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Peking Opera

2009-12-13T16:58:00.003-12:00

I watched Peking Opera for the first time because of my colleague from San Francisco was visiting us last week. The theater is located conveniently in People Square, across street to Raffles City shopping mall.

The ticket price is about the same as the movie ticket, less than 100CNY. The face makeup, the costume, the stage, all in simple and eye-catching style. The whole storytelling is just way way too slow. 10-minute story in modern tempo takes 2 hours to tell in Peking Opera.

That's why the old folks love it - plenty of time to kill, easy to eye, and be a fan about it.

dragon wall in yu garden

2009-12-08T15:41:00.002-12:00

the original owner of this garden was bold. normally chinese won't put such a fierce animal in their house. it is just too much.

budda at jade budda temple

2009-12-08T15:40:00.001-12:00

IC, IQ, EQ, 统统交出来！

2009-12-02T13:33:00.002-12:00

Free-IQTest.net - IQ Test

try your IQ test :)

wikipedia forever

2009-12-02T13:30:00.003-12:00

i just donated some $ to show my support. show your support for this online gigantic free human being library!

maglev

2009-12-01T13:28:00.003-12:00

there is a short demo maglev track between pudong international airport and longyang road. the speed is high. the trip is short, just 8 minutes. the train accelerates all the way to the max speed, and slows down. single trip ticket fare is 50 yuan. you can get 10 yuan discount if you have an airline ticket.

it is called a demo version because the distance is just too short to make sense, or make profitable.

drawings

2009-11-30T18:16:00.002-12:00

zhu zhu pets

2009-11-30T13:32:00.004-12:00

If you've ever read the book Tipping Points, you might sense what's going on about this Zhu Zhu Pets phenomena. From nowhere, Zhu Zhu Pets becomes the hottest toy in US for this Holiday season. It is a sold-out in local retail stores. Now you can still buy one at Amazon. Look at the price, $60 each! What a rip off! Zhu Zhu Pets are bid crazily on eBay too.

This is how people go nuts during shopping season - What to buy? I heard this is hot shit, I need have one.

Look at the upset feedbacks on Amazon, it is just another battery powered puff toy, probably at $10 max. For real, it is sold on taobao too, for less than $10.

a tooth diary

2009-11-27T12:53:00.001-12:00

One of my teeth was haunting me last week. It turns out to be the exactly the same tooth since I was in middle school.

That tooth was sentenced to death with root canal treatment when I as in middle school. It is apparently not done in a complete way. Since the tooth was so badly decayed, It was crowned after the root canal.

About 10 years later, when I was in US, one day I was chewing the gum, and that crown was sticked out by the gum. Another new crown made in US was in position to protect the tooth.

Several years later, the tooth was kicking back. It was such a pain. I had rushed to the public hospital during the weekend. It was done in one shot, and again, not done in a completed way, as it turns out. The third crown was in place after that.

Only two years passed, it was kicking again. This time, I go to my dental clinic, hopefully to get it done in a professional, and of course, expensive way.

a scene in baoji

2009-11-25T14:16:00.002-12:00

Sleuth, the drama

2009-11-25T13:57:00.003-12:00

Shanghai Drama Arts Center is located at Ande Road, in Jin'an District, a quite and nice street. It seems quite a few foreigners living around that area. There is even a grocery store with all imported stuffs. It was not weekend. I was thinking, with such a time and location, are there enough audiences to the show? It is amazing to see it is almost a full house.

The drama Sleuth is adapted from a classic Broadway play. Two men, one scene, in 2 and half hours. That's something for the actors to take. It is a good show.

P.S. Similar like other entertainment venues, there are scalpers around to buy/sell tickets in market value. The face value of the show is CNY120, low end. The market value they buy in is CNY20, they sell at CNY100.

2012, the movie

2009-11-23T19:57:00.006-12:00

Finally I squeeze some time to watch the movie 2012. It is 2 hours and a half long of the earth destruction. It is a whole new level of special visual/sounds effects to make your heart jumping, and palm sweating. It is devastating catastrophe for any live beings on the earth. If you were able to stand at the sun, even further, if you were standing at the the far far away big star in galaxy, or somewhere in the universe, what happens in the movie is just like a sneeze.

Worth mentioning, China is depicted in a very positive image. This is almost the first in Hollywood movies.

pokemon

2009-11-22T16:51:00.002-12:00

what about it? look at the close caption. the font size is huge. it is simply good for kids.

排队6小时等候收银巴黎春天促销人满为患

2009-11-16T19:20:00.000-12:00

Some people just have way too much time to kill! Wait in queue for 6 hours just to buy some sales.

