Monday, October 31, 2005

What do you expect of this world?

The government likes to say: "Justice is everywhere" when there really is none.

You often hear: "One who does good deeds will get a reward" when there really is none.

The text books tell you that democracy brings equality and fairness, which is just a pie in the sky.

Moral sayings, government propagada and kid's hero cartoons have one thing in common: they are made of nothing but lies.

Legislators and lawyers think of this, you are working on BULL SHIT, everyday. Stop being leechs of the world.

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After note:
The legislative units of both Taiwan and the US(legislative yen and congress hall, all alike) are nothing but leech dens. They pluage the world with unreasionable laws and eat up our money for doing so. Totally crap.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

生統要聽課的理由

你可以不喜歡老師的嘴砲
不過我還是建議你生統要聽課

因為...

他些花了"80個小時"製作的投影片
他自己拉的那堆線, 他自己拉的那些圈, 他自己打的那些字
若沒聽他講解, 是沒有人看的懂得!

囧....TZ

Saturday, October 29, 2005

武嶺會師工作有感

今天到計中幫社長key-in武嶺抽獎的得獎名單。同時還有其他人幫忙整理問卷結果。
一開始因為要等人就先在外面用PDA手寫輸入。在不用面對新注音輸入法的白痴選字系統的情況下,有種莫名的舒暢感。不過很神奇的,後來進去改用電腦打時發現計中的新注音今天似乎比較聽話...XD

越打越奇怪,為何已經輸入超過一半的得獎單了,這些人的獎項都還是Wellgo踏板?全部輸入完時又更覺得奇怪,為何獎項這麼少?把武嶺網頁叫出來一看, 恍然大悟﹔輪胎、鏈條、煞車片和變速/煞車線被歸為補給品,也就是行程中的備料。但是Jagwire送的那一堆工具呢?還有,被料其實只用了一點點,剩下 的呢?哦,仔細回想,原來被被某人A掉了!一開始聽說他要接總招時,覺得真是熱血好青年啊!後來卻看他越來越混,原訂進度一個一個往後拖。然後在行程中才 發現,原來這傢伙竟把堂堂全國大專院校武嶺會師當自肥專案辦理!照理說剩餘贊助品應訂定分配比例原則,然後依原則分配各參加單位﹔結果現在呢?都躺在他家。只是偶而社上有人跟他要他才拿出來。

本來想說同學一場,總招的工作也不輕,也就不計較了。不過前天在社辦看到他生了3個月多的成果報告書,叫出字數統計,竟然只有400多個雙位元字,仔細數數,每天只打了約5個字﹔除了精美封面外,幾個大標題中只有第一個標題下有內容,其餘都只有標題而已。完全是個"金玉其外,敗絮其中"。 本來定的deadline為8月底,他遲了2個月弄出了個完成度10%而已的東西。成果報告書是我們申請明年廠商贊助的重要依據,他卻不管明年是否能有贊 助,只會自顧自的自肥,留一堆爛攤子給人收拾。試想,若明年的贊助商要看我們去年的贊助品使用狀況,難道要畫張圓餅圖,其中45%抽獎,10%活動中用 掉,然後45%被貪走?

Friday, October 28, 2005

一青窈・かざぐるま(新單曲)


Just got Hitoto Yo's (一青 窈) latest single. Decided to get it right after the first time I heard it. Regardless of the high cost of singles, I decided if it's really great music, it's still worth the buy.

Hitoto Yo's music always gives you a smooth and sweet mixture of Japanese traditional folk and contemporary style music. Sometimes even with a little twist of Taiwanases folk (She's half Taiwanese). Once again in this release, you get

1. かざぐるま(風車)
The theme track of the movie trailer of 「蝉しぐれ」
You get the feel of the nature, scenery and beauty of ancient Japan, which is the background of the movie. Even though I've never seen the movie, it's still great music. Might be another one of her songs that I never get tired of.

2. Hotch-kiss
Playfuly describing someone who's deeply in love, who wants to kiss all day long, as if the couple was stapled together. (The name of the song is pronounced the same as "stapler" in Japanese.)

3. 空蟬
A sad song with a little blues. The "not-so-good" song of this single.

---Ranting beneath---
It's been a long time since I last saw a CD worth buying. Most of the recent releases are all crap. The kind of albums that contain only about 3 songs that are just "not-bad", the kind that you'll get sick and tired of within 3 weeks. And the rest of the album was filled up with songs that prompt you to press "next song" on your player soon after it started. What's more, I'm seeing them selling those garbage for about 400NT a piece! That's a total rip off! The record companies really should quit whining about MP3 downloads and commit their resorces to produce high quality music that will really keep us from sticking with our old music collection. Give us stuff that we really want to buy even after we downloaded it, damn it!


Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Official Google Blog: Guess what just turned 34?

GmailOfficial Google Blog: Guess what just turned 34?
And intresting take on email from a developer of Gmail. It's great that we have a company that actually thinks in terms of "how we should serve our customers" instead of "how can we squeze more money from our customers". That's the philosophy that made Gmail so great to use(or did the oppesite make Yahoo mail or Hotmail the Ad cluttered busy beast they are today?). The 2Gig plus free storage is just a gimick that draws people to register and try it out, but it's the fast, clean, unclutered interface and some revolutionary designs within that make people want to stick with Gmail as their main email account. As some like to say, "It's the little things that count." We're seeing this with Apple, Palm and Google, but absolutly not with Micro$oft.

As always, if you're a friend of mine who'd like to try Gmail, contact me, I now have 200 invites^^a

Friday, October 21, 2005

Neuroanatomy review

>Forebrain/Prosencephalon
Gray matter
├Telencephalon
│├Cerebral cortex
│└Basal telencephalon
└Diencephalon
 ├Thalamus(gateway)
 └Hypotalamus(control ANS)
White matter
├Corpus callosum
├Cortical white matter
└Internal capsule
*Sensory→Thalamus→Internal capsule→Cerebral cortex
*Cerebral cortex→corticospinal tract→spinal cord

>Midbrain/Mesencephalon
┌Tectum(roof)
│├Superior colliculus(eye)
│└Inferior colliculus(ear)
├Cerebral aqueduct(3rd ventrical)
└Tagmentum

>Hindbrain/Rhombencephalon
┌Cerebellum(spacial info)
├Pons(synapse from cerebral cortex to cerebellum)
└Medulla oblongata
*4th ventricle~CSF-filled tube

>Spine
Gray matter
├Dorsal horn(←dorsal root)
├Intermediate zone
└Ventral horn(←ventral root)

>lobes
⇔temporal
←frontal
↑parietal
→occipital

>Meninges
├Dura mater
├Arachnoid membrane
└Pia mater

*Brodmann's cytoarchitectural map

在朋友身上看到幸福的影子

在Lab認識的同學
和女友在同領域一同為未来而努力
交友廣闊,人縁極佳
能快樂的享受生活的毎一部分

完美的人生似乎就長這様子

我和這様的人生無縁,
不過誠心的祝福他

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

図書館に思う

恩,好久没在図書館念一整天的書了。
不過没次来都有以下感想:
「最可愛的女生身邊総是有個男女・・・」
好個CDPRO2哲學〜「限量是残酷的」
還是別作無謂的妄想
好人就是好人,女生〜永遠的好朋友〜

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

I'm gonna crack...

I weak up this morning and saw the face of a dead man in the mirror. Starting from the begining of this semester, I've had an average of 4hrs of sleep everyday, and also slept in every class. Now I can clearly see that blood has drained out of my face, leaving a white face; I've also caught a cold, and had been sick for months.

It was in summer that I choose these tough classes. I was in the "nice guy" mood, was feeling really down and thought that fully filling up 4 days of the week with highly demanding classes and filling up the remaining day with lab work may make me so busy that I no longer have no time to think about that girl. On the other hand, it felt like a slow suicide process.

And sure enough, I no longer think about her and am so tired that I've only got half of my life left. No I'll not get crazy, I'll die of cronic fatiuge long before that.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

現在的單車社到底是怎樣?

1.
前陣子因各種原因, 在我的ptt2的最愛中陸續加入了幾個社上朋友的個板
結果看到了不少好人文 O....................TL
話說上個學期的社上還真是熱鬧
每過幾週又一對新的社對出現; 每過一陣子又有新的八卦出現
而現在, 各個社對逐漸淡出車社, 或只剩下其中一個留在社上
(現在兩個在社上都很活躍的只有一對吧?!)
而現在, 一些個板逛完, 車社感覺上似乎成為失戀共合國...
不過大部分失戀文都在談論前男友如何可惡啊, 前女友該如何忘記等種種
像我這種只有被發卡經驗, 根本沒有"前X友"的
除了我之外似乎只有一個...
好啦, 我就是條件差啦, 註定要當個稀有的正宗好人T_T

2.
最近忙的要命, 書都念不完, 一開學就逐漸跟社上疏遠
應該說開學以來沒參加過社上任何活動
結果週五社課時發現社辦裡幾乎都是我不認識的新生
儼然有種社辦被外人攻佔的感覺
(這不是我認識的單車社! 這不是我認識的單車社!)

