Earthquake in Japan, as seen in the USA

Here is some information about the recent earthquake in Japan.

Before I start, please observe the follow for the sake of your neighbors:

I pray that you all stay safe. Prepare food and water, but do not forget to be kind to each other. There is no room for impatience. Be helpful to one another and share as you are able. Be selfless towards others. Thank you for showing love to your neighbors.

Please observe this first graph.

This graph shows a lot of 5-6 second period waves, some from storms in the Atlantic ocean, and possibly from the typhoon.

Time domain: top line.

Frequency domain: bottom trace.
The light blue is the primary energy component of the noise, centered at about 0.2 Hz (5 seconds)

For this graph:
- the vertical trace is in red
- North/south trace is in green.
- East/west trace is in blue

地震波 - Wikipedia || Seismic wave - Wikipedia

Order of waves:
- P wave comes first, on the vertical channel (red)
- S wave comes second, on north and vertical channels (red and green)
- Core phase (bounced off the Earth's core, which has dampened it a bit) - both horizontal channels, low frequency

Japan is ~90 arc degrees out from where my location. Seismic waves go deep into the Earth's mantle before coming up and being detected by our seismic equipment.

The last wave is the one that you all felt. It's the Rayleigh wave, which stays in the Earth's crust, and is the one that causes the landslides, building collapses, and other bad things to happen.

I would like to thank my dad for providing me access to the data from his seismometers, and for explaining some of this to me, especially details about the core phase and other details about the event.

コンテナ化

"Containerization"

CQ, 私はKD8OUYです

"CQ、私はKD8OUYです。ミシガンアメリカ出身です。日本語が話せません、英語がはなせます。おはようございます!"

I'm hoping to meet some amateur radio operators in Japan. My Japanese isn't very good though (yet!)

The screenshot is of a program called EchoLink, which lets amateur radio operators talk to people far away by proxying their transmissions over the internet before they are retransmitted by radios far away!

motemen puzzle

I became curious about id:motemen's profile image today. Is it a puzzle?

What if we interpret each color as an HTML color code?

#BCCFDE #FCFFF5 #15357C #9AA6B8
#754826 #FEDBCE #F6BFAE #D32925
#9AA2B8 #FDBCB0 #FDAA9A #DB6055
#A4AAAE #30363C #481E11 #4F5054

aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ file motemen.png 
motemen.png: PNG image data, 400 x 400, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ cat color_codes.txt 
#BCCFDE #FCFFF5 #15357C #9AA6B8
#754826 #FEDBCE #F6BFAE #D32925
#9AA2B8 #FDBCB0 #FDAA9A #DB6055
#A4AAAE #30363C #481E11 #4F5054

But which order is it in?

Left to right, then top to bottom

aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ cat color_codes.txt | tr -d "#" |tr -d " "|tr -d "\n"|xxd -r -p|xxd
00000000: bccf defc fff5 1535 7c9a a6b8 7548 26fe  .......5|...uH&.
00000010: dbce f6bf aed3 2925 9aa2 b8fd bcb0 fdaa  ......)%........
00000020: 9adb 6055 a4aa ae30 363c 481e 114f 5054  ..`U...06<H..OPT

That doesn't resemble anything particularly useful.

Top to bottom, then left to right

aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ for position in $(for word in $(seq 1 4); do echo $word; done); do awk -v position="$position" '{print $position}' color_codes.txt ; done|tr -d '#'|tr -d '\n'
BCCFDE7548269AA2B8A4AAAEFCFFF5FEDBCEFDBCB030363C15357CF6BFAEFDAA9A481E119AA6B8D32925DB60554F5054

Hm..

aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ for position in $(for word in $(seq 1 4); do echo $word; done); do awk -v position="$position" '{print $position}' color_codes.txt ; done|tr -d '#'|tr -d '\n'|xxd -r -p|xxd
00000000: bccf de75 4826 9aa2 b8a4 aaae fcff f5fe  ...uH&..........
00000010: dbce fdbc b030 363c 1535 7cf6 bfae fdaa  .....06<.5|.....
00000020: 9a48 1e11 9aa6 b8d3 2925 db60 554f 5054  .H......)%.`UOPT

Clearly I will get the same 3-byte words here, no matter which way I read it. We have 48 bytes from the color codes - this is not a power of 2. Could it be a hash?

I looked up the hash functions that would produce a 48-byte hash.