从傍晚5时排队到深夜11时，在等什么？结账！昨天下午，读者顾先生致电本报，反映周末五角场巴黎春天搞促销，人山人海致使他排队6小时才轮到结账。

队伍转了几个弯
前天下午，顾先生来到巴黎春天购物。恰逢店庆促销，商场内挤满了人。傍晚5时，他在6楼购物完毕，前往收银台结账，没走几步就被眼前一幕吓倒了：收银台前排起“长龙”，见头不见尾，把商场的过道都填满了。他顺着人流几经“曲折”，终于走到队伍最后，“前面大概有三四百人”。

17时排到23时
顾先生说，当时排队付款的地方有2台收银机，但不知为何只开了一台，直到晚上9时，他还没排到，“晚饭也没吃，一直在排队”。队伍里也怨声一片：“那么多人，竟然只开一台机器！”直到深夜11时05分，顾先生才把账结掉，疲惫而归。算了一下，足足排了6个小时！

记者在名品导购网等论坛看到，有网友戏称这两天五角场巴黎春天“爆棚”，“乘电梯、试衣、付款等，每个环节都需要排队才能完成”。

50 Best Websites 2009

2009-11-16T14:25:00.007-12:00

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html

Some sites are popular (Twitter, Facebook), some are plain good (Google, Amazon, Wikipedia), some are fresh (Etsy, Kiva), some are resurrected from death (Delicious).

1. Flickr -- mainstream
2. California Coastline -- aerial photographic survey of coastline.
3. Delicious -- 2nd life of del.icio.us
4. Metafilter -- community weblog
5. popurls -- pop urls
6. Twitter -- mainstream
7. Skype -- mainstream
8. Boing Boing -- blog
9. Academic Earth -- online course
10. OpenTable -- book your table
11. Google -- ...
12. YouTube -- mainstream
13. Wolfram|Alpha -- computational knowledge engine, this is deep
14. Hulu -- video sharing
15. Vimeo -- video sharing with m in the middle
16. Fora TV -- video clips by intellectuals
17. Craiglook -- search craiglist, craiglist, please buy me.
18. Shop Goodwill -- goodwill shopping
19. Amazon -- mainstream
20. Kayak -- Expedia? Priceline?
21. Netflix -- mainstream
22. Etsy -- eBay? no, but something like that.
23. PropertyShark -- property shark, smells property like blood
24. Redfin -- online real estate brokerage
25. Wikipedia -- mainstream
26. Internet Archive -- name says it
27. Kiva -- global micro credit
28. ConsumerSearch -- review products, any type
29. Metacritic -- critics for media, any type.
30. Pollster -- poll
31. Facebook -- mainstream
32. Pandora and Last.fm -- FM
33. Musicovery -- web radio, should it be called Radiocovery?
34. Spotify -- p2p music streaming
35. Supercook -- super cook
36. Yelp -- US version of dianping.com
37. Visuwords -- ha, graphical words linkage
38. CouchSurfing -- hospitality exchange network
39. BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager - you get the idea from this long naming
40. Mint -- manage your finance
41. TripIt -- trip it
42. Aardvark -- social networking
43. drop.io -- private sharing, drop your stuff for io
44. Issuu -- your own publishing
45. Photosynth -- turn photos into 3D, yah, but still shown on a 2D screen
46. OMGPOP -- RPG, oh my god pop?
47. WorldWideTelescope - universe, virtual, telescope
48. Fonolo - dig out the corp 800 number
49. Get High Now - a book promo site? how it makes to the list?
50. Know Your Meme - video blog of meme

Obama talked with Chinese youth

2009-11-15T19:26:00.002-12:00

1:52 p.m.: Still, he comes out pretty strongly in support of unrestricted Internet access, despite the price paid for openness (such as terrorist organizing online), the good far outweighs the bad.–Sky Canaves

1:53 p.m.: At last, a tough question: has he heard of the Internet firewall and if Chinese people should be allowed to use Twitter and Facebook–both of which are blocked in Chna.

Obama’s answer is that he’s too clumsy to use Twitter, but supports free information. He says the differences between China and the US are due to different “traditions” but that the free flow of information is a strength for the US. Seems sort of relativistic.–Ian Johnson

1:52 p.m.: Obama acknowledges that as president, he sometimes wishes information wasn’t so free. But ultimately it makes him a better leader and makes democracy stronger.–Sky Canaves

1:51 p.m.: Obama handed a card - which he briefly looks at before taking a question from Huntsman about Twitter. Obama says his thumbs are too clumsy and never used Twitter but believes in free flow of information. –James T. Areddy

1:50 p.m.: Hunstman asks an Internet question chosen by a U.S. press corps member– It’s a curveball– The Great Firewall question. –Sky Canaves

新民网图文滚动播报：美国驻华大使洪博培：第一，有这么多互联网使用者的国家，有6000万写博客的人，你知道防火墙的事情吗？第二，我们是不是应该自由的使用TWITTER?

