォード（R. Welford）という研究者が、1997年にHijacking Engironmentalismいう本で主張したのは、現代資本主義を前提とした環境主義は、資源生産性向上という課題へ矮小化されているということでした。Deep Ecologyの観点に立てば、世界を構成する要素の関係を全体感も持って認識し、そのバランスを取りながら、世界に一員として個の生を設計していくことになります。それが、効率性の追求という1点にのみに問題が矮小化され、政治･経済主流なエコロジー思考の流れになってしまっていることを問題とする必要があります。

人間には基本的に物事を単純化して考えようとする傾向があるようです。複雑な問題を扱うことは不得手であり、簡単な解決策があれば、それに飛びついてしまうのが私たちの性質のようです。ただし、そこには問題の根本的な解決はなく、その状況に生きる私たちは、茹で蛙として 茹で上がってしまうことを待つばかりです。

とはいえ、具体的な行動へ足を踏み出せない、頼りない矛盾した自分自身も存在しています。行動の設計と実践との間にある齟齬が、この問題の本質と思います。

環境問題とはわが身のことである

こんにちは。辻井洋行です。

体細胞が約1ヵ月60%家があり、およそ200日間ですべてが変わるそうです。また体の約7割から8割は水でできています。それらの材料はどこからやってくるのかと考えれば、体の外からである事は割と容易に想像がつきます。私たちが体の外のことを環境と呼んでいます。いくらか正確には、体の中にも環境があります。

環境問題は、私たちの意識下においては、外界のことであり、動植物を愛でたり、化石資源の利用を節約して温暖化を緩和したりするのが話題の中心になりがちです。しかし、私たちの体細胞のこと思い出せば、環境問題とは私たち自身のことであると捉え直すことができます。私たちの体は、環境と分かちがたく結びついており、単純に内と外として分けるわけにはいかないのです。

体を維持するために飲む真水が貴重になっていく、毎日呼吸している空気が微粒子をたくさん含むようになり、肺に負担をかけていく、体の中に溜まった化学物質が、少しずつ健康を損なっていく。温室効果ガスの排出を削減する技術は、開発されていますが、それを経済性が成り立つ中で実装していくには、まだ何十年も時を有するかもしれません。それまでに、温暖化による決定的な環境異変が待ってくれているとは限りません。

電気自動車のためのリチウムイオン電池の材料であるリチウムは、南米ボリビアや中国内モンゴルの湖に沈んでいるものです。それを水と一緒に組み上げる事は、地域の水脈に対して負荷を掛け、水不足や干ばつをの原因になります。

私たちにとって、今の生活を維持することが、この先も長く続く続けられるかどうか、技術の信奉者にとっては楽観的なことなのかもしれません。ただし、ある問題の解決は、別の問題を生み出します。ある地域での問題の解決は、別の地域に対して問題を転嫁することであることが多いです。

私たちが普段使っている製品の多くは、人件費が比較的低い外国で作られています。日本の温室効果ガスの排出は世界全体の5%ですが、日本が輸入している製品を作っている外国から、温室効果ガスが多く輩出していることは忘れがちです。それは、国内も問題を外国にかぶってもらっていることなのです。

環境問題への取り組みは、エコバックを使うとか、目先の生活を少し変えるといったことで済むわけではないことを理解していく必要があるでしょう。私たちの生活のあり方を根本的に見直していく時期になっています。若い世代はすでにそのように動き始めているようです。昔の常識を引きずっている40代以上の世代が、考えを改める必要があるのだと思います。

音声入力をしていると次第に滑舌よく話せるようになっていきます

こんにちは。辻井洋行です。

ブログなど簡単な文章を書くときは、引き続き音声入力を使っています。音声入力をする中で学んできている事は、滑舌よく言葉を発すると言うことです。ふにゃふにゃと曖昧な発声をしていると、ソフトウェアが認識してくれません。音声入力をするために、滑舌よく話すことが習慣になっていきそうな気がします。コンバーター付きのマイクを使っていると、かなり小さな声でも、滑舌さえよければ、しっかりと文字に起こしていてくれます。

ところで、普段にはmacを使っているのですが、win10の端末で音声入力を試してみようと調べてみました。分かった事は、そちらではまだ英語の音声入力のみに対応しているとの事でした。その設定モードの中で面白かったのは、ネイティブでない発音にも対応するというチェックボックスがあったことです。

なるほど、国際公用語としての英語への対応をしている機能なんだなと言うことがよくわかります。それならば、日本語についても同じように対応してくれるといいのになと思います。日本語も、様々な母語を持っている人は、第2第3言語として使っていることがあります。

macでもwinでも、Googleのアプリケーションであれば、問題なく、日本語を拾っていってくれるのかもしれません。win10の端末で、chromeを立ち上げて、音声入力を試してみようと思います。さて、どうなるでしょうか？

関連で、今、Excelを使ったデータ集計をしているのですが、Macとwin版は、ずいぶんと使い勝手に差があり、断然winの方が、ユーザインターフェースが優しくなっていることに気づきました。 例えば、グラフのデータ選択のあたりの操作は、ウィンドウズの方が、細やかに操作できるようです。

「遠くの親戚より近くの他人」を形にしている地域は住みよいですよ

こんにちは。辻井洋行です。

4月1日になりました。いよいよ新年度のスタートです。うちの町内には、新年度には、80歳以上の長寿の皆さんを対象として、組単位で計画を立て、家事をお手伝いするチケットを差し上げる仕組みがあります。

特に、家族と遠く離れて暮らしている皆さんにとっては重宝するそうで、ちょっとした用事を頼めるのが助かるとのこと。特に、朝のゴミ出しや近所のスーパーへのお使いを代行したり、付き添ったりする券は人気で、喜ばれているようです。

また、その券には、地域通貨的な機能が付いていて、地域内のスーパーやコンビニ、駄菓子店で使うことができます。それによって、小学校高学年から高校生まで、わりと喜んで手伝いに出向いて行きます。

「遠くの親戚より近くの他人」という言葉がありますが、私の住んでいる地域では、それを形にしていて、多世代が上手に関わり、住みやすい街にしようとして取り組んでいます。こういう地域であることが分かれば、移り住んで来たいという人たちがどんどん集まってくるかもしれないですね。

自治というのは、こういうことが根っこにあってこそ、形になるのでしょう。

※ 今回のブログは、4月1日エイプリルフールということで、こんな地域になったらいいなと思う姿を描いてみました。あしからず。