Apoptosis

細胞生死學老師對細胞自死的說明很有趣XD：
「一個細胞受到外在刺激後，內疚皺縮而死！」

我也喜歡老師對考試的看法：
「考試不是用來打敗學生的。」
偏偏還是有一堆老師喜歡故意刁難學生...

Infection 很有趣？

剛剛在台大醫院地下室員工餐廳吃午飯，聽到一個穿著醫師袍的醫學生說：「我覺得 infection （感染）還滿有趣的......」

恩，以一個生醫學生的觀點來看，若剛好學到這方面得東西，覺得念得很有趣，可以理解，而且我有同感。

不過，這句話可不能在病房隨便講，若給一個受院內感染之苦的病人聽到這句話，他大概會不寒而慄，狂冒冷汗吧 orz

我以後若要說病毒研究很有趣，也要小心聽眾是誰呢。

自由電子報-愛上台灣 日女留學生漫畫紀實

自由電子報-焦點新聞

以日本人的眼光來看台灣的男女關係總是很訝異：「台灣的男生對女生這麼好？」這，在台灣已經是常態，所以，眾多好人在競爭激烈之下，加倍溫柔......（抖）

不過，台灣的女性主義者還是舉著歐洲的例子，大聲呼喊著台灣男女不平等。我是覺得，台灣現在已經是個接近平等的社會了。（甚至有些地方，如大學的體育課，還會「重女輕男」呢XD）大家就好好的以互相體諒的態度去生活就可以了吧。

唯一想到需要改進的，就是公廁的女廁不夠大了吧。

Adobe reader 8

For all the people that don't know yet, Adobe reader has been updated to version 8. Previous versions had always been slow, such as Acrobat reader 6, which once took 2 minutes to launch on my old computer. And I hated reader 7, too, which loaded a resource hungry "speed loader" every time you boot into Windows, which slows down your whole computer, but didn't speed up the launch of the reader it self a lot. Reader 7 also installs Yahoo toolbar for IE on your system, which is ugly and useless, and has a Yahoo search box in the reader it self...

Now, Reader 8 is different. It's the first version that I will be happy to urge everyone to download.

First of all, the download is still to large in size to be happy with, that's because it still comes with Photoshop album starter edition. I urge everyone to stop the installation of that junk as soon as it starts to install.

But that's just about the only annoying stuff of reader 8.

This version is blazing fast, you can finally open PDF files in the blink of an eye! And I am really happy that no Yahoo junk is bundled with this version. But with the experience of previous versions, the speed is the biggest and best new feature of this version.

Go get it, trust me, you'll love the speed.
*note: Mac users get the English version, the Chinese version is not out yet. However, PDF support is built into the MacOS, so that's not a big deal :)

UCLA databank hacked

UCLA Identity Alert
Federal Bureau of Investigation Los Angeles Division - Press Release
FBI website to aid UCLA hacker probe - Los Angeles Times
UCLA break-in puts data on 800,000 at risk | CNET News.com

Great, I got the mail, I am a victim!!!
Yeah, no news is good news, and so it's usually not good to be part of the news incident.
What? I am just an applicant, just submitted my file this month, in fact, the deadline was just yesterday. And my data was leaked already!!!

Hope this won't be the beginning of a nightmare years later...

On the incident, I am really surprised that the hacker had access to the database from October 2005 till November 2006, when they finally noticed the break in. That's over a year's access!!!

起きて、起きて...!

昨天，不，應該是今天清晨，BCT報告打完一部分後想説先去睡好了。結果又有人要我看SOP，在對方說deadline是15的情況下我心軟了，又幫他看完才關電腦。
看完、要去睡時，又被放在床頭的那本村上春樹吸引...
好，2am才睡。

今天本來跟同學約好早上9am要到學校去收拾昨天BCT的實驗, 結果於7am我再度、一連按掉了3個鬧鈴，繼續睡。
40min後被媽吵醒，發覺又爆炸了，衝出門，然後我那爛雨傘風一吹又自動解體了(囧)，只好在路邊停下來組裝。然後修好雨傘後遠遠看到一班公車跑了...

明天我要把鈴声換成ハチクロ第一集中竹本的聲音：「森田起きて、森田起きて、森田起きて、起きて...」
XD

'07 車社花東之旅...

