Wednesday, May 03, 2006

陳明章 重回現場 校園演唱會

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今天晚上正心煩不想唸書時,剛好發現活大有陳明章的校園演唱會耶~~^^
於是,就臨時起意,給他走了進去

我想他算是很有名的台語歌手吧,之前「手牽手護台灣」的主題曲就是採用他的創作,有名的「流浪到淡水」,更是今天的壓軸好歌。一些熟悉的音樂,聽現場的真的棒很多。在台北住久了,很久沒有這種這麼親近這片土地的感覺了。我尤其喜歡他那種每一首歌都是以台灣的一個地方為主題的創作方式(讓人有點想要再來環一次島XD)。正港的台語,對於我這個台南人之子,更是倍感親切。

把電視關掉

今天他還講了不少有趣的銘言:
「教你們一個愛台灣的方法:把電視關掉。那些人都很糟糕。」
「中國文化最美的東西都在文革時被毀滅掉了,他們現反而要來台灣把它學回去。」
「不要使用簡體字,很糟糕。」
「有自己的文化,才能有自信。」
「人生是一張單程車票。要回去時要用感性,不能用理性。」

嗯,我想,我們真的要為自己的文化感到驕傲。

photos:

陳明章把飲料喝光後,在台上喝起歌迷送的啤酒
陳明章音樂的宣傳車吧
會後的簽名會(我也買了一張簽名CD耶)

有趣的是,這次示愛鮮家食品贊助的,據說老闆想辦「文化活動」,就找來了陳明章。
會後還每人發一罐「卡打車」單車運動飲料呢XD
還不錯喝,不過據說富含vitamin B,結果就是跟維大力一樣黃。瓶子不錯看,但是瓶口不適合邊騎邊喝,單手操作。(反而比較像是洗碗精的蓋子耶)

Links:
陳明章音樂工作室留言板中有關於今天的留言呢)
愛鮮家食品活動網頁(為何還沒有「卡打車」產品網頁?)

Monday, May 01, 2006

[大私約]台大2團-武嶺宜蘭支線

今年武嶺我想走宜蘭支線
希望招得到4個人以上 (大家來啊! 好玩耶)

原訂行程五天,6/27-7/1
走北宜公路(台9)經宜蘭市轉台7->台7甲就是中橫宜支了
然後走一段台8, 到大禹嶺
然後再到觀雲山莊跟大家會合,最後一天跟大隊

不過...剛剛查過里程, 覺得應該可以4天解決耶
以下為PaPaGo所查到的資料
day1
台大 -74.7km->宜蘭市
day2
宜蘭市 -40.8km->棲蘭山莊
day3
棲蘭 -61.7km-> 武陵農場(住武陵青年活動中心吧)
day4
武陵農場 -61.5km-> 大禹嶺 -14.9km->觀雲山莊
day5
觀雲山莊 -36km->武嶺 -54.4km->埔里

若真的要玩5天, 那等於要在宜蘭玩一玩了
難道還要去礁溪泡溫泉???

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來寫寫為何想走宜支好了
一開始是覺得太魯閣我已經去過太多次了,所以去年有點羨慕師大團
而去年走過一次東段後,更覺得今年想走個不一樣的路線
再加上木瓜溪時感受到一個小團私約活動中,大家同甘共苦所得到的快樂,是參加多人大活動所不能比的。尤其是像武嶺這種超大活動,一大群人,跟大拜拜一樣;見到很多人,卻沒辦法深入瞭解任何一個人,結果回來後,連有誰跟著一起去都際不太清楚了。

真的希望能夠成行

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Finished Hanoi Tower!!

Just finished my own version of Hanoi tower with C#. Non-recursive, no gray code.
I know this should be a piece of cake for programers, but for me, a beginner, it took me at least 8 hours in total, from asking questions, looking for referance, to plaining , coding and debuging. Boy was it satisfying!

爽~~~

Now, a late night meal to replanish all the glucose I used up in tackling this thing.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Firefox ads on firefoxflicks!

Firefox Flicks!
Here's some intresting Firefox advertisments, all made by Firefox lovers. Since the Ad submission contest is nearing an end, they're posting up some of the best each day. Enjoy!

Now this is truely the best: This is hot
Amazing animations!


