Let go my inhibition

我今天晚上回家一鼓作气解决了两个问题，第一把我车上的Homelink和我的车库门遥控接收器连上了，这样我就不用再携带车库自己的遥控器在车上了。



第二就是我终于让环绕立体声系统后面的几个音箱响了，同时电视的音效也可以通过环绕立体声系统输出。原来一直只有前面的四只音箱响，今天终于给我弄清楚了。原来我这么能干，只不过原来借口没时间不愿意去试罢了。




只可惜门前的两个小松树快活不成了，好心疼啊，那么贵买来的，都是我照顾不周 :(

最近比较depressed, 贴个简单好玩的图片

Something to look forward to

许久以来好像找来种种借口挤占自己的休闲时间，以至于生活失去的往昔的光彩。其实如果仔细想想，原来有很多乐趣呢，怎么都忘了呢？ 球天的时候可以踢球啊，在老张带领下学习的半生不熟的手艺也有点荒废了，每周去挥洒一下体力也还惬意呢。秋高气爽的时候还可以去blue grass农场小路上biking，只不过要重新组建队伍了。还有周围的几个不错的Park只是念叨都没去过。冬天可就有事干了，去年买的season ticket可以派上用场了。滑雪已经没有太多挑战了（而且上次上太陡的坡还是有点伤到膝盖了），主要学习滑板吧。据说附近北卡海边可以冲浪，smoky mountain可以漂流，今年都不成了，列在明年的计划当中吧。

嗯，忙里偷闲，有挑战性，但值得期盼。

久旱逢甘霖

莱屯终于下雨了--让我觉得兴奋。我门前的花草还有救吗？

今天的fortune cookie说“you think too much. today means action. carry out your plan"，我的天哪正中要害。 同事的fortune更惨，说有一个unexpected bill降至，不是什么欠下的旧账保险单什么的吧？

at the dawn of a new semester.

the beginning of a fall semester is the business time of the year. Excitingness of seeing some new faces, rush of information, stress from preping the courses. The air is fresh and tense.

If i look back on what academics are all about, I found it was somewhat different from what i originally thought. Initially i thought it is a contrast from the outer world. But i found out that being a scholar is very much like being an entrepreneur. Except we work not in the product space, but in the idea space. Marketing is as important as in the business world, though it is done somewhat differently. Some parts of it pulls me, such as exchanging of ideas, other parts push me, such as being a sales representative for myself, and having to spend lots of time on packaging an idea after it has been "done."

也想要一个

不是一般的贵。仅梦想一下吧

Hey There Delilah

this song just stroke me in the air wave. Delilah is perhaps not a girlfriend of the singer but an inspiration for this long-distance love story.


Plain White T's

"Hey There Delilah"

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.

NanoTube

a science photographer in Harvard, Felice Frankel, showed us this illustration of carbon nanutube. I was very fascinated by its delicate color and structure.




there are more pictures from her in this audio commentary.

苏芒关于结婚之见

身边有这么多优秀的大男大女，也跟不少人交流过他们的想法，觉得这个围城似乎挺难走出去的，这个苏芒说的貌似有几分道理 （来自新浪，谁能补一下原文错乱的两处？赏包子两个）：

苏芒：结婚，就是创造出一个“多出来的世界”
　　《时尚芭莎》杂志出版人、主编
　　Q：都市里所谓【】女——也就是什么都顶尖的精英女性——越来越多，因为立志想要追寻一个超【】的“对先生”来做自己的Partner，而一直与其说是跟社会、不如说是跟自己辛苦地较劲儿，对此你有什么好建议吗？
　　A：事实上，我很庆幸自己的早婚，要是等到今天，多半我也会这样子。所以，如果非要为这件事找出路，我能给出的惟一建议就是不如早婚吧，当真两情相悦就足够了，真没必要再想太多——你能想多明白呢？即使当时千辛万苦地好容易找到了，可人都是在变的，当时合适不代表永远合适，要是有一天又“不对”了，又该怎么办呢？
　　早婚就好比把两棵小树联在一起成长，等他们双双长成参天大树的时候，他们的根已经紧密地联在一起、轻易不可分割了。可要是两棵已经非常茂盛成熟的树，如果非得联在一起，恐怕牺牲和麻烦就会很多了。
　　Q：你觉得一段幸福婚姻应具备些什么？
　　A：其实一段婚姻幸福与否，绝不在于开始，而在于过程中彼此的信任——成熟男女都知道，这种信任其实源自个体的自信——和相互给予的自由。婚姻并不意味着“惟一拥有对方”，所谓“正当男女关系”就是因为自信、所以信任的一男一女在一起，创造出一个“多出来的世界”。你不会为这段婚姻做任何牺牲，而只会多出来一个可以支持、依靠的丈夫，一个或几个健康可爱的孩子，你的人生会因此更加多彩，而不是恰恰相反。