Fancy is yet another programming language targeted Rubinius VM. I found it on Twitter/Backtype’s Storm tree. It looks Storm supports Streaming Hadoop like inter-language support. And strom.fy should be a driver for Fancy-written bolt – Bolt is a unit of task in stream processing in their term. I love Storm’s Sekai-kei naming preference. Bolt, Spout, Nimbus… There are much of cute names!

Storm is mixture of Java and Closure. I originally suspected that Closure is just a task-description language for Storm, but they actually write its system using Closure. Although I didn’t find any advantage of Clojusre over other JVM languages like Scala, it’s clear that they love Closure.

Note that their system is not self-contained. They depend on ZeroMQ as its messaging system, Thrift as their RPC. (No more Sexp messaging!) But at least their cluster management system seems written in Clojure. I found supervisor.clj The name indicates something similar to Erlang supervisor.

For someone who is interested in how Storm task looks like, here is a word count example in Storm codebase. It’s much like a Hadoop/Mapreduce, except it’s push-based. Storm is like SAX where Hadoop is like XPP. Well, this metaphor may be no longer relevant. Time flies…

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4124035047

村上春樹キャンペーンつづき.

むかし野崎訳を読んだことがあり, そういえば村上訳もあったなと読んだ. 野崎訳を読んだときは強い印象を受けた記憶がある. が, 今回はまあ面白いかなくらいで大きな感動はなかった. これは訳がどうこうではなく, たぶん読んだタイミングの問題. 野崎版を読んだのはたぶん 27-28 歳の頃で, グレート・ギャツビーは その年頃の読者に向けて書かれている気がする. 古典文学の多くは高校生から大学生くらいで読まないと 心に沁みないものが多くて,野崎訳を読んだときは “この年で感動できる古典とはなんてすばらしいんだ!”, と驚きよろこんだのを覚えている. ギャツビーの純粋さに思い入れたり, アンニュイな主人公に共感するにはおっさんすぎる. 自分が.

ギャツビーが心を寄せる “デイジー” というヒロインが話の中心に いるわけだけれども, この子はほんとにひどいと思う. 金持ちな上に魔性の女ですよ. 失恋ショコラティエ の サエコさんですよ言ってみれば. 仮にグレート・ギャツビーのデイジーサイドをマンガ化したらろくでもない内容になると確信できる.

時は 1920s. デイジーは結婚生活への倦怠を隠すことがきなくなりつつあった. 仕事で忙しく構ってくれない上に最近は浮気疑惑もある夫. 付き合いの悪い友達. 専業主婦ってこんなにヒマだったのね. そこにあらわれたのは若い時につきあっていたいけめん(ギャツビー). しばらく会わない間に一山あてて金持ちになったらしく豪邸に住んでおり, しかも私のことまだすきなんだって! 倦怠期の夫とちがい自分に熱い視線を寄せてくれる. 芸能人とも顔見知りでパーティーなんかしちゃって, 電飾の下でグラスを傾け甘い言葉をささやくの. でもそんな日々が長く続かないことはわかっている. だんだんと痺れをきらしはじめ, 空気を読まず夫と別れろと言い寄るギャツビー. しかも一山あたったのも若干あやしいアングラ商法の疑いがある. あげくの果てに夫のいるとこにやってきて 彼女はお前のことは愛してないんだから別れろと叫びだす. ああ困ったわ二人とも愛してるけど私はどっちを選べばいいの? と思ったらダダーンと響く銃声. ギャツビーはうまい具合に誰かに殺されてしまう. ああギャツビー! 取り乱す私にかけよりやさしく声をかける夫. 浮気をしてた私を許してくれるのね. ああ僕が悪かった. 君の気持をわかっていなかったよ. そして夫も心を入れ替え(浮気相手も死んでしまって)よりを戻し, 二人は幸せにくらしましたとさ. でもギャツビーのことはたまに思いだすのよ. 完(全 5 巻)…というかんじだろう. まったくろくでもない.

だいたい仮にギャツビーが死なずに生き延びたとしても “龍が如く” みたいな余生しか考えられないわけで, 主人公も最後は色々面倒になって田舎に帰ってしまうし, 物語の中の日々は本当に嵐のように過ぎさってしまい, あとには空家以外何も残さない. 要するにギャツビーというのは最後に死ぬようデザインされたキャラクターなわけじゃん. そんな筋立てにどうしてもある種の安っぽさを感じずにはおれない. そういうチープでフィクションぽいところも含めて “ギャツビー” なのかもしれないけれども.