Like it? Click on the Firefox flicks button on the top!

Alpha series DSLR, reborn.


Sony
logo
Konica Minolta sold it's camera technologies to Sony last year and backed out of the camera market. Minolta was once a highly recognised brand, but has been suffering for the last few years. At some point, it was bought by Konica, and now it's assets sold to Sony.
(See Konica Minolta's last DSLR here)

Sony has just anounced that the sony branded DSLRs well be marketed under the "logo" moniker, and the first products, with Minolta's alpha-lens-mount system, will be avaliable this summer. More choices is always better for any market. So it's a good thing that Minolta's ledgend won't be going away. Can't wait to see what Sony will do with DSLRs.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Life science math homework notes

So that whole system of short hands of PDE calculations is called the Einstein notation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation

The Levi-Civita symbols, also called permutation or antisymmetric symbols, is actually the εijk part:
εijk
=+1 if (i,j,k)=(1,2,3), (2,3,1)or (3,1,2)
=-1 if (i,j,k)=(3,2,1), (1,3,2)or (2,1,3)
=0 if i=j or j=k or k=i
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol

While the δij part is the kronecker delta:
δij =1 when i=j
else, δij =0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker_delta

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For info on the last question (caution, very long):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_equations

For (i) in the 2nd question, it wants us to explain the " Euler equation", however, the seems to be tens of hundreds of " Euler equation", and I can't find the right one. Please do tell me if you can.
(∂v/∂t)+ v・∇v = -(1/ρ)∇p - ∇φ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_equation

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Pandora: Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?

Find Music You'll Love - Pandora

Just found this amazing web jukebox in an article on rohdesign, and it really amazing!

It's a flash based music player. You first enter an artist you'd like to listen, it then starts playing a computer generated playlist with songs of a similar taste, guessing the type of music you'd like. If it picked one you don't like, you could tell it to choose another one, and it'll refine it's guess, to better suit your taste.

The sound quality is quite nice by on-line streaming audio standards. What I like is that it's just like a personal radio station designed just for you, and you could accidentally stumble upon a piece of music that you like but never heard before.

Back to the basics of handhelds

Rohdesign Weblog: Back to the Future: from Zire to Clié
Jim's Tips | PDAs: Back To The Basics
PDA 247 | In Praise of the Z22 by Tom Stoneham

Here's 3 articles on the basics of PDAs: personal information managment. It's intresting that most people don't get it that Palm PDAs are first and fore most electronic organisers.

Yes they can play music, they can surf the net, they can view documents, they may take pictures... you name it. But it's core function is to organise, an evolution of your dayplanner, your pocket notebook. It remembers your appointments, remind you of them; it saves all your contact information, all your notes; it has a list of the things you must do but haven't. PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant", it manages your information, your appointments, just as a real assistant should. It s not just a synoym for "flashy toy that does everything". Everyone asks me if it does phone calls, or GPS. What's so important about those two? Isn't your normal phone enough? Don't you know where you are going? Can't you ask your friendly pedestrians for directions?

Yeah, it could play games, it could play videos. But the one single function that make it indispensable is the PIM functionality. It's the important things that count, it's the zen of Palm.

There must be a better way to live

I have turbulent, labile emotions.
心情上上下下,每過一段時間,就會心情越來越差,然後說沒心情做這個,沒心情做那個
最後,又把事情搞砸

接著,情緒爆發
(媽媽都說是「起ㄏㄨㄟ」(台語))
跟小孩子一樣,
一張臭臉
一邊吃甜食、喝可樂,一邊在這個blog上發牢騷
希望又有人來關心......

有完沒完啊?
都大三了,人家國中同學都成家立業了,同年紀的自己應該更勇敢,更堅強一點。

Monday, April 17, 2006

More snakes

昨天脊椎動物學又有蛇可以玩了^^

可愛的玉米蛇





BX怕蛇= =|||

Saturday, April 15, 2006

羅馬公路

省道118, 又稱羅馬公路, 新竹馬武督山到桃園羅浮
之前聽服務課助教說他騎跑車去過, 一天來回
今天,在報紙上看到介紹, 真想去
找個時間私約吧
不過, 要玩的高興, 需要3天吧
北橫前段一天
羅馬公路一天
從新竹回來再一天

http://www.ylib.com/travel/notes/oneroad38-3.htm
http://www.hisport.com.tw/go/go02/index.html