3.
車社檯面下的鬥爭傳言流傳已久
不過沒想到越演越烈, 成為社長一派, 其他幹部一派
昨天一位社上比較熟的朋友跟我說: "目前保持中立的幹部似乎剩我們兩個..."
色長啊, 為何如此顧人怨?
請人做事too pushy? 太自我? 完美主義? 後宮招來好人的怨念?(XD)
很抱歉, 人際關係這檔事我很外行的(看看我朋友多稀少就知道啦)
找不到問題癥結
But, to screw up your relationship with everybody is not that easy.
我不懂為何這種事會發生
昨天談論的結果, 覺得若雙方先分開一陣子, 經過一段時間冷靜
不知會不會好一點

Friday, October 14, 2005

At the handheld shop

3 days ago, I brought my beloved Clie NX73 to the handheld shop where I bought it 2 years ago. I wrote down 7 problems (yeah, that's quite a lot) on a post-it note, stick it on my Clie, and told the guy there I wanted to send it in for repairs. Some how, he can't log in to the computer that prints the recipts, so I waited for him to fix it.

Then there came a girl with a Palm Tungsten E. There was this thought for a second in my mind: "Boy, is she beautiful!" But then I went: "oh, what the hell, you have nothing to do with her..." But really, I've never seen a girl with a Palm, and it's amazing how an elagant device adds style to a person. There was this cute little sticker with her name on it, on the back of the TE, and overall, it's well protected, with few scratchs. She said that it was dead (yeah, after a summer vacation without touching it, but wait, a summer vacation? Means she's a student, right?), and the guy tried soft and hard resets, to no avail.

Oh well, eventually she decided that she doesn't want to wait (and doesn't seem happy that repairing needs $$) and left. And I eventually got that repair recipt, and off my Clie went to a pricy repair.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Sending my Clie NX73 in for repairsT

This time has finally come.
After 2 years of use, my NX73 has accumulated many problems (heck, the screen hinge is causing all sorts of short short curcuits), and I'm considering to send it back for repairs.

Don't know why, but this morning when I wake up, and look at my NX73's screen, I've got this feeling that I'll be missing this baby for the comming month when it's away. Yes, I've got a TH55 as a replacement in the time being, it's fast, stable, light, new and shinny. But putting old and new next to each other, I guess I'll miss the cool metal case, the weight, the keyboard, the CF slot and the screen that's much brighter with better contrast. This is so weird, but I do love my Clie. I don't have a girl friend, nor much close friends. This NX73 is what's always with me. It's what I share my feelings with, happy or sad(some eventually end up on my blog, though) It's what wakes me up every morning with beautiful tunes. It's what plays my favorte songs when I'm feeling down.

Well then, wish it'll come back working as well as new. I'll miss the MIDI tunes you play that the TH55 can't.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

九份偽offroad

一直很不高興為什麼我的花蓮之旅可以被破壞得如此徹底(見之前的post)。於是今天下午看到沒雨了,索性把之前已經調到最佳狀況的車搬出來,往九份騎了去。也許是一種報復心理吧,心想老天要阻撓我騎車我就偏要騎給你看……。







途中偶有小雨,不過在賭氣的心態下,就是不回頭。一路上塞車嚴重,不過這次不知為何沒有大叫"cars suck, bikes rule!"的唸頭,就只是加速往前鑽。
在 離鬧區約2km處停下來休息了一下,拿出Clie(Sony 的PDA品牌)拍照,從此開始一路狂拍。說也奇怪,好久沒有這樣任真的取景、調明暗、白 平衡、按快門了。記得第一次這樣拍照是我剛買我的第一台Clie NX73時,那也算是我第一次擁有屬於自己的、可以任意照相的機器。不過這次我帶的是新買的Clie TH55,也許又有新鮮感了; 也或許被社上某個很愛照相的感染了。下次拿我舊的NX73來重溫舊夢好了,畢竟一直到現在每天陪我的還是以舊的NX73為主。







到了九份,還是一樣擠得寸步難行。不過沒關係,慢慢走慢慢拍照。其間我還為了拍照而扛車上階梯……。

之後102縣道繼續騎,上上下下了幾公里後發現路邊一塊版子寫著"地質公園",而進去的路竟是一片芒草中開一條碎石子路上坡。心裡快樂的想著"Offroad耶!"就騎了進去。裡面有山景、有海景、有礦石,還有一個主要賣點: 一個台陽公司荒廢已久的礦坑。



