Today was sunny! Was exhilarating!
There are lots of things I love about Japan. For example, I am vain, germophobic, and paranoid -- Japan has insane fucking shopping, is super-clean, and super-safe.
It also has the world's first blogging plant. Obviously.
And holy Jesus, it is crazy. (not the plant itself, but the idea.) These people put these insane receptor things on it that convert biochemical signals into data and language, literally allowing it to blog. I find this mindblowing, and creepy. I'm also amazed at how the plant (dubbed "Ms. Green", Google Translate mistakenly calls her a Mr.) is aware of other people around it. How do they perceive things like this? Is it just from the carbon dioxide emission? Maybe it is programmed to say "people" when it's just CO2, because there is no way I can think of that a plant could correctly and distinctly perceive human beings, as opposed to something like an animal who's about to eat it. I'm also surprised it can perceive "rain" when it is an indoors plant. Maybe it only feels a drop in air pressure?