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Mon Jun 4 09:23:12 EDT 2018
Slept from twelve-thirty to seven-thirty.
Mostly sunny today, with a high of seventy.
Saw a blue heron fly over Twelve Mile on my way to work.
Work:
- Review invoices
Done.
Microsoft is buying GitHub. Hmph.
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--- kosmokrator ~ $ sudo virsh cpu-stats terminal --total
Total:
cpu_time 1571645.164936942 seconds
user_time 81157.830000000 seconds
system_time 512345.420000000 seconds
```
Thirty-minute walk at lunch.
Windy and temperate. A pleasant day.
Home:
- Schedule appointment for car Thursday around 11 AM
Done.
- Dinner with Yvonne at Kate's
Done.
- Go to bed not late
Before eleven.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16426829
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https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations/560822/
> Rail stations, whether in Japan or elsewhere, are also great places to see “nudge theory” at work. Pioneered by behavioral economist Richard Thaler, who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work, and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein, the theory posits that gentle nudges can subtly influence people towards decisions in their own (or society’s) best interests, such as signing up for private pension schemes or organ donation. In the U.K., there’s a government office devoted to the idea, the Behavioural Insights Team (or “nudge unit”), and their work often shows up in the transit realm.
> Japan has one of the highest suicide rates among OECD nations, and often, those taking their own lives do so by leaping from station platforms into the path of oncoming trains, with Japan averaging one such instance each day. It is a brutal, disruptive end that can also wreak havoc across the transit system.
> To address the issue, stations across Tokyo and the rest of Japan installed chest-high barriers as a means of preventing suicide attempts. But platform barriers are expensive, and about 70 percent of Japan's largest and most-travelled stations do not have the platform space or structural strength to accommodate them.
> Standing at either end of a platform in Tokyo’s labyrinthine Shinjuku Station, one might detect a small square LED panel emitting a pleasant, deep-blue glow. […] Operating on the theory that exposure to blue light has a calming effect on one’s mood, rail stations in Japan began installing these LED panels as a suicide-prevention measure in 2009. They are strategically located at the ends of each platform—typically the most-isolated and least-trafficked area, and accordingly, the point from which most platform jumps occur.
> It is an approach that has proven to be surprisingly effective. According to a study by researchers at the University of Tokyo published in the Journal of Affective Disorders in 2013, data analyzed over a 10-year period shows an 84 percent decline in the number of suicide attempts at stations where blue lights are installed.
> Compounding the stressful nature of the commute in years past was the nerve-grating tone—a harsh buzzer used to signal a train’s imminent departure. The departing train buzzer was punctuated by sharp blasts of station attendants’ whistles, as harried salarymen raced down stairs and across platforms to beat the train’s closing doors. To calm this stressful audio environment, in 1989 the major rail operator JR East commissioned Yamaha and composer Hiroaki Ide to create hassha melodies—short, ear-pleasing jingles to replace the traditional departure buzzer.
> Also known as departure or train melodies, hassha tunes are brief, calming and distinct; their aim is to notify commuters of a train’s imminent departure without inducing anxiety. To that end, most melodies are composed to an optimal length of 7 seconds, owing to research showing that shorter-duration melodies work best at reducing passenger stress and rushing incidents, as well as taking into account the time needed for a train to arrive and depart.
> The tunes feature whimsical titles like “Seaside Boulevard” and range from the wistful to the jaunty. Most stations have their own melodies, forming de facto theme songs that become part of a station’s identity. Tokyo’s Ebisu Station, for example, is known for its departure melody—a short, stylized version of the theme from The Third Man.
Fun evening with Yvonne, Kate, Isla, Hardy, Ryan, and Chris (Ryan's mom).
Yvonne brought cards for euchre.
Ryan played acoustic guitar.
Fifteen-minute walk after I got home from Kate's, around nine o'clock.
Saw a blue heron fly over — the second one today!
Lunch: cookies, coffee
Dinner: fajitas
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