Friday, August 14, 2009

幾個月前在煩惱該選哪個實驗室時,跟所主任聊到我的兩個選擇可能發的paper,其中一個「大概好JV吧」;另一個「可能偶而發很稀有的EMBO,通常還是JV吧」。想說,恩,到哪都Journal of Virology......

沒想到選完實驗室後,老闆來個Cell系列二連發,投了Cell跟Molecular Cell,EMBO也年出發了一篇

老闆今年真的是發了XD

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Macbook is kaput

So my computer died, I wonder how long I can survive with just a Clie TH55 (PDA) and a Palm Pre smartphone?

Great timing, right when I am low on dough... And I was also waiting for the new version of Mac OS to come out months later...


There was some clicking noise from the HD, refused to boot, and ...... after I pulled the plug, took out the battery and waited for an hour before giving it power again, it's alive again...... I guess it's not a good idea to bring it along my cycling commute again soon.

還好活了,不然剛買Skype點數舊電腦掛了還頗囧的orz

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

やっば牛丼は男の料理だ!!!


牛丼果然是男人的料理阿!簡單、豪邁、大份量、好配啤酒XD

這網站減量到2~3人份:
滾水 300cc
牛肉薄片 超市賣的半盒(約255g)
洋蔥 一個
生姜 少許
醤油 3匙
蜜淋 4匙
塩 少許
柴魚味素 1匙

洋蔥在滾水中煮到透明,其它所有材料丟下去滾個5~10分鐘入味,最後撈起來蓋在白飯上,然後打顆蛋,配一些紅生薑就對啦!

Monday, August 10, 2009

萎大的囧統...

人家在淹水、土石流中等待救援,驅驅還對救災使出不沾鍋招數......。人家宋楚瑜以前還懂得到處視察作個秀,你只會整天嘴砲說為什麼氣象局預測不準?

Sunday, August 09, 2009

知本金帥飯店倒塌...


好可怕的颱風...
但怎麼現場看熱鬧的人好high?!
好像聽到有「WooHooo~!」、「阿!」、「倒了!倒了!倒了!倒了!」(台語)之類的聲音,根本就好像坐雲霄飛車一樣的歡呼尖叫聲?!

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Bad CD alert: Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things

Jason Mraz "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things." CDUsually if I really like some songs, I would buy the CD to get the best audio quality, flip through the quality packaging, and enjoy the art in the lyrics booklet. Also, some really good artists make their albums a continuous experience with each track smoothly leading on to the next.

Today I got the "Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things" album.

So the package was beautiful, with some simple drawings. But, the booklet only contains credits, no lyrics. It's an "enhanced CD", you plug it into your computer and launch an app on the CD, which brings you to their Website. Oh, sorry, you have to sign up for email spam to see the lyrics. Didn't I paid for this?

Next, to load it into my walkman, natually, I launched iTunes and tried to convert it into music files. (AAC, to be exact) Well, lo and behold, iTunes only gave an error message.

Well, that "enhanced" screwed up iTunes. Clearly Atlantic records want you to buy the music AGAIN on iTunes. What did I pay for by buying the CD?

In the end, I found an alternate encoder: XLD, but that's not the point. The point is these record companies are hostile to their customers. Before this, I only blame the slide of CD sells on how there's less good music on the market then before the 90's, and how record companies always throw in horrible "filler" music into an album so that only 2 songs are good, while the other ones are rubbish.

Well congratulations, Atlantic records, you just lost one of the few people who still believe in CDs. Maybe I should stay away from main stream pop music after all.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

陳建年 | 想妳一切都好


輕鬆又溫暖的小品,簡單的歌詞卻充滿了情感

異想

大部分人們對異性有興趣

有些人只喜歡同性

有些人同性異性都愛

那有沒有人對同性異性都沒反應呢?

天生和尚/尼姑人格的人生是怎樣的呢?

Monday, August 03, 2009

東突厥斯坦準備對中國進行報復攻擊


說要要對全球中國人進行恐怖攻擊。我不想也無法對此做出什麼譴責,因為中共的人權迫害事蹟多如牛毛。

只是有個奇想,如果整個回教世界用反以色列的態度團結起來對抗中共,也許有機會把那個被中國稱為新疆的東突地區搶過來吧,就像巴勒斯坦硬是從以色列搶回一塊地盤那樣。訴諸恐怖攻擊,對美國有用;可是對於把人民視為「永遠死不完的九牛一毛」的中共,我想是不痛不癢吧?中國人不用等你東突來殺,中共自己就不知道殺了多少法輪功成員了。就像中國人總是喜歡說的:「最後可憐的還是老百姓」

念paper

其實,自己覺得自己有點混,雖然做實驗但paper念得不夠多

雖然每次老闆過來探訪時,我都「剛好心血來潮」在念paper...... 有點心虛orz

心情太浮動時,就比較不想念paper,尤其當一堆人都只是蛋白質A跟B黏在一起,B又跟C黏在一起,這樣黏來黏去也不知道有何意義,這種paper真是一點念的動力都沒有。為了逃離無意義蛋白質黏來黏去而做病毒研究,才有免疫與病原體大戰的感覺,但最終還是會為了學技術而又必須去念「無意義蛋白質黏來黏去paper」。

有時又比較想念「有趣的paper」而開始跳主題亂看,專挑跟自己的計畫連邊都沾不上的領域來看,也許因為自己的領域熟悉了就少了點新鮮感吧

說來說去,就是有時候心情不好,就會發懶、發呆阿 >"<

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Kronenbourg 1664

糟糕,找到了最喜歡的啤酒......

