ウォーキング・コースの風景 ６ (Scenery in the Courses of My Walking Exercise 6)

　わが家からの直線距離 1 km 以下のこの辺りには、まだ田畑が残っている。2010年8月11日に撮影。

Around here, at the linear distance of less than 1 km from our house, rice and vegetable fields still remain. The photo was taken on August 11, 2010.

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About Books

Michael Byers’s Novel "Percival's Planet," NYTimes (http://nyti.ms/dAPhS7) (via stevesilberman's tweet) – "Byers reminds us that yearning has dignity."

About Science

[Retweet of CatherineQ's words, which in turn was the rewet of MarcelloJun's words] Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation (http://is.gd/cMj9C) (video).

[In reply to the above, chiamai tweeted as follows] Curiosity is always important: Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself (http://is.gd/cMj9C) (via tttabata).

[In reply to chiamai] Thanks for your many retweets of my tweets as well as tweets mentioning "via tttabata" the day before yesterday and today.

[From chiamai] Hi! I'm spending some days in Varese with my family and only connect from time to time. So sometimes my tweets come in "bursts."

[In reply to the above] It's nice that you again have summer holidays. My retweet about Brian Cox's talk was about the same video as the one I tweeted about on June 15.

Humor

[In reply to sc_k's tweet, " 'oH ghaH QaQ jaj DaqjaH (translate: http://bit.ly/aEZ17f)" (the result of translation from these Klingon language at the tweetinklingon.com site: "It is a good day to tweet.")] ghaj not leghpu' Hov leng, 'ach DaH ghoj vo' lIjjaH vetlhchaH lo' tlhIngan. (translate: http://bit.ly/abwulo) (these words were translation from "Have never seen Star Trek, but now learned from your tweet that they use [the language called] Klingon [in Star Trek].") [I wonder how Klington words are pronounced.]

[In reply to sc_k's tweet: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again." (http://bbc.in/aX7Qac) Funniest joke? Really? Really?] Isn't it black humor? [The quote by sc_k is comedian Tim Vine's one-liner joke, which has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe. I suppose that this joke as well as the votes for it constitutes black humor.]