What is Noise? What is Signal?

BoringFish was learning about noise and signal tonight, very enjoyable.
Speaker profile in wiki. He is quite a renaissance man with many talents; an educator, an author, an economist, a philosopher, an attorney, a mathematician, an engineer and an award winning composer. He is the author of Noise, Fuzzy Thinking; Nanotime, and Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age.

Keyword of learning: Fuzzy logic, chaos, noise, signal=energy & information, noise pollution clearinghouse, nausea, nano carbon tubes, Paul Pierre Lévy, Brownian motion

Noise animates us, even as it irritates us.-- Dr. Bart Kosko

Doggie's cousin, doesn't he/she look liked Romeo? Source: Elusive wolves caught on camera
Misery of China's snowbound millions, I feel bad for them, they are just trying to get home for the lunar new year!

The wind is changing so fast, folks across the ocean are saying that the heat in the medla about the recycling scandal is lessen because of this: Japan scare over China dumplings; 中方檢查“毒水餃”廠家未發現異常. They found Methamidophos甲 胺 磷, a breakdown product of the organophosphate insecticide. We should avoid frozen dumplings and foods from JT. Ajinomoto has started a recall of some specified frozen food.

Be a Squeaky Wheel to Avoid 'Gotcha Capitalism', I am the "Sophisticated". I compare shop; scan their monthly bills for unauthorized charges; and exploit credit cards to get cash back and travel perks without ever paying a penny in interest or fees. I liked rebate and cash back! Old navy, countrywide etc.

The World's Largest Malls
Snow, cold, possible twisters pound US

Foreclosures lead to abandoned animals, I can't believe that people are doing this to their pets!!!!!
Middle-age is truly depressing, study finds

科大MBA課程全球十七位
台灣面紋漸逝 花蓮「全紋」人瑞逝世 原住民傳統恐消失
Read this from a sad new report : 戀愛事，合則來不合則去，但若涉及金錢糾紛就難以斷尾，拖拖拉拉會令積怨爆發，所以戀愛要數目分明
Comcast to shutter Asian-themed AZN network
US warship makes first Hong Kong visit since Thanksgiving row

張敬軒 王菀之 手望(守望版)

Happy Birthday Adam.

The Doors-The crystal ship Oh and to Frank & Nina as well!

HK breakfast & Nihongo Ryoouri

假期的豐富港式早餐
和民平價副線 & 為博多拉麵瘋狂 , so yummy!

Endora & her 三"舊"番薯

三"舊"番薯
金寶
金寶個老婆:錢錢
吉仔

A remebrance day

Holocaust Memorial Day

First NHL player of Asian descent beat long odds, WOW, very touching story!
A Little Regular Exercise Extends Men's Lives
每周吃逾6片吞拿魚 水銀量可超標, watch it, mercury fish!
Jewish-American History on PBS.
Flying clouds the real climate culprit, I agreed with Mr. Wright, the real culprit: deforestation, we need to save the rainforests!
EU reveals energy plan of action, let's go GREEN.
Virgin unveils spaceship designs, are you ready for space travel?
Truth was first US casualty in Iraq war: study, isn't it sad?
White Hot
Earn More Pay Working Fewer Hours
Understanding Japan's whale ethics
Macau revenues close in on Vegas
China's rising people power, I have family tie in that city.
GM and Toyota level on 2007salesWhere Did That Cheap Cashmere Sweater Come From?
Smaller films in Oscar spotlight
The best cities {in America} to have babies, Wah-la, Portland!
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Juno & Soundtrack
When Fretting Is in Your DNA:Overcoming the Worry Gene
Expensive Eats
Anti-Nokia backlash grows in Germany

Tough Times

Point Tupper mill spared as NewPage sheds paper operations, a new
Outdoors group asks commissioners to halt High Lakes development, they are fighting for the land!!

The shocking news: 4 paper mills admit more falsifications & Paper industry body 'knew' of wrongdoing from Asahi Shimbun
Hundreds of workers in Finland to strike to protest layoffs, paper mill closures, union power.

White Birch Paper to Buy SP Newsprint Company, a new owner for the Newberg, OR mill.
No more question about paper or plastic at wild oats/whole food. Bring your own bag or get paper!
AbitibiBowater closes down Mackenzie mill, more than 500 forest workers laid off as company speeds up shutdown

Boyfriend - Andy Lau

y or N?

Fancy dim sum

Yauatcha & Wagamama, I will stick with tea house and hohomei!
What is dim sum? or I call it yum-cha.

Week 3

港人最愛零食 薯片魚蛋各領風騷
Table: Best Cities For Jobs In 2008, in overall ranking, SLC came in 1st again. Emerald city ranks 10th, Tacoma 23rd, Rose City is 32.
健康飲食6天條
吃得好可健腦 脂肪蛋白質碳水化合物 健康飲食 提升腦力
Best in show: The top 10 dog breeds
Citroen regrets Mao ad 'insult'
Sierra Leone bans timber exports
Sundance & Asian Pacific Film Experience & Slamdance
Filmmaker exposes gay life, pollution in China
'Meanest mom on planet' sells son's car, the most famous disobedient son in America is an Asian kid.
Citigroup's $9.8bn sub-prime loss, how do you lose 10 billions in 3 months?
China carmakers eye US market
Ten quick, affordable U.S. vacations for women
Taiwan's opposition in huge win, finally, it's about time, KMT & I hope Ma Ying-jeou 馬英九 will be elected as the next President of Taiwan.
Biofuels 'are not a magic bullet'
Raising a glass to pricey wine
Pressures build on Amazon jungle
SEIU: Bank of America Should Not Be Allowed To Acquire Countrywide, lay off?
13 Things Not to Share with Your Co-workers, a rule of thumb that we all should try, I know I will, esp about the blogging part.

Further supply adjustment

Stora Enso has concluded co-determination negotiations at Summa, Kemijärvi and Anjala Mills and Helsinki Headquarters
NewPage announces integration restructuring plans
Finnforest Agrees to Buy Weyerhaeuser’s European Engineered Wood Products Sales Operations, the company is on the move again.

Shocking news from work.... but I can't say nothing yet.

Japanese New Year & Daily Yomiuri Online, I can't find the headline from YOMIURI.

Just got this at work, I think everyone can use this to relax.

There is light at the end of the tunnel SO, hang in there!!

Mosq Love.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. --William Shakespeare

Ka-san,

Encouragement
Is of constant need
Both in the inner
World of progress
And in the outer
World of success.
--Sri Chinmoy

Ka-san, o medeto o gozaimasu

He is famous.

How crazy can one be?
Schor accepts mountainous challenge , David’s superstar status.

Is it that bad?

紙婚

情比紙薄 -- 李克勤