You gotta be … September 3, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : tips , 2commentsI was warned enough moving in Germany is not easy. I am not really sure it’s only in Germany or overall in Europe. Here’s a story about moving I made recently in Germany. It is a domestic move.
Unlike other countries, moving in Germany is demanding. This is because of a difference specifically with a kitchen installation. Although there are apartments with kitchen installed, it is still rare to find apartments with kitchen installed. You sort out nice candidate apartments by good locations, good neighbor, and so on and easily face the situation with no kitchen installed. This is exactly what happened to me.
I used to live in a furnished apartment that gave me many things automatic for living. I could not choose another furnished one for some reasons. So, I had to install kitchen all by myself. Thanks to a friend with experience, we decided to do all these things.
Before taking any action, I had some things on the list as
- Time should be minimized so that I can get back to my primary job.
- An oven and a dish washer should be built in Kitchen cabinets.
My wife and I went to IKEA to buy some cabinets used for some frames and Saturn to shop some electrical kitchen appliances, and to OBI to shop some water hoses and hardware tools such as electrical drills and saw.
Reading a manual by a manual of IKEA’s, we were able to assemble them. This was in fact the easiest part compared to sawing and drilling concrete wall to have some screws in to hang other cabinets. Surely, I needed to know how to connect hoses for hot and cold water, how to connect special oven wires properly, and how to saw a about-more-than-five-centimeter-thick-plate accurately to have a stainless steel sink, one water faucet, and oven top nicely fit. All of these were again learning it by doing it. Haibing, my friend, really helped me a lot. But, there were so many things that I had to remember such as sizes of diameters, what kind or size of drills I had to buy and use to make holes on woods, concrete or metals.
Anyhow, all are done by the amateurs. I found myself to pay special attention to the installed kitchens or other furnitures assembled somewhere else after all these. A very challenging and painful experience, though. It was exciting enough.
Yes, right. If you like moving in Germany, you gotta be a PLUMBER, a ELECTRICIAN, and a CARPENTER.
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This tiny little microorganism on my mind July 17, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : science, tips , add a commentI am not a microbiologist but a modeler (definitely not a fashion model but a scientist using computers to simulate some physics happening in our life). Right now, I have this thing on my mind.
cordially linked from Facts About Cryptosporidium
This tiny little living thing called Cryptosporidium Oocyst is invisible to bare eyes, sphere-shape, sized around 4 to 6 micro meter, and resilient to endure various stresses such as chemical treatment, filtration, and some hot sun light.
This oocyst is a dormant status of this microorganism until it finds a host such as humans or animals. It develops some forms to number themselves in the host causing Diarrhea, weight loss, and abdominal cramping, etc. If you are a healthy person, this can be handled just OK by your body. But, if you are a person with immune system compromised, this can be deadly.
In 1993, the biggist oubreak has occurred in Milwaukee, USA, infecting about 400,000 people. This is a big number. Since then, it brought many issues to drinking water utility, government, and lawyers or many others. People sued the city government. Government had to raise tax money to pay this class action lawsuit. Guess what who got rich after all? Yes, they are lawyers. So, they reached to an agreement that they need a smarter way of doing it, because at the end it’s our health threatened by this thing not getting-money-back or paying-more-tax things.
Anyway, my interests are to understand the influence of this little thing on groundwater quality depending on some situations. I am still at a stage to conform substantial ideas so that I can take an action, in other words, model this thing’s life.
I have some thought on my mind still developing, but that must be ended in a week or so, because I have a clear deadline for this. I may keep this posted.
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Stand out from the crowd! What for? July 11, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : Out there?, blogging, tips , 2commentsI happened to read one post at binary blog, one of the nice blogs among many. To get to the point, I like that article, but, I didn’t like it very from the beginning. This turned out to be my fault.
Like always, the bold sub-titles in the post catch my eyes. The article was not an exception.
- Lack of focus
- Irregular posting schedule
- No social aspects
From the bold sub-titles, this exactly sounds like ones in the major blogs. Naturally my first thought about the article without reading fully was
Isn’t this another blog telling me the things that I gotta be to stand out from the crowd?
In fact, I was quickly getting tired of some major blogs saying Stand Out in the name of success. Because these major bloggers are so BOLD enough to catch my attention, I saw myself keep reading post by post to be a successful blogger. But, after all, it’s all same thing called marketing.
Enough is enough. (Sorry, I made this sentence bold)
Overwhelmed by so many articles in bold, I have almost forgotten that this is not my primary job and this is just started as a hobby, because I am interested. Why not let’s just walk away from them and do whatever originally I thought to be enjoyable?
Back to the post at binary moon, Ben was talking about our ordinary nature that most bloggers have. Unlike the three bold sub-titles, he is talking about something totally opposite but most of us have. The very reason why most bloggers started their own blogs in the Internet.
Frankly, I am not interested in video games, Harry Potter stuff, or others that Ben likes for his hobby or job. But at least I have something common through his article in doing blogging. Thanks a lot for reminding me and your wordpress theme, regulus.
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