The only hash function that I can find that produces a 48-byte hash is SHA-384.

Let's write a quick script we can use to test it out:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
# Sudofox - motemen puzzle tester

if (!@ARGV) {
    print "Usage: ./generate.pl <48 bytes of hex>\n";
    exit();
}
my $hex        = $ARGV[0];
my @colorCodes    = unpack("(A6)*", $hex);

print <<'HTML';
<style>
.motemen-cell { width: 50px; height: 50px; word-break:break-all; text-transform: uppercase; font-size:21px; text-align: center; font-family:monospace; line-height:initial;}
.motemen-holder { display: flex; flex-wrap:wrap; width: 200px;}
</style>

<div class="motemen-holder">
HTML
foreach my $color(@colorCodes) {
    print '<div class="motemen-cell" style="background-color: #' .$color. ';">'.$color.'</div>';
}
print "</div>\n";

First, the original image:

How about "motemen"?

printf motemen|sha384sum|awk '{print $1}'|xargs ./generate.pl

a2acaa

da0a3a

20c41e

b28a08

9c510b

59280d

d2b967

5e9454

dda0bf

4fc087

29cb61

960a7a

cec04c

637bde

f1b95f

a8e7e5

I tried the following:

• Hatena
• hatena
• Hironao OTSUBO
• (motemen's publicly-listed email address)
• Hiragana: ひろなおオツボ

However, none of these produced a matching image.

My next thought is "brute-force". We can pull a bunch of webpages related to motemen: github code, HTML, bios, et cetera, and then extract all words from it as tokens. We can then check if a substring of the SHA-384 hash contains one of the sections of 3-byte HTML color-codes.

Unfortunately, I had very little luck finding an effective way of extracting words from HTML documents as tokens. I tried HTML::Extract, HTML::Treebuilder, and HTML::TokeParser, but had very little success.

I had an idea, though! There's another source of keywords, right from Hatena!

Hatena Keyword Documentation

It comes in EUC-JP, but everyone uses UTF-8, come on..

First, there's some weird encoding things we need to fix up since it seems a bit broken.

aburk@aburk:~$ cat keywordlist_furigana.csv|tr '\t' '\n' > a.csv; iconv a.csv -f EUC-JP -t UTF-8//IGNORE|sort|uniq > b.csv
aburk@aburk:~$ wc -l b.csv
337408 b.csv

Now, let's try each against our two different ways of reading the colorcodes.

#!/bin/bash
# Motemen Puzzle Tester


function test_word () {
    COMBO1="bccfdefcfff515357c9aa6b8754826fedbcef6bfaed329259aa2b8fdbcb0fdaa9adb6055a4aaae30363c481e114f5054"
    COMBO2="bccfde7548269aa2b8a4aaaefcfff5fedbcefdbcb030363c15357cf6bfaefdaa9a481e119aa6b8d32925db60554f5054"
    INPUT=$1

    if [[ $COMBO1 == $(echo $INPUT|sha384sum|awk '{print $1}') || $COMBO2 == $(echo $INPUT|sha384sum|awk '{print $1}') ]]; then
        echo "MATCH: $INPUT";
    fi
}

while read line
do
    test_word "$line";
done

This turned out to be way too slow, so I converted the list of keywords into a list of hashes instead.

aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ grep bccfdefcfff515357c9aa6b8754826fedbcef6bfaed329259aa2b8fdbcb0fdaa9adb6055a4aaae30363c481e114f5054 ~/b_hashed.txt
aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ grep bccfde7548269aa2b8a4aaaefcfff5fedbcefdbcb030363c15357cf6bfaefdaa9a481e119aa6b8d32925db60554f5054 ~/b_hashed.txt
aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ grep bccfde ~/b_hashed.txt
5f5ec82739f9daba961803aab4d6f78382c0c5b4e519994e98bcd1c3589f31a95bccfde25fab41cffe92e730d080c743
9902899010abde2bcd5aea716c2ffa284639fbe22e3843f7a9f0d53bb1bbccfdeedf0b85c23685ba52f4debdce0f17b9
be1ebeb4a84d65f467e2e5545ab0991dfbccfdec7d5c80292210570a2f186cf1801c3cdb6a4478856011a162991e82fe
c637e83f6e129054270ce1ae97ab24a0260526a4fc57d60c87da7fb94bccfde319d07b4ac26aee1b2d68208b530497b0
aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ grep bccfde ~/b_hashed.txt --color
5f5ec82739f9daba961803aab4d6f78382c0c5b4e519994e98bcd1c3589f31a95bccfde25fab41cffe92e730d080c743
9902899010abde2bcd5aea716c2ffa284639fbe22e3843f7a9f0d53bb1bbccfdeedf0b85c23685ba52f4debdce0f17b9
be1ebeb4a84d65f467e2e5545ab0991dfbccfdec7d5c80292210570a2f186cf1801c3cdb6a4478856011a162991e82fe
c637e83f6e129054270ce1ae97ab24a0260526a4fc57d60c87da7fb94bccfde319d07b4ac26aee1b2d68208b530497b0
aburk@aburk:~/Research/motemen-puzzle$ grep bccfde ~/b_hashed.txt --color|grep fcfff5

