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Catchy News Articles

I can mostly read typical formal news articles. But catchy and casual ones are still difficult for me. Like the one below. "Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and still loving life: your rig doesn't…

The Soccer? Football? FIFA? World Cup

Looks like the soccer world cup is getting close to the final. To be honest, I'm not really sure about that stuff. I've cut out watching TV for a couple of years. I think watching TV is kind of passive. It makes me get the news that I'm no…

What's the weather like today?

Lots of rainy days create piled-up laundry. How's the weather today? To bury my face in my cat, I always have to wash my face and keep it clean. This time of year, my face will be covered with my cat's hair if I skip that. I'm wondering wh…

Mumbling on Friday

At last, our adorable Friday has come. How you been, Friday? It's been 7 days, hasn't it? I can't believe that. Let's go out and chug. Argh, seems like the perp of that incident in Kyoto was arrested. Beyond comprehension. It's a waste of …

euthanasia

I learned a new word yesterday. It's "euthanize". Gemini taught me what it's made up of. They are "eu", "thanatos", and "-ize". "eu" looks to be "ease" or "cozy"? As for "thanatos", I suppose everybody already knows the meaning. So it's de…

Anachronistic Jury Award

The title has no meaning. I've learned some new words from some news articles. They're "Jury award", "Anachronistic", and "Graphic". I can easily imagine the vibe for "anachronistic", considering what parts it's made up of. However, as for…

Cardiac Arrest

I haven't easily secured the time for studying English lately. However, now that I've made up my mind to ditch Japanese content, all that remains of news articles, YouTube channels, books, and manga are basically in English. In other words…

A Lethal Dose

I learned a new word "dose". Maybe it means the amount of medicine at one time. It appeared in an article on Yahoo.com like "a lethal dose". Here I proudly declare "I know the word 'lethal', Hehheh". It's the "lethal" from one of Mel Gibso…

Crimes on a Different Scale in North America

There is no content to write about in my diary. That's because I don't have any news sources. Now that I've ditched dratted Yahoo Japan, there is no source to criticize. I have no choice but to check Yahoo.com. In North America, the Nancy …

Abbreviations, Jargon or Some Such

I'm in the thick of an all-night shift. Now that this damn failure constantly happens, I'm getting used to dealing with an all-night shift about once a week. I'm wondering if I should go take a bath at a spa tomorrow morning. Thanks to add…

Winter Olympics in Milan

It seems that the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics took place in Milan. I wasn't aware of it. It's time something like Netflix covered the Olympic Games. That's because I don't have any TV tuners even though I have so many monitors.…

Doomsday Clock

Good morning. I've been awake around 4 A.M. lately. According to the damn top of Yahoo, the usual Doomsday Clock insists on claiming its time to extinction, and it's only 85 sec left. Don't sweat it. It's almost safe while idiots are doing…

A Certain Well-known Figure in Hiroshima

Monday has come as always even though unwanted. It seems Hiroshima-taro has passed away recently. I've known of him since I was an elementary schooler. I have no criticism or praise about him, but I miss him a little. However, I didn't thi…

Prime Targets for Hackers

It turned out the next target was Askul. Meanwhile, a usual system failure occurred globally on AWS again. By the way, was the Asahi's incident resolved? I guess Russia is short of budget to continue their reckless war, so hackers are beco…

Bears are scary

I somehow pulled off another tough week, finally reaching Friday. This sentence was an attempt to express a fixed expression "making it to Friday", using "pull off". Speaking of bears again, there are too many bear attacks, aren't there? M…

Bring the hackers to justice

Umm, nothing is there to write about in my diary. Speaking of beer, it's a significant elixir for us. It always kindly mitigates our misery. Furthermore, it quietly amplifies our small happiness. However, of all companies, hackers targeted…

Sinful Automation

I made it to Friday as usual. I've been worn out as always. Wait, I'll be on an on-call shift tonight. Saying "On an on-call" is freakin' hard, as usual. For the past few decades, I've been doubting that it's really efficient to replace ou…

Carry out your duty

I barely made it to Friday. It's pretty tough at my age to endure 5 consecutive work days. Uhm, here is the next funny news story. There seems to be a suspicion that a certain mayor somewhere spent time with a married man at a motel while …

Funicular: Cable Car in Lisbon

I could barely make it somehow to Friday. I wonder when the damn summer is over. Yesterday, I learned a new word, "funicular", and it's a kind of Portuguese cable car. At the time, I asked Gemini, "Is it really a necessary word for me? Som…