新民网图文滚动播报：美国总统奥巴马：首先让我说，我从来没有使用过TWITTER。我注意到一些年轻人，他们一直很忙，有各种各样的电子器材，很笨重。但是我还是非常相信技术的作用，非常重视开放性。在信息流动方面，我认为越是能够自由的信息流通，社会就变得越强，因为这样子，世界各地的公民能让自己的政府负责，有一个问责制度，他们自己会思考，这样会有新的想法，鼓励创造性。所以我一直是坚定的支持互联网开放的使用。

车又被蹭了

2009-11-12T14:12:00.003-12:00

上次是我蹭别人，这次是公交蹭我。早上公交车变道，把我的车右侧后视镜给弹了回来。我也没听见什么大的动静，以为就是后视镜。到了公司一看，前轮上边也蹭了一些公交车的蓝漆。点儿背！打算有空自己掏钱修了。奇怪的是，我昨天做梦，就梦见在那条路上发生了刮擦。

disneyland@shanghai

2009-11-10T16:37:00.003-12:00

disneyland@hongkong has never taken off. now it will be ground for sure. it is still a hassle to go to hongkong from mainland, even we are now all part of china. to make the message clear, another disneyland will be built at shanghai. wait a minute, how popular that mouse can be in china? this is a big question mark.

put all the buzz aside, chinese are just smart. now the residents around that area are busy. to make sure they can get more money from the government, they are building more fences, more greenhouses, and even fake hills restlessly. government is not dumb ass. it has been said that government is leveraging the satellite technology. the system will alert if the landscape is changed.

a cab driver with stanford phd

2009-11-02T13:10:00.002-12:00

http://taxidiary.blogspot.com

"Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too."

That's one twisted country, and luckily I am out there. The feeling is, you stay longer on that island, you have less way out. You are sucked in, sweating the dole life.

Terminator governor

2009-10-28T17:19:00.002-12:00

Arnold's letter.

Tipping points

2009-10-26T18:53:00.002-12:00

Tipping points are the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.

The Law of the Few
The Stickiness Factor
The Power of Context

Fun fact:

Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.

Outlier

2009-10-25T12:43:00.002-12:00

For the richest men in human history, why there is a bunch from a single generation in a single country, born in 1830's in USA.
What are Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Joy in common?
Why Chris Langan, with a perfect 200 IQ score, ends up as a bouncer? Oppenheimer, a genius who was once in depression, and tried to murder his tutor, was assigned as head of Manhattan Project?
Why Jewish lawyers succeed in New York?
Why Korean Airline sucked big time before?
Why Chinese is good at Maths?

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outlier, looks behind the spectacular results, reads between the lines, and explains from a freshening perspective.

涂序新老师讣告点评ZZ

2009-10-22T16:06:00.001-12:00

九月二十九日上午八时三十分，涂序新老师遗体告别仪式在杭州殡仪馆举行。参加告别仪式的有学院领导、学校相关部门、部分师生及涂老师亲属与同学，共100余人。(没啥问题，领导在前这是规矩)Mitbbs.com

涂序新老师于2009年9月17日凌晨2点因病不幸坠楼去世，终年32岁。(坠楼！！还是因病！大家经讨论认为，以后很多时候可以说：因病上吊、因病投河、因病被自杀、因病……这位讣告写手啊，因病和坠楼有因果关系吗？几乎是以暗含幽默的方式公布讣告？)Mitbbs.com

涂序新老师1977年8月生于浙江金华，1995年9月——2001年6月就读于清华大学，2000年6月获水利水电工程专业学士学位，2001年6月获法学学士学位。2001年9月——2007年6月就读于美国西北大学，分别于2004年和2007年获得岩土工程硕士和博士学位。其后在美国西北大学从事博士后研究工作，2009年6月中旬回国到学院工作。(没啥问题，我老不骂人)Mitbbs.com

涂序新老师为人真诚善良，对待同事细心周到，受到大家的尊重；对待学生，耐心解答疑问，多次深入新生宿舍与学生交流，受到学生的爱戴。涂序新老师学识渊博、事业心强、治学严谨，对研究工作认真执着，精益求精。(他妈的，看到这里虽然说了点人话，但感觉怪怪的，尤其是什么“多次深入新生宿舍”)Mitbbs.com