這次花東是怎樣阿？
還沒開始宣傳就已經報名人數爆滿，報名提前截止了
而且這都是在強烈要求社上老人不要佔新生名額的狀況之下

是台灣現在的騎車風氣變盛了嗎？還是我們花東已經做出口碑了，光口耳相傳的宣傳就夠了？
這狀況真的很誇張，我完全無法提出合理的解釋。

PTT版宣只 po 了一點，教室版書還沒開始，聯網站上都還沒出現真正的宣傳圖或動畫（只有一個有點正式的活動公告網頁）
這麼重大的活度卻免宣傳，有點空虛的感覺。
好像車社本學期少了甚麼重要的慶典似的。

Whatever，現在社上人才輩出，我已經呈現死老人狀態了
台9 花東段也已經騎爛了，花東也不是很想去，頂多亂入個幾天吧
我比較喜歡探險，開拓沒騎過的新路線
不過對於寒假還是不知道要去那...
但想玩克難一點，比較有冒險的刺激感與成就感。在平日的城市生活中已經過的夠安逸了，幹麼出去玩還要住高級飯店、民宿？也許像環島時那樣騎到那住到那，隨便找廉價旅社，或若有帳篷也很棒。

Lorenz butterfly plot

Oh, Yeah! Lorenz function 終於用 Matlab 跑出來了，終於看到 3D 立體蝴蝶圖了！

不過呢，ㄜ，喉嚨跟頭都在痛，BCT 報告還是不想動。

Seminar & Murphy's law

今天真是 Murphy's law 大體驗阿
今天報 seminar ，結果早上開始感冒、喉嚨痛

用教室電腦的 office 2003 修過的 Powerpoint file 圖片不見了，害我報告中斷，臨時換成 Apple Keynote 直接輸出的檔案。當初就是因為 windows 上的 powerpoint 中的字體大小跟 mac 上的不同，特別用 windows 上的 powerpoint 把檔案修過。結果反而是非微軟的軟體作成的檔案問題比較小。好啦，微軟的程式在每一台電腦上跑得結果都不一樣，難道是 chaos 系統？！

碰到這麼多問題，老天對我真是照顧阿～～

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回到 seminar 本身。本來因為時間不足，拿掉很多東西，留了一堆漏洞等著大家問問題（簡直就是填充題）。結果，用英文報完，全班八成以上的人都呆著一張臉看著我，問題沒幾個。也不知道是我的英文不容易懂還是論文本身較複雜。重點是：我留的漏洞都沒被問到～～

不爽。

通車3天！機場地下道單車男摔死-Yahoo!奇摩新聞

通車3天！機場地下道單車男摔死-Yahoo!奇摩新聞


有人騎單車在台北松山機場復興北路地下道內摔車就直接爆頭掛了。新聞跟家屬都一付是政府工程單位設計不良的樣子。老實說，我覺得有人頭這麼脆弱有點驚訝，不過就假設車速真的很快，而水泥很硬好了。那麼，責任該歸誰？我覺得死者自己要負罪大責任。沒戴安全帽還高速狂飆，真的很沒概念。當然，若硬要說的話，政府的責任在於：沒有宣導騎車要戴安全帽的觀念，也沒有立法規定。

台灣社會中，死者最大的觀念是個不合理的陋習。這次要申請國賠，就像以前有人闖紅燈被撞死還要人家賠錢一樣沒道理。

總之，騎車要戴安全帽是個必須要具體實行的基本常識。

Christmas cards

December, Christmas is right around the corner. That means it's time to send out the cards again.

Last year, I was still kind of in the blues of the lost relationship of the Christmas before, so I sent out none. This year, with many good friends and many people to thank, I 've got the biggest amount of cards to send out in my life. I usually only send to my cousins, but this year, I've decided to expand my target to good friends, and the professors that wrote recommendations for me. As for friends, I've got classmates, club mates, and even new friends that I met in the US this summer. Now, it's kind of hard to decide who to include in the list...

So I made the list, and went card shopping on Thursday. I had to say that it was not a good experience. About 60% of the cards were either too ugly or low in taste. 80% were too cute in design, looks like they are either for middle school girls or couples. Like, hay, I don't want that much glitter, cute animals, or hearts, dude. This is Christmas, not Valentines!!! What's more, I even see reprints of the cards that I bought, and sent two years ago. Do you make new designs??

So, sifting through the junk, I just got half of the amount that I needed. Guess I would need to do more card shopping elsewhere in the weekend.

There were these cards that cost 40NT (ouch!), and there were discount cards that seem like left over stocks from previous years for only 4NT each (err...). Picking discount cards for friends makes me feel a little guilty, but hay, some of them had better design then the newly printed 30NT cards, and the ultra low price really saves a lot. I could get 10 of those for the price of one expensive card! So, yeah, I did get some 4NT cards, and some others are in the 10~20NT price range. No matter how cheep these cards are, I feel that they are a lot better then "e-cards". Those on-line "e-cards" are flashy and free, but are too easy to send, need almost no effort, and feels more commercial then friendly; in other words, they feel more like spam. With paper cards, you at least get to open the envelope, and touch the handwriting. You really feel that the sender cares about you.

Sure, I'm a geek that use modern digital tech to do many things in every day life. I adapt these tools more then most people. But in some parts of life, I still like the old fashioned way.