Kronenbourg 1644法國進口啤酒,第一次喝是在某法式bar慶祝法國國慶時買的特價品,但當時覺得好喝只是因為天氣熱,有個東西潤喉罷了。

這次特地買回家慢慢品嚐。算是小麥發酵味淡一點,啤酒花的比例比較重的,不過比例恰到好處,微苦微甜。甜味不像台啤或賓州在地的Yuengling那樣的甜,Kronenbourg的甜比較像是好茶的自然回甘那樣清爽。

Body不像Indian Pale Ale (IPA)那樣的豐富,當然,這也代表口感豐富度完全比不上比利時Stille Nacht那樣喝一口就滿嘴上千種美妙的味道。

Kronenbourg最大的特色就是均衡而清爽的口感,清爽恰到好處,還是保有滑順的口感。最令我驚訝的是,這清爽感是一種令人可以一口氣拿起一瓶一直灌下去而不膩的感覺。我從來沒有喝過任何一種啤酒是用灌的還可以感到舒暢的;硬要說,最接近的應該是Asahi吧,不過還是輸了一大節。

如果說,比利時啤酒是要一口一口慢慢品味那豐富而濃烈的味道;Kronenbourg就正好相反,就是口渴時可以大口灌下去大喊一聲「爽」的!

糟糕的是,口感太舒暢了,要節制一下,不然會變酒鬼的XD (更糟的是,這進口酒竟然跟美國廉價爛酒一樣便宜)

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Japanese home style food truck (日本媽媽愛心便當?)

I've heard wonderful raves about this Japanese food truck at 34th and Market street, right in front of the Drexel library. "It's a little expensive but it's real home style Japanese food" is how he described it. Will I guess hearing that statement from a Japanese really means a lot. So last Friday I found my self walking all the way to Drexel, diagonally trekking though 3 big blocks, while wondering all along if I was crazy, why I didn't just ride my bike...... ?

The food truck didn't had a name, but a really simple yet eye catching slob of wood, with a short menu written in stylized Japanese calligraphy. There was just one very cheerful and talkative Japanese lady in there (ママさん?) My roommate recommended 丼かつ fried pork rice box, but it was sold out, I'm not so fond of teriyaki (照焼き) chicken, so I tried the "hamburger meat rice box" (ハンバーグ弁当/漢堡肉便當) the food truck lady recommended.

So I ended up back at the lunch room with this $6 lunch box and a $1.5 can of imported tea. The tea I knew was extremely good so I knew the price was worth it. This really is the most home style food truck I've ever saw, down to the conventional colored paper tower. And that paper molded box is special, too.


And here you have it, pickled veggies, pan fried little hot dog, Japanese fried egg/omelet (玉子焼), and pan-fried hamburger steak lightly glazed with teriyaki sauce on Japanese white rice.
Looks exactly like the box lunches the high school students had in Japanese anime, I guess I really am getting "a taste of Japanese home". And it really is the best tasting food truck I've ever had.


I don't understand why the Japanese like to cut hot dogs into this shape then pan fry them, but again, this is just like on TV :D

硬要上B的結果...

話說PTT這東東建構在telnet BBS這個古老的架構上,理論上只要是Unix架構,或有個簡單的terminal介面,應該都有telnet功能的

不過因為他整個都是用Big5中文編碼,現在新的電腦平台都改用Unicode了

另外,它還限制銀幕長寬字元數,只要畫面長寬不對,一換行就一整個亂掉了

於是用不支援Big5或銀幕寬度不對的機器硬上B就產生了以下慘烈又有趣畫面:(皆以P2輸入帳號密碼後的歡迎畫面示範)

手機:(Palm Pre webOS 1.01, Linux核心下的telnet...)

蘋果電腦若沒灌專用軟體也只好一點點:(Mac OS X 10.4, FreeBSD核心, Bash shell)


老PDA有灌中文外掛有差XD:(Palm OS 5.2, pSSH軟體+掌龍中文外掛)

結論:要上B用越老的機器效果越好阿!(咦)

當總統沒常識也要善用幕僚吧?


總統說,二年前,他自己騎著這輛自行車,從南台灣屏東的鵝鑾鼻騎到北台灣台北縣富貴角,一面騎一面想,「人家可以有Le Tour de France,我們能不能有Le Tour de Taiwan?台灣能不能有環台的大賽呢」
Tour de Taiwan 從1978年開辦到現在多久了?馬囧真的是打嘴砲不打草稿的。可見他「關心」單車界只是政客希望借用單車熱潮沾點光罷了。