借此机会，感谢学校各部门及学院师生的关心！(开始感谢了？要不要开始庆功？还有在讣告上感谢的？还“借此机会”？)Mitbbs.com

附涂序新博士来学院的主要经历Mitbbs.com

2009年1月，涂博士通过电子邮件与学院岩土所联系，申请教师岗位；Mitbbs.com

3 月24日，由学院提供往返国际机票和住宿条件，涂博士来学院面试；(看到没，“由学校提供往返国际机票和住宿条件”，看到没！还国际机票呢！逝者面试时还喝了你们的水，要不要说出来？总之，浙大出钱了！浙大买单了！浙大牛逼了！这句话的前半句要是翻译成英文，在美国是会被人笑死的！)Mitbbs.com

4月21日，学院将《新进人员聘任通知书》发给涂博士，涂博士于次日通过电子邮件表示“本人愿意接受你们所提供的岗位和待遇”；(嗯，至于你们履行没履行，是另一个问题，这里不骂了，要不然太长了)Mitbbs.com

6月12日，涂博士与浙大签署聘用合同；Mitbbs.com

7 月28日，涂博士租住由浙大提供的位于玉泉校区求是村的教师公寓。公寓建筑面积57平方米(内含独立厨房、卫生间以及电视、冰箱、空调、微波炉、电磁炉、床铺、桌椅等家具和电器设施)。此后，他相继参加了学院组织的留学归国人员座谈会、环境岩土工程国际学术研讨会筹备及会务工作，并担任了2009级本科新生班主任；(极品段！极品段！我老拍案惊奇，我老佩服得高山滚鼓、前仰后合，我老看得老泪纵横、感激涕零……看到没，浙大提供了房子耶！57平方米呢！更绝的是，里面还有很多很多设备，让诸位海归和海不归大开眼界：独立厨房的耶！不是筒子楼！还有卫生间呢——可惜没说独立卫生间；还有电视、冰箱、空调、微波炉、电磁炉，多全啊，要是再有烤箱的话不活脱脱是个美国公寓？还有床铺和桌椅呢！妈的当海归是北朝鲜来的啊？Mitbbs.com

喘口气，继续分析：在一个人的讣告上，会出现诸多电器和类似信息，单看这一段还以为转租房子呢！总之，浙大真好哇，提供这么多东西，海归这儿看来是谁也亏不了，连微波炉都有了呢！就不用像我老当初那样，和人一起去沃尔玛花二三十美元去买了！——不过不知道是不是新的，因为没说——对于让海归用新微波炉，恐怕讣告上也得加一条“电器和家具还都是新的呢！”写讣告的人，一看就是中专会计出身，算账列清单真麻利啊！某大学果然是藏龙卧虎之地，果然是高手不问出身，在下服了！)Mitbbs.com

9月1日到8日期间，涂博士参加了学校在之江校区举行的新教师岗位集中培训；(没毛病)Mitbbs.com

9月8日，学校启动了下半年专业技术职务评审工作。9月11日，涂博士在学校“专业技术职务聘任系统”中填写了申报副教授的相关信息；(看到没，“填写了申报副教授的相关信息”，暗含的意思我不说了，反正我懒得去分析)Mitbbs.com

9月17日，涂博士于凌晨2点因病不幸坠楼去世。(大团圆！因病、坠楼！到此全文达到结局，此病极是了得，居然会让人坠楼，而且还不是失足坠楼！这样写，难道有些人、有些“第一流”大学不觉得无耻吗？)Mitbbs.com

(全文完。我无话可说，我只得出了一个结论，那就是，在中国即使像狗一样卑微，像猪一样肮脏，也得选择活着，否则你的讣告上会出现微波炉！)Mit

倒钩

2009-10-20T15:51:00.002-12:00

最近上海有个词语突然热了起来，“倒钩”。首先黑车到底碰了谁的蛋糕？黑车大多出现在一些城市边缘地区，公共交通不到位，群众有切实的需要，如果在合理的价格范围内运作，我觉得也未必不是好事。政府有关部门为了打击黑车市场，发明了一套钓鱼策略。让自己的线人通过骗取司机的同情心来搭车，在预先安排的地方下绊子。停车拔钥匙，扣车罚款，一万起价。做的有点过，最近就出事了。可笑的是，这样的新闻几天前还在上海新民网上沸沸扬扬的，今天就突然都消失了。

best five generated by strengthsfinder

2009-10-15T18:31:00.002-12:00

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