ohayouuuu~
Today was the opening ceremony, which was a LOT less spectacular than I had hoped, and rather uninteresting, but either way they granted us admission. yay. We rushed to the computers to update our blogs, read and write e-mails, and then suddenly my tutor, Kenji, showed up! He seems alright, he speaks really fast and he mumbles and he's a tad rude if you ask me, but at least he talks! I'm going to meet up with him again tomorrow to have a good chat because right now wasn't a good time. We are going to arrange internet in a minute you see. It turns out you don't need an alien registration to get internet, just your passport and a japanese bank account, so we are off to yamada denki to get that sorted. What I thought was stupid about my tutor is that he was a lot more interested in Richard than in getting to know me. We couldn't find Richard, but he's dead set on meeting Richard. Kenji was Collin's, a friend of Richard, tutor apparently, and so he wants to get to know Richard, but hasn't asked me much yet. We'll see how it goes tomorrow, I'm meeting up with him after class. So for now, I'm off to see the wizard (of internet) and you'll hear from me more regularly now!
mata ne
Jenn
ps: I'll upload more pictures onto my photobucket site tonight, if I have time.
pps: pictures are online including comments! yayy oh and we have arranged our internet! It's going to take another month before it's actually installed, but it's on it's way now woohoo!
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11 comments:
Yeah, finally new blogfood :p
And your tutor, Kenji, seems to be a real ppr )-:
Sorry, that was me messing around, I wanted to see what happened if you clicked on the trashbin. Not completely deleted I see. Anyway I said I loved the new 100 yen plates and I thought the Junbo Yakitori guy was really cute, but that I hoped you hadn't bought anything there and then something about whale anatomy that I decided I didn't need to share with all the world for the whole of eternity after all ....
Too bad that rather interesting information has been deleted so soon, but for the people who might be very curious about the whale anatomy: Leslie was right, the hole is indeed called blowhole and it is indeed homologous with the nostril of other mammals: a nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. Did you even know some whale species have two of them :-o! And instead of “ejected”, “expel” might be a more appropriate word for it: “As whales reach the water surface to breathe, they will forcefully expel air through the blowhole. The exhale is released into the comparably lower-pressure, colder atmosphere, and any water vapor condenses. This is often visible from far away as a white splash, which can also be partially caused by water resting on top of the blowhole.” Did you see any ‘water resting on top of the blowhole’ Jenn :p? Haha, maybe it’s time to continue with my very interesting thesis now, more nerd, less whale. (Leslie, hope you don’t mind some whale anatomy returned for the whole of eternity, I was just a little bored :-))
*hopes only the owner of a comment can delete it*
haha, thanks thijs for the update, I hadn't seen what my silly mummy deleted :P good to know. And seeing as this wasn't even a REAL whale, I'm going to stick to ejaculate (also because I'm too lazy to edit my post). Pictures have been uploaded, so check the link, and I also have movies, but I haven't figured out yet where I can store those online... anyone!?
x Jenn
Actually, if you’re really interested it is the Baleen whales (like humpbacks, blue whales, gray whales, bowhead whales, etc.) which have two blowholes, located side by side. It’s only the Toothed whales (like sperm whales, beluga whales, dolphins, etc.) that have one blowhole. One of the “nostrils” of the toothed whales evolved into their echolocation system in which they make and receive high-pitched sounds in order to orient themselves, catch prey and communicate.
You're all going to hell.
Anyway on the last picture (the one with the nagayo taxi), you failed to notice something even more interesting than mirrors on the bonnet. A crazy fat guy with white hair and a goatee and white suite, who seems to pop up all over the world selling fatty chicken. Is that where you eat now Jenifaa?
I could not agree more to Leslie, 'immers': "
Toothed whales (suborder odontoceti, jeweettoch), use biosonar because they live in an underwater habitat that has favourable acoustic characteristics and where vision is extremely limited in range due to absorption or turbidity.
Toothed whales emit a focused beam of high-frequency clicks in the direction that their head is pointing. Sounds are generated by passing air from the bony nares through the phonic lips. These sounds are reflected by the dense concave bone of the cranium and an air sac at its base. The focussed beam is modulated by a large fatty organ known as the 'melon'. This acts like an acoustic lens because it is composed of lipids of differing densities. Most toothed whales use clicks in a series, or click train, for echolocation, while the sperm whale may produce clicks individually. Toothed whale whistles do not appear to be used in echolocation. Different rates of click production in a click train give rise to the familiar barks, squeals and growls of the bottlenose dolphin. A click train with a repetition rate over 600 per second is called a burst pulse. In bottlenose dolphins, the auditory brain response resolves individual clicks up to 600 per second, but yields a graded response for higher repetition rates.
Echoes are received using the lower jaw as the primary reception path, from where they are transmitted to the inner ear via a continuous fat body. Lateral sound may be received though fatty lobes surrounding the ears with a similar acoustic density to bone"
Although I'm still curious how exactly they produce those hi-freq clicks. Btw Leslie, is the whale anatomy "parate kennis" (common knowledge?) of yours, or also Wikipedia/Encarta/... knowledge :-)?
My immediate reaction would be "wikipedia - never heard of it" ;-) but I think Jennifer would prefer me to shut up and stop embarrassing her in front of all her friends....in any case it sounds like they're having a whale of a time
...pprs. ^^
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