村上春樹はあとがきで “グレート・ギャツビー” を絶賛していて, それはこうした筋書よりはもっと文学的な完成度, テクスチュアルな技法なんかを評価しているのだと思う. 僕にはそれを読みとく文学的技量はないけれども, ギャツビーの華やかな生活, 中でもパーティーの場面はたしかに鮮かに描かれており, アメリカ映画にでてくるダンスパーティーなんかのルーツを垣間みた気になれた. 村上春樹は英語で読め的なことを言っているので, Kindle が届いたら 読んでみていいかもしれないな.

On 30reduce and eigo, I’m taking a rest for a week since I got cold.

• weight: 72.0kg
• Squat: 20x3x2
• Heel ups: 20x2
• Push ups: 15x2
• Sit ups: 20x4 (m,f,l,r)
• leg ups: 20x(l,r)x2
• dumbbell: some

• weight: 72.1kg
• Squat: 20x3x2
• Heel ups: 20x2x2
• Push ups: 15x2
• Sit ups: 20x4 (m,f,l,r)
• leg ups: 20x(l,r)
• dumbbell: some

An ideal day for reducing the weight: Staying alone at home, taking a few jumky pieces.

I’m going to enter a sabbatical for comic reading. I’ll stop reading comics at home. It starts with 1Q-long, that means I’ll be off-comic during this year. Hoping I no longer read comics at all, I’m not sure whether it’s possible to give them up.

Background: One of my coworker pointed out giving up comics rather than tweeting will gain my productivity. Besides tweeting, it’s totally true that I spend too much time to read and say something about comics. Although its impact is not so big from a financial viewpoint, it has considerable impact for my time-budget. So I’ll try. As a first step, I let my comics go from my room. Fortunately I have some books to compensate it.

The original title was “giving up”. But I’m afraid that it might be too much pain to declare it. So I changed to call this sabbatical. I first tried same when I moved to this room the trial failed for some reason. This is the second trial.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4006032145/

Why people overspend? There are two point. One is “reference group” – A group of people that one want to be similar. People tend to set their reference group “high”. The member of the group has higher income of him. One can tie himself to such kind of reference group in varous way, but main source of influcence is media. People set celebrity or fictional people to their reference. That shows how media and advertising industry do their job well. Another source of the influence cames from the work place / office. It’s like a chicken race.

Another point is the number of hooks. Where do people feel such influence / pressure from? It can came from friends, office, neighbors, relatives, and children. Overspending is strongly tied to people’s social life. Giving up spending sometimes can result the end of certain relationships, or at least a damage of these.

Looking myself back, I totally got what the author claims. I’m under influence from both media and workplace. I buy electric gadgets because people around me bought. I go oversea on vacation because my coworkers do. On media influence, I don’t watch TV. But I watch Web. So the influence comes from there. It adverise gadgets, services, media sources, etc.

For me, overspent is not only about money. It’s also about time. A kind of people are addicted to shopping. My web addiction is like that. I feel both have similar root. Both overspent and media addiction is modern disease.

Fortunately I have fewer media dependence (at leat on TV) and social connection. So it should be easier for me to “downshift” myself.

First step is taking household account. And giving up reading comics. I also should think about my vacation. It would be better to stay in Japan instead of go abroad. On cooking, I cannot do it myself since I have no freezer. I have no plan to change this soon. But at least I should pay less for weekend meals. For many case, over 1000JPY for lunch/dinner looks too expensive. On books, I have no idea. Ideally I should use the public library. But I feel I’ve not yet been prepared for it.

Exciting Times(2)

• Review: Listening
• Oral: None.
• Length: 48s, Tooks: ??min, Score: 122 / 148 = 82%

• weight: 73.0kg
• Squat: 20x3x1
• Heel ups: 20x2
• Push ups: 15x1
• Sit ups: 20x2 (m,f)
• leg ups: 20x(l,r)
• dumbbell: some

Came back home late…

• weight: 73.0kg
• Squat: 20x2x1
• Heel ups: 20x2
• Push ups: 15x2
• Sit ups: 20x1 (m)
• leg ups: 20x(0)
• dumbbell: some

I worked late… well, I’ve been at offie til late. And it was really bad for this activity. Both dull-ness and sleepness prevement me from moving body parts.

And another thing what I can say is that weight is an unstable value.