Thursday, April 13, 2006

A day of pythons and stupidity

今天中午,大家隨便約耶約,就十幾人一同到一家頗高級的日式料理吃中飯。大三了,還能這麼大一群同學聚在一起,實在不簡單。在去的途中有點感慨,自己跟系上同學越來越疏遠,還在思考原因。不過,一到店裡坐下來,就馬上得到答案了。一瞬間,出現了2大聊天集團;女生談化妝品(我聽不懂);男生談籃球(無聊,沒興趣)。很好,很好,我的興趣比較特別,都沒有什麼跟大家的共同話題。也難怪我最近越來越常到社辦吃飯,至少,大家的聊天話題不會離我太遠。不過有趣的是,我去人本也不會像跟同學間這麼糟糕啊......

脊椎動物實驗大家玩蛇玩的很嗨。助教帶了他心愛的球蟒和紅紋蚺各一條。球蟒是黑色那條,還有褐色斑點。紅紋蚺則是褐色那條。都很溫和,尤其是球蟒,真的是超可愛的!!而且,摸起來光滑柔軟,非常有質感^^


剛放在脖子上會嚇一跳,真的好冰啊!



晚餐我又來到了社辦

羅得鳥啊~~

天啊,要上腦殘電視台的節目果然要狂耍寶。

在社辦,我忘了是誰拿我的耳機去玩了。後來一回到圖書館,就發現我那不到一年的,Made in China的爛耳機竟然接觸不良,掛了!貪小便宜買sony入門款果然是不對的。不過,也真是的,我這個沒音樂就活不下去的笨蛋,竟因耳機不能用,就心情盪到谷底,今晚也就沒唸到書。唉,雖然現在心情正常了,不過,明天要花800上下去買新耳機了。不過了,on the bright side,至少我不像朋友一樣,只要有「主機板」的東西,管他是桌上型電腦、筆電、手機、PDA全掛。很好,只掛個耳機的我也算是幸運的吧XD

Now, Google's online calendar

Google Calendar
Google just came out with a new web app: google calender. Nice and elegant, similar to Gmail. However, I keep everything in my Clie, which is always with no matter if I have a web connection or not. Also, I can't seem to find a simple way to import my datebook data from Palm desktop.
However, what's intresting here is that Calender+Gmail, means an on-line competitor to Outlook. Eat dust, Bill Gates!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Plans for the remaining days of my undergrad life

As I start preparing for tests and prior work for grad school applications, I start to feel that I don't have much time left here.

Here's what I'd wish to achieve in the comming 1.5 years before graduation. This is what I call "reasionable day dreaming" :D

Summer 2006
1. UCLA lab work (Horray! I found it!)
2. Buy camera, ソニー サイバショットH3, H5(more control) or N1(coolness)
3. GRE general test
4. Find graduate school targets

Fall 2006
1. GRE subject test, bio & bio-chem
2. send graduate school applications (a least 15, I guess)
3. 家教打工見つける (saving up for biking trips abroad :) )
4. find next lab for the school year (This time, I 'd like to focus on viruses)

2007
夏と冬はどれ~?
?. 北海道自転車旅行(too cold in winter, but I'm busier in summer...)
?. 蘭嶼自転車旅行(all seasons ok)
(of the above, find at least 3 friends, with a max of 6)

Summer 2007
さよなら 大学生活~~!

Monday, April 10, 2006

單車社社服選拔


社服選拔來了!!!
(Notice:因之前出現錯誤,投票從4/11 1:00AM開始重記,截止日期往後延一天至4/16號)
在這裡選完喜歡的作品後,記得到PTT投票喔!
請投1-5號,寄站內信給PHAileen
一人最多二票(共1~5號),每人每一號只能投一票,投票日期到4/16為止,下週一中午(4/17)公佈結果。
社員們記得投啊!