Alas, I was once again unsuccessful. At this point, I'm going to guess that it's not a puzzle! But, I did give it my best shot, and learned some things along the way, so I can say that I'm satisfied :)

The Hatena Merchandise store feels like an afterthought to me.

I was excited to see this today:

pr.hatenastaff.com

However, upon further inspection, I was left disappointed in the product selection.

I am not surprised that they do not ship to the USA, but am a little disappointed, as I won't be able to even get the Hatena shirt.

I would totally spring for a Hatena hoodie! Or some old merch from Flipnote Hatena...

An Open Letter to Google

I've submitted many appeals to Google in the past, but this one I will be making public as well. This is the content of the Adsense ban appeal that I've just submitted.

Hello!

We're coming up on the seven-and-a-half year mark from when my Adsense account was disabled. I've submitted several appeals, each one denied, and am once again submitting my appeal due to insufficient information provided in your previous responses.

I was fourteen years old then, and just getting into a new hobby of taking apart Nintendo devices and learning about how they work, and decided to start a blog about it. With the help of my parents, I was able to get Adsense set up! It was a pretty exciting time for me...until the Adsense account got disabled.

I was able to work out that a well-meaning friend of mine decided to click on the ads a large number of
times. This led to my Adsense account getting disabled, which although upsetting, did not affect my greatly as I was just a kid between middle and high school.

Times are different now. For several years, I have been growing and fully financially supporting a large community of artists and animators, as well as working on preserving their defining moments in the form of Flipnotes from Flipnote Hatena. As time went on, and the traffic and server demands grew, the financial demands grew as well. As I've expanded and grown, I've tried to motivate people to donate, but had very little consistent success. I needed something more consistent.

I tried Project Wonderful ads, which were not successful. I submitted many appeals but had each turned down without sufficient explanation or information.

I'm in debt now. I'm struggling to pay between $250-275 each month for server bills, and to pay off the hard drives I purchased to archive content from Flipnote Hatena ($1000 - 23 TB of content). I have credit card debt and car payments as well. I need help, desperately, especially when we finish reverse-engineering Nintendo's format so that I can make all of the archived content available to people to watch again, thus preserving the history.

I must beg of you again to please take into consideration the community that I've put years of my life into growing, with my time, my love, and a serious chunk of my finances.

Please let me do my best to grow the community of Sudomemo and of Flipnote Hatena. Please let me do what I need to do to lighten the financial burden that I have to struggle with. For the sake of the entire Sudomemo and Flipnote artist community, please responsibly consider this appeal so that I can reach towards my dream of having the site sustain itself, and towards being free from debt.

Hagex

人の命は世界中のお金より価値あるものです。
　
私は祈ります。憎しみにかられた男の手によって地上から連れ出されたHagex氏のために。
そして、Hagex氏を家族や彼のブログの読者、彼のキャリアから恩恵を受けた人から奪った人の魂のために。
　
闇と邪悪から救われない魂はないと信じています。
贖いには悔い改め、赦される必要があります。

安らかな眠りを心よりお祈り申し上げます。

I believe that a human life is worth more than all the money in the world.

I pray for the soul of Mr. Hagex, who was taken from this world at the hands of another man who was burning with hatred.

I pray for the soul of the man who has taken Hagex from his family, from the readers of his blog, and from those who benefitted from Hagex's work and career.

For I also believe that no soul is unable to be redeemed from the darkness and evil that consumes it.

Redemption starts with forgiveness, and continues with repentance.