柴咲コウ actuality

柴咲コウ又出新歌了，這次似乎是聖誕節應景歌。看MV似乎是有點孤獨的歌，可惜找不到歌詞，努力聽聽看好了。
上一張專輯，「ひとりあそび」我也聽快一年了。快點出新專輯吧，單曲很貴的耶。

MV，當然還是要用Youtube大神找啦

X-post from PTT2: Creative commons

作者: intellidryad (Ubergeek) 看板: YuFeng
標題: Creative commons
時間: Sat Dec 2 01:49:16 2006

Main site:
http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons (CC) is an organization that promotes legal sharing of
intellectual property (IP), founded by Stanford Law school professor
Lawrence Lessig. They provide an alternative kind of licenses that allows
the free sharing of IP, given that it is for noncommercial use.

You can read about it here, with links to free MP3s under the CC license:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample
(For anyone who would like to read it on paper, I still have the magazine
, and the free CD that came with it)

The CC website has links to sites that provide content under the CC license.
Look around.
For example: http://www.opsound.org/genre/newage/

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事情解決了真好

今天解決不少事
其中最重要的就還是感情問題。
雖然對方不接受，但這也有點是意料中的事。

不過解決後的心情也讓我自己嚇了一跳。我竟然忽視了自己失去甚麼，而因為保全了一個很棒的友情而感到高興。

沒有可以喜歡的對象，卻也沒有自暴自棄的理由，總覺得不像我，不過這也算是一種成長吧。無論單身與否都可以自在的自處，心理才是真正的健康完整。

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另外，deadline 12月1日的學校全數解決！！！
小有成就感。

Self note

Real good friends are hard to find
Treasure it.

幫女生處理電腦問題就是好人？

據說PTT上有個好人的stereotype：專門幫女生修電腦，然後最後被發卡

恩，有個前提，那個主角是個對女生有興趣的正常男人
如果說，去修電腦的是個geek，對電腦比較有興趣，對女生反而比較沒興趣呢？

Geeks rejoice!
I saved this beloved computer!

XD
胡思亂想過頭了

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我個人倒是去幫過不少人處理電腦問題，不過都是男生 LOL

但現在，除非是非常好的朋友，不然我是比較不想去處理這種問題了
PC just don't work, get a Mac, dude!
明知道PC就是個會出問題的東西，還去花錢找罪受，幹麼？
Windows可以輕易的讓你修東改西，狂處理問題一整天；在那同樣的時間裡，Mac使用者可能已經打完幾篇編排漂亮的報告了。
It does the job.

What the hell?

Something has resurrected from deep down in the subconscious, and started to pester my moods and friendships. I want to bury it even deeper, beyond the subconscious, into oblivion, never to surface again.

Yeah, I picked the easy way out, but it seems to be the only way out if I don't want to crash.

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Oh, maybe I should really go get a big fluffy pillow...

龍門露營回來

photos
從宜蘭頭城走宜一&雙太產業道路，經雙溪到十分後切瑞芳回基隆，7pm回到家。
連爬三坐山，陡上陡下，還要趕時間。
同伴中，有人走錯路，有人爆胎，有人摔車。

回到家累癱，又餓又渴，又發生那麼多事，有種冒險回來奇妙的刺激與滿足感。
很少有活動者麼操，但也很少有活動可以像這次讓我有這種感覺，好像回到第一次從花東回來時那種又累又爽的感覺。

這次出活動，有很多都是跟我比較熟的朋友，很高興。

感謝曉嫚帶這學期唯一的大活動，第一天真的規劃得很棒。第二天（今天）真的是辛苦大家了。
不明顯的叉路前還是先收個隊會比較好，而其他的意外，我只能說運氣吧。

曉嫚辛苦了。

社員大會現況

車社社員大會......好空曠
一陣冷風吹來，呼～～～

Dreams of the future

Life in the near future still comes in various possibilities. I admit that I am someone who likes day dreaming, and to the point that I would be logging it here.

I guess 2 factors affect my projections greatly: my job determines what I do, and relationships define my lifestyle.

First of all, it comes to my grad school applications, if I am accepted, I would be devoting most of my life to scientific research. It's pretty much what I have been trained to do in the 4 years in college. If I am rejected by every program, then I will be finding a job, maybe a biotech sells, or something related, jumping into a totally new way of life. I am now working on the way to grad school, hope I could succeed, yet predict that I would have a 60% possibility of getting admitted, and a 40% possibility of jumping into the employment market.

The other main aspect is love. Actually, I predict a 90% possibility of staying single into the next few decades. In that case, other then my job, I would be focusing wholely on my self. I would be geekier then ever, devoting most of my income to "tech toys", think Honda, Sony, Apple, Cannondell... Maybe even get a small condo of my own, furnish it up with style. The other 10% possibility? I have no idea, yet as a guy, of course I really hope to have a soul mate to share my life.