不 過後面卻沒有碎石子路了,取而代之的是只能扛車的階梯上坡。我發現一個路牌寫著"黃金神社",於是我這個喜歡日本文化的笨蛋就扛了車往上爬,想說會不會是 日治時代留下來的古蹟。走了約一公里,只看到往金瓜石的長下坡階梯、前面綠油油的大峽谷,和一條超過30度的超陡階梯上坡。阿神社咧?我扛了車爬上那長長 的超陡階梯上坡。超陡段好不容易爬完,前方階梯卻繼續彎延到天邊,still no 神社 in sight……天色已暗,這種陡梯又不敢騎車下,只好扛車折返。到緩坡處試著下階梯,但凹凸不平的花剛岩階梯超難下的,簡直是一直以座墊自阿。好吧,牽車 T_T。Offroad下坡很恐怖,真是操控和平衡技巧的大考驗,不過後來發現相信自己大膽往前反而比較穩。

九份到瑞芳間車多,一開始下坡速度不快。不過中間2台客運卡往,使後半都沒車。嗯現在比以前沒膽,煞車放得不夠,下坡速度只有45上下,最高53。瑞芳路況很糟,還有一條路因兩邊違規停車使一台客運卡往,連行人都過不了的情況。

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Palm TX leaked out to the market


(From Mobile01, thank 1src for the tip)
Someone had already managed to get the TX days before Palm officially announced it!!
But, actually, it's just a model similer to the Clie TH55, years late to the market. It's a T5 with WIFI added minus the internal drive. However, the black color sure makes it look soooo much better then the T5 or TE :)

Friday, October 07, 2005

Once again, raining when I was planing to go biking

Some how, you feel that something or someone is against you.

Just this summer, a typhoon forced me to postpone my biking trip around the island; last time, another typhoon prevented me from going to Tamshui. And the trip to Hualain, where I should've been going today, is a total mess. First, yet-another-typhoon a week ago caused land slides which picked out our main destination, forced us to do an emergancy route change. Then, the one who's in charge of plaining the trip had an accident, forcing farther plain and personal changes. And now, a big rain(or should I call it a storm?) moved in for the kill and terminated our ill fated trip.

*Sigh.

Almost all the filth F-words that I could think of I had already said to my self. But what else could I say?

So much for all the work, plaining and anticipation. Yet another precious 3 day holiday, wasted.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

How to talk?!

I'm recently finding my speach abilities diminishing.
Whenever someone says something, I just go: "Oh really?" or "是哦?" or"這様哦?", "そうですか"...

Maybe I should relearn how to talk?

Cut off that mouse's toe, it'll grow back?

I can't think of any good way to explain this, as most of the related biology that I've known don't allow organ regeneration in mammals possible.
Artical on wired news
Abstract
Related publication

Totally unbelivable. Although I wish it was real.

Damn, TOEFL on line registry sucks!

(yet another way Micro$oft is making this a worse world)
Whew, just finished signing up for the exam, was that hard.

At my first try today, on the test day choosing page, I got a blank calender.
Then, after reloading several times and click on the time I wanted, I got a BLANK personal info entry page.
I clicked on "Next" and got a message saying:
"An error occured, please try again later."

Now I started all again from step 1, where you chose your country. All went smooth until I filled the personal info entry form and tried to submit. Then I got another "An error occured, please try again later."

Then even the first page gave me "An error occured, please try again later."

After several "errors" on the first 3 pages, I finally got back to the date selection calender. And then this page crashed Firefox!

After that, proceding to the 3rd step, and clicking "next" once again took me to step one.

Then, finally, I proceded sucessfully to the last step.

Damn, on one of the error pages, I saw it read "Microsoft .NET framework". Now that sucks. Thanks a lot Microshit!

The busy days are back

Yeah, it was me myself who desided to take so many classes that add up to 24 credits. It was me who decided that I also need to shell out some time for lab work. Yeah, I wanted to take the TOEFL exam to study in the states. And yes, getting involved in a club brings club priorities. And now, my long long todo list with mostly unchecked items is adding weight on me. And that long list would be adding more items day after day, now that sucks.

Mood: On depression

It's kind of weird how you tend to feel better when you get to know someone that has similar problems as you, or even worse. Gives you a feeling that you're not alone. Also, you realize that there's actually more people wearing "happy masks", pretending to be happy when being with friends, while they're actually sad deep under.

Is depression some kind of sickness? I don't know. Some go to the doctor while others don't. But I'm having some doubts on the statistics that say depression is on the rise. There actually should have been more set backs and hard ships years ago, but, like it or not, people are forced to cope with it to survive; there's so many of it that they get used to it. Maybe they have depression, maybe they don't, but who had the money the see a psychiatrist? Who could even afford to whine about it? And since there weren't much psychiatrists nor clinic visits back then, most cases don't get into the records.

Actually, what I'm thinking of is, since people could cope with all the setbacks back then, why can't we now?