社團網頁


在我們車社網頁剛完成時,我自己無聊,去逛了一下其他社團的網頁,很滿足的說:「哈哈,我們車社的網頁果然最棒。」

結果剛剛逛到火車社的2006新版網頁。一開始嚇一跳,「wow,這個比我還猛XD」接著,發現以下幾點:

  1. 狂用flash8... 撥接的,等到死吧;PDA/PSP/smartphone使用者,永遠看不到
  2. 網頁各部分參雜了各年不同風格的網頁,incoherent
  3. 為了美觀,犧牲usability(要連到各頁都要先跳回首頁)
以上,犯了我做網頁的3大禁忌,呵呵。

不過呢,優點也不少
  1. 好看,高水準
  2. 資料豐富(我們的文書呢?)
  3. Navigation頗清楚的,不會迷路
希望不久的將來,我會有時間把車社網頁弄的更好。
Major objectives:
  1. Elegancy
  2. Usability
  3. Design consistancy
  4. More content
  5. The Wow factor
  6. Interoperability
1, 2, 3, 5, 6都已初步達成,不過都有改進空間。

北市單車 將登錄車籍

自由電子報-生活新聞-北市單車 將登錄車籍
叫馬英九去死啦
分明就是要找方法以後方便「罰錢」&增加市政收入

我不爽不是因為我習慣違規,容易被罰錢;而是不爽停車要收錢。莫名其妙。要加裝前燈也很奇怪。1)白天要前燈幹嘛? 2)安全帽才是最重要的。

還要證照?這又是壓榨市民,增加市政收入的好方法啊!辦證一定又要錢了,以後騎車違規也有「證照」可以看了。

不思考如何鼓勵市民騎車,反而無所不用其極的壓榨環保的單車騎士,這是全世界前所未見的。別以為到處亂貼「單車專用道」的標誌就是有做事。「單車專用道」中,有水潭、有鐵欄杆障礙、有機車、有野狗、有坑洞、有死路,我告訴你,「單車專用道」搞不好比一般馬路還危險。而且還有一大部分是凹凸不平的磚塊地,難道大家都一定要騎雙避陣車?

馬英九下台前,我不期待北市的騎車環境會有任何進步。不過,若有車隊抗議遊行,我一定支持。

很好,這次是前變

剛剛,我的校園車的前變,莫名其妙的撞到曲柄,整個扭曲變形變成一團勾著鏈條,會促進落鍊的廢鐵。

明天去社辦用老虎鉗凹凹看好了。現在2速的前變似乎很稀有,而且只需要再用1年辦的校園車換新的前變似乎有點浪費。另前變勾著鏈條,光要把鏈條從舊前變拿出來就要剪開了;除非新的前變跟Deore一樣有可以打開的螺絲設計,否則可能要打鍊或換鍊......現在,KMC的5速鏈條(我的校園車是前2速後5速的)似乎停產了......囧

Saturday, April 08, 2006

我不喜歡必須看人家臉色的事情

以前碰到的事情都是只要自己認真努力,就能夠達成的事。現在,碰到決定權在別人手上的事情,不但很不習慣,沒有踏實感;還因為臉皮太薄,不知在不好意思什麼,就無法權利去做好它。

我不適合搞商業。
昨天去幫Puma store宣傳,光發個傳單,就有「怕會對人家造成困擾」的感覺。結果,發出去的張數比別人少很多。

我也不會搞感情。
臉皮太薄,很怕造成人家困擾,成為「黏人的蒼蠅」。結果所有的表現都很收斂,給人的感覺可能是不夠積極,甚至是「只當朋友」吧。於是,她就被別人搶先追走。而我這個挫折感很重的,就直接把「愛情」這件事拋諸腦後,再也不玩了,放棄了。

現在更是找不到實驗室。
這也要看教授臉色......。丟email都丟得很含蓄,完全表現不出自己有多好。於是,不是被忽略就是被拒絕。

Life is a struggle.

Frantic

In spite the impending midterm exam and reports, I still don't feel like preparing. The search for a summer lab slot has been futile, with no ideas what to do next. As for my GRE, I'm still headlessly memorizing vocabulary, with poor achevement. With summer just around the corner, I'm in somesort of panic, feels kinda like I'm going to screw up my future this year. Don't know how to go on, and I find my self avoiding my problems. I began deleting the unacheveable entries in my todo list, and ignoring others. I am franticly riding my bike as much as I can. I borrowed a book of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, to enchant myself, to feel the helplessness in The Raven.

I now see emptyness and fear in my future; I feel the weight of the world on my back. Don't know